COMMENT POSTED TO AN ARTICLE IN ZEROHEDGE
The U.S. Justice
System Must Focus on Elite Criminality
It just cannot happen - not, that is, without some great and
unpleasant circumstances or events.
In many ways, America has come to resemble France of the
early 18th century, a time when a powerful duke's carriage might safely run
down a peasant in its way, the dead human being regarded as "roadkill.”
America's dukes are not the owners of vast ancient estates,
as in 18th century France, but the owners and managers of vast corporations
with new ones added and old ones passing away as technological change and
creative destruction proceed.
Today's Mr. Facebook, Mr. Google, and Mr. Amazon are
replacing an older generation of wealth, although their levels of wealth are
even far greater than the older plutocrats.
Why is that? America's tax laws have been butchered to make
it so. Such wealth cannot be amassed without a very accommodating tax system.
And, please note, just as taxes are shaped to please wealth,
just as imperial wars abroad are shaped to please wealth, and so is the
administration of all justice.
It actually cannot be otherwise.
America has some superficial attributes of democracy, but it
clearly is not one. It is a plutocracy.
Money has been declared as protected free speech, and
American elections resemble nothing so much as a marketing battle between Coke
and Pepsi. It took a multi-billionaire to defeat the best-financed candidate in
history, who blew through something on the order of 1.2 to 1.8 billion dollars
to lose.
In addition, we saw revealed massive fraud in many details
by the Clinton Party sinking Bernie Sanders. Those efforts involved both bad
intent and lots of money.
Power, no matter how it is gained, is still power.
It is a naive American idea that a stack of old papers -
such as the Constitution and Bill of Rights - can genuinely protect anything if
the powers that be do not want it so.
