Originally Posted by
SteyrAUG
You can put crocks in his cell and my only comment would be that he should be wiped down with uncooked chickens first. Madoff may have been "white collar" but he destroyed as many lives as glock toting, crack slinging bangers.
Not everyone was super rich trying to get super richer, lots of regular "middle class" folks trusted others and put up their entire nest egg hoping to get college money for all of the kids or whatever the goal was. Some one should have told them that "investing is still gambling" but some jackass with a 10 bedroom house, 5 cars and a boat told them "with my guy...can't lose" and they trusted it to be true.
Seems once every century we get a Ponzi, sure you can blame the housing market collapse, but even if that didn't happen we'd have still taken an economic ride. It's astonishing how one person can actually directly influence the US economy, didn't we go off of the gold standard so we wouldn't be vulnerable to such things? Of course Greenspan used to change markets with a written paragraph.
LOL, that was the sales pitch! FWIW, I'd like to recommend this guy as Madoff's next cellmate.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/two-c...ifornia-prison
Originally Posted by
SomeOtherGuy
I cannot agree more strongly. The whole "lying to agents" charge is a racket, it is used to frame and punish people who are not actually guilty of the 500,000 other federal felonies on the books. It is right out of the NKVD, Stalinism, and the scariest works of Orwell.
I think Blago is a sleaze, for the record. He's probably guilty of various other crimes. But the USA claims to have the "rule of law."
Truth. When will people learn to never talk to the feds?
What if this whole crusade's a charade?
And behind it all there's a price to be paid
For the blood which we dine
Justified in the name of the holy and the divine…
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