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K “The definition varies yet ‘Recreational Litigation’ is usually defined as an unfounded claim or defense advanced by someone with unlimited funds who uses bullying techniques to harass and often bankrupt a small and often defenseless person or entity for grins.”
J “Or for some ulterior purpose. I call it ‘Sport Litigation’ because it is so unsporting. The ‘Department of Just-Us’ is the richest and most powerful player in the American Legal Game.”
K “FIFA is corrupt to the core. So is Wall Street. The United States has no business investigating and prosecuting FIFA corruption. The United States does have legitimate business investigating and prosecuting Wall Street corruption.”
J “‘Sport Litigation’ is the felicitous term.”
K “I may be wrong, yet I have this nagging suspicion that the government may be trying to pressure FIFA not to allow Russia to host the 2018 FIFA World Cup.”
J “Prostituting the Beautiful Game. Ugly.”
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K “The ‘Department of Just-Us’ as you call it long ago served notice that the banksters are above and beyond the law. The FIFA case may be a way for the ‘Department of Just-Us’ to serve notice that anyone who gets out of line will get it. And also to distract us from the real problems and the real danger.”
J “The ‘Department of Offense’ is engaged in endless wars and fear generation to distract us from the inevitable consequences of the actions and inactions of their friends and comrades at the ‘Department of Treasure’ and the Federal Reserve.”
K “What about describing it as ‘Diversionary Litigation’ designed to make the public believe that evil foreigners are being prosecuted while actually diverting attention from the real problems and the real danger.”
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[See the e-commentary at Schooling The Apparatchiks For The Kleptocrats (December 7, 2015).]
Bumper stickers of the week:
“The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.” H. L. Mencken
May the farce be with you.
Savor the solstice; Nature still sustains.
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