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China's Solution To "Tyrannical" Billionaires Who Harm The Economy: Execution

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In some countries, the 'solution' the state chooses for its ignominous billionaire class of inequality-garnering, economy-wrecking individuals is to either a) turn one's back for a brief enough moment as to allow the tyrant to leave the country in search of a golden beach upon which to lament how great a trade being long European bonds would have been' or b) enhance their wealth further on a quid pro quo basis. In China, the 'treatment' for corrupt billionaires who love casinos, cigars, and luxury cars is much simpler... execution.

 

 

As The Telegraph reports,

A Chinese billionaire famed for his love of casinos, cigars and luxury cars was executed on Monday in one of the most dramatic episodes yet in president Xi Jinping's war on corruption.

 

Liu Han, a 49-year-old mining tycoon once worth at least £4.2 billion, was one of five alleged mafia kingpins to receive the death penalty after being convicted of offences including gun-running and murder.

 

The part-time God Father "tyrannised local people and seriously harmed the local economic and social order," Xinhua, China's official news agency, said in a brief dispatch announcing the execution.

 

Prior to his death Liu was allowed a final "meeting" with his family, Xinhua added.

 

Liu Han made his money in construction and went on to become the chairman of the Hanlong Group, a Chengdu-based mining firm with interests in Australia, Africa and the United States.

 

Worth an estimated 40 billion yuan (£4.2 billion) at his peak, the tycoon was a vocal and extravagant regular in the business pages, boasting of his diamond watches and fleet of Bentleys, Ferraris and Rolls-Royces.

 

In a 2010 interview with the Wall Street Journal, Liu bragged of plans to buy a billion tons of uranium. "Liu Han always wins. Liu Han never loses," said the billionaire, who was reportedly wearing a knee-length mink jacket.

Yet for all his business acumen, Liu's parallel life as an "evil gangster" proved his undoing.

The disgraced billionaire was arrested in 2013 and sentenced to death last May, with a court in Hubei province declaring him head of "a cabal of ferocious gangsters".

 

Xinhua said Liu was "a ruthless underworld kingpin" and claimed one of his gangs had been found in possession of three grenades, 20 guns, 677 bullets, 2,163 shotgun cartridges and more than 100 knives.

On Monday, state media spun Liu's execution as the latest victory in Xi Jinping's war on corruption.

The tycoon's mafia group had been "harboured and indulged by government officials," Xinhua claimed.

Yet sceptics believe the billionaire's execution is merely the latest chapter in a political purge of Mr Xi's rivals.

Liu had connections to Zhou Yongkang, the disgraced former security chief who was recently expelled from the Communist Party and is awaiting sentencing for corruption.

 

Andrew Wedeman, a political scientist who studies corruption in China, said Xi Jinping faced a tough juggling act to convince Chinese citizens he was successfully slaying powerful and corrupt "tigers" such as Liu and Mr Zhou without simply exposing a Party that was rotten to the core.

 

"It is a tricky business because as you hang more pelts from the walls of Zhongnanhai [the leadership compound in Beijing] ... do people say, "Wow you are a great tiger hunter!"? Or do they go, "Oh my God! There are an awful lot of tigers out there in the hills!"?

 

"He is walking a tightrope," Prof Wedeman said of the Communist Party leader.

 

Mr Liu, who was executed alongside his brother and three alleged accomplices, denied the charges against him.

 

 

"I've been framed," he shouted during his sentencing last year, according to Hong Kong's South China Morning Post.

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One word... "Corzine"

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Just how deep does the corruption run in China? Well this should give us some idea...

  • *ONE-THIRD OF MACAU'S VIP CASINO ROOMS OUT OF BUSINESS: MING PAO

From the rising star to this in a year as graft and money-laundering crush an entire economy.

 

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Mon, 02/09/2015 - 23:30 | 5764891 HonkyShogun
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Over here that would be anti-semitic.

Mon, 02/09/2015 - 23:34 | 5764901 Nemo DeNovo
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Coming to 'meriKa sooner than we all think.  Just my 2c

 

 

#FreeJonCorzine

Mon, 02/09/2015 - 23:41 | 5764922 Escrava Isaura
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Conclusion

 

Not sure if this article reminds me US in 1920’s (Al Capone) or, if that China is ahead of the US at the coming anarchy.

 

 

Mon, 02/09/2015 - 23:48 | 5764946 Vampyroteuthis ...
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Yet sceptics believe the billionaire's execution is merely the latest chapter in a political purge of Mr Xi's rivals.

Ding ding ding ding!!! We have a winner!

Mon, 02/09/2015 - 23:52 | 5764955 The9thDoctor
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20 guns, 677 bullets, 2,163 shotgun cartridges and more than 100 knives.

Nutnfancy on Youtube has a bigger arsenal than this "kingpin", lol.

677 bullets.  lmao!  At gun shows here in the states, ammo boxes are typically 1,000 rounds.  What a joke.

Mon, 02/09/2015 - 23:55 | 5764963 Harbanger
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Up or down the good doctor here.  He has a problem with italics.

Mon, 02/09/2015 - 23:55 | 5764967 Anusocracy
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This looks like an opening for a CIA run color revolution through the Chinese mafia.

Never let a good execution go to waste.

Mon, 02/09/2015 - 23:59 | 5764978 Harbanger
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Colour.

Tue, 02/10/2015 - 00:32 | 5765061 Rock On Roger
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Flavour

Tue, 02/10/2015 - 00:47 | 5765101 Publicus
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W have much to learn from China.

Tue, 02/10/2015 - 01:00 | 5765132 Handful of Dust
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Executing vile criminals ... what a novel idea !

Tue, 02/10/2015 - 01:04 | 5765145 wee-weed up
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Yet sceptics believe the billionaire's execution is merely the latest chapter in a political purge of Mr Xi's rivals.

Ding ding ding ding!!! We have a winner!

------------------------------------------------

Yep, Oblowzo is taking notes...

Tue, 02/10/2015 - 01:45 | 5765222 0b1knob
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< A ruthless underworld kingpin

< Failed to kick back the required vig to the powers that be.

Tue, 02/10/2015 - 02:37 | 5765287 Wile-E-Coyote
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Looks like his mistake was going in competiton with the government!

Tue, 02/10/2015 - 05:36 | 5765426 cnmcdee
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Oops he should of been retired by now like his predecessors  to the lovely shores of Vancouver, Canada protected by the Canadian Hockey and Tim Horton loving government.

 

 

Tue, 02/10/2015 - 07:18 | 5765481 new game
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who would be left? a few minions watching tb, ha...

Tue, 02/10/2015 - 04:32 | 5765395 44magnum
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Or you just have a problem

Mon, 02/09/2015 - 23:57 | 5764973 Anusocracy
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Bullets, not cartridges?

Tue, 02/10/2015 - 00:23 | 5765036 r00t61
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Given that this piece is written by MSM, I'm surprised there weren't references to "assault rifles" and "high-capacity clips" in there.

Tue, 02/10/2015 - 05:18 | 5765417 Headbanger
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MAGAZINES DAMN IT!

CLIPS FEED MAGAZINES!

SHHEEESH!!

Just a minor peeve of mine..


Tue, 02/10/2015 - 01:31 | 5765201 Trogdor
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I read that list of horrors and laughed out loud.  I know about 30 guys to whom that wouldn't amount to 10% of what they have.... 

I'll have to remember to tell them they're better armed than a Chinese Billionaire - lol.

Tue, 02/10/2015 - 01:51 | 5765229 jeff montanye
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and not just a c.b., but one who heads a cabal of ferocious gangsters.

Tue, 02/10/2015 - 02:44 | 5765301 jez
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They would have to be ferocious, I suppose. A cabal of docile gangsters just couldn't get any respect.

Tue, 02/10/2015 - 06:23 | 5765446 Bokkenrijder
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Oh oh oh, poor and naive ZeroHedge is totally missing the point again. If Corzine was Chinese, he would probably be some important figure in the polit bureau.

It has NOTHING to do with getting rid of "Tyrannical billionairs,"but it's just an ordinary "Night of the Long Knives" for the new 'CEO' of the slave factory called China.

Billionairs that won't play ball with Xi Jinping, the new corrupt sherrif in town, get excecuted! Simple, that's how fascism works!

Tue, 02/10/2015 - 08:52 | 5765656 post turtle saver
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that's a decent week of hog hunting in Texas... maybe I should gather up a few of my rancher buddies and become a kingpin in China lol

Tue, 02/10/2015 - 10:40 | 5766080 BobPaulson
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Where I live (which is pretty controlled), only the three grenades would get you any heat.

Mon, 02/09/2015 - 23:54 | 5764960 Insanity Wolf
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Execution? You mean just execution? 

Fucking AMATEURS!

Tue, 02/10/2015 - 02:18 | 5765263 napper
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I think they would first confiscate pretty much everything the convicted owns, perhaps even some if not all questionable properties of his / her close relatives and friends. Unlike the US, China doesn't have a Guatanamo torture camp where torture is a daily routine. (I am not saying that those in Guatanomo Bay are actually guilty of anyting. In fact, I believe they are all framed.)

Mon, 02/09/2015 - 23:42 | 5764928 drendebe10
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Fat frackin chance bu if it happens drinks are on the  liar in chief.

Mon, 02/09/2015 - 23:52 | 5764954 Harbanger
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Justice?  Nah!  This fool was just greedy and didn't payoff the right people.

Tue, 02/10/2015 - 19:47 | 5769109 SuperRay
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Don't forget flashy.  If he had a lower profile he probably would still be alive.

Tue, 02/10/2015 - 09:40 | 5765815 clade7
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"I've been Flamed"!

Mon, 02/09/2015 - 23:35 | 5764908 barliman
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No ... over here that would be "biting the hand that feeds you".

 

Or do you REALLY think these pieces of shit are destroying everything just for a government salary and pension?

Mon, 02/09/2015 - 23:44 | 5764936 Eireann go Brach
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China executes the corrupt. Obama gives Dimon and Corzine fucking presidential cuff links.

murica, land of the fucked, home of the corrupt.

Mon, 02/09/2015 - 23:56 | 5764972 Richard Chesler
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Dimon and Corzine give Obongo fucking presidential cuff links.

There, fixed it for you.


Tue, 02/10/2015 - 01:30 | 5765198 Sambo
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You forgot Lord Bankfiend.

Tue, 02/10/2015 - 01:17 | 5765175 Lanka
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Via unlimited donations to Super PACs by the filthy rich, like Soros, corruption is 100% legal in the United States.  There will be no executions.

Tue, 02/10/2015 - 00:05 | 5764988 Pava
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...there is 2 goims stealing money in goverment jobs for every jew stealing money in a bank...

Tue, 02/10/2015 - 07:18 | 5765480 conscious being
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Racist! You can't get away with saying these things. Somebody, quick, write a law.

Tue, 02/10/2015 - 08:15 | 5765559 Refuse-Resist
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Maybe, but I think you're overlooking a crucial variable here, and that's QUANTITY.

Tue, 02/10/2015 - 03:45 | 5765360 kingstukie
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NAZI!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Tue, 02/10/2015 - 07:06 | 5765470 IronLead
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40% of american billionaires are Jews.

 

 

Tue, 02/10/2015 - 07:27 | 5765490 pachanguero
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Don't be fooled. He did not kick the $$$ up to his boss.  Mafia contract killing.

I live in Asia. Just a dog and poney show.

Tue, 02/10/2015 - 08:14 | 5765557 Refuse-Resist
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Larry "Pull It" Silverstein just called and he agrees with you.  He's got the ADL and the SPLC on the case right now.

Tue, 02/10/2015 - 09:32 | 5765785 redd_green
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The real crooks learn very well, here, how to hide their crookendess behind religion, ethnicity, whatever.    And so many people buy it.

Tue, 02/10/2015 - 13:13 | 5766882 teslaberry
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kill the fucking jews because that will solve everything . ELECT JEB BUSH!

Mon, 02/09/2015 - 23:33 | 5764899 nakki
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Mafia is as mafia does. 

Mon, 02/09/2015 - 23:36 | 5764911 A Lunatic
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Are of your beerions are berong to us............

Mon, 02/09/2015 - 23:37 | 5764914 Greshams Law
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"...20 guns, 677 bullets, 2,163 shotgun cartridges and more than 100 knives."

 

In Texas, we have a word for such a man.

 

Slacker.

Tue, 02/10/2015 - 00:14 | 5765014 R19
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Post of the month.  677 rounds - that's a range trip.

Tue, 02/10/2015 - 01:31 | 5765202 Oldwood
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Maybe they were really BIG bullets.

Tue, 02/10/2015 - 02:24 | 5765270 napper
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like cannon shells? or missiles?

Tue, 02/10/2015 - 03:08 | 5765325 old naughty
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"...20 guns...2,163 shotgun catridges..."

what he owned founded; not what he owned.

Tue, 02/10/2015 - 01:35 | 5765212 CapnJackDaniel
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Yeah, but . . . 100 knives? Like are they single use knives? I get it, a couple or more but 100? 

Tue, 02/10/2015 - 01:42 | 5765219 Oldwood
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The Chinese seem a lot bigger on knives. Maybe they like the more up close and personal approach

Tue, 02/10/2015 - 00:44 | 5765095 Dazman
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Right! Even as a personal collection it's only marginally impressive... To an amateur. 20 guns is nothing. If this qualifies as the "mafia" level arsenal, you can see why the U.S. is so petrified of Russia.

Mon, 02/09/2015 - 23:39 | 5764920 Niall Of The Ni...
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Nice to see there's some justice in this world.

Mon, 02/09/2015 - 23:41 | 5764925 Hulk
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Up until his demise, Liu was number 13th in wealth, with a bullet !!!

Tue, 02/10/2015 - 00:06 | 5764993 Pava
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13 IS! unlucky number

Mon, 02/09/2015 - 23:43 | 5764932 adr
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If they tried to execute Jack Ma, millions of little scarab like creatures would flow out of his corpse infecting everyone, turning them into vampire like zombie hordes.

Seriously, that dude ain't human.

Tue, 02/10/2015 - 00:05 | 5764989 Uber Vandal
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His quote:

"Liu Han always wins. Liu Han never loses,"

Could have just as easily come from Jack Ma.

I learned a lesson long ago about hubris. Luckily, my cost wasn't near as steep.

Mon, 02/09/2015 - 23:46 | 5764940 Pancho Villa
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Now we know where all those all-cash buyers for NY, FL, and CA homes are coming from.

Tue, 02/10/2015 - 00:29 | 5765052 Bunga Bunga
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Now one less.

Tue, 02/10/2015 - 01:02 | 5765141 Handful of Dust
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When my brother was in China, the authorities arrested some small town mayor who had amassed over 24 houses and apartments in Beijing and Shanghai ... all on $600/month salary !

 

An obvious miscarriage of justice.

Tue, 02/10/2015 - 04:52 | 5765406 BorisTheBlade
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And now we also know the reason. Real estate, supercars, allowing your kids throw money around like that speaks volumes about the nature of the way those money were accumulated: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sH8sSKwS_gU . Kids, almost certainly, are quite clueless as to how many sceletons their parents' closets are hiding.

Mon, 02/09/2015 - 23:47 | 5764942 Sizzurp
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WB could have a field day photoshopping different heads onto to that last picture of Mr. Liu. 

Mon, 02/09/2015 - 23:47 | 5764943 DeliciousSteak
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He and his pals probably did what everyone else is doing but backed the wrong horse and paid the ultimate price. A mafia kingpin with a stash of 20 weapons, a couple grenades and a few hundred bullets? American preschoolers have more firepower than that, or so I hear.

Tue, 02/10/2015 - 10:26 | 5766002 Flagit
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There was a joke a few years ago that Chelsea Clinton would not be allowed to attend public school while the "Clintons'" were president. .

The reason?

The F.B.I. couldn't match the firepower in the D.C. public school system.

Mon, 02/09/2015 - 23:50 | 5764951 joego1
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The governments all over the world will harvest the fat cats, then you are next.

Tue, 02/10/2015 - 01:22 | 5765183 Lanka
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Not likely, the fat cats own the governments and its paid mercenaries.  A military coup is required to take down the fat cats.

Mon, 02/09/2015 - 23:54 | 5764959 Sizzurp
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"When you play the game of thrones, you win or you die."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QR3fD5YyN3g

Mon, 02/09/2015 - 23:54 | 5764962 lakecity55
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You should have backed me, Liu.

OK, Xi, but another chance? For old time's sake?

Sorry, Liu.

 

Mon, 02/09/2015 - 23:56 | 5764969 123rainier
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Ho Lee Fuk

Mon, 02/09/2015 - 23:58 | 5764976 buzzsaw99
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fucking a we need A LOT more of that shit

Mon, 02/09/2015 - 23:59 | 5764977 pitterrier
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He cry like little pussy.  Cook him with noodle and spicy mystery ingredient.  

Mon, 02/09/2015 - 23:59 | 5764979 yogibear
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Many would pay-per-view to see the Federal Reserve Heads prosecuted this way. Like the Nuremberg trials.

Tue, 02/10/2015 - 00:46 | 5765099 ILLILLILLI
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Tribunals...not trial.

Tue, 02/10/2015 - 00:02 | 5764985 Evil Bugeyes
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Somehow I feel his real crime might have been trying to skimp on bribes.

Tue, 02/10/2015 - 00:06 | 5764992 laomei
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The wonderful thing about this is everyone in the world is well aware that no one gets this rich without a mix of corruption, gangsterism, and other fun crimes.  In China, it's all about having connections to get away with it (sound familiar?), but connections run out eventually.  Government officials don't run off to lobbying associations, and everyone is well aware they are corrupt.  Just a matter of time really.  In the end if you get caught in the wind, you're done... death or life in prison.  All the shit going down is not a mystery to the public or the government.  They don't need to expose ALL the criminal activity, doing so would NOT be in the interests of the government to reveal how much they let them get away with.  If the goal is an execution, it only has to be "just enough".  Why charge a guy with 50 murders (which exposes police incompetance) when you can get a death sentence just the same with 2?

 

In the US... the corruption is hilariously deeper, because the criminals legalized it and allow for settlements absolving anyone of actual penalties.  Look at the history of punishment in China though, it's historically BRUTAL.  The types of death penalties were insane, and no one really cared.  The west looks at executions going on now and acts all "shocked"... but China is China and China has never changed, nor will it ever really change.  Having a death penalty is more or less flat out required to maintain any sort of order.  

 

Jack Ma and alibaba/taobao stuff... he's surprisingly clean, which is a danger to the government.  Made his fortune pretty legit.  So you'll see them trying to smear him with stuff now and again to alter opinion.  It's an example of government stupidity.... fear of private industry demonstrating it can be better than the government... generally speaking, private industry in china is FAR more corrupt and incompetant than government. 

Tue, 02/10/2015 - 00:21 | 5765033 suteibu
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The smart mafia wields its power efficiently without terrorizing the local peasants. 

As someone above said, hubris drives people to do things not in their best interests.  This guy was never who he imagined himself to be.

Tue, 02/10/2015 - 02:27 | 5765274 Lanka
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Agreed, US political corruption is exceptional and legalized.

Jack Ma is hardly clean.  He fraudulently transferred assets out of Alibaba, i.e. sold AliPay to his own company at a below market rate.

The Chinese government and state-owned enterprises are the most corrupt.  Private industry are highly involved in corruption and other illegal activities: price fixing, extortion, racketeering, bribes., It takes two to tango. 

Tue, 02/10/2015 - 03:18 | 5765339 laomei
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alipay is financial and not allowed to be subject to foreign control.  simple shit really.  

Tue, 02/10/2015 - 09:05 | 5765702 venturen
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I disagree....lots of people get rich with honest work....don't confuse corruption and success. Gates....success....Corzine Corruption.

Tue, 02/10/2015 - 09:05 | 5765703 venturen
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I disagree....lots of people get rich with honest work....don't confuse corruption and success. Gates....success....Corzine Corruption.

Tue, 02/10/2015 - 00:12 | 5764997 pocomotion
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I WANTED TO DISCUSS THE SUPER BOWL.  What is this shit?  I am a Patriot fan and I love Thomas Brady.  Everyone, please go away and leave me to communicate with the people I LOVE.  I was on the Sports 4 Friends network and I was dropped here.  It's still a place to talk.

What happens in China stays in China!  So, Let's talk FOOTBALL!!!

Tue, 02/10/2015 - 00:26 | 5765043 red1chief
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No, let's let some air out of the billionaire class.

Tue, 02/10/2015 - 02:31 | 5765279 napper
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what happened in the super bowl stays in the super bowl.

Tue, 02/10/2015 - 03:20 | 5765340 Tall Tom
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Not when you are a Las Vegas bookie having to cover your losses because of the fix...

 

What happened in the Super Bowl needs to be flushed down the toilet bowl and forgotten as you will concerning a pile of your own shit.

Wed, 02/11/2015 - 00:55 | 5770118 napper
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so how much did you lose on your bet?

Tue, 02/10/2015 - 00:16 | 5765018 Guitarbill
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If he was American he would of been promoted and givin a big fat bonus!

Tue, 02/10/2015 - 01:01 | 5765135 RaceToTheBottom
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In the US, his firm would have been purchased by Warren Buffett and he would been put on the cover of Forbes and be doing guest lectures at Harvard....

Tue, 02/10/2015 - 01:05 | 5765153 Handful of Dust
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Don't forget the Medal of Freedom; surely, Barry would award him the Medal of Freedom also.

Tue, 02/10/2015 - 09:42 | 5765822 RaceToTheBottom
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And the cufflinks

Tue, 02/10/2015 - 00:24 | 5765038 Bangalore Torpedo
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As if Jew bankers, rigged markets, CIA operatives in the Ukraine, Fake "American soldiers" in Donetsk, and Sasquatch films weren't quite over the top yet, now we LEAP down the rabbit hole of Chink lunacy.

 

Here's what you are looking at:

 

The same SHIT that Solzhenytsyn detailed in his Archipelago.

 

DEMONIZE and murder scapegoats of the state.  Russia is no different.  China and Russia are the same garbage...kill until proven guilty.

 

Lemmings?

Tue, 02/10/2015 - 00:32 | 5765057 Bangalore Torpedo
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The lemmings have weighed in...-1

 

Any intellectual types out there that can separate thiis from the 20th century yet?  Intelligently...other than it seems like "kill by western standards"?

 

Do you ZHers believe in anything?  really?

Tue, 02/10/2015 - 01:03 | 5765144 Bernanke'sDaddy
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Guns, gold and liberty, bitch.

Tue, 02/10/2015 - 09:25 | 5765764 Ban KKiller
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I would add decentralization.

Tue, 02/10/2015 - 00:34 | 5765056 Heavy
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that's not a bad idea about Corzine, just ship his ass over to the Chinese, extraordinary rendition redefined?

Tue, 02/10/2015 - 00:35 | 5765064 dsty
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Well, hopefully we won't go back to the old days of the brutal Soviet Union

Just watched a movie made by National Geographic called The Way Back

7 political prisoners sent to Syberia for speaking against the govt

Brutal camps where millions died

Anyway it is a true story

They escaped by walking south to Mongolia then Tibet and over the Himilaya's to India

Awesome movie

Tue, 02/10/2015 - 01:26 | 5765189 FeralSerf
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Don't believe everything you see from National Geographic. They lost a lot of credibility with their production of the (physically impossible) pancake explanation of the WTC collapses on Nova. They still haven't retracted it AFAIK.

Tue, 02/10/2015 - 03:06 | 5765323 Jano
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US establishment kills not only politically inconvenient (M. Hastings), but also their politicaly inconvenient presidents (JFK).

So I would let left the whole SU and focus on the evil empire, which organized a death for milions arround the world and contaminated x100000 km^2 with depleeted Uraniium->death for all future genereations on those territories until 100x the Hlaftime of Uranium, means 100* 4.5*10^9 years, what is 30 times the age of universe.

unfortunately the depleeted uranum will be dangerous that long time. Just calculate it you yourself.

Tue, 02/10/2015 - 08:19 | 5765564 Refuse-Resist
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But but communism is so fair! That's all evil capitalist propaganda, don't you see?

 

Forward O'soviet!

 

 

Tue, 02/10/2015 - 00:40 | 5765072 RaceToTheBottom
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Now, that, we should import from China!!!

LOL

Corzine, we are coming for you....

Tue, 02/10/2015 - 00:48 | 5765102 Victory_Garden
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Babylonians on Guillotines.

Coming to a Washington, DC theatre soon!

Tue, 02/10/2015 - 00:58 | 5765125 BolshevikPartyP...
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Speaking of the subject of executions, King David was ordered by God to execute every last chosenite in Edom (Mt. Sier region) and he executed many but did not get all of them.  This is why we have the federal reserve and all the other Rothschild communist central banks in most of the nations.  By the way, Edom means "red", the favorite color of the commies. 

They deserve to be tossed into a large woodchipper.

Tue, 02/10/2015 - 00:59 | 5765127 thetruthhurts
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......in possession of three grenades, 20 guns, 677 bullets, 2,163 shotgun cartridges and more than 100 knives.

 

With the exception of the three grenades I got him beat on firepower and ammo in just one of my rooms.

Tue, 02/10/2015 - 01:01 | 5765136 Bernanke'sDaddy
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Sheeeeeit...I was about to say the same thing!!

 

Not nearly as many knives though. No nunchucks or ninja stars either.

Tue, 02/10/2015 - 01:38 | 5765217 Oldwood
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Ammo prices are down. Cheaper than dirt just ran a special on 5.7x28 for $21/box of 50. Order 1000 plus another 1000 10mm. Good prices! Relatively anyway.

Tue, 02/10/2015 - 02:35 | 5765285 napper
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I'm afraid you are now on the watch list of TPTB.

Tue, 02/10/2015 - 01:50 | 5765230 CaptainMoonlight
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This is a great idea, China is leading the way. Let's extend it to corrupt politicians, judges and police chiefs all over the entire world. Today.

It's time to clean house On this planet.

Tue, 02/10/2015 - 02:40 | 5765291 napper
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You think those corrupt crooks in the legislature would pass laws to allow execution of themselves or their family members or their corporate sponsors (aka bosses)?

Anyone who seriously dare make such a move would not have long to live. Car accident, plan crash, sudden heart attack or stroke, mysterious onset of cancer ... even "suicide" with a gunshot wound to the back of the head

Tue, 02/10/2015 - 02:59 | 5765319 Jano
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I can imagine, that the execution could be also outside of the frame of law.

Tue, 02/10/2015 - 09:22 | 5765755 Ban KKiller
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Don't forget accountants and attorneys.

Tue, 02/10/2015 - 01:54 | 5765236 GoldIsMoney
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That means the party wins. So much about socialism.

Tue, 02/10/2015 - 02:24 | 5765269 Batman11
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I used to work with someone from China and he told me how China deals with organised crime bosses who are impossible to  prosecute under the law.

Every ten years they have a purge and bring those beyond the law to justice by killing them.

Just imagine how quickly banking would have cleaned up its act with a few executions of the worst offenders after 2008.

Lloyd Blankfein you have bankrupted your company the sentence is death.

I am sure a more prudent Goldman Sachs would have resulted.

 

 

Tue, 02/10/2015 - 02:42 | 5765296 IronForge
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Any relations to these Elected Members of Congress and the State Senate from the State of California?

https://lieu.house.gov/

http://sd25.senate.ca.gov/biography

Tue, 02/10/2015 - 02:47 | 5765304 pcrs
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Didn't they already execute all intelligent people during the cultural revolution?

It'sIt's not corruption they kill, just corruption on the wrong side of power.

Tue, 02/10/2015 - 02:57 | 5765315 Jano
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yes, they seem to clean only one corner in that room.

Tue, 02/10/2015 - 02:55 | 5765312 Jano
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Should the same measure be applied in the EU, well, there would be 1% less.

From the top of the pyramid.

Capitalism is based on power of moeny, which turns into -> weapon power->political power.

Comunism apparently as well. 

Tue, 02/10/2015 - 02:59 | 5765318 SmittyinLA
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Sheldon Adelson must be crying at the loss of another whale.

Tue, 02/10/2015 - 03:09 | 5765327 Jano
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In US he would qualify for congress, senate, or even for WH, with such CV.

Tue, 02/10/2015 - 03:26 | 5765346 reader2010
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What?  They dare to execute a job-creator? That definitely makes China a rogue state.

Tue, 02/10/2015 - 07:26 | 5765489 paint it red ca...
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No, no, no, Iceland is a rogue state

Tue, 02/10/2015 - 03:34 | 5765353 steelrules
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Has anybody emailed this ZH link to Jamie or Lloyd?

Tue, 02/10/2015 - 03:56 | 5765367 cherry picker
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"We dream about drones, said 13-year-old Yemeni before his death in a CIA strike"

The Chinese or Russians best do the world a favor and get rid of the CIA.  The CIA is giving America the reputation of Nazi.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/feb/10/drones-dream-yemeni-teenager-mohammed-tuaiman-death-cia-strike#comments

Tue, 02/10/2015 - 04:10 | 5765382 Vylahkinnen
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"When I am rich, I will stop hating rich people, and start hating poor people. It's the American way." - Rebecca Howe / Cheers.

Tue, 02/10/2015 - 04:28 | 5765394 Al Tinfoil
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Some Western entrepreneurs who set up in China when China first opened its doors to foreign investment found that local investors had some unique ideas about business investment.  One was that they did not expect to lose the money they invested.  If the business failed, the entrepreneur sometimes found that he was kidnapped and held hostage until the investor was paid out.

In any case, with regard to China's current practice of executing corrupt businesspersons and politicians, it is heartwarming to note the contrast with the more enlightened and liberal Developed Nations, where such criminals are benefactors of the poltical process with their large campaign contributions, and often serve selflessly in government and government agencies that regulate the businesses from which they make their Billions, and to which they return after years of government service.  Such people also keep large numbers of persons employed in lobbying and legal firms - supporting many high-paying jobs - and allow many politicians to retire in wealth after years of selfless public service.  

Occasionally, there is a failure of the Developed Economies in appreciating the efforts and contributions of such a person.  Bernie Madoff comes to mind. Madoff could have contributed much more if he had  been left out of jail.  Now his living expenses are a public burden. 

 

Tue, 02/10/2015 - 04:57 | 5765407 q99x2
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Just shows how backward the Chinese are. In the US we put our gun runners in charge of the Department of Justice so things like this don't happen.

Tue, 02/10/2015 - 06:24 | 5765448 hedgiex
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Culturally accustomed to these culls with each change of regime in its thousand years of history. BS US laws are the soft underbellies of a cultural tolerance for gangsters and robbers.

 

Tue, 02/10/2015 - 06:29 | 5765452 KashNCarry
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"...Xinhua said Liu was "a ruthless underworld kingpin" and claimed one of his gangs had been found in possession of three grenades, 20 guns, 677 bullets, 2,163 shotgun cartridges and more than 100 knives..."

My prepper neighbor has more arms than Liu's whole gang combined!

Tue, 02/10/2015 - 06:34 | 5765457 Panic Mode
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In China, they use executions. In the west, they use nailguns. 

Tue, 02/10/2015 - 06:56 | 5765466 Joe A
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"and claimed one of his gangs had been found in possession of three grenades, 20 guns, 677 bullets, 2,163 shotgun cartridges and more than 100 knives."

That is the average gun and weapon possession in America ;-)

Tue, 02/10/2015 - 09:23 | 5765759 Duty Chief
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Looks like I am short some knives and grenades, otherwise I could be a Chineese mafia kingpin too.

Tue, 02/10/2015 - 07:05 | 5765469 chindit13
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If Boris Alatovkrap were still around, he might write:

“In Russia, who reports on corrupt is one executed by Big Boss leader.”   (Anna Politkovskaya)

Oooh, can I say that here in the FSB Media Center?

 

Tue, 02/10/2015 - 07:08 | 5765473 Infinite QE
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Are you Brian Williams? Forked tongue popular.

Tue, 02/10/2015 - 08:30 | 5765595 Joe A
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At ZH you can say whatever you want. Except for racial slur they say.

What happened to Boris?

Tue, 02/10/2015 - 07:27 | 5765488 Bad Santa
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Friggin' bullet in the head right at the square, leaving the body to rot in public. That's how it's done and that's the only way how we can get rid of 'any crisis' so far. That means each and every government not acting in the interest of its own people ends the same way. Period. Ho, ho, ho ...

Tue, 02/10/2015 - 11:06 | 5766218 Ginsengbull
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Nothing goes to waste there. They recycle the organs.

Tue, 02/10/2015 - 07:28 | 5765491 Badself
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At least there is still a distinction between crime and goverment unlike the USA which goverment is completely integrated with crime.

Tue, 02/10/2015 - 09:38 | 5765807 redd_green
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No, Badself, this guy is a token.    The Chinese political system is the very definition of corruption.  The only time soneone gets prosecuted, and cooked on the cooker, is when they screw up and don't pay off the right people.

Tue, 02/10/2015 - 08:35 | 5765558 torak
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Man, I'm really trying to turn on the 'tear machine', but freakin' nothing.  I don't think I could generate watery eyes if I pepper-sprayed myself and rubbed onion juice in my eyes.

Now if we could just get certain corrupt individuals who remain beyond Western justice moved to the Chinese judicial system. Hummm, the possiblities.  Just thinking out loud, but I wonder how many of the folks who were 'Corzined' would be willing to make a miniscule contribution to purchase the 5.8×42mm/DBP87 shell that would dispense the Chinese version of justice that we are sorely lacking in many of our corrupt Western enterprises. 

Now, don't think for a minute that I buy the 'Chinese are cleaning up corruption' meme.  Consoladating power?  Closer to the mark.  But breaking a few elite eggs might get the flock nervous enough to throw a few scrapes off the banquet table to the progressively aggetated dogs sulking around the edges of the banquet hall.  Time will tell.

Tue, 02/10/2015 - 08:45 | 5765642 Chuck Knoblauch
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What would the Chinese do with the Bush family?

Tue, 02/10/2015 - 12:16 | 5766532 Caleb Abell
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They would cook them.  Peking Schmuck is on the menu.

Tue, 02/10/2015 - 09:08 | 5765714 Vinividivinci
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I prefer not to cheer too loudly in favour of exécutions of what are, after all CITIZENS of China.
Bilionaires today, the sheeple tomorrow ?

Tue, 02/10/2015 - 09:08 | 5765717 anyways
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Hang them higher!

Tue, 02/10/2015 - 09:15 | 5765734 eftian
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One down, 5999 to go...

 

Tue, 02/10/2015 - 09:36 | 5765797 redd_green
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Make no mistake about it, fellow kiddies, this guy just didn't pay off the right people, or he insulted the local mafia chieftain (aka party official).   The worlds big cities are lined with streets owned by crooked Chinese billionaires.  From Vancouver, to Manhattan, from Barcelona to London, to Tokyo and everywhere inbetween.    This guy is a pawn. 

Tue, 02/10/2015 - 09:44 | 5765830 gregga777
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Hypothetically speaking:

Could we establish our own "Citizen's Homeland Rendition, Interrogation & Show Trial Of Sociopaths" (CHRISTOS) organization to take known public criminals (bankers), crony capitalists (Warren Buffet) and corrupt politicians (Senator Harry "I've Amassed. More Than $10 Million in Bribes" Reid) into custody to expose their criminal networks and their criminal operations.

Just imagine having Jamie Dimon in custody, and video recording his interrogations while gaining the names of everyone within his Too Big Too Prosecute criminal bank who were involved in the crimes leading up to the 2008 financial crisis and all of their accomplices, e.g., Federal government regulators, political appointees and elected politicians within the Executive, Legislative and Judicial branches of the Federal government.

Repeat that with all of the bankers at the top of Merrill Lynch, Bear Stearns, Bank of America, Citibank, JP Morgan, etc. Release all of the videotapes through multiple channels prior to any executions to allow the public to fully realize the extent of the criminal acts within the publicly traded corporations.

Repeat this process with all of the implicated Federal Regulators, Federal Appointees, elected Federal officials, Legislators in the House or Senate and any of their staffers and/or aides, and amongst members of the Judiciary, who either deliberately looked the other way or were paid to do so when faced with wholesale white collar criminal behavior.

Full financial information would be provided to Federal Department of (In)Justice officials (I.e., shakedown artists like Attorney General Holder assuming he survives the above process or White House Official Without Portfolio Al Sharpton) so that the Feds could clawback ill gotten gains.

In this hypothetical organization, there would be no cruel or unusual punishment. While death by firing squad is too good for the vermin above, and is too quick, but this would be a justice organization, tempered with mercy, not one fixated on hatred and vengeance.

Nor is the goal to raise large sums of money for the government. It is to return the United States of America to a nation of Laws, not a nation of Laws by Men for their friends betterment and to the detriment of their enemies.

AOTUS Hussein, Ayatollah Of The United States Hussein Obama, use of the massively Unconstitutional organs of the Federal government to help his friends and harass his friends, is an impeachable offense, and if the Members of the US House of Representatives were not eunuchs, and had even a gram of guts would do their Constitutional duties and try LPOTUS—Lyingest President Of The United States—passing their indictments, investigatory documents, etc. Over to the Senate for them to vote him Guilty or Innocent.

Tue, 02/10/2015 - 09:49 | 5765858 LongSilverJohn
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Time to outsource our enforcement actions to China....

 

Tue, 02/10/2015 - 10:00 | 5765895 Jethro
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Huh.  I thought he was guilty as soon as he referred to himself in the third person.

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