Here's why I believe in Diana's suggestion of foul play ....
It was pretty mind-blowing to the average American to hear the unfathomable dollar figure of "four-hundred-billion" (with a "b") back in September of 2008 when that 5-alarm bailout was trotted out for Congress to approve.
Four hundred ................ billion.
That was a number that few of us had ever heard uttered before in our lives in any context --not even in science fiction. And yet here we were in September of 2008 being asked to wrap our brains around that god-like, cosmic number as being the almighty savior of our whole way of life. And we were furthermore being menacingly warned that some clock somewhere was rapidly ticking out a countdown to all-out Armageddon if that dollar figure was not instantly approved by Congress for release from the bowels of our Treasury to combat the heinous monster that was ready to devour America in one fateful afternoon. And so the cries of "RELEASE THE KRAKKEN!" sounded forth from Congress, and that impossible and never-before-heard-of number of $400 billion was indeed catapulted right out of our nation's coffers and off into ... somewhere
Several more Krakkens' worth of hundreds of billions of dollars have been "officially" released from our nation's Treasury to combat these alleged monsters from the Pit of Tartarus which we are only TOLD are poised to devour us whole. And We The People have been given no proof whatsoever that these monsters are even real, nor have we been given any voice whatsoever to express our approval or disapproval in the formal decision making process of whether or not to do these bailouts in the first place.
Here we are, four years later, and that brain-exploding number of "four-hundred-billion" still fails to roll effortlessly off of our tongues. It's a number so gawdawful huge that it still makes our collective skin crawl. That famous line of "a billion here, a billion there, after a while you're talking real money" doesn't hold a candle to the sickening thought of such an outlandish number as four-hundred-billion dollars all being zapped by a single pen stroke. We still reel at that number.
And now ...
Here our resident AW poster Diana Hignutt has brought to our attentions a present day lawsuit which the MSM is NOT telling us about. And at the center of that lawsuit is a number so huge that most of us couldn't possibly punch it out on a standard issue calculator due to it having far too many place holders. It's a number that makes that 400-billion number pale in comparison as being just oh-so-2008.
We are talking about "forty-three-trillion" (with a "t").
Forty-three ................ trillion.
And the powerful names associated with that other-worldly number are names already suspect among the increasingly suspicious minds of the American people. And yet in spite of the razzle-dazzle, draw-dropping, National Enquirer-worthy drama of such a fucked up number as 43 trillion, and in spite of such headline-catching names as Eric Holder, Timothy Geithner and Robert Rubin associated with that infinity-and-beyond number, the press is strangely silent about it all.
And so ... the question being raised here is: would someone KILL to try and hush up the theft of $43,000,000,000,000.00??
Another question being raised here is: would someone deliberately telegraph a veiled threat of death and mayhem to any sort of investigative type people out there that they are NOT to fuck around with too much investigative whatever into this alleged theft of $43,000,000,000,000.00??
My answer is that the potential outrage of the American people is perhaps the issue here. And not triggering that already quietly simmering potential for even further degrees of outrage is probably worth killing for.
We saw what happened to Richard Nixon. And Bill Clinton. And Bernie Madoff. Hell, we even saw what happened to Leona Helmsley and Martha Stewart and Kenneth Lay. The ire of the American People seems to be still somewhat of a potent deterrent on some level to some people in some strange quarters of life. Judges can be bought, but they want to still get re-elected again later. And so in my perspective on the evils of life, buying the right judges and massaging the right political processes is a delicate matter which needs to avoid too bright of a public spotlight.
Our democracy isn't completely owned yet, and so they must still tiptoe through their hell-spawned plans of deceit and trechery. And the cooperation of the press is a crucial part of that tiptoeing.
