Mr. V.T. shared this article with me, and I enjoyed it so much I had to share it here, not the least of which becuase I have been blogging the last few days about corruption of one sort or another, from everything including faked bonds in massive amounts, to ridiculous clams that human stem cells are drugs, to agribusiness and court cases. Well, Philip Giraldi has stated the case very well: Corruption and the Citizen, American-Style For me, the central points in Giraldi's insightful article are these: "So the question becomes, why do the American people put up with the venality and … [Read more...]