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Given the string of banking frauds, rating frauds, international price fixing, rigging and bailouts back home this kind of sweeping statement about 'these parts
by throw2016 8y ago
Given the string of banking frauds, rating frauds, international price fixing, rigging and bailouts back home this kind of sweeping statement about 'these parts' paints a black and white picture that minimizes the 'white' in 'these parts' and the 'black' in other parts.
- rdtsc 8y agoI didn't qualify or mention anything about US, or say UK. It was about Eastern Europe. "Those parts" meant Easter Europe, sorry for not being more specific. "banking frauds, rating frauds, international price fixing," But since we are comparing things, I'll take banking frauds and price fixing over murder, routine torture, ability to buy your freedom following murder from judges, prosecutors and even DNA lab tester grunts. And by torture I do not mean "we pretended to drop the person on the concrete floor", but putting a gas mask on their head and closing the breathing hole until they are ready to confess. Did you ever feel bombs going off while sitting at home, feeling seemly safe? I have. I was doing homework after school waiting for my parents to come home and the local mafia was trying to kill a rival bank CEO who didn't submit to their "protection", so they blew up his apartment, including 4 other surrounding apartments. I was on the other side of the door in a police station and heard people screaming in pain while being tortured. I saw murderers and rapists getting off with a slap of a wrist. Judges who didn't "get in line" disappearing overnight. I'll take price fixing any day over all that.