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"One of the most effective ways to combat corporate misconduct is by seeking accountability from the individuals who perpetrate the wrong-doing," the memo reads. This "deters future illegal activity, it incentivizes change in future corporate behavior, it ensures that the proper parties are held responsible for their actions, and it promotes the public's confidence in our justice system."[emphasis mine]

One of the most effective ways to combat corporate misconduct is by seeking accountability from the individuals who perpetrate the wrong-doing...

This deters future illegal activity...

...it incentivizes changes in future corporate behavior

...it ensures that the proper parties are held responsible for their actions

...it promotes the public's confidence in our justice system.

First we had "too big to fail". Then came "too big to jail". Now, finally, the U.S. Department of "Justice" is letting us know what it really thinks: U.S. Big Banks simply have a license to steal.Yes. As these criminalized institutions now perpetrate financial mega-crimes measured (literally) in theYes. Presumably if the DOJ hadn't taken its previous, supposed "tough love" approach to these financial criminals, they would now already be perpetrating multi-dollar crimes. And the U.S. government certainly won't stand in the way of "progress".Supposedly, giving these fraud-factories microscopic fines as their sole punishment was being too harsh - when it comes to enforcing the law.In the United States of Crime, any time there is a conflict between "law" (the Rule of Law) and "profit" (the proceeds of crime), the U.S. Department of Justice sides with profit -- i.e. the criminals.It's like the grandparents of a spoiled brat. No matter how horrific the deed perpetrated by the brat, the grandparents never do anything more than muss-up his hair a bit, and then say "run along, you little Scamp, and don't do this, again."Is there any chance that the spoiled brat would ever reform his intolerable behavior? Of course not. Is there any possibility that telling these fraud-factories, in absolutely explicit terms that they will never be prosecuted will actually "deter crime"? No, of course not.Yet this is precisely what the liars in the U.S. government (and the mouthpieces of Bloomberg) expect expect us to believe:Let's dissect this utter perversion of logic and justice, on a phrase-by-phrase basis.Don't punish the Boss who gave the order, punish the Lackey who followed the order. Even in the complete travesty of justice which the U.S. calls its "War on Drugs", the Department of Justice does not subscribe to such warped logic. It supposedly focuses its quasi-military crusade on the "drug cartels" rather than on the lowly street-pushers.Yet when we are dealing with Big Banks instead of drug cartels, a crime syndicate whose financial felonies are literally a hundred times larger than those of the drug cartels, we're now told that the best way to "combat corporate misconduct" is to publicly proclaim to those corporations (Big Banks) that they have complete immunity from any/all prosecution.The despicable irony, and the reason why this is such an apt metaphor is that while the U.S. government still pretends to be fighting a War on Drugs, it has been giving U.S. Big Banks a free pass to serially launder trillions of dollars for the same drug cartels the U.S. government claims it is fighting to eliminate.No, it encourages more organized/systemic crime. Knowing that they will never be prosecuted, the Big Banks can plan their future crimes with even more confidence/certainty/reckless abandon.Really? How doesfor theensure that the "proper parties" are being held responsible? To "combat corporate misconduct", and punish the "proper parties", this directly and necessarily implies that you punish corporations for the crimes of corporations - not individuals.If a farmer has a problem with wolves killing his cattle, will he "deter future activity", "incentivize change" (with the wolves), and "ensure that the proper parties are held responsible" if he goes out and shoots a few mountain lions? Of course not. It will simply make the wolves glad and smug that they are not lions.Sure it does., no matter how large the crime, no matter how many times the same Big Banks commit the same crimes. Former U.S. Attorney General (i.e. Chief Crime Pimp) Eric Holder had already previously proclaimed that he would never prosecute U.S. Big Banks. And he didn't.So why any need for "new guidelines"? Because the new Chief Crime Pimp, Loretta Lynch, was recently forced to engage in a token prosecution of these fraud factories. What could "force" the Chief Crime Pimp of the United States to prosecute her own Masters, against her will? Think "Bernie Madoff".Some crimes are simply too big to cover up, even for a Chief Crime Pimp. With U.S. Big Banks engaging in blatant, serial and extreme manipulation of theglobal currency markets, day after day, for well over a decade, even a Chief Crime Pimp can only stall the wheels of pseudo-justice for so long.Thus the decree to their servants in the U.S. government: never again.From now on, the U.S. Department of (Anti-)Justice has promised it will never prosecute any banksters, except for a few, token Scapegoats whom the Big Banks will serve-up-on-a-platter, on the rare occasions when the American Sheeple can raise up their lazy carcasses enough to belch-out a demand for law-enforcement.Once upon a time, we lived in nations which recognized and upheld the Rule of Law. Indeed, many esteemed commentators have previously asserted that it was the (previous) strict adherence to the Rule of Law which was the one factor most responsible for the decades of unparalleled prosperity which we had previously enjoyed. Honest economies tend to be prosperous economies.Even the nations of Russia and China have not been spared from such financial/economic terrorist attacks.Now the Criminals have ensured that they will never be impeded in their economic terrorism with future, token prosecutions. Now they have secured a promise of complete, unending immunity from any/all crime...unless or until the people of the United States actually elect a legitimate (i.e. non-Democrat/non-Republican) government.