Goldman Sachs has Friends in High Places

Dear Mr. President,

Right after mailing yesterday’s Bankster letter, a friend showed me the latest headline on Yahoo! News: DOJ Will Not Prosecute Goldman Sachs in Financial Crisis Probe. Goldman Sachs, the biggest contributor to your 2008 campaign and this year’s biggest contributor to Romney (although when I checked this morning, I see that 3 Goldman Sachs bundlers have raised over $800,000 for your campaign already). Once again those with friends in high places skew the scales of justice. I wrote you on April 18, 2011, decrying the lack of accountability by anyone for anything, from the war crimes of Bush to the financial crimes of Wall Street, and the lack of prosecutions of Banksters and flim-flam artists continues unabated. People like Angelo Mozillo, CEO of Countrywide, was “off-limits” to investigators; Joseph Cassano of AIG, Jamie Dimon of JPMorgan Chase, the executives of Citigroup, Bank of America, Merrill Lynch, the list goes on; none of them indicted or brought to trial. Maybe the Injustice Department is too busy building cases against WikiLeaks and Julian Assange, maybe they’re tied up investigating your leaky Administration, trying to figure out how to suppress any more leaks so the public can never find out what’s going on. Maybe they’re on the Oak Ridge break-in by those three gray-haired peaceniks who spray painted walls with peace slogans (I see more charges have been added, “depredation” of the plant which carries a 10-year prison term). And then there’s Bradley Manning, imprisoned 2 years, 11 months under conditions of torture and now the government’s military prosecutors are suppressing information critical to his defense. But no one from Goldman Sachs, no one from Countrywide, not one of the Banksters complicit in the financial crash faces charges of wrongdoing. Bailed out by U.S. taxpayer dollars to continue to prey on U.S. taxpayers. But woe to those who protest injustice and war, who want a government where our voice is heard and our needs are met, who want justice, democracy and the rule of law. We are trampled under the weight of more and more militarized and brutal police forces and new laws restricting free speech like in Charlotte, NC, where the mayor can now declare it illegal to protest or even carry a backpack near where the Democratic convention will be held. Voices of dissent suppressed, security forces beefed up, a government of, by, and for the 1%. This is not democracy, Mr. President. We have seriously lost our way.