#OWS Interview: Prosecute the Wall Street Mafia! Bill Black, Dylan Ratigan & David DeGraw on the Destruction of the Rule of Law

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#OWS Interview: Prosecute the Wall Street Mafia! Bill Black, Dylan Ratigan & David DeGraw on the Destruction of the Rule of Law

October 31st, 2011 | Filed under Activism, Economy, Feature, Hot List, News, Politics & Government, Video . Follow comments through RSS 2.0 feed. Click here to comment, or trackback.

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In this video, David DeGraw joins Bill Black on the Dylan Ratigan Show to discuss the “epidemic of fraud” and the people who need to be held personally responsible for the destruction of our economic system.

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Previous Comments:

Dbarunica said:

This movement is sooo evolving and bubbling up! Thank you, one and all!!

October 18th, 2011 at 7:50 pm
Evisokey said:

i think i’m going to throw up

October 18th, 2011 at 8:13 pm
Evisokey said:

what a load of BS

October 18th, 2011 at 8:14 pm
Anonymous said:

Withdraw to your chamber.

October 18th, 2011 at 9:16 pm
Wendyedavis said:

Great job, Dave! I just did a diary featuring it at my.fdl; a few folks wondered if it would spark Obama/Holder to announce some (bogus) promises of prosecutions. Me? Nah; they’re busy prosecuting medical pot growers and stores…and brave, ballsy whistle-blowers. Hard at work, they are…and writing memos about the legality of extra-judicial drone kills, stuff like that.

Odd thing, though; yesterday’s show isn’t up on youtube yet; pretty singular, in my experience.

October 18th, 2011 at 10:29 pm
Jim said:

Great to see you linking Obama to Wall Street. This movement should not be political in the traditional Republican/Democrat sense. Two heads of the same rotten system. Never allow this uprising to be co-opted

October 19th, 2011 at 8:56 am
GaiaLogic said:

But you can’t argue it can you? Funny how all of those who don’t agree with the OWS movement have no opinion of their own, not argument against the facts and no counter discussion. People resort to insults and weak statements when they know they’re wrong.

October 20th, 2011 at 12:44 pm
Evisokey said:

I do have an opinion. I trade mortgage bonds for a large bank. I know how the business works. While there are some shady operators, there is no fraud. You can’t change the terms of a loan agreement after the fact. If you bothered to read what you were were signing or bothered to understand what types of bonds you were buying you would be surprised by what happened. Pay your damn mortgage and you won’t be foreclosed on. I agree that the government should not have gotten involved and bailed out the banks but to claim widespread fraud is retarded.
Although I could get down with my apartment being free. I pay an arm and a leg every month

October 21st, 2011 at 8:47 pm
Pitchman said:

All Americans should consider the following!

“The bane of humanity is we learn nothing from the horrors of past
atrocities and history repeats itself. Our/Your passive acceptance of one
transgression always makes way for another. This and the belief that
injustice, visited on our neighbor, will not one day come knocking at our door
is the banality of evil…” – Inflection
Point

See: RAPE
OF THE REPUBLIC

When it comes to Financial Terrorism; lack of action by those
constitutionally sworn to protect the people is the equivalent of active
participation or passive complicity, both of which are acts
of treason.

To save the republic we love; The Rule Of Law Must Apply To All
Americans! John F.
Kennedy understood the potential cost when
one group dominates the whole, when he said;

“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible, make violent revolution
inevitable.”

THE
RULE OF LAW MUST APPLY TO ALL AMERICANS!

December 21st, 2011 at 1:22 am

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