Should Obama go after Wall St. or Bush/Cheney war criminals as aggressively as Snowden? [View all]

[yurbud]

Chris Hedges made me think of this.

“Along with all the other rising inequalities we’ve become so familiar with — in income, in wealth, in access to politicians — we confront now a fundamental inequality of accountability.

We can have a just society whose guiding ethos is accountability and punishment, where both black kids dealing weed in Harlem and investment bankers peddling fraudulent securities on Wall Street are forced to pay for their crimes, or we can have a just society whose guiding ethos is forgiveness and second chances, one in which both Wall Street banks and foreclosed households are bailed out, in which both insider traders and street felons are allowed to rejoin polite society with the full privileges of citizenship intact.

But we cannot have a just society that applies the principle of accountability to the powerless and the principle of forgiveness to the powerful. This is the America in which we currently reside.”

http://www.alternet.org/media/how-inbred-elites-are-tearing-america-apart

I would especially like to hear from the DUers who have said the dogged pursuit of Snowden is appropriate and necessary.

21 votes, 1 pass | Time left: Unlimited
	Wall Street\'s fraud that broke the world economy and/or Bush/Cheney\\\'s war crimes deserve pursuit far more than Snowden\\\'s leaks
	20 (95%)
	Snowden\'s leaks deserve more pursuit than anything Wall Street or Bush/Cheney did
	0 (0%)
	All of them deserve equal prosecution
	1 (5%)
	none of them did anything particularly wrong
	0 (0%)
	other
	0 (0%)
	1 DU member did not wish to select any of the options provided.
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