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Re:Guns, Drugs and Money [video] by protomyth on Friday February 06, 2015 @02:50PM (#9011136)
I too have little faith, but I still believe this is the time for trying.

I don't mean "bill of attainder", I mean specific penalties for officials that do not follow the law. I didn't think that fit under "bill of attainder". I'm not talking about no trial, but no sovereign immunity from prosecution in failure of duty. I could be wrong at how that works since it isn't my area.

Re:Guns, Drugs and Money [video] by hga on Friday February 06, 2015 @03:26PM (#9011313)
Ah, that's a more promising angle, but:

We're talking about essentially an abuse in "prosecutorial" discretion, who the FDIC targets and who it doesn't, for what reasons.

Now, to make this work, the FDIC examiners have to make explicit threats, and people at the banks need to be able to testify to this without the threat the FDIC will destroy the for that....

To actually make it stick, the DoJ would have to prosecute, and this DoJ certainly won't. But maybe the next would....

I think, it's going to have to come down to a non-Democratic Administration that actually has serious cojones. Which is unlikely, but possible, e.g. http://thefederalist.com/2014/11/11/the-nation-needs-preside... (jump down to the 2nd section, "The Throne Made of the Skulls of His Enemies" :-).

And you're very right about trying this now. We don't want to wait until we're only left with extralegal recourse, that will not end well.

Re:Guns, Drugs and Money [video] by protomyth on Friday February 06, 2015 @07:59PM (#9012583)
Yeah, I guess it does come down to prosecutorial discretion and the DoJ.

At this point, I really worry because the next President seeing what the long line before him/her did, might just be worse in not following legislation. For example, there is no authority to delay implementation of laws, but I guess it will become the default.