[ExI] government [and other kinds of] corruption

[Damien Broderick]

At 05:43 PM 2/25/2009 +0100, Mirco wrote:

>Open warfare is possible only if the leftists are able to raise an 
>army of people, but they are always more marginalized in the fringe.

It's barely possible that indignation might rouse some activity in the streets:

NYT:

<The entertainment Web site TMZ broke the story Tuesday that Northern 
Trust of Chicago, which got $1.5 billion in bailout money and then 
laid off 450 workers, flew hundreds of clients and employees to Los 
Angeles last week and treated them to four days of posh hotel rooms, 
salmon and filet mignon dinners, music concerts, a PGA golf 
tournament at the Riviera Country Club with Mercedes shuttle rides 
and Tiffany swag bags.

"A rep from the PGA told us Northern Trust wrote one big, fat check 
in order to sponsor the event," TMZ reported.

Northern [...] Trust had a lavish dinner at the Ritz Carlton on 
Wednesday with a concert by Chicago (at a $100,000 fee); rented a 
private hangar at the Santa Monica Airport on Thursday for another 
big dinner with a gig by Earth, Wind & Fire, and closed down the 
House of Blues on Sunset Strip on Saturday (at a cost of $50,000) for 
a dinner and serenade by Sheryl Crow.>