The CBS program 60 Minutes recently reported on the latest double-standard benefiting the privileged: the legality of insider trading by Congress, which has influenced the outcome of our laws. This is my personal experience with inside trading by a high officer in the Department of the Navy.
Long before September 11th, 2001 and the attacks on the Twin Towers – when Americans in Armani slacks and ties were given the choice to jump 124 floors, or to be burned to death – I too was given a deadly choice: to invest in war and make tens of thousands of dollars or to refuse blood money and face the ridicule of my father and my peers. Defiantly, I chose the latter.
You see, our country did not choose to go to war on March 20th , 2002 following the 9/11 disaster. Our government chose to go to war long before that. In fact, the decision came just one day after George Walker Bush was selected our 43rd president. Let me explain.