Prophecy Dec. 25, 2004 : Justice for Wall Street

When the word gets out on the street that the coppers are coming to bust up the rackets, that might be a good time for a wise guy to lay low for a while...

Consider the following parable. Once there was a small country with a large banana patch. Like most countries they had a King. Until one day Washington came and overthrew that King and installed a new King, who promptly, after ‘restoring democracy' to that nation, signed away those banana patches to Wall Street, whereupon such banana patches became protected by that most sacred of legal principles, the laws governing and cherishing the ‘private property' of some capitalist. Yes, one could try to make some legal case that perhaps there was some other legal principle that might trump the private property interest of some capitalist, like the principle that everyone deserves a square meal a day, for example, but even that principle is sent down the crapper since it turns out that if people are going to eat that might require some capitalist to lose a buck. And the most important principle of the law on this planet is that you never touch a buck once a capitalist has pocketed that dollar, no matter how horrible life might become for someone else, and this proves to true even when they lost out after having that dollar stolen by some capitalist in the first place. For capitalists, it turns out, are above the law, and can even murder, as they are doing in such places as Iraq, if that is what it takes to plunder some O-I-L well, this being a remarkable example of that one time when according to principles of the law and the concept of justice, mugging someone and stealing their wallet is actually a legally protected right and not a crime that is prosecuted.

For this reason one could never expect any justice from any judge on the face of the planet, despite the obvious long list of crimes and the long history of criminality and injustice that characterizes the last century, since you really do have to respect ‘private property'. One of the reasons that Washington had to get rid of the first King is that if you were to ask the people of that nation if they were willing to give that banana patch to Wall Street, they would have said no, naturally, and they have never stopped complaining about the injustice of losing that banana patch, which is why they need a government that signs away banana patches, so as to make the loss of the afore mentioned banana patch ‘legal.'

Now to continue with our parable, let us suppose that someone bought what everyone knows are hot goods. If we assume that someone could find a judge, and if we further assume that the judge was just and therefore ruled that the stolen banana patch be returned to its rightful owner, do you suppose that the purchaser of such hot goods could somehow argue before that judge that they deserved ‘compensation' when their hot goods which they purchased, knowing full well that they were purchasing something stolen from someone else, were returned to the rightful owners?

Now while we are on the subject of trading in hot goods, let us suppose that after taking over the rackets on the North, South, East and West sides, the decision was made to send out Bugsy and the boys to make the hit and take over the rackets on the Middle side as well. And then after that hit went off without a hitch, let us suppose that the hot goods from that score started turning up down in the underworld and some 'investor' got a hot tip that some purloined property was for sale down in the underworld, and let us further suppose that said investor decided to head down to some fence to pick up some of that hot merchandise that picked up by the mob when they busted into that racket over on the Middle side. But then lets say that suddenly a rumor starting going around that the hit was actually all part of a sting operation by the copppers who were now closing in on the mob, and that some people were going to be doing some hard time down in Sing Sing after having been busted when they got taken for a bunch of suckers and actually went for that honeypot and got stung. Now that 'investor' might decide to get out of the rackets and just lay low for a while until the heat is off. Yes with the coppers closing in maybe that 'investor' might find those hot goods a little to hot and decide to unload that marked merchandise onto some other sap who could then take the dive for being caught red handed in possession of that hot property. Do you suppose that when that 'investor' decided to bail out of the rackets that he might actually be able to find some sucker somewhere who still hadn't heard about that sting operation and might actually be stupid enough to take that red hot merchandise and then take the swan dive for being caught trafficing in stolen goods?

The long history of criminality and theft of that Wall Street stock market would require more than one single person to write up the complete indictment, but fortunately the planet is full of people will long memories of injustice and crime, and so in the future, when justice comes, I am sure we will receive all the help required to draw up such a long and lengthy indictment for the coming prosecution of those ‘investors' on Wall Street, who, in addition to coughing up for that 7 or 8 trillion dollar bar tab of theirs, will of course, be coughing up for a hell of a lot more than that...Given how Al Capone said that he would rather bootleg than buy stocks, since, as he put it, those Wall Street gangsters were all a bunch of crooks, it remains to be seen if ‘investors' will have a dime left once their long history of criminality has been addressed and justice dispensed.

But first things first. First we will have to find a judge and a court of law and legal system. First things first...