How do you balance the scales of justice at a time when Americans are being tasered, tear-gassed, pepper-sprayed, hit with batons, shot with rubber bullets and real bullets, blasted with sound cannons, detained in cages and kennels, sicced by police dogs, arrested and jailed for challenging the government's excesses, abuses and power-grabs?
Sorry, but the potential for excess and abuse won't wash, not with Swift itself looking over our shoulder along with an outside auditor.
He spoke about more jobs for youngsters and teachers, about an end to the "excess and abuse" in the health system and about antisemitism, racism and xenophobia, which he said "will not be tolerated".
One year ago, we saw in stark relief how markets can err; how a lack of common sense rules can lead to excess and abuse; how close we can come to the brink.
With Goldman the target of a Securities and Exchange Commission fraud lawsuit filed two weeks ago and nearly 11 hours of questioning in a Senate committee hearing on Tuesday, the company has been portrayed by many as a symbol of Wall Street excess and abuse.
And it represents, Elgar said, "the madness that attends the excess or abuse of passion" – a telling phrase in the context of Elgar's life at the time – and linked it to a horrifying image in a Tennyson poem that imagines a conscious corpse in the grave being run over by horses whose hoofs, "beat, beat into my scalp and brain".
"These kinds of informal interactions – visits and seemingly casual meetings with people at their workplace or homes – are part of a larger pattern of intimidation," Farah adds, saying such intimidation is part of a post-9/11 pattern of law enforcement excess and abuse on the Muslim community.
And that means setting new rules of the road and strengthening regulation for all financial centres, so that we put an end to the greed, excess and abuse that led us into disaster, and prevent a crisis like this from ever happening again.
The slippery slope argument doesn't always hold up, but with the parties involved, there is precedent in abundance for excess and abuse.
Or she'd say, 'If there were abuses, it's because the generals were hard to control.' " Watching the film, it is hard to see how, after all the charges of excess, rights abuses, theft and torture, Mrs. Marcos can make some of her statements with a straight face.
This sordid story of violating children and the long game of a cover-up is further evidence that our elite elected class needs a spanking of shame and felonious level punishment to deter their obnoxious and toxic excesses of abuse.
