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“Justice delayed is justice denied.” I take this to mean that if a person is innocent and the length of time for judgment is unnecessarily extended while he is held by the authorities, he has suffered unduly. How about the reverse, where someone who is guilty is allowed to roam about freely spending millions of dollars while the authorities piddle around for years before bringing him to trial? A case in point is the infamous pair of Enron crooks, Jeff Skilling and Ken Lay.
A poor person who is hurting no one but himself caught using illegal drugs is dragged off to the pokey with no questions asked. Jeffy and Kenny have destroyed the lives of tens of thousands of employees and shareholders and yet for the past four years they have been living the good life to the full. Suppose Kenny is found guilty and sentenced to 20 years. Life expectancy is 77 years and Kenny is 64. We, the people, have been gypped out of 7 years the he owes us for his crime, which he could have been serving if it weren’t for the fact that there is a different justice system for the wealthy.
Do you think O.J. would have walked if he were a poor black man? How about Robert Durst, who admitted cutting up his neighbor but had nothing to do with his death. And my all time favorite, the freak known as Michael Jackson.
And on the International front, there’s the joke of a “trial” for Goddam Whoseinsane. How the people who found him let him take another breath is beyond me.
The trick for the rich people is to keep a balance where the poor have just enough so that they won’t revolt. What can a human being as a big cheese in a giant corporation ACTUALLY DO to be worth millions of dollars in compensation? How can they even spend it? Too many people have too much money. I am not a student of politics or economy but I can see how the lure of communism could be sold in a country where the balance of money tilted too far to the rich.
I have no answer, I only know, in my heart, that what we have, even if it may be the best available, is not right.
“Justice delayed is justice denied.” I take this to mean that if a person is innocent and the length of time for judgment is unnecessarily extended while he is held by the authorities, he has suffered unduly. How about the reverse, where someone who is guilty is allowed to roam about freely spending millions of dollars while the authorities piddle around for years before bringing him to trial? A case in point is the infamous pair of Enron crooks, Jeff Skilling and Ken Lay.
A poor person who is hurting no one but himself caught using illegal drugs is dragged off to the pokey with no questions asked. Jeffy and Kenny have destroyed the lives of tens of thousands of employees and shareholders and yet for the past four years they have been living the good life to the full. Suppose Kenny is found guilty and sentenced to 20 years. Life expectancy is 77 years and Kenny is 64. We, the people, have been gypped out of 7 years the he owes us for his crime, which he could have been serving if it weren’t for the fact that there is a different justice system for the wealthy.
Do you think O.J. would have walked if he were a poor black man? How about Robert Durst, who admitted cutting up his neighbor but had nothing to do with his death. And my all time favorite, the freak known as Michael Jackson.
And on the International front, there’s the joke of a “trial” for Goddam Whoseinsane. How the people who found him let him take another breath is beyond me.
The trick for the rich people is to keep a balance where the poor have just enough so that they won’t revolt. What can a human being as a big cheese in a giant corporation ACTUALLY DO to be worth millions of dollars in compensation? How can they even spend it? Too many people have too much money. I am not a student of politics or economy but I can see how the lure of communism could be sold in a country where the balance of money tilted too far to the rich.
I have no answer, I only know, in my heart, that what we have, even if it may be the best available, is not right.
posted by revsnodgrass | 7:52 PM
2 Comments:
Your best sermon yet, Rev. Hope you sent a copy to your reps in Congress.
Dr.Lay was ceo of Enron.
Andy Fastow was treasurer of Enron.Fastow was screwing Enron like a june bride.
Dr.Lay has a phd in ecofreakingnomics.
Dr.Lay was clueless.
It dont get no better than this,guys
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