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| Rocky Anderson |
Notes from today’s Democracy Now
interview with Justice Party-USA presidential candidate Rocky Anderson
Editing by Carolyn Bennett
one party corrupting, corruptible
Sides against public interest
The Republican-Democratic regime “through
its collusion has brought this country to its knees economically,” Rocky Anderson said today on the Democracy Now program. Without the
Democrats colluding with the Republicans, we would not have engaged in an
illegal, aggressive war against Iraq.”
Democrats and Republicans grant retroactive
immunity from prosecution for clearly felonious acts
Before winning the 2008 Democratic
primary for the U.S. presidency, U.S. Senator Barack Obama promised to “join a
filibuster against telecom company immunity.” As soon as he won the nomination, he
not only did not join a filibuster, he voted for the legislation grating retroactive
immunity.
Sides with criminals, against public interest
Reaching the Oval Office, U.S. President
Barack Obama said, “‘Let’s look forward, not backward,’ when it comes to war
criminals — people who have engaged in torture, clearly in violation not only
of international law, but domestic law.”
The system of government is two-tiered, Anderson said, not
only relative to the economy. The courts allow the executive branch to come in
and they dismiss cases on the basis of the subversive state secrets doctrine;
the executive branch gets to determine whether these cases go forward—victims
of torture, people who are challenging illegal government surveillance programs.
In the economy, a very few privileged
people “clean up while the rest of us are suffering in so many dramatic ways
because of the economic upheaval.”
Related to criminal activity, this two-tiered system allows “this
special class of people to escape being held accountable under the law.”
All three branches of government are
part of this system, a state of affairs “unprecedented in this nation and completely
contrary to the notion of an equal justice system.”
Sides with the money against public interest
“President Obama received more money
from Wall Street than any other candidate has ever received in a presidential
or any other election campaign and he surrounded himself with all these alumni
from Goldman Sachs.
“Not one person has spent one day in
prison as a result of the massive financial fraud that we know took place by
these Wall Street firms, and the people that work for them, that did so much
damage to the American people.
“All any of us have to do is look at our
pension plans, our 401(k) accounts, and we can see the direct impact of this
economic disaster — brought to us by and large through these criminal acts committed
by these Wall Street firms and their employees.
Not one of them has been brought to
justice under the Obama administration.
Polluting industries make their campaign
contributions, the EPA tries to impose stricter ozone standards, President
Obama basically vetoes the EPA. He is serving the interest of those polluting
industries.
We’d have a universal healthcare system (real
healthcare reform) like other nations in the industrialized world — were it not
for the corrupting influence of the money flowing in from the medical insurance
industry.
embraces corrupting influence against public interest
Corporate campaign contributions make a
very good return on their investment. Follow the money and you’ll see why
Congress and the White House are pursuing policies that go contrary to the
interest of the American people.
The failure of every major public policy
issue intended to serve the public interest can be attributed to the corrupting
influence of money.
Source
“Ex-Salt Lake Mayor Rocky Anderson, Former Democrat, Launches Third Party Presidential Bid Against Obama, GOP,” Democracy Now December 13, 2011, http://www.democracynow.org
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