The real me is a Large-hearted fellow who wants to live aqnd let live in a Utopian Sociaty, but the Republicans have taken that away from the average person. They had about 30 years to do this and amass a fortune doing so.

I LOVE women and have always considerereed then totally equal. Yes Women must struggle to achieve equality because men have controlled the World for thousands of years. Many Women have played along with this inferiority in order to get what they want by playing inferior.

It is about time U.S. Citizens begin tearing down the old ways of doing things and live in equality. A Black man has finally been elected president. He must fight a constant battle against the old powers that controlled this Country and kept OTW’s and Women down. President Barak Obama has a difficult job ahead of him, but I believe the American People are sick and tired of the way things have been run aqnd intend to make big changes. Only then will we find equality for Women, OTW’s and the power will be taken back by the Citizens of this once Great Nation. We will finally achieve equality.

We must fight for our rights and keep them. The Government would like nothing more than to control every aspect of our lives. We have the technology for the Government to know everything we purchase, every Religion or Orginization we belong to, and everything concerning our Medical hisrories so that they may control us and take away our rights one by one until we are slaves working for the Government we elected. This is not a Dictatorship which can control it’s Citizens.

One day we will wake up an smell the coffee brewing. Presently, Only the Rich and Powerful are able to actually drink the coffee.

We voted them in and We can vote them out.

This concernes us and future generations as well. We must begin somewhere. Now is a Great time.

HOWIE

Sometimes I think that there must be two Howies. The Extremely intelligent one and the spoiled brat.

I am delighted to meet the former.

Brilliant comment.

Vicky

http://citizensforapublicoption.com/

In a 4 1/2-hour interview at the prison on Tuesday, Madoff also laid out
how his Ponzi scheme worked – “when it started, how it progressed, how he
continued it,” said Burlingame attorney Joe Cotchett, who interviewed
Madoff in connection with two civil suits his law firm has filed against
members of Madoff’s family, accountants and feeder funds connected to
Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities LLC.

The law firm’s chief client is a retired Foster City middle school
teacher, Theresa Ryan, whose family trust lost $6.3 million in the Ponzi
scheme, according to one of the court filings.

Cotchett, whose firm, Cotchett, Pitre & McCarthy, specializes in civil
fraud actions, would not reveal much of the discussion he and his law
partner, Nancy Fineman, had with Madoff in relation to the suits, but he
added tantalizingly that Madoff “didn’t object to a single question” the
attorneys asked.

“He opened up and told us everything about how the scam went down,”
Cotchett said.
Based on the extensive interview, Cotchett said, “In the new complaint we
file, there will be a number of new people the SEC (Securities and
Exchange Commission) has never looked at.” Cotchett said that after
talking with Madoff, he was shocked at what he perceived to be the
failures of the SEC.

Cotchett and Fineman apparently were the first visitors Madoff has had
since he entered the medium-security prison two weeks ago. His wife, Ruth
Madoff, has not been to see him, although she helped arrange the meeting
with Cotchett and Fineman.

For all his drastically changed circumstances, Madoff “looked pretty good
- he seems to be working out,” said Cotchett. “He’s actually a bit of a
celebrity here.”

Why did Madoff agree to the interview? “He wanted to speak with us
because, in his opinion, certain members of his family knew nothing about
it, had no involvement of (the Ponzi scheme),” Cotchett told ABC News. “He
cares about Ruth, but he doesn’t give a (expletive) about his two sons,
Mark and Andrew.” Cotchett also has said he might drop Ruth Madoff and
their two sons from the revised complaint.

Madoff’s attorney, Mauro Wolfe, who was in the room, told the Wall Street
Journal the interview was another way his client was trying to help
victims recover from the fraud.

Madoff himself had little hesitation in answering questions I had posed to
Cotchett when I learned of the impending visit. Like:

How did Madoff fool so many people for so long? “He said he did it
essentially with a lot of smoke and mirrors,” Cotchett said. “No one
bothered to ask simple questions. People foolishly – including accountants
and regulators – never looked in the right places.”

Did he ever think he would get caught? “Not initially,” Cotchett reported.
“But he knew, going into the year 2000, that it was just a question of
time before the market turned around. And by 2008, he knew it was all
over.”

What led him to turn himself in? When he essentially ran out of money,
Cotchett said Madoff told him. “There were too many redemptions. He didn’t
have enough money to cover the redemptions,” Cotchett said.

Does he think he got a fair sentence? Madoff said he knew he was going to
get a tough sentence, that he was the poster child for Wall Street and
that it wasn’t going to be the 12 years his lawyer had called for. “So
what’s the difference, at age 71, if it was 30 years or 150 years,” Madoff
told Cotchett. “He knew when he gave himself up that he’d spend the rest
of his life in prison.”

One mark of the changed circumstances of a man for whom the world had been
a pearl-filled oyster: Under prison regulations, the only things the
lawyers could bring in for Madoff were paper, pencils and two $10 rolls of
quarters, the latter for the vending machine.

Turned out Madoff isn’t allowed to use the quarters himself. So the
lawyers plied the machine to deliver Madoff his lunch.
His request: bottled water and a can of tuna.
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Mark

WOW!