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laststeamtrain Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-26-08 07:23 PM
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Justice For Mr. Madoff?-- "All Right, But Just This Once."
Justice For Mr. Madoff?

All Right, But Just This Once."

By Dave Parts

December 26, 2008 "Information Clearinghouse" -- -Years ago there was a "Far Side" cartoon with an angry lynch mob in front of an old, Western jail. The sheriff was addressing the mob, "Now you boys know that I can’t just turn him over to you without a fair trial. Well, all right, but just this once."

That pretty much covers my feelings towards Mr. Madoff. I’m all for law and order, but this admitted criminal, who used trust to defraud his victims, will now use the legal system to protect himself from them. In a perverse tale of legalese mumbo jumbo, Madoff is under house arrest, held in his seven million-dollar town home, incarcerated between the hours of 9:00 PM to 7:00 AM.

When I was fourteen I got caught smoking and got pretty much the same penalty, less the seven million-dollar town home. Meanwhile, for his victims justice is swift,

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Our government has refinanced bankers with billions of dollars in new capital, now at a new, low, zero-interest rates. The banks respond by raising interest rates to consumers as high as 29% and making mortgage requirements out of reach to all but those who don’t need them in the first place. The administration has given up on its mortgage rescue package, Project Hope or dope or nope or something, admitting that it only helped 331 consumers out of over a hundred thousand that applied. It is as if we are paying the government to beat us; one year into the mortgage crisis and they’ve only saved 331 out of several million foreclosures?

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http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21531.htm
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oldnslo Donating Member (222 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-26-08 07:40 PM
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1. Give him the firing squad--he deserves it.
Edited on Fri Dec-26-08 07:41 PM by oldnslo
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Double T Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-26-08 07:44 PM
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2. Corruption and malfeasance abounds within the financial institutions............
Edited on Fri Dec-26-08 07:45 PM by Double T
yet THEY are bailed out at the expense of our economy and nation. Then the bastards have the absolute arrogance to turn around and screw the very people that saved their asses. With each day I am becoming more disgusted with our government for allowing such blatant, in our face criminal activity. Chris Dodd is a total failure IMO.
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sam sarrha Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-26-08 07:58 PM
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4. Poppy Bu$h started setting up the present system as the 'Dick Chaney' of the Reagan White House
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sam sarrha Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-26-08 07:56 PM
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3. sell everything.. even his shoes and at least try to replace the charity trust funds, send the Rat
bastard to federal prison.. he is now at home in a palatial mansion with an ankle bracelet.. living it up knowing he'll never see prison
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Fire1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-26-08 08:40 PM
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5. The media reports that his 'victims' will receive five hundred
thousand dollars restitution and I'm not sure from whom but there will also be lawsuits from investors against "those who should have known better," like the exchange commission, accountants, etc.
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customerserviceguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-26-08 09:34 PM
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6. That's not enough
He's agreed to take the fall for this to protect his slimy family, we need to confiscate every single one of their domestic assets, and conduct a search for his overseas ones so thorough, that we might find bin Laden in the process. My suspicion is that he told his sons to turn him in so they could keep the ill-gotten gains that he was able to siphon off of the Ponzi scheme.
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