Source: Talk:Bringing life to each other and our communities

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From the [Cooperation](/Bringing_life_to_each_other_and_our_communities#Cooperation) section: "Whenever the rule of law becomes something that can be bought or sold, an institution rife with corruption, the entire larger social contract breaks down. Despite its flaws, the strength of our justice system, and our culture that supports it, is one of the great assets of the United States of America."

As a fairly regular participant in the Get Money Out of Politics workgroup of Occupy Seattle, I would be remiss in failing to note that the rule of law *can* be bought and sold in the USA.  The price of the bribes is much higher than an average citizen can afford, and the people being bribed are lawmakers and regulatory bureaucrats rather than police, so we have the appearance of a non-corrupt system, but only if we don't look too closely at the lobbying efforts of the ultra-wealthy and megacorporations.

Since this issue is rather off to the side of what we want to discuss in that section, I propose removing it entirely and using some other illustrative example instead.

--[BenSibelman](/User:BenSibelman) 19:38, 14 April 2012 (UTC)