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and drew weaker people he deemed could be useful to him, into his web<br />

of deceit. Of course, those others made their choices and suffered their<br />

consequences, but Raj is a perfect example of why there is such<br />

confusion about “The Time Factor” discussed earlier.<br />

Anyone who knew how Raj was cheating, and had been for years, would<br />

have said, “See, the bad guys get away with their deception and get all<br />

the rewards. It’s not fair, but it’s just the way it is!” They would have<br />

said that, it should be clarified, until October 13, 2011 when Rajaratnam<br />

was sentenced to eleven years in prison.<br />

Then there are the druggie athletes whose covers have been blown, the<br />

sexual predators in business, government, entertainment, sports and<br />

elsewhere; all revealed to have abused their positions of influence or<br />

power over others.<br />

And now, in the most stunning, alarming and despicable revelation of<br />

all, the abuse of thousands of children, by more than 300 priests, over a<br />

period of 70 plus years, brought to light by a Grand Jury investigation of<br />

accusations of abuse in the state of Pennsylvania.<br />

The cover-up over all those years included the corruption of public<br />

officials in exchange for votes. It had the long-standing, highly<br />

cultivated and sophisticated effectiveness, that would be the envy of any<br />

criminal enterprise in history. We’ll no doubt be watching the effect side<br />

of this debacle play out for some time – “the checks are there and will<br />

appear.”<br />

These examples, all tell the same story, and say what they might, the fact<br />

is that whatever the consequences may be, the perpetrators will have<br />

brought them on entirely by themselves. Nobody held a gun to their<br />

heads to hurt others and be criminals. They just didn’t believe it. They<br />

didn’t think it was true that...

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