[lbo-talk] polonski

[Wojtek S]

[Ws:}  It is a strange coincidence that shortly after the Swiss had their
arms twisted to give to the US UBS bank data on tax evaders, they suddenly
decided to "cooperate" with the US in what seems like a bullshit but high
public profile case.  Perhaps they wanted to generate enough publicity about
"cooperating with the US justice system" as ammunition to fight similar -
and more serious - demands of that kind in the future?  Obviously, we have
no way of knowing for sure, but it does seem at least plausible.

I do not think it was instigated on this side of the pond, but anything that
involves sex and mooovies gets an instant and overwhelimg response here.

Wojtek

On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 10:36 AM, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:


>
> On Sep 30, 2009, at 10:27 AM, JC Helary wrote:
>
>  Currently, the affair serves exactly one and only one purpose: divert the
>> attention of the stunned masses from more urgent and important issues.
>>
>
> Do you think the arrest was timed to do that? Or does shit just happen and
> the system processes things to work that way. Because there's never any
> shortage of such material in American life - the details may vary from week
> to week, even if the structure remains the same.
>
> Still, Americans are very easily distractible. They really don't care much
> about politics, I'm sorry to say. They'd much rather follow LiLo or whatever
> the flavor of the week is. Mark Sanford was fun, but that was sex and lying
> more than politics.
>
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