Rules of American justice
An American banker is shocked to encounter accountability for his acts in Britain because the U.S. provides none
http://www.salon.com/2012/07/09/rules_of_american_justice/
This is apropos my earlier post, so I figured a bit of repetition might help (though I expect my regular reader(s) have got my point already).
The US has a clear two-tier ‘justice’ system (it is not just at either tier, btw) where if you are at the top, you can do pretty much what you will (it might be that you can’t get away with murder freely, but I bet it is way easier to do so); if you are at the bottom, stay well away from the system lest you be sucked in, never to be heard from again.
It is kind of interesting to me (now that I think of it) that the most popular series on TV are crime dramas. Perhaps we enjoy those shows so much because that is the only place we see any form of justice. In our real courts we see nothing but persecution of the poor and absolution for the rich (that is, presuming the rich are even touched by the system).
Them thoughts of emigration keep swirling around in my head…
