Shouldn’t Public Protection Be for, You Know, the Public? |
The present DOJ has its mission backwards — providing protection for corporate abusers from people seeking justice.
A core role of the U.S. Department of Justice is to provide protection for people from abuse by giant corporations.
But DOJ’s present inhabitants have twisted that mission backwards — using the agency to protect corporate abusers from people seeking justice.
For example: Big Oil. This massive polluter is insisting that government authorities must save it from its own transgressions. For decades, multibillion-dollar behemoths like Exxon have known that their fossil fuel emissions are increasing climate change, causing catastrophic destruction and deaths from intensified fires, floods, etc. Numerous lawsuits have now been filed demanding that the profiteers behind these horrific losses pay a fair share of the damage they’ve done.
“Noooo,” whined the petro-perpetrators, scampering to Washington and to Republican statehouses to lobby for retroactive blanket immunity from all responsibility. Sure enough, top GOP officials........