Taibbi: Can’t let Wall Street off the hook and jail someone for ‘a joint in his pocket’

[kpete]

The problem with letting the economic foxes run the henhouse, Taibbi told Moyers, is that it led to an overall degradation of the rule of law.

“If you’re going to put somebody in jail for having a joint in his pocket, you can’t let higher ranking HSBC officials off for laundering $800 million for the worst drug dealers in the entire world — people who are suspected, not only of dealing drugs, but of thousands of murders,” Taibbi said. “This is an incredible dichotomy, and eventually it eats away at the very fabric of society when some people go to jail and some people go to jail.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/02/01/taibbi-tells-moyers-you-cant-let-wall-street-off-the-hook-and-jail-someone-for-a-joint-in-his-pocket/

[msongs]

1. unfortunately those are the kind of people running the government these days nt

[forestpath]

2. Unfortunately, President Obama seems to think so.

[patrice]

3. FUCK, yeah!!!

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4. K&R

[Mnemosyne]

5. K&R nt

[wildbilln864]

6. k & freakin r! nt

[Fire Walk With Me]

7. K&R!

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8. kick