-Caveat Lector-
The Duvaliers, Ferdie Marcos, Boris Yeltsin, Idi Amin, the Shah of Iran,
Pinochet, and now Suharto will get away with massive theft and mass murder.
How can this be?
The Elites have decided that no *effective* law applies to a head of state.
Since any country's legal system is often and integral part of elite political
control, they always get off.
At the highest levels power and wealth are interchangeable. If you attain one,
you use it to get the other. All elites understand and admire this. Elites would
not punish other elites for doing their job properly. Their job is to keep
wealth and power in the hands of the elites. The system employed is irellevant.
Screw the people, they are a means to an end. This is why democracy does not, and
can not exist in conjunction with elitism. Ordinary people hold ALL people to
the common laws.
You MUST control your elites. The solution is democracy. If democracy is negated,
then hisory shows that either some form of slavery, or violent revolt against
the elites have been the result.
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Suharto Ruling Prompts Protests
By GEOFF SPENCER
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP)--Hours after a court dismissed corruption charges
against former President Suharto, thousands of students battled Indonesian
police Thursday in a swirl of tear gas, rocks and gasoline bombs.
At least one person was killed and dozens injured in battles on Jakarta's
rain-swept streets after five judges ruled Suharto's health was too frail
for him to face trial on charges of stealing at least $583 million from the
state.
Mobs, indignant Suharto never set foot in court, set fire to cars, buses and
an office belonging to the former leader's old political party, Golkar.
Police, carrying Plexiglas shields and wielding bamboo staves, charged
several hundred students who pelted them with stones and at least one
gasoline bomb, TV footage showed.
At one point, an officer shot a tear gas launcher into the face of a man
crouching on the side of a road and covering his head with his hands. The
round burst in yellowish white flash.
The blast pitched the young man over his side, and 10 other officers began
kicking and beating the prostrate protester. One officer tried to smash the
man with another grenade launcher, which discharged covering the group in a
cloud of gas. Bleeding and semiconscious, the man was hospitalized.
Scores of riot police guarded the 79-year-old Suharto's central Jakarta home
while about 800 protesters and 200 Suharto supporters threw rocks and
bottles at one another. As motorcycles burned, demonstrators threw rocks and
gasoline bombs at officers.
Bloody protests by students pushed Suharto from power in 1998, but with his
trial abandoned, students fear he will never face a court for abuses during
his more than three decades in power.
``Suharto ruined this country. Now he is going to get away with it. If we
don't stop him, who will? This is not democracy,'' protester Siong Dede
said.
The court accepted the findings of a 23-doctor medical team that brain
damage from three strokes reduced Suharto's intelligence to that of a third
grader.
The court also ignored demands by prosecutors that Suharto be tried in
absentia--an alternative favored by the government.
The court freed Suharto from house arrest and lifted other travel
restrictions.
Suharto's corruption trial had been regarded as central to efforts by the
year-old government to clean up endemic graft and make amends for past human
rights abuses.
Attorney General Marzuki Darusman said prosecutors would appeal the court's
decision.
``There is no real will to give justice to the people,'' Darusman said.
Thursday's decision came as President Abdurrahman Wahid, Indonesia's first
democratically elected head of state in 44 years, was on an official visit
to South America.
Disappointment with the failed attempt to try Suharto could further erode
Wahid's strength, already weakened by scandals and infighting as well as
outbreaks of religious and ethnic violence across the sprawling nation of
17,000 islands.
The proceedings against Suharto cast a shadow over Jakarta, which has been
rocked by a series of deadly blasts, including a Sept. 13 explosion at its
stock exchange that killed 15 people.
Speculation is rife that the explosions were the work of Suharto supporters
and elements of the security forces opposed to Wahid's democratic reforms.
At least 30 people have been arrested.
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Memnoch
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Attitudes of the Rich and Famous...
The American system of ours, call it Americanism, call it Capitalism,
call it what you like, gives each and every one of us a
great opportunity if we only seize it with both hands and make the most
of it.
Al Capone
The point is that you can't be too greedy.
Donald Trump, Trump: The Art of the Deal (written with Tony Schwartz,
1987).
Greed is all right, by the way . . . I think greed is healthy. You can
be greedy and still feel good about yourself.
Ivan F. Boesky, U.S. financier. Commencement Address, 18 May 1986,
School of Business Administration,
University of California, Berkeley. Boesky's words were later picked up
in Oliver Stone's film, Wall Street (1987),
spoken by Gordon Gecko. Boesky himself was later convicted of conspiring
to file false documents with the
federal government, involving insider trading violations, and agreed to
pay $100 million in fines and illicit profits.
The rights and interests of the laboring man will be protected and cared
for not by our labor agitators, but by the Christian
men to whom God in his infinite wisdom has given control of property
interests of the country, and upon the successful
management of which so much remains.
George F. Baer (Railroad Industrialist)
They don't suffer. They can't even speak English.
Baer, answering a reporters' question about the suffering of starving
miners
Capitalism is the extraordinary belief that the nastiest of men, for the
nastiest of reasons, will somehow work for the
benefit of us all.
Economist John Maynard Keynes
I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a
musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords
and harmonies.
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821), French general, emperor. Quoted in:
Havelock Ellis, The Dance of Life (1923).
Respectable means rich, and decent means poor. I should die if I heard
my family called decent.
Thomas Love Peacock (1785-1866), English author. Lady Clarinda, in
Crotchet Castle, 1831
Socialism proposes no adequate substitute for the motive of enlightened
selfishness that to-day is at the basis of all human
labor and effort, enterprise and new activity.
William Howard Taft, U.S. Republican president, Popular Government,
1913.
I wasn't satisfied just to earn a good living. I was looking to make a
statement.
Donald Trump, Trump: The Art of the Deal, (1987; written with Tony
Schwartz).
We are not concerned with the very poor. They are unthinkable, and only
to be approached by the statistician or the
poet.
E. M. Forster, British novelist, essayist. Howards End, 1910.
A prince never lacks legitimate reasons to break his promise.
Niccol� Machiavelli, The Prince, 1514.
The F�hrer is always quite cheerful, cheerful with all his heart, when
he is having tea with his friends during the night, or
when he is training his dogs!
Martin Bormann, German Nazi leader. Annotations to letter, Dec. 25,
1943, from his wife Gerda (published in
The Bormann Letters, ed. by Hugh Trevor-Roper, 1954).
Today, almost forty years later, I grow dizzy when I recall that the
number of manufactured tanks seems to have been
more important to me than the vanished victims of racism.
Albert Speer, German architect, Nazi official. The Slave State, (1981).
I tell you, sir, the only safeguard of order and discipline in the
modern world is a standardized worker with
interchangeable parts. That would solve the entire problem of
management.
Jean Giraudoux, French writer, diplomat
Poverty is an anomaly to rich people. It is very difficult to make out
why people who want dinner do not ring the bell.
Walter Bagehot, 19th Century English economist
Any man who pays more for labor than the lowest sum he can get men for
is robbing his stockholders. If he can secure
men for $6 and pays more, he is stealing from the company.
Stockholder of American Wollen (Lawrence, Massachusetts) 1911
Told to the Rev. Harry Emerson Fosdick
We'll drive the goddamned sons-of-bitches into the river and drown them.
We'll starve them. We'll kill every damned man
of them or drive them, together with the Socialists, from the city!
Judge Davis, Minot, North Dakota, 1912,
Referring to striking Wobblies.
I don't believe that it's true that the poor will always be with us. I
think that kind of pious fatalism is just an excuse for
keeping things the way they are.
Margaret Culkin Banning, The quality of Mercy, 1963
The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as
poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but of
a set of priorities imposed upon the rest of the world by the rich.
Consequently, the modern poor are not pitied . . . but
written off as trash. The twentieth-century consumer economy has
produced the first culture for which a beggar is a
reminder of nothing.
John Berger, British author, critic. The Soul and the Operator, in
Expressen (Stockholm; 19 March 1990;
reprinted in Keeping a Rendezvous, 1992).
I can identify with steelworkers. I can identify with workers that have
had a difficult time.
Vice President Dan Quayle addressing workers at an Ohio steel plant,1988
I did not have three thousand pairs of shoes, I had one thousand and
sixty.
Imelda Marcos, 1987
I wanted to see whether or not the great Louis XIV style, which I
consider the most beautiful style, could work in a
modern building. I didn't want to buy old columns, because they're
cracked and broken. I waited to have brand-new
minted marble columns... I've used all onyx. Onyx is a precious stone,
many times more beautiful. I don't believe there is
an apartment like this anywhere in the world. The view, the solid bronze
window frames, the fountain all brand new and
carved. Did you see the way the window shades go up and down, all
remote? And they're bulletproof... I don't care
about material needs. I could be happy in a studio apartment with a
television and a telephone.
Donald Trump, Zen Buddhist, showing off his Trump Tower digs, in
"InStyle" magazine (as excerpted by Leah
Garchik in the San Francisco Chronicle, December 5, 1995).
There is no way of keeping profits up but by keeping wages down.
David Ricardo, On Protection in Agriculture, 1820
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