{"id":12113,"date":"2015-09-11T06:35:52","date_gmt":"2015-09-11T11:35:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=12113"},"modified":"2015-09-11T06:35:52","modified_gmt":"2015-09-11T11:35:52","slug":"is-the-justice-department-finally-ready-to-jail-corporate-criminals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=12113","title":{"rendered":"Is the Justice Department Finally Ready to Jail Corporate Criminals?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Is the Justice Department Finally Ready to Jail Corporate Criminals?<\/a><\/h3>\n

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The single greatest travesty to afflict\u00a0American society in the 21st century has been the\u00a0abandonment of the rule of law and accountability. It\u2019s worse than the attacks of 9\/11 and the subsequent loss of privacy and civil liberties. It\u2019s even worse than\u00a0the economic devastation unleashed by the financial crisis.<\/p>\n

The reason it\u2019s worse is because dynamic, complex and diverse cultures such as these United States will always be flawed and some of its leaders, both corporate and political, will always fall to the temptation of corruption and criminality. The key to preventing such bad behavior\u00a0from multiplying and ultimately destroying\u00a0the entire civilization, is the rule of law.<\/p>\n

Edward Snowden leaked the information he did in order to inform the American public of what its government was doing in cahoots with large tech companies. He saw Constitutional violations and he held up his oath to protect the founding document from \u201cenemies foreign and domestic.\u201d\u00a0Nevertheless, no one in a position of power has been held accountable.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Similarly, the financial crisis came\u00a0and went\u00a0(for now), and what\u2019s the biggest lesson learned?\u00a0Crime pays.\u00a0<\/strong>Tremendously. We learned that\u00a0rich and powerful members of society are suddenly somehow\u00a0above the law. That their corporations merely have to pay a slap on the wrist fine and the perpetrators get to keep their ill gotten gains. That oligarchs are untouchable, and a group of people Larry Summers called\u00a0\u201cinsiders,\u201d never go\u00a0to jail<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Restoring the rule of law and accountability for the wealthiest and most powerful amongst us is of the upmost importance. It is far more important to hold the powerful accountable than the weak. The weak commit small scale crimes, while\u00a0big players\u00a0have the capacity to destroy entire nations\u00a0with their unethical behavior. And they are well on their\u00a0way to achieving that here in the U.S., earning billions along the way.<\/p>\n

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Is the Justice Department Finally Ready to Jail Corporate Criminals? The single greatest travesty to afflict\u00a0American society in the 21st century has been the\u00a0abandonment of the rule of law and accountability. It\u2019s worse than the attacks of 9\/11 and the subsequent loss of privacy and civil liberties. It\u2019s even worse than\u00a0the economic devastation unleashed by […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,6],"tags":[8901,1769,3670,249,312,4285,6174,1589,3672],"class_list":["post-12113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-liberty","tag-corporate-criminals","tag-corruption","tag-criminal-behaviour","tag-edward-snowden","tag-financial-crisis","tag-liberty-blitzkrieg","tag-michael-krieger","tag-rule-of-law","tag-us-justice-department"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12113"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12114,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12113\/revisions\/12114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}