Impunity

29 Months & Still Smiling

The impunity before the law is becoming embarrassing.

From October 2008 (865 days) the justice system has been unable to figure if anything fraudulent or illegal occurred leading up to the Meltdown. – And it’s not for the want of “suspects”.

However, – it only took days to nullify an unusually democratic election on a “possible technicality”.

We love Democracy, but the Rabble must Keep in Line.

Laterally related:
From [Legal]ography to Kinetic Typography
The Ignorant and Meddlesome Outsiders
Anonymous v. Corporate
Everything’s fucked up, and the nonjailable class
The Untouchables

The Reykjavik Nine Trial

“Law and order are every where the law and order which protect the established hierarchy” – Herbert Marcuse

Two years on and not a single ‘elite’ member has stood trial for their crimes in the meltdown. However 9 ordinary people ‘guilty’ of Civil disobedience stand accused of treason.

Some of the Grapevine headlines:
Policeman Called “Idiot”, MPs Not Bothered, Witness Asks To Be Charged With Crime. Trial Reaches Surreal Proportions, Prime Minister Calls It “Sad”. Evidence Destroyed. Polish Consul Demands Apology

The state prosecutor likened the nine with the Polish mafia (?) posed to overthrow the sacrosanct, while the head jailer is known to fear for the rule of law if any of her party mates should appear on her doorstep.

It’s obvious that the recovering ‘elite’ is not happy about its temporary setback and is working full blast at restoring its former glory.

‘Leaks’ to distract our attention from serious things is as always trite, including an incredibly low-tec laptop spying case, while no one remembers Echelon which famously transmuted from a conspiracy legend to an EU Commission Investigation. – By the way, with Facebook (and blogging in general) who needs Stasi?

rvk9.org
Are We at a Flexion Point?

Ministry of Truth

Life in a totalitarian political system, was much alike in 1984 as it is in 2010, the ruling party (with many names) achieved psychological mastery over its subjects by willfully altering the past. “Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past”

The infamous Central-bank governor was as always first on the mark, when he got is Editor to translate the SIC report, and subsequently made himself the Editor in chief to ensure proper workmanship.

Having been advised to go through a thorough public relations image radiosterilization, the other players in the meltdown are now preoccupied with publishing their accounts of events. Ministers, who should have been impeached, escaped because of our stealth quality nepotism and where exonerated by their pairs.

Memorable was a blistering speech by the head jailer of the country, who feared for the “rule of law”, if her party mates should have to risk her hospitality.

It is thus understandable that all hell broke loose when a worker at one of the memory holes (squarely faithful to the party) got fired from the news manufacturing room.

No wonder that they all want to own influential media, as we are all to believe that their inherent qualities of: lust, gluttony, greed, sloth, wrath, envy, and pride have over night turned into: chastity, temperance, charity, diligence, patience, kindness, and humility.

The Propaganda model explains factors such as Agenda Setting which predetermines, selects, shapes, controls and restricts by the selection of topics, distribution of concerns, emphasis, framing of issues, filtering of information, and bounding of the debate.

The systemic filters, concentrate on private ownership, strict bottom-line profit orientation, over-reliance on governmental and corporate sources for news, primary tendency to avoid offending the powerful and a religious worship of the market economy, strongly opposing alternative beliefs.

Against the ruling masters of our cognitive systems, manipulating the actual experience of remembering we have: transience, absent-mindedness, blocking, mis-attribution, suggestibility, bias, and persistence. – May God help us all

Nineteen eighty-four
Propaganda model
Black, Galbraith, & Stiglitz ?
The news about the news [1], [2].
Some good stuff from the Grapevine
The Seven Sins of Memory: How the Mind Forgets and Remembers?

Das Kapital 101

The Kingdom of Hedgistan
Memoria del saqueo

Defenders of the Faith

“God Bless Iceland”.
“Maybe I should have“.
“It’s not to much for the state to swollow”.
“We should shout Hurray! for these men”.
“We do not pay debts for irresponsible men”.
“Slavery for another’s fault”.
“You are Not the Nation”.
“I can afford a Diet Coke”.
“Tortola? No, don’t know it”.
“Hi Magnus, We didn’t finalize our bonuses for last year. I suggest 1 million Euros. What say you. Bye. Se”.
“There are no money, they have gone to Money Heaven“.
“Macau bundle? No, not me, I was just the carrier”.
“Equivalent to appointing Nixon editor of the Washington Post during Watergate”.
“The Special Investigation Commission’s Report is getting in our way, temporarily”.
“Eva Joly is a Cuckoo Old Hagg”.
“I’m in NYC, just met Soros and BRuce Kovner. It tempts them to attack the Krona”.
“I can’t appear in a New York Court because of my English”.
“The Bank can’t punish people for having been in politics”.

Clueless 2

 

From the Blogosfair.

~ There is a profound misunderstanding on the part of the authorities to claim that they understand the nations anger.
We can’t begin to talk about understanding, until at least one of them has experienced some of the following: auction of their home, life on unemployment benefits, – pensions, – disability benefits, standing in the food line at the family help center, having to eat at the Salvation Army’s day center and sleeping in a homeless shelter. Until then their balderdash is just insulting ~

At the same time the political and corporate ‘elite’ who collaborated and orchestrated the meltdown flatly refuse any accountability, and eagerly work towards getting back to their unfettered plunder and impunity.

Next on their agenda is to auction off thousands of peoples homes for pittance, as happened in America, and to sell them to people with “access” , who in turn will rent these properties to “commoners” at extortionist prices. – “Look ma no hands”. Disregarding their impunity , the pattern is distinctively SCAD-ish.

Does anyone remember Hudson? or Perkins?
Oct. – Nov. 2008
4th October 2010
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List of fallacies
How individuals “attribute” causes to events and behavior
Perception Management

Shields-up for the Political Class

Token Trial for bankrupting a nation.

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Prime minister –S – Impeached (+3)

Foreign minister –Sf- Acquitted (-5)

Finance minister –S – Acquitted (-1)

Banking minister –Sf- Acquitted (-8)

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Atli Gíslason VG Yes Yes Yes Yes
Álfheiður Ingadóttir VG Yes Yes Yes Yes
Árni Páll Árnason Sf No No No No
Árni Johnsen S No No No No
Árni Þór Sigurðsson VG Yes Yes Yes Yes
Ásbjörn Óttarsson S No No No No
Ásmundur Einar Daðason VG Yes Yes Yes Yes
Ásta R. Jóhannesdóttir Sf No No No No
Birgir Ármannsson S No No No No
Birgitta Jónsdóttir H Yes Yes Yes Yes
Birkir Jón Jónsson F Yes Yes Yes Yes
Bjarni Benediktsson S No No No No
Anna Margrét Guðjónsdóttir Sf No No No No
Björn Valur Gíslason VG Yes Yes Yes Yes
Einar K. Guðfinnsson S No No No No
Eygló Harðardóttir F Yes Yes Yes Yes
Guðbjartur Hannesson Sf No No No No
Margrét Pétursdóttir VG Yes Yes Yes Yes
Guðlaugur Þór Þórðarson S No No No No
Guðmundur Steingrímsson F No No No No
Gunnar Bragi Sveinsson F No No No No
Helgi Hjörvar SF Yes No No No
Huld Aðalbjarnardóttir F Yes Yes Yes Yes
Sigurður Kári Kristjánsson S No No No No
Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir SF No No No No
Jón Bjarnason VG Yes Yes Yes Yes
Víðir Smári Petersen S No No No No
Jónína Rós Guðmundsdóttir SF Yes Yes Yes Yes
Katrín Jakobsdóttir VG Yes Yes Yes Yes
Katrín Júlíusdóttir SF No No No No
Kristján Þór Júlíusson S No No No No
Kristján L. Möller SF No No No No
Lilja Rafney Magnúsdóttir VG Yes Yes Yes Yes
Lilja Mósesdóttir VG Yes Yes Yes Yes
Magnús Orri Schram SF Yes Yes Yes No
Margrét Tryggvadóttir H Yes Yes Yes Yes
Mörður Árnason SF Yes Yes Yes –
Oddný G. Harðardóttir SF Yes Yes Yes No
Ólína Þorvarðardóttir SF Yes No Yes Yes
Ólöf Nordal S No No No No
Pétur H. Blöndal S No No No No
Ragnheiður E. Árnadóttir S No No No No
Ragnheiður Ríkharðsdóttir S No No No No
Róbert Marshall SF No No No No
Sigmundur Davíð Gunnlaugsson F No No No No
Sigmundur Ernir Rúnarsson SF No No No No
Sigríður Ingibjörg Ingadóttir SF Yes No Yes Yes
Sigurður Ingi Jóhannsson F Yes Yes Yes Yes
Siv Friðleifsdóttir F Yes Yes Yes Yes
Skúli Helgason SF Yes No No No
Steingrímur J. Sigfússon VG Yes Yes Yes Yes
Svandís Svavarsdóttir VG Yes Yes Yes Yes
Tryggvi Þór Herbertsson S No No No No
Unnur Brá Konráðsdóttir S No No No No
Valgerður Bjarnadóttir Sf Yes Yes Yes No
Vigdís Hauksdóttir F Yes Yes Yes Yes
Þorgerður K. Gunnarsdóttir S No No No No
Þór Saari H Yes Yes Yes Yes
Þórunn Sveinbjarnardóttir SF No No No No
Þráinn Bertelsson VG Yes Yes Yes Yes
Þuríður Backman VG Yes Yes Yes Yes
Ögmundur Jónasson VG Yes Yes Yes Yes
Össur Skarphéðinsson SF No No No No

Col-1 Political parties
F = The Progressives
H = The Movement
S = The Conservatives
Sf = The Social Democrats
VG = The Left Greens

 	MP's	Yes	No	Nov.
Sf	20	24	55	1
S	16	0	64	
VG	15	60	0	
F	9	24	12	
H	3	12	0	
Total	63	120	131	1

Col-2 Prime minister – Impeached
Col-3 Foreign –“– – Acquitted
Col-4 Finance –“– – Acquitted
Col-5 Banking –“– – Acquitted

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Quod licet Jovis non licet bovis.

The majority of the parliamentarians didn’t have “convictions” for this that or the other so they just became, L’avocat de la terreur.

These same “democrats” want us to look to the future as looking to the past isn’t “productive”.
What’s wrong with “now”? – The consequences of their actions are “now” apparent everywhere.

Dilemma 2008
Slavery for who’s fault?
The Illusion Of Choice

Connecting the dots

After the “Truth Report”, we are obsessed with an new investigative pastime. Numerous people are “investigating”, others are demanding new investigations and the inevitable result is that the investigative reports pile up.

The “Truth Report” consisted of nine volumes, and only God knows how many shelf meters are covered by the rest. It’s all starting to look like Damage Control, a cover up by drowning. – What we need is an NLP / Bayesian “spin” filter.

I think William Black put it succinctly when he pointed out that the investigators had done a fine job but then failed to draw the obvious conclusions. We have not seen him since.
?Madame Joly is likewise leaving the investigation for other and more pressing engagements.

Parliamentarians are hard at work preventing the findings of “juniors” to come to any harm to real people. Furthermore, they or rather their sponsors are eager to get back to their calculated dishonesty and unfettered plunder.

?It is becoming glaringly obvious, dot to dot, that the only people that will stand trial in the whole of this saga are the evil protesters. “Public” impeachment trial would only “shine a harsh light onto the murky world of corporate behaviour” and their “spivs”. It would be to much to bear to discover that after all the horrors to date, we had only seen the top of the iceberg

Maybe the “spiritualists” are right when they say that we should not try to inflate our constantly deflating egos by fighting windmills.  And maybe they are wrong as “It is not necessary to hope in order to persevere.”

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Lacking in hindsight
The spiral of silence.
The “dismal” Science
Marginalizing the Masses
A (lovely) Lesson from India
Special interests, the most dire warnings
Clarke & Dawe with the Australian facsimile.

Delusions

Some twenty years ago Chomsky wrote about Necessary Illusions, however today and after these last couple of years I think it’s the more malignant cousin delusions which is at work.

The numerous people involved with the “Crash” and the events leading up to it are all “Innocent”. The consequences of their actions are nevertheless obvious everywhere. The destruction of peoples livelihoods, bankruptcies, food-lines, austerity measures, the war against the land, everywhere except with the perpetually innocent.

A delusion is a “fixed belief that is either false, fanciful, or derived from deception. In psychiatry, it is defined to be a belief that is pathological (the result of an illness or illness process) and is held despite evidence to the contrary. As a pathology, it is distinct from a belief based on false or incomplete information, dogma, stupidity, apperception, illusion, or other effects of perception”.

A belief held despite evidence to the contrary. If we assume that we are not in the grips of dangerous disease what remains is, – false or incomplete information, dogma, stupidity, apperception, illusion, or other effects of perception.

Maybe thats the whole basis for perception (deception) management?

Equality | Impunity before the law

“Law and order are everywhere the law and order which protect the established hierarchy” Herbert Marcuse

~They say the only law in force to them are those which acquit them of any crime.~ Halldor Laxness

The Political Class or should I say the extended Criminal Class is loosing it.
There is talk (mostly hot air) if they should consider an Impeachment against their own.The propaganda tools are blasted 24/7 and all the boringly predictable talking heads tell us, that this is just a political witch hunt, that everything is wrong with the law, the law is outdated, ?the states own rule of law is at risk, human and civil rights can’t be assured and they are even promising a new financial meltdown if this abhorrent idea should even be considered.

The educated rhetoric is of course totally one sided. Bankrupting a nation, with the usual, job loss, loss of homes, bankruptcies and suicides of ordinary people is not a crime, how could it be? – After all, ministers carry such heavy political responsibility, even those who became ministers, without taking charge of their ministry.

To hell with the Constitution, get rid of the laws about the Court of Impeachment which legal academics have declared well thought through and written, and surely the Supreme Cort Judges can’t be trusted with the task, not to mention their own friends that pack the Court of Impeachment.

Somehow, I’m sure it will be much easier to “Impeach’ the 9 protesters that are accused of dishonoring these same untouchables as multiple billions in losses to the community has no tangible meaning to the majority of people, – including judges.

Picking and choosing from the law menu may be the prerogative of those above the law, lets hope that their approval ratings won’t drop lower than the current 13% so that the only thing they will be above is the law.

Justice Under Siege by Eva Joly

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