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"While the earnings of a minority are growing
exponentially, so too is the gap separating the majority from the prosperity
enjoyed by those happy few. This imbalance is the result of ideologies which
defend the absolute autonomy of the marketplace and financial speculation.
Consequently, they reject the right of states, charged with vigilance for the
common good, to exercise any form of control.
A new tyranny is thus born, invisible and often virtual, which unilaterally
and relentlessly imposes its own laws and rules ... In this system, which
tends to devour everything which stands in the way of increased profits,
whatever is fragile, like the environment, is defenceless before the
interests of a deified market, which become the only rule."
Francis I
"He was a murderer from the beginning, not standing with the truth,
for there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks of his own, for he is a
liar, and the father of lies."
John 8:44
It feeds on whatever is fragile, vulnerable, whether it be the environment,
the public peace, the weak, the marginalized, the poor, the disabled, or the
hearts and minds of children.
And who are we to protect them? 'We do not want this people to
grow soft, but we want it to be hard, so that it will be able to withstand the
hardships of life.' The people are material, things. And if
the material is imperfect, throw it out.
There are a number of possible explanations for this
recent cluster of untimely deaths on Wall Street.
They may be suicides. The culture of pressure and high
stakes on Wall Street is notorious. Young bankers can literally work
themselves to death for managers and institutions who have little or
no value or appreciation for normal human life, except for the most
cynical of public masquerades.
It is a culture of sociopaths, of crippled human
minds maintaining their existence with insensate obsessions
and mindless acquisition. The Banks have set money and
personal power above all other values, whether they involve customers or
employees or the public. The gods they worship are as old as Babylon,
and evil as hell.
In addition to a physical death, which is tragic enough,
there are also so many more moral and emotional deaths, the long, slow
strangulation and eradication of all that makes us human, which I fear
claims many more souls than we might appreciate or even imagine.
It hollows out people and public institutions, extending the reach of the
great emptiness.
Wall Street has become the wellspring of a
modern culture of death.
Wall Street Banker Deaths Continue; Where Are the
Serious Investigations?
Last Thursday, 29-year old Thomas J. Hughes, later
described by his brother as 'one of the happiest people I know,' allegedly
took his life by jumping from a luxury apartment building at 1 West Street in
Manhattan. Before any serious investigation had taken place, the New York
tabloids had dismissed the matter as a suicide. Hughes was an investment
banker on Wall Street.
...for the first time in two centuries, iconic Wall Street
banks are being serially charged with committing felonies. These banks have
known for the same 18 months that bankers have been dying under suspicious
circumstances that felony charges were coming. After a series of deferred
prosecution agreements, two weeks ago on May 20, five global banks pleaded
guilty to criminal charges of conspiring to rig markets. Two of those were
U.S. banks, Citigroup and JPMorgan Chase, where recent unusual deaths have
occurred.
In any serious investigation, law enforcement is required
to look at any potential motive for foul play. But when it comes to serial
deaths among Wall Street bankers and technology personnel, occurring
repeatedly over the last 18 months in highly unusual circumstances, the
deaths are almost instantaneously labeled non-suspicious by the police. But
there are two glaring motives for foul-play in almost all of these deaths
involving Wall Street or global banks...
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