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How is that the proper response? If one person gets away with running a red light, do we just turn them all off?

The travesty of HSBC getting away with their crimes should be a reminder of the value of the rule of law and an impetus to fight even harder against those that would think themselves above it.



If this person is a minister of interior affairs then yes, we should just turn them all off.

And HSBC is something like that. It's exactly the bank that "we all the citizens" should trust in order to not be "anti-democratic" as another article put it.

And you know what, we're not going to trust HSBC or any other bank, no more.


You sound surprised. But why?

To trust a bank with your money, under certain conditions, I understand.

But who in his right mind trusts a bank as a "moral entity"? Banks/bankers are the scum of the earth. To quote Brecht:

"What's breaking into a bank compared to founding one?"


Well, there was an article which states we should just trust in banks and back them up with our promises. Because that's what democratic is.

http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2013/04/03/why-bitcoin...




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