It HAS Happened Here

Glenn Greenwald has a devastating survey of the fraudulent nature of the US justice system today: "The two-tiered justice system: an illustration"

From massive financial fraud, corporate malfeasance, to Soviet or fascist-level contempt for democratic oversight (torture, spying, illegal wars), it doesn't matter if you vote Repug or Delude-o-crat, both parties are elite-driven institutions that are immune to the same "law and order" brutality they impose upon anyone else.

And it's happened here. Last night's post on Chris Alexander's lies about torture in Afghanistan, Brian Mulroney being allowed to walk after lamely saying he "forgot" about the $300,000 he got in a brown-bag while still our prime minister, ... and on and on. Torture, corporate law-breakers, the whole G20 police brutality orgy, ... "accountability" is a dirty word amongst our elites.

But accountability is the watchword of the day. Read that Greenwald article and just think of the monstrous results from these criminal policies. We have to hold them to account. We have to imprison those who flout the laws that they themselves have written for us, expecting we're bound to obey.