Democracy Now reruns Amy Goodman’s interview with Matt Taibbi:
In part two of our holiday special, we feature our April 2014 interview with Matt Taibbi about his book, “The Divide: American Injustice in the Age of the Wealth Gap.” The book asks why the vast majority of white-collar criminals have avoided prison since the financial crisis began, while an unequal justice system imprisons the poor and people of color on a mass scale.
“It is much more grotesque to consider the non-enforcement of white-collar criminals when you do consider how incredibly aggressive law enforcement is with regard to everybody else,” Taibbi says.
There is only one way to get rid of the oligarchy in the United States. They must be lined up against a wall and made to say, “I pledge to pay 90% of my earned and unearned income each year to the Internal Revenue System.”
To do anything less then that will be tantamount to having done nothing at all.
The time has come to put the politicians in both party’s on notice that the people have had enough.
As I just saw noted elsewhere, we do not have a justice system; we have a legal system.