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  Truzseeker1 year, 1 month ago

  And the sad part, I have witnessed the corruption myself after practicing before administrative bodies and assisting with both civil and criminal matters.

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  DarkWizard1 year, 1 month ago

  I am not surprised by this report or its findings. This shift to a more aggressive and abusive culture can be seen in both the government and modern day corporations. As the lines have become blurred between government officials (of all levels) and the corporations "supporting" them, an air of being "untouchable" has permeated through these two cultures. Our Forefathers warned of this occurring when government moves away from its democratic roots and starts dictating policy to the people instead of the other way around.

  Congress has dropped the ball in doing its duty to uphold the constitution, the President is ignoring the constitution (declaring war, invoking "executive privilege," and abusing law "The Patriot Act"), and the Supreme Court sits on their hands while the constitution is being shredded by the neocons. continued

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  DarkWizard1 year, 1 month ago

  Corporate America couldn't be happier. Huge profits, huge tax breaks, dictate policy to government, and practically immune to government action. Whistleblowers are more likely to go to jail for telling the truth than government officials and corporate executives for lying and cheating.

  The neocons are now using and abusing democracy as a weapon to carry out their own agendas.

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  AmericanIdiot1 year, 1 month ago

  Break the law and be happy! The system is corrupted and broken, it cannot be fixed. Become a criminal, and you too can send your enemies to jail, get away with murder, and count the FBI as your friends and protectors. Yippee! The law is dead!

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  DarkWizard1 year, 1 month ago

  The next two biggest problems I see are the bipartisan crap going on and the American public that is allowing our government to steal our democracy away.

  Bipartisan is just another way of saying, "New World Order." Oh yeah, you'll hear different words come out of the republicans and democrats mouths, but they'll be sitting at the same table enjoying your tax-payer money and doing nothing but blowing smoke up your @$$ in return. It has all become about "spin" now. And, until the majority gets behind what the minority of Americans already know, the government will keep sucker punching us.

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  BronxBomber1 year, 1 month ago

  Criminals making deals with the goverment in order to obliterate they're time in prison or better yet, go free with all the perks courtesy of the tax-payers of the witness protection program, or take advantage of their sentences with leniency, whilst innocent victims are moldering in prisons. You can't make can't excuse justice making deals with devil, and say that's it's "law and order" when it's apparently anything but!

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  AmericanIdiot1 year, 1 month ago

  FBI framed four innocent men to protect Mafia killer.

  US must pay $101.7 Million to men Framed by FBI

  http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/law/07/26/wrongful.c...

  The FBI encouraged perjury, helped frame the four men and withheld for more than three decades information that could have cleared them, U.S. District Judge Nancy Gertner said in issuing her ruling Thursday.

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    AmericanIdiot1 year, 1 month ago

    She called the government's argument that the FBI had no duty to get involved in the state case "absurd."

    Peter Limone, Joseph Salvati and the families of the two other men who died in prison had sued the federal government for malicious prosecution.

    They argued that Boston FBI agents knew mob hitman Joseph "the Animal" Barboza lied when he named the men as killers in the 1965 death of Edward Deegan. They said Barboza was protecting a fellow FBI informant, Vincent "Jimmy" Flemmi, who was involved.

    The four men convicted on Barboza's lies were treated as "acceptable collateral damage" because the FBI's priority at the time was taking down the Mafia, their attorneys said.

    A Justice Department lawyer had argued that federal authorities couldn't be held responsible for the results of a state prosecution and had no duty to share information with the officials who prosecuted Limone, Salvati, Henry Tameleo and Louis Greco.

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      AmericanIdiot1 year, 1 month ago

      "The FBI's misconduct was clearly the sole cause of this conviction," the judge said Thursday. "The government's position is, in a word, absurd."

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  Cybnetic1 year, 1 month ago

  I say we remove our government. they seem to only spead fear and evil

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    Obaku1 year, 1 month ago

    "But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security."

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  Endoscopy1 year, 1 month ago

  This just points out the validity of a lead in to a lawyer program several years ago.

  "Democracy is a very bad form of government, but I ask you to remember this, all the others are so much worse."

  Keep this in mind when you hear bad things about our government. As bad as it is it is the best around. We are building a fence to keep people out not keep them in.

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    Obaku1 year, 1 month ago

    Sloppy thinking and even sloppier rhetoric.

    'Democracy' is, and always has been, an awful form of government, very quickly becoming nothing less than mob rule.

    Republics have been more resilient, but are very likely to fall into the hands of demogogues and tyrants - as all can clearly see today, if they have eyes to see and ears to hear.

    And empires have a perfect record of failure.

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  berkeley1 year, 1 month ago

  all ten parts to the series are worth reading.

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  DarkWizard1 year, 1 month ago

  I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Happy for us, that when we find our constitutions defective and insufficient to secure the happiness of our people, we can assemble with all the coolness of philosophers and set it to rights, while every other nation on earth must have recourse to arms to amend or to restore their constitutions.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual.

  Thomas Jefferson

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  DarkWizard1 year, 1 month ago

  The reason I posted these four quotes by Thomas Jefferson is to point out how far removed we have become from the thinking and philosophies of our Forefathers. IMHO, Jefferson was probably one of the most intelligent and insightful of an extra-ordinary group of men.

  1) Our government passes laws to "take care of us."

  2) When is the last time you heard about assembling to "set it to rights" and "restore our [sic] constitution?"

  3) Aren't we being perverted into a two-party tyranny that gives Americans a lot of lip service, but few results?

  4) How many laws have been passed in the last thirty years that "violate the rights of the individual?"

  The government we have now, and the agencies under it, are supported by our money, but seem to answer to no one but themselves. There's no accountability and the American public seems too confused and/or apathetic to do anything about it.

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