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Sir;....All of these people in Washington and Wall Street have demonstrated a desire to justify what is immoral so long as it is legal... I am certain they have trampled all over that last restraint, and went beyond legal and moral....You hint around at the truth: That a Nation of Laws is a farce...Look at the facts...Law is a form, as a nation is a form, which is to say: an idea... But as with all forms in fact, nation and law are forms of relationship; and that is where the people come in...As much as we say: Nation of Laws, there is no way to prevent people from changing the laws, distorting their purpose, enforcing them as they see fit, or piling more on to old until the whole becomes a loophole, or a death trap likely too fall on all...The problem, as with all forms is not just their absolute resistence to change, but the fact that in spite of resistence, people with some power turn the form to their own benefit.... Friendship is a form of relationship, and that does not stop friends from some times using friends....Marriage is a form too, and a formal form at that, and people still learn to suck the trust out of marriages from time to time, which makes them meaningless...Our form of Government, which is expressed as laws which are supposed to give the people protection, does not protect the people... The form is old, and it has been turned to a private purpose over time... It protects parasites, and comforts thieves... Is there some reason our government of laws should be a government of capital??? As forms go, the goal of our government is clearly stated.... It has nothing on the face of it suggesting support for the economy as such, or property as fact... It says commmon defense, but the defense has clearly been specific to property and capital... Once; wealth was taxed and supported the whole federal government...Now that tax has been laid on labor, which in all societies already supports wealth and government...And look at our founding document... The Declaration not only talks of forms, but it also of inalienable rights... What is that???All Feudal property was once inalienable, and rights to the commons upon which every farmer depended were inalienable too... That did not stop the state from making Feudal property alienable, and selling it off from under the peasants who had inalienable rights to that land... It did not stop the rich from closing the commons to the common man, and making poverty a fact throughout Europe... The notion of inalienablity is old and much trod upon, but we cannot expect protection for our rights through a form that is so easily turned to the support of megawealth... We have to give up the idea that good for the rich is good for the country... We have to turn government as a form back to the goals for which it was formed, as clearly stated in the preamble of the constitution..... I think it clear, that where property has rights, rights will be seen as property and sold off from under the people if the people will not themselves sell them...There are no inalinable rights..Everything is for sale if you have enough money and some people have it all.... And this government is not an immutable form, and if it were, it would be all but useless... But, The form of our government, and the form of our economy does not serve this people, and they have become our enemy...We have no choice but to reform them....Much as we think some superficial change will help us, the fact is clear that People, the President, the Supreme Court, the Congress all have the power to do as they please regardless of the goals of the constitution... The idea of a Nation of Laws is a Joke... They write the laws to do as they please...We need to have a government of people... We need people friendly government...We need government that will consider the life of the people as the preamble clearly did...Let us begin the long process of reform of government before society grows violent and without patience.....Thanks...Sweeney