New York Prosecutors Mysteriously Drop Fake Kidnapping Charges Against Fiat Heir

If you understand the concept of an oligarchy and a plutocracy, then this news makes perfect sense, as do the action at Standing Rock, were an oil company trespasses on First Nations' lands (as supported by treaty with the US Government), and when the lawful landowners resist, The Government sends in military forces, sides with Big Oil, and attacks The People, rather than defending the rights of The People. Again, if you understand oligarchy and plutocracy, this apparently "crazy" event makes perfect sense.

The weirdest thing is that it's now new. It hasn't started in the past weeks, or months. The prestigious Princeton University reported the conclusion of their research a couple of years ago that we don't have a democracy (or even a "flawed democracy", as is being currently reported in international news); we have a oligarchy, a plutocracy. Another notable US university doing its own, independent research around the same time came to the same conclusion. CitiBank also agrees in a letter to its wealthiest clients, in which it tells them they are enjoying the unprecedented benefits of their oligarchy, and that the greatest threat posed to their wealth is the possibility of the revolt of the American masses.

This is not new. The difference now is that we're seeing it more clearly. I believe we'll continue to see it yet more clearly in the coming years.

Second paragraph should open with "The weirdest thing is that it's NOT new..."

The Steve;

You are 110% correct and the people of the US are becoming aware of this and have been for some time. I believe this is why Donald Trump was elected over a long term politician. Many of us Americans that love the Constitution and the freedoms the Founding Fathers gave us and have witnessed the government slowly stripping us of them. What ever side of politics any of us sit on is not that relevant to me, what is relevant is that everyone of us Americans take beck the rights of the people to govern and pull everyone of the politicians back in line. How many of our current government have been in their seats for many years now and have only every been a government employee???? For years they have set up a structure of protection for themselves while watching all those persons lives they were elected to represent slowly deteriorate. Whether you voted or did not vote for Trump has no relevance to me, what matters to me is to wether you want to grow our current government and give them more power or strip them of their protections and hold them accountable for what they have and are doing. I want to see every person love freedom and individuality and not try to govern them into thinking one way or another. In all of history we can see that Governments turn away from those they represent and that is why our Forefathers placed the second amendment right there and worded it the way they did. So that the people can and should always be the ones in control.

leroisF40: At the risk of sounding over-the-top political (I don't align with any political party), I'd like to address ex-president Obama.

One of the biggest issues I have with with him is that he presents so well. He's polished, refined, elegant, calm to the point of appearing unflappable. He instills a sense of empathy to the viewer. In other words, for people who aren't white supremacists, or who aren't against the party behind the man, they can be lulled into believing "This man is being open and truthful. He's telling us the whole story. He truly cares about us all, and is doing everything possible to move us all towards the greater good." That becomes easier to believe with Obama as the poster boy.

And in that elegance and refinement, in that apparent empathy and compassion, we are diverted from things like Standing Rock, or the fact that the country who prides itself on "freedom" incarcerates more of its own citizens (on a per-capita basis) than ANY other nation in the world (topping even China, Russia, and North Korea) and has more lawyers (per capita) than the next 5 nations combined! We lose sight of the fact that billions of dollars are shunted off to giga-corporations, including failed ones, while the bill is sent to the poor and shrinking middle class, and why politicians "express concern" for the poor while financially supporting the very wealthy elite. It's why few people reading this post know that our government recently eliminated the federal inheritance tax, which used to apply only to estates of $10M or more. Joe Average clearly didn't benefit from this change. Only the beautifully affluent did.

I believe President Trump has already done us a great service. Even though he hasn't yet built that promised giant wall, he has in effect created a giant mirror so we can more clearly see who we REALLY are, as a nation, as a people. It's not all "one people, united" and "freedom and justice for all." It's quite different. It has been, for a long time. We just lost sight of that as we were told the story of how great and right and just we are, and how God is on our side.

I can't agree with you more on this TheSteve. I have always said that Mr.Obama was a very eloquent and charismatic speaker but never should that eloquence and charisma cloud our sight of what his real actions are or were. I agree whole heartedly on the statements of imprisonment of our nation. To me the underlying imprisonment can be seen as to many laws and rules on the common citizen. If you have enough rules you can imprison those who appose you just for breathing and instil subservience in the masses through this imprisonment.

Do you remember when Steve Forbes ran for president and at that time he wanted to introduce a 12% flat tax on everybody earning over a set income? His plan called for no deductions and no exceptions for anyone who was over that threshold income. We would have reaped more in taxes while not taxing the low earning working class at all. The wealthy opposition back then to it should have been a sign to the people that those with very large incomes are not even paying 12% tax a year while the struggling middle class is doling out more than 25% tax on their hard earned income. I believe he also hade a flat corporate tax that was less that 12% but did not give the corporates any deductions so they could not falsely write down their profits every year and pay a net 0 tax.

Big yup :-( Understand oligarchy and plutocracy, and you understand why we are where we are. Think "Democracy" and "The People are free" and "The People truly hold the power" and there are a lot of unreconciled mysteries and unexplainable happenings all over the place.