By David Shankbone – Own work, CC BY 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=16542433
Originally published on Forbes.com May 20th, 2013
I don’t know if Occupy Wall Street has been quiet lately or if I have just not been paying attention. Nonetheless, they have something going on right now. The OWS Bring Justice to Justice rally was scheduled to begin at 1:00 PM with a march on the Department of Justice.
Five years after Wall Street crashed the economy, not one banker has been prosecuted for the reckless and fraudulent practices that cost millions of Americans their jobs, threw our cities and schools into crisis, and left families and communities ravaged by a foreclosure crisis and epidemic of underwater mortgages.
They cite Attorney General Holder’s testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee, which gave us the catchy “Too Big to Jail”
But I am concerned that the size of some of these institutions becomes so large that it does become difficult for us to prosecute them when we are hit with indications that if we do prosecute — if we do bring a criminal charge — it will have a negative impact on the national economy, perhaps even the world economy. I think that is a function of the fact that some of these institutions have become too large.
Meanwhile we hear cries from Republicans in Congress to prosecute some GS9s or something like that for thinking that people who call themselves a party might be planning some campaign activity.
There is an encampment in front of the Department of Justice. You know it is getting serious when you see comments like
Need food. Call for pizza delivery? 202-***-****, to 930 Constitution Ave in front of the DOJ.
put glycerin drops in eyes before the pepper spray it will help when you flush eyes out, keep a bottle of water with you, swimmers goggles work great too
There is a meeting going on right now. There have been seventeen arrests, but they are still there.
I have not seen any mainstream coverage yet just facebook and twitter.
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