Many corporate execs. and those who help them to destroy the middle-class are mentally sick people..

[Cal33]

Just imagine Al Capone in a high position -- whether in a corporation or
government position. They are doing what he would have done. They are better
educated than Capone, of course, and perhaps more sophisticated in their
behavior, but at heart they are still Al Capones.

And they can't help being what they are. They are driven to do what they
do. Nor can they change. This is where Obama is wrong about "bipartisanship."
Would you choose to have Al Capone for a business partner? It's suicide!
In order to understand how to deal with them, Obama needs to consult with
expert mental health professionals. Sociopaths don't think and don't feel
in the way most of the people do.

These people feel better about themselves, when they can not only put
others down, but make them into their servants and serfs, and do with them
as they please -- as it happened during the Middle Ages. They feel better
about themselves when they can lord it over the rest of the people. They'd
like to return to those times when they could live in their castles, and
have the power to put those who disagree with them into torture chambers.

G. W. Bush was one who enjoyed having total control over others, and making
people suffer. As governor of Texas he had 153 cases of death-row inmates
come to him for review. He did not commute one single death sentence. He
even made fun of one condemned woman in the most sadistic way, when she asked
him for clemency. Bush's sadism shows up all over the place -- his approval
of water-boarding, Guantanamo, his lying our nation into war against a
small country like Iraq...ad infinitum.

At about that time the DNA test came into wide use. There was a Republican
governor in Illinois who had 23 inmates on death-row. He ordered them to
take the test. It turned out that 12 of the 23 condemned men were found to
be innocent. That's more than half!! 12 innocent men would have been
executed for crimes done by others. So much for the accuracy of our court
systems. And 12 guilty people would have gone off scott free! The governor
immediately ordered the suspension of all executions until further study. I
don't know what the final outcome was. But here was a governor who had a
conscience!

As for those others, when they are feeling badly about themselves, they try to
come out of it by deliberately making other people feel more miserable than they
themselves. They need a whipping boy to beat up on in order to feel good.

If that isn't sick, what is? Do we want such people to be our rulers?

[NoPasaran]

1. Fact check

G. W. Bush commuted the death sentence of Henry Lee Lucas.

I don't recall him lying us into a war with Iran.

[lonestarnot]

2. Serial Killer didn't have time.

[Cal33]

3. I've never heard of Henry Lee Lucas. Okay, that's one out of

153. And, read again, I'v already edited Iran to read Iraq.

[bengalherder]

5. Lucas is an interesting one.

Why he of all people was allowed to live while so many others with far less heinous records were put down...

[pansypoo53219]

4. it's the medici and borgias.

all over again. w/ a little restraint.

[Cal33]

8. Yes. Humans' basic drives haven't changed since the beginning

of history. Only science and technology have made tremendous advances.
Whereas the destructivenes of wars was limited in the past, today we
have the ability of self-destruct. I wonder if this "advance" is
worth it, or will it become our own undoing?

[ProfessionalLeftist]

6. 'Snakes in Suits' by Robert Hare

Recommended reading. Many CxOs of big corps are psychopaths/sociopaths. No conscience. That's how come they can do what they do - anything for money.

[bvar22]

7. I would include those politicians who HELP these CorpoExecs....

...while pretending to help those they have pledged to "represent".
That includes the majority of those occupying seats in ALL branches of our government from BOTH political Parties.

[Cal33]

10. "I would include those politicians who HELP these CorpoExecs.."

Most definitely. Aiders and abettors of criminals are also criminals.

[Odin2005]

9. They are SOCIOPATHS. They cannot be fixed, only locked up or "eliminated".