What's happening with Epstien's case now? Who in the press will continue to follow that up? Some guy might try to keep on it, and then get told at the end of the year that he's been cut due to a profit warning or whatever. Who's going to keep on writing about Prince Andrew not being arrested?
Different methods but pretty-much the same lack of visibility.
Dr. Oz, today at 1300 hours.
"Jeffrey Epstein had burst capillaries in his eyeballs after he died which pathologist tells Dr. Oz suggests he was STRANGLED and did not hang himself"
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7894685/The-burst-c...
> "Verified video footage indicates severe violence was used against protesters, including armed members of security forces shooting from the roof of a justice department building in one city, and from helicopters in another," Bachelet said in a statement. "We have also received footage which appears to show security forces shooting unarmed demonstrators from behind while they were running away, and shooting others directly in the face and vital organs – in other words shooting to kill."
There is no equivalency here at all. Iran is a failed and murderous regime.
Here’s hoping that Iran’s disastrous response and capitulation in the face of the US killing Suleimani will weaken the Ayatollah enough in the eyes of the people and provoke further rebellion. The Iranian people have incredible potential but they have been choked under the boot of Khamenei for so long.
[1] - https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/u-s-says-iran-may-have-ki...
I also like that you quoted me with
> "no visibility, nobody in the media will talk about it"
And I didn't write that.
You said this, which is pretty much the same.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2...
Here's just one example, but there are others...
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/seven-defendants-mortgage-ori...
Also, the CEOs and employees of the banks like Lehman Brothers and Merrill Lynch in question large portions of their life savings.
The CEO of Lehman, for example, lost 50% of his net worth - over 4 Billion dollars. ...and obviously destroyed his reputation. Well deserved, of course, but it's hardly "no punishment".
...the same was true with most if not all senior employees. All of them had large portions of their compensation in equity stock options. I'm, unfortunately, speaking from experience.
It's one thing to say the people "responsible" didn't get punished enough - that's true. But most people at these banks definitely suffered, materially.
Whether you subscribe to this sort of thinking is up to you - i don't, but the result is that the people who suffered don't feel they've been vindicated nor made whole, and the world has moved on since.
Yes, it is better for a superpower to fabricate evidence for a war [1] resulting in an estimated six hundred thousand dead [2] (and a few corporate-friendly laws [3]), than letting an authoritarian regime stand. But I'm sure this time, things will work out better.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rationale_for_the_Iraq_War
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casualties_of_the_Iraq_War
which is that an authoritarian regime is never a good thing.
Society requires that bad actors be publicly visible and called out, as this creates a pressure for them to act sensibly. The first thing an authoritarian regime implements is censorship and apply any chilling effect they can, because they know this is the only way they can hide their acts from the public at large.