YUP. YUP. So was Bush, so were all the Presidents that we have had. Amazing isn't it.

It's easier for OWS to blame Wall Street then blaming Franklin Raines, Tim Howard, and Jim Johnson; the "3 Men Who Brought Down Wall Street" and blew up our financial system; who are all now serving as top economic advisers to Barack Obama; then blaming the present administration that was put in place to cover up the activities of these three along with the 3 from the Clinton Dream Team: Summers, Rubin and Greenspan.

Actually, what is happening with the Occupy Wall Street protests is as perfect an illustration of the book's argument as anything I could have imagined. The book's central theme is that law is no longer what it was intended to be - a set of rules equally binding everyone to ensure that outcome inequalities are at least legitimate - and instead has become the opposite: a tool used by the politically and financially powerful to entrench their own power and control the society. That's how and why the law now destroys equality and protects the powerful.

What we see with the protests demonstrates exactly how that works. The police force - the instrument of law enforcement - is being used to protect powerful criminals who have suffered no consequences for their crimes. It is simultaneously used to coerce and punish the powerless: those who are protesting and who have done nothing wrong, yet are subjected to an array of punishment ranging from arrest to pepper spray and other forms of abuse.

First they came for the communists,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a communist.

Then they came for the trade unionists,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a trade unionist.

Then they came for the Jews,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a Jew.

Then they came for me
and there was no one left to speak out for me.

.... attributed to Martin Niemoller

And yes, we are talking about massive, REAL crimes, clear violations of black letter law on a massive scale by the banksters, the politicians, AND the regulators, (including many swinish individuals who have worn more than one of those hats) that are not being prosecuted. With no Rule of Law, there is no Republic. The Crime Wave has been totally bipartisan and goes back at least 20 years. For Presidente Barack Obankster it's nothing but a continuation of business as usual.

This is what happens when the Rule of Law goes out the window while the comfortable do nothing.

How do YOU know who they are "blaming"?

The key issue for actual Conservatives is the rampant lawlessness under which the Elites are now operating. But anyone can call himself a "Conservative", especially if you are one of the true beneficiaries of the kleptocratic form of oligarchical government.

Don't kid yourself, that beneficiary status doesn't apply to anyone who would be in this forum. There are 400 people in this country, and YOU ARE NOT ONE OF THEM, whose combined wealth equals that of the 150 million in the bottom half. They see you as their slaves. They laugh at you. Parroting their dogmas will not earn you any points with them unless you are on their payrolls.

And yes, we are talking about massive, REAL crimes, clear violations of black letter law on a massive scale by the banksters, the politicians, AND the regulators, (including many swinish individuals who have worn more than one of those hats) that are not being prosecuted. With no Rule of Law, there is no Republic. The Crime Wave has been totally bipartisan and goes back at least 20 years. For Presidente Barack Obankster it's nothing but a continuation of business as usual.

This is what happens when the Rule of Law goes out the window while the comfortable do nothing.

And yes, we are talking about massive, REAL crimes, clear violations of black letter law on a massive scale by the banksters, the politicians, AND the regulators, (including many swinish individuals who have worn more than one of those hats) that are not being prosecuted. With no Rule of Law, there is no Republic.

No harm asking your servicer for the deed and title, but consult a licensed attorney before doing anything else. This is not to be considered legal advice.

We are Wall Street. It’s our job to make money. Whether it’s a commodity, stock, bond, or some hypothetical piece of fake paper, it doesn’t matter. We would trade baseball cards if it were profitable. I didn’t hear America complaining when the market was roaring to 14,000 and everyone’s 401k doubled every 3 years. Just like gambling, its not a problem until you lose. I’ve never heard of anyone going to Gamblers Anonymous because they won too much in Vegas.

Well now the market crapped out, & even though it has come back somewhat, the government and the average Joes are still looking for a scapegoat. God knows there has to be one for everything. Well, here we are.

Go ahead and continue to take us down, but you’re only going to hurt yourselves. What’s going to happen when we can’t find jobs on the Street anymore? Guess what: We’re going to take yours. We get up at 5am & work till 10pm or later. We’re used to not getting up to pee when we have a position. We don’t take an hour or more for a lunch break. We don’t demand a union. We don’t retire at 50 with a pension. We eat what we kill, and when the only thing left to eat is on your dinner plates, we’ll eat that.

For years teachers and other unionized labor have had us fooled. We were too busy working to notice. Do you really think that we are incapable of teaching 3rd graders and doing landscaping? We’re going to take your cushy jobs with tenure and 4 months off a year and whine just like you that we are so-o-o-o underpaid for building the youth of America. Say goodbye to your overtime and double time and a half. I’ll be hitting grounders to the high school baseball team for $5k extra a summer, thank you very much.

So now that we’re going to be making $85k a year without upside, Joe Mainstreet is going to have his revenge, right? Wrong! Guess what: we’re going to stop buying the new 80k car, we aren’t going to leave the 35 percent tip at our business dinners anymore. No more free rides on our backs. We’re going to landscape our own back yards, wash our cars with a garden hose in our driveways. Our money was your money. You spent it. When our money dries up, so does yours.

The difference is, you lived off of it, we rejoiced in it. The Obama administration and the Democratic National Committee might get their way and knock us off the top of the pyramid, but it’s really going to hurt like hell for them when our fat asses land directly on the middle class of America and knock them to the bottom.

We aren’t dinosaurs. We are smarter and more vicious than that, and we are going to survive. The question is, now that Obama & his administration are making Joe Mainstreet our food supply…will he? and will they?