Excerpt:
"In the old Batman TV series, Commissioner Gordon would light up the Bat-Signal to summon Batman. In San Mateo County, CA, a rich guy summoned Armed Government Workers to signal the owner of an Indiana custom car shop that builds Batmobile replicas not to cross rich guys who have it in their power to sic Armed Government Workers on anyone who incurs their displeasure.

The rich guy who had ordered a Batmobile replica from the Indiana shop apparently failed to make one of the payments due and the shop was unable to reach him for more than eight months, to sort out the discrepancy – and for that reason, his place in line was given to another customer, who would get his replica ahead of the rich guy. The rich guy became irate when the shop owner told him why he’d lost his place in line and rather than settle the matter in the usual manner, he signaled his old friend, Carlos Bolanos – who just happens to be the head of a gang styled the San Mateo County Sheriff’s Department.

Bolanos gathered up a crew of AGWs – including a “lieutenant” and a “sergeant,” two military “ranks” that AGWs, who are civilians, often award themselves – and flew to Indiana, rented vehicles and paid a visit to the shop where the Batmobile replicas are made. They kicked the employees off the premises, turned away deliver drivers, manacled the owner and hauled him to jail – eventually leveling a number of trumped-up “felony” charges, including obtaining money by false pretenses and diversion of construction funds.

They also had the shop owner’s bank account frozen."

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Power corrupts at all levels of government, especially where the corruption is so obvious and unpunished at higher levels.