In the DU comment cited in the no. 1 post, above:
"If anything happened, it did not happen on U.S. territory and the United states has nothing to do with it," (Putin) said. "This is yet another blatant attempt (by the United States) to extend its jurisdiction to other states."
That was almost exactly what I thought, when I first heard about these indictments. What business is it of the U.S. Justice Department? I did not think immediately about the U.S. trying to extend its jurisdiction to other states, but I agree with that as well. Doesn't mean I like Putin, just because I agree with something he said.
Further thought today: It is a distraction, probably with several purposes, and I can only guess at those, but probably first among them would be a distraction from the unindicted crimes of our out-of-control banksters, not to mention the criminal horrors of the unindicted Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld, et al. Second, a distraction from our completely out-of-control, fascist police departments, and the shocking lack of prosecution of murderers in the police forces. Thirdly, a distraction from the citizen rebellion against the Feds' corrupt, murderous, failed "war on drugs." That corruption is big and it is endemic and it is worldwide, and the lack of any investigation or prosecution of perps within the DEA, the FBI, the CIA, the Pentagon and other government entities is probably related to the immunity that apparently has been granted to Bush, Cheney & Rumsfeld, et al, for their war crimes and vast military and domestic corruption.
Don't have enough Clorox in the world to deal with the BIG DIRTY LAUNDRY BASKET of stinky, bloody corruption that the Bush Junta left behind. So, just hide it under the furniture and sweep it under the rug--and throw it out in the back yard, where it can get all mixed up with the comparatively minor FIFA corruption. Corruption in Big Sports in other countries? Oh. My. God. Ain't that awful.
My views are actually a lot tougher than Putin's, cuz I'm seeing this all from the inside of the once great democracy that I was born into, and that is being thoroughly trashed by our transglobal corporate rulers and their "military-industrial complex"--the final trashing of which has been the 'TRADE SECRET' code in all of our vote counting systems, run by private corporations with ties to the far, far right that should make your hair stand on end, and with NO AUDIT AT ALL in half the states in this country, and a miserably inadequate 1% audit in the other half. We should care about
soccer corruption? We should care about
delated footballs? Give me a break.
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