Too Big to Jail — Power Tends to Corrupt, and Absolute Power Corrupts Absolutely
Obama and Bush are perhaps too big to jail, but they remain only puppets doing their masters’ bidding. Obama Photo: Elizabeth Cromwell (CC BY-SA 3.0); Bush Photo: (PD); Jail Photo: Adam Jones PhD (CC BY-SA 3.0). All photos via Wikipedia.org.
“Too big to jail” is all about Lord Acton’s famous statement, “Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men.”
There is great wisdom in what he said. But let us look more closely at the pieces of this wisdom.
For instance, upon what quality does “greatness” rest? How can his statement be true about “great men?” How can “bad” ever be equated to “great?”
Perhaps we admire fearlessness, because we admire a lack of self-concern. Heroes are born of such selflessness. But the psychopath is fearless for entirely selfish reasons. They see something they want, and if they’re cunning, they arrange their resources to protect their flank, and brazenly snatch the thing they most prize. Theft! Murder! Lies! These are the grist of their unholy mill. We admire their fearlessness and their ability to take action, but we despise their ruthless disregard for others.
The dialog about motives and outcomes has been muddied by pundits who work for the psychopaths. If enough confusion shrouds their crimes, then people will never see clearly what they’ve done. The criminals become “too big to jail,” but also too “great” to think they would ever deserve such treatment. They live in that rarified air where the gods exist. That’s the myth.
People have become too acclimated to government and having someone to whom to look up. When the Spaniards entered Incan lands, the people and their ruler were stunned by these men wearing armor and riding horses. They were overwhelmed by the noisy guns of death. The Incans outnumbered the Spaniards perhaps by a thousand-to-one, but, if they had been free-thinking individuals, they could have overwhelmed the Spaniards, stripped them of their armor and weapons and had horse meat for dinner. They could have spread the word that taking these outsiders is easy. All you have to do is be fearless.
I don’t condone violence. But we can win against the psychopaths, especially if we lose our own self-concern, if we stop buying Corporate products and services, and if we create our own economy separate from the debt-based system of corrupt dollars that is about to go bust from massive debt.
Too Big to Jail—Bankers
During the financial fiasco in 2008 and later, the criminal bankers were characterized as “too big to fail.” Thus, they were given $700 Billion to make their losses go away. What seem to have been missed in the Corporate News Media discussion is that these criminals were also “too big to jail.” But that misperception is a comfortable myth for these American criminals.
In Iceland, a similar financial meltdown occurred and they not only let the big banks fail, they jailed the criminal bankers. Even recently, they added more bankers to the roster of inmates. Iceland has rebounded nicely, despite the dire warnings against jailing their “elite.”
Too Big to Jail—Government Agency Execs
When someone in government is helping their corporate counterparts illegally, they are almost never jailed. In fact, I cannot think of an instance when such corrupt practices were followed by jail time. When the CDC’s chief executive buried concerns brought to her about a link between autism and MMR vaccines, she was not jailed for her corruption. No, she left the CDC and took a cushy job at one of the MMR vaccine manufacturers.
When FDA execs ignored the warnings of their scientists and rushed through approval of GMOs in the 1990s, they were making their former employers very happy. If you think they were not handsomely rewarded for their corruption, I have a bridge in Brooklyn I’d like to sell you (kidding). But the FDA conflict of interest is not the only other instance of “too big to jail.”
When IRS executives targeted isolated groups for political reasons, they were overstepping their bounds and misusing their power. Jail? Not at all.
Moments after one of the towers collapsed. Never before or since has a solid steel frame high-rise building collapsed like this. During 9/11, the crime, it happened 3 times, and one building was not hit by a plane. Photo: Wally Gobetz (CC BY 2.0)
When then-Mayor Giuliani ordered the clean-up of the largest crime scene in American history, he was committing a felony on 9/11. As a former federal prosecutor, he could not even use the excuse that he did not know it was wrong. Felony destruction of crime scene evidence is a serious offense, but “America’s mayor” was too big to jail.
When NIST scientists committed scientific fraud in their report on the 9/11 collapse of the third building—WTC7—they didn’t go to jail. They were not even chastised for their crimes.
And when the top military officers responsible for the massive security failures and deaths on 9/11 were all given promotions instead of courts martial, this merely spits in the faces of the victims’ families and the rest of the world. That event was used as an excuse to launch multiple wars.
In a fair, transparent and honest world, many government agency executives and their corporate counterparts would go to jail for multiple lifetimes without hope of ever having parole. When tens of thousands of people die from prescription drugs and their dangerous side effects, the drug company executives and the government agency execs who approved those drugs should be serving multiple lifetimes in jail for their involuntary manslaughter.
Too Big to Jail—Corrupt Presidents and Congresspersons
When Tricky Dickey Nixon committed his crimes from the White House, he thought he was above the law. President Ford pardoned Dick Nixon and set a horrible precedent that effectively made presidents immune from prosecution. It made them unaccountable for their crimes.
When Ronald Reagan was elected, it seemed to some that finally we had a real man in the White House—an honorable man who would set things right. On day 69, the knight in shining armor was given a choice—die or allow the corruption. Then Iran-Contra happened and other shady operations. His vice president, Bush, Sr., embraced the corruption. It was under his watch at the CIA that Al Qaeda was born as an American operation. While Bush, Sr. was president, he let the world know about the New World Order, foreshadowing things to come on that September 11, 1990—exactly eleven years before the big event. And exactly 49 years after the Pentagon’s groundbreaking ceremony.
When President George W. Bush lied about WMDs in Iraq, he used that as comedy material, while thousands of American boys and hundreds of thousands of innocent Iraqis were killed over that lie. Did Bush go to jail? No, he handed out more medals to the military officers who failed in their duties on 9/11. But signing unconstitutional legislation that shreds the Constitution and Bill of Rights, Bush should be serving several decades of jail time for his treason.
President Obama lied in his campaign promises, but that’s nothing new. The American public is now used to such realities. Why do they cheer, though? Don’t they know it’s all empty rhetoric. The promise to end the Iraq and Afghanistan wars on day one—and that we can take that to the bank. It’s all bankrupt words. Government transparency? How long did that last?
But when Obama betrayed his oath of office repeatedly, shredding the Constitution he swore to protect, invading other countries without Congressional approval, turning America into a tyrannical, Evil Empire, he should have been impeached, then arrested and thrown in jail for treason. With multiple counts of treason, Obama should be in jail for the rest of his life. Supporting the NSA illegal surveillance of American citizens? Renewing the un-Patriot Act, despite promises to end it? But presidents are “too big to jail.” Why? Who made this a rule?
Too Big to Jail—Psychopathic “Elite”
David Rockefeller is too big to jail. Rockefeller Photo courtesy TheRichest.com. Jail bars photo: Adam Jones PhD (CC BY-SA 3.0) via Wikipedia.org.
In David Rockefeller’s Memoirs, he proudly admitted to conspiring against the best interests of the United States for years. That’s treason, and he’s proud of it? He thinks that the United States should simply die and make way for the psychopath’s wet dream—the New World Order: a one-world government where there is no escape from their tyranny.
When Nelson Rockefeller was being vetted for his nomination as vice president during the Vietnam War, he was asked about one of his companies supporting the enemy. Ignorance was an acceptable excuse for someone who is too big to jail. For most everyone else, ignorance of the law and ignorance of your company’s actions is meaningless; you go to jail despite your ignorance.
These days, “climate change” fanatics like to accuse those who disagree with them as being “climate change deniers” who are paid by Big Oil. Ironically, the climate change hoax is being pushed by Biggest Oil Rockefellers. All one needs to do is to look on the Rockefeller Foundation website. Why would Big Oil support both sides of a conflict? Perhaps for the same reason that Rockefellers and Rothschilds have long support both sides of all wars—control of the outcome.
What makes this “climate change” fact doubly ironic is the additional fact that we reside in an Ice Age and the Holocene interglacial is at least 600 years overdue to end. For a family like the Rockefellers to be promoting a fear of warmth in an Ice Age is as good as tricking a hungry man into fearing food. Like Scrooge and Malthus, they would like very much to decrease the excess population. For such monumental “badness,” they become too big to jail.
But there is a solution to all this. It involves the opposite of the original problem. Just as you can quench darkness with light, you can solve self-concern (selfishness) with unconditional love without regard for anything in return. The more who do this, the less power the psychopaths will have. And the less suffering they can cause for their fellow humans.
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