“We are enraged. What are you proposing?”
“That all local assets be kept by the courts.”
“Even local cash used to pay labor?”
“Laborers who’d only blow it on drugs or alcohol or teenage mistresses? No… we can’t pay fair wages. Not to them.”
“Your continued defiance, your past mistakes. Those forgotten crimes - kidnappings, and extra judicial beatings, harassments and frauds - you betrayed your country, gave aid and material comfort to our enemies.”
“Eh… Call it a shield and use the sword and leave it be.”
“You’ve tried to say that it wasn’t a crime, but listen to the public complaints. All the celebrity glamour magazines and White House propaganda…”
“We committed no crime! It’s only… it’s only…”
“What? Tell me.”
[awkward silence]
“What is it?”
“It’s only heartbreak. Just greed. No crime. No crime. Greed is good. You know this.”
[spasms of laughter]
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