AT&T Randall Stephenson to jail?

It's one thing to lie in advertising. We all expect that.

It's another thing to lie in newspaper stories. Most of us expect that.

It's another thing to lie in applications to the Federal Communications Commission. That becomes a little more troubling.

But it's another thing altogether to lie to Congress. That's against the law. And there is some indication that AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson did exactly that. If so, and if it can be proven he did so knowingly, he should go to jail.

By the way? THAT'S what the Occupy Wall Street protests were about.

Jail the Bankers

Look, take exception to the source, if you want. But read it. Then this.

Then download the report itself. Just Google: Wall Street and the Financial Crisis: Anatomy of a Financial Collapse. It was written by a bipartisan Senate committee.

Okay, you don't have to read all 650 pages of that. But download it anyway, so that when someone spouts off that it's just Rolling Stone or The New York Times, you can prove it is far more than that.

Lloyd Blankfein and Daniel Sparks and David Viniar and Thomas Montag should be given their day in court. If 12 of their peers determine they should go free, that's fine, then free they should be. But America needs them to stand trial.

Do this despite your temptation to give in to causistry, your desire to bury outrage by pretending 'it's impossible to know" and "in whose opinion?" Or worse, "It's just too hard."

C'mon, get off your ass and be an informed citizen, just like Thomas Jefferson said. That does not mean Fox News. There is such a thing as truth. Do what you need to do to learn what that is in the "market place of ideas." It's your job as a citizen, and you have been underemployed for too long.

Read it, do a little more digging, and form your own opinion. Then do something. But don't ignore it. You have ignored it for too damn long, and look where we are today because of that.