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Rakhmetov
27th June 2011, 15:14
Consider Paul Allen, 55, a former mortgage CEO who defrauded lenders of over $3 billion. This week, prosecutors celebrated (http://www.marketwatch.com/story/another-messed-up-mortgage-meltdown-2011-06-24) the fact they got him a 40-month prison sentence. (http://www.bizjournals.com/birmingham/morning_call/2011/06/former-taylor-bean-ceo-gets-3-years-in.html) Consider Roy Brown, 54, a hungry homeless man who robbed (http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2009/01/28/prosecutions)a Louisiana bank of $100 - the teller gave him more but he handed the rest back. He felt bad the next day and surrendered to police. He got (http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x1353941#1355786) 15 years. Justice in America has a ways to go.

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Mr. Cervantes
27th June 2011, 15:26
There are two types of laws. One for the very wealthy and the rest for everybody else.
CHE with an AK
27th June 2011, 15:31
"The bourgeois court, which claimed to maintain order, but which, as a matter of fact, was a blind, subtle instrument for the ruthless suppression of the exploited, and an instrument for protecting the interests of the moneybags."

— Vladimir Lenin