Salon’s Glenn Greenwald says recent moves show that Scheiderman may be the real deal:
An Attorney General who simultaneously works for more lenient laws for ordinary Americans committing trivial drug offenses while demanding serious accountability for the nation’s most powerful factions is a rare and noble aberration indeed: one who seems openly hostile to the two-tiered justice system that operates to protect lawbreaking political and financial elites while punishing the powerless. Of course, the last politician who tried to impose meaningful accountability on Wall Street was New York Attorney General and Governor Eliot Spitzer, whose career was abruptly destroyed by a still-very-strange-and-difficult-to-understand massive federal law enforcement effort into his prostitution-hiring activities. As Jay Ackroyd said of Schneiderman yesterday in response to my praise of his actions: “He’d best have no skeletons. None.”
California's Attorney General is the next one to join this fight for justice! We, the people, have been waiting for any government official to do their job while leaving in a fear of losing everything we built over the years. We, the people, were looking all over the place for help, feeling neglected by the very officials that once upon a time promised to have our best interest in mind while getting paid by OUR money. Can we bring ourselves to hope again after only two AGs have decided to stand up and demand the answers? What about the rest of them? How many people need to lose their house, their families, themselves, before all those responsible are brought to justice? This is the question that needs to be answered by all Attorney Generals.
Please write to your government officials, we have to break this silence. They must to realize that this is the moment to either save this country and its people or lose it forever! If those responsible are not prosecuted, then how could we ever trust to our legal system again?
Also, here is my open letter to AG Miller - the lead negotiator with the Banks: http://tinyurl.com/3h5kfy9
#1 Posted by Senka, CJR on Tue 24 May 2011 at 10:49 AM