Politicians Won't Return Ponzi Payoffs

Gather round my children and listen up. 

Robert Allen Stanford stands as our symbol that any white American boy can grow up to become a Billionaire.  But you must be dedicated, committing your life to the task.  Do not be swayed by those who would have you believe that we are a stronger nation if we learn to cooperate with one another.  That is a sign of weakness.  Learn the tools of your trade well, ridicule, contempt, and cleverness.  Learn to create Truth out of whole cloth.  Be first to condemn those who stand in your way as being Socialists, Communists, Fascists, or sniveling Liberals.  Declare yourself to be the People's Champion and all others to be Terrorists or at best Un-American.  Never refuse to take that which does not belong to you.  Once you have it, it is yours.  And most of all, never forget Robert Allen Stanford.  By stumbling and falling by the side of the road, he has left an opening to be filled.  It might as well be you. 

 

Carl Jarvis

 

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Politicians Won't Return Ponzi Payoffs
Saturday 10 March 2012
by: Michael Winship, Moyers & Co. [3] | Op-Ed

Robert Allen Stanford. (Photo: Michael Stravato / The New York Times)
On Tuesday, Texas financier Robert Allen Stanford was convicted in a Houston
federal court on 13 out of 14 criminal counts of fraud. As The New York
Times reported:
The jury decision followed a six-week trial and came three years after Mr.
Stanford was accused of defrauding nearly 30,000 investors in 113 countries
in a Ponzi scheme involving $7 billion in fraudulent high-interest
certificates of deposit at the Stanford International Bank, which was based
on the Caribbean island of Antigua