Taibbi tells Moyers: You can’t let Wall Street off the hook and jail someone for a joint

[phantom power]

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://vimeo.com/58715606

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/

[MannyGoldstein]

1. Yes We Can (tm)

Pot and cocaine should put *other* people in jail.

[think]

2. Everyone knows that weed caused the collapse of the financial system

not banksters.....

[KG]

3. no banksters went to jail, so obviously crimes weren't committed, ya gaddam griefers!

[rhett o rick]

4. Part of the problem is that the masses are easily distracted.

While they scream, "Look over there, hippies are smoking the weed of the devil." they are picking your pocket.

[Doctor_J]

5. Tell Holder, not Moyers

Holder is a bad joke played on Liberals & Dems by Obama. Now he's signed on for 4 more years. What a disaster. You can tell how bad he is by the fact that the Repukes don't even bother to bash him.

[bvar22]

8. I used to think that it would be impossible to do worse than...

...John Ashcroft and Alberto Gonzales.

I was wrong.
The bar has been lowered even further.

[OnyxCollie]

6. K&R. nt

[cantbeserious]

7. Wall Street Does Not Care

eom

[ljm2002]

9. Thank you Matt Taibbi...

...for all you do to expose the corrupt banksters and the two-tiered justice system.