Bernie Madoff is a lucky man. To be run a ponzi scheme for that long and not get caught is unimaginable. Almost as unimaginable as the fact that not one of his ripped clientele tried to kill him. Money is the controlling force in our nation, and to be stripped away of almost all of it is a punishment all itself. But that affects his wife and family more than him, so 150 years in a federal prison will have to do as a direct punishment for him.
Jest set still and take it like a man. I got to tell the truth, and you want to brace up, Miss Mary, because it’s a bad kind, and going to be hard to take, but there ain’t no help for it. These uncles of yourn ain’t no uncles at all- they’re a couples of frauds- regular dead-beats” (200). In the end of the book, in the scene when Jim gets captured, Twain’s statement is proven when Huck needs to make a decision whether or not he going to sell the letter to Ms Watson and whether or not to go get Jim back. “It was a close place.
The people that Shelton killed are considered combatants because they support they governmental system and work with it. Based on Just War Theory, the proportionality of killing these people is that their deaths are outweighed by the justice that will bring to the judicial system. Shelton believes the system to be corrupt, focusing instead on conviction rates rather than making sure the right person is placed behind bars. By killing these people Shelton can put a new mindset into the “system” because those affected by the killings will want the right man punished rather since they now know how it feels to be wronged. All the killings made by Shelton were to people who were directly showed how flawed the system was.
It is odd to me that with numbers such as these there are not major reform bills going through to curb this problem. We have government run departments such as OSHA telling companies where to store paint and how to revamp a mattress properly when reselling it yet we are not stopping this huge slap in the face to our justice system. People are openly breaking the law, American laws, and it drains our economy and then to make matters worse we spend more by incarcerating them here in the U.S. instead of sending them back to their home country or even worse have work prisons where they can work to earn back the money they wasted that once came from Joe the working man. There are a number of things that could happen that yes, would cost money to implement but they would not cost what the current cost is to educate, feed and care for the illegal immigrants. Amnesty is over rated and it is killing our country, economy and culture.
Vice Presidential Debate 2012: Joe Biden vs. Paul Ryan The mediator starts off with asking about Chris Stephens. Biden makes promises right out of the shoot to me it seems like he is being fake about what he is saying. I understand that in his position he needs to have America like him, but to me he seems a little dramatic about what he is saying. Congressman Ryan comes back with the President taking 2 weeks to acknowledge that was a terrorist attack. “If we are going to be hit with a terrorist attack, we are going to call it for what it is, a terrorist attack.” I see how Biden interrupts Ryan saying that it is a bunch of Malarkey.
I especially enjoyed his analysis on the vigilantes and in particular the American Protective League (APL) which is a fairly significant picture of the state of affairs within our country and moreover, the lack of control the government had against the people. The “conspiracy theorist” inside of me has always believed in false flag terror, citizen spies and inside jobs and the existence of the APL was complete confirmation for me. While most would argue that these types of organizations couldn’t exist today, Kennedy opens the door to this type of behavior, which seems illegal in its very fibers. As discussed last week, this time period was rich with reform and political parties were eager to trump the other in any way possible. In Over Here, Kennedy touches on the elites pulling the strings behind the scenes spreading political influence and propaganda along the way.
I was busy partying and destroying brain cells so I didn’t pay a lot of attention to it. I remember the day after Reagan was sworn in they were released. Looking back they must have known Reagan wasn’t going to put up with their bullshit and thought that he would get the hostages one way or the other and figured letting them go might be the best thing to do. Reagan had the biggest balls of any President in my lifetime. Other world leaders feared him.
My initial reaction to reading this excerpt from Upton Sinclair’s “The Jungle” was one of awe, with a hand over my mouth for the better part of the reading. There is also a side of me that is not so surprised by any of it. The more I learn of our country’s history where government and business are concerned, the more I realize that the almighty dollar, greed, the pursuit of power, and a total disregard for average Americans and their welfare seems to be the order of operations. Upton Sinclair, a self-made success and man of meager beginnings, most likely championed such a crusade against the meat packing industry, as well as the government because of his impoverished upbringing, which would have given him first-hand knowledge and experience
For instance, Baxter uses a smile to depict the water corporation. As Bukari, Jillian’s driver, says, it is a “Talon water mafia – the men who owned tanker trucks – could sell water to people and ‘grow fat’. (3)”. The company only keeps its own safety and profit in the first place although many people will suffer because of water cut. Nevertheless, not allowing others to access to water is against morality when we control the supply of water.
He writes that the “anti-environmentalists would be laughed out of court if they weren’t tied so closely to the corporate power structure […] At the big conferences of the World Trade Organization, […] conservation almost never gets so much as a hearing. “In the conflict with the environmentalists, their corporate opponent almost always wins because of its ties to business and power. Wilson uses this example to demonstrate that the two groups are constantly at battle rather than finding a way to work together to fit both of their needs. The right wing anti-environmentalists idea of conservation is stocking trout streams and planting trees around golf courses Wilson uses this sarcasm in the passage to once again reveal the inability of the left-and-right winded groups to take the time to hear each others’ views. Instead, the groups are in constant conflict and mockery of each