I'll Make You A Deal... I'll Celebrate The Death Of OBL, When I Get To...

[WillyT]

celebrate the incarceration of the fuckers that took down our country over MONEY.

Deal ???

:shrug:

[Drale]

1. I hope you get to celebrate the conviction of those traitors,

but I really don't care if you celebrate OBL dieing. I'm not celebrating it, but I'm not crying over it either.

[scheming daemons]

2. You can choose to celebrate or not celebrate whatever you damn well please

The world doesn't revolve around you, and nobody really cares what you celebrate.

[SidDithers]

10. +1...nt

Sid

[pintobean]

13. What Sid said

[girl gone mad]

20. I care what he celebrates.

Don't pretend that you speak for everyone.

[EFerrari]

22. Speak for yourself.

[Township75]

33. +2

!

[Yavin4]

35. +2

Well put.

[JTFrog]

36. ^^ +1 n/t

[WillyT]

39. Apparently YOU Care... Enough To Respond...

You are completely welcome to put me on your ignore list... but you won't.

You enjoy these little skirmishes way too much.

Think about it, now and Zen...

:evilgrin:

[Forkboy]

43. You cared enough to respond.

Duh.

[dkf]

3. What do you specifically thnk they can be charged with?

I've been reading that our govt can't find criminal laws that the guys at the top broke. The little guys at the bottom had probably incriminated themselves many times over but I have a feeling you would be upset should they be prosecuted.

Normally you get the guy at the bottom to incriminate higher ups. But the provable fraud may have stopped there.

[Octafish]

4. Where do you want to start?

Bush and Cheney lied America into two illegal, immoral, unnecessary and disastrous wars. Remember WMDs and the doctored intel? How about Valerie Plame? And what really did happen to Col. Westhusing? Then there's the money, starting with ENRON...

[WillyT]

6. Yeah.. Apparently A Lot Of Democrats Have No Idea How Their Country Works...

:shrug:

[Octafish]

8. The Great Wall Street caper is still going on, costing We the People billions -- at a minimum.

Even spouses are getting a piece of the action: The Real Housewives of Wall Street.

[Hippo_Tron]

25. If there were a law saying that politicians can't lie, they'd all be in jail

Americans don't see deception and abuses of power by their leaders as crimes. Nixon went down because he covered up an ordinary crime. After the fact his abuses of power (which were far worse than Watergate) were all revealed. Ford didn't pardon him for those, so theoretically he could've been charged with something. But he wasn't, because America doesn't lock up our leaders for abusing their power. We instead assume that they did it with the best of intentions and were just trying to keep the country safe.

[girl gone mad]

21. You say the same exact thing every time, but experts say you are wrong.

It gets old.

William K. Black made his career prosecuting lesser crimes after the S&L crisis. Thousands went to jail then. Educate yourself:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/william-k-black/the-two-documents-everyon_b_169813.html

[dkf]

29. I know all of that. What of it is prosecutable?

Is there enough evidence that Jamie Dimon was willfully blind to the point that he can be sent to federal prison? How's about Lloyd Blankfein? They couldn't even prosecute some of those hedged funds managers that flat out misled their investors.

You must have sent me the wrong piece because in the one I read he didn't say anything about how the actions that we know about violate laws they could have prosecuted under.

[FiveGoodMen]

5. Deal!

:fistbump:

[WillyT]

7. Right On !!!

:fistbump:

:hi:

[WillyT]

9. No !!! - Then What's The Big Hubub, Bub ???

:shrug:

[Lydia Leftcoast]

11. They damaged our country far more than Osama Bin Laden did

and their damage was more structural and long-lasting.

[WillyT]

14. + 1,000,000,000... What You Said !!!

:kick:

:hi:

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[Arkana]

15. Has anyone forced you to celebrate the death of Osama bin Laden?

[joshcryer]

16. This is going to be added to my list of things that Obama should do if he gets his second term.

Second term he can do a shitload more, imo.

edit: to clarify I meant my list.

[DFab420]

17. +1...I'll keep the party going

till you get here.

[DevonRex]

18. Yawn.

[FarLeftFist]

19. I would like to celebrate both. n/t

[Skittles]

24. THAT'S ME

yes INDEED

[pintobean]

23. Link?

You are addressing DU. Where has DU asked you to celebrate the death of OBL?

[coalition_unwilling]

28. Hunh? Do you know how to read? The OP is saying that he will

feel like celebrating the death of OBL if and when those who perpetrated the financial collapse are (tried and convicted and) behind bars.

I don't think I will celebrate the death of OBL as I understand it to have happened -- not real big on extra-judicial executions.

[pintobean]

30. Read this - "I'll Make You A Deal"

Who is/are 'you', and why does a deal need to be made?

Do you usually skip the first 5 words of a post?

[coalition_unwilling]

26. I think you will be waiting awhile for your celebration. I have in other

places advocated, instead of a Global War on Terror, a Global War on Greed. Still waiting for Obama to get back to me on my proposal :)

[ozone_man]

27. K&R.

Of course the odds against true justice like that occurring is small. But that doesn't mean that we won't try like hell to make it happen.

The Wall Street banksters are every bit the terrorists (and more) that OBL ever was. And I guess you could say the same about the military industrial complex. OBL was a useful bogeyman for a decade. Now we have to find others to take his place. One good thing about being in a depression is that we might actually run out of money to be the evil doer of the world.

[classysassy]

31. I believe justice will prevail

I may be a dreamer but sooner or later justice will catch up with the evil ones among us.Bush,Chaney,Limbaugh,the right wing media,the congressional enablers your day will come and you will receive your just reward.

[raccoon]

32. I'm with you! Rec'd. nt

[Township75]

34. NO DEAL! Start celebrating now mutha fukkaaahh!!!!!

!!!!!!!!!

[dionysus]

37. oh FDL Willy, you're such a card..

[chill_wind]

38. Not holding my breath

but it's a lovely dream...


K & R for domestic realities.

[robcon]

40. False dichotomy: two entirly different circumstances.

I celebrate the death of OBL without conditions.

[WillyT]

41. As You Are Free To...

I just point out that BOTH/MANY did a great deal of damage to this country.

Yet only one, did not get away with murder.

:shrug:

[MadMaddie]

42. I think it's okay to multi-task

We can do both at the same time...

You can still be pleased with the fact that the bastard that killed over 3000 Americans has paid the ultimate price

and

at the same time you can be angry and push for the prosecution of Wall street and all of the other Bernie Maddoffs who are still not paying the price. I think we have to do it state by state....

[Codeine]

44. I can do one while waiting for the other. nt