Taibbi: Courts help banks screw citizens.

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Taibbi: Courts help banks screw citizens.

Postby lok8 » Thu Nov 11, 2010 2:59 pm

Surely the pinnacle of legal process. By accident or design, this is how it was meant to work.

"This young man," he says, pointing at me, "is a reporter for Rolling Stone. It is your privilege to talk to him if you want." He pauses. "It is also your privilege to not talk to him if you want."

I stare at the judge, open-mouthed. Here's a woman who still has to come back to this guy's court to find out if she can keep her home, and the judge's admonition suggests that she may run the risk of pissing him off if she talks to a reporter.


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Re: Taibbi: Courts help banks screw citizens.

Postby coldharvest » Thu Nov 11, 2010 8:17 pm

The best thing about those who rule us and their stooges is that their heads come off just like regular people.

We show ourselves to be weaklings by not putting these people up against a wall because the only thing that
ever stops them is sheer naked violence.
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Re: Taibbi: Courts help banks screw citizens.

Postby lok8 » Fri Nov 12, 2010 2:18 am

There was a lesson in putting heads on pikes.

Unfortunately we have come to the point where violence is only acceptable as the state sanctioned variety.
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Re: Taibbi: Courts help banks screw citizens.

Postby Eichenlaub » Thu Nov 18, 2010 9:43 am

Read this:
http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2010/ ... y-bailout/

Now tell me why anyone should pay their mortgage.

Next explain to me why everyone has their panties in a wad about the TSA touching their panties. Next explain to me why I should give a damn about third world illegals coming here when it seems to me we are turning into a third world cleptocracy from the top down.

Explain to me please how exactly is the Tea Party not Wall Street's bitch? How is Obama not Wall Street's bitch?

Are we not a nation of cowards? Or is it that there is just nothing to fight for here?

I kinda believe there is nothing worth fighting for... but that just may be the coward in me.
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Re: Taibbi: Courts help banks screw citizens.

Postby lok8 » Fri Nov 19, 2010 11:11 pm

and i thought i had some latent anger issues.

Give it hell man.
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