The head of the Carlyle Group buys one of 17 known copies of the Magna Carta, an ancient legal document from which Western rule of law springs, from billionaire Ross Perot for $23.1 million.
The Carlyle Group, you'll recall, is a secretive investment firm that is making a lot of very rich people richer, thanks in large part to a booming (pardon the pun) defense industry and the War on Terror. Its Washington DC offices are conveniently located between the White House and the Capitol and it employs top-tier politicians (George H.W. Bush, Colin Powell, John Major and James Baker, to name a few) to help obtain sweet deals for its investors, among them the Bin Ladin family of Saudi Arabia (yes, that Bin Ladin family).
Who needs the rule of law when you own the lawmakers? The symbolism of buying the Magna Carta just astounds me.
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