An important question concerning America's wider moral and intellectual standing in the world

Shyam 

In a week where the current, elected leadership of the USA, and many Americans, have been claiming moral and intellectual authority after the US military's summary execution of Osama bin Laden (one, in a long line of megalomaniacal, psychopathic cult leaders guilty of perpetrating, and/or directing, evermore heinous crimes whilst steadfastly pretending absolute moral and intellectual authority), yet again we have come back to an important question concerning America's wider moral and intellectual standing in the world, which the current, elected leadership of the USA, and many Americans, still seem incapable of comprehending, let alone addressing -  

Has (what is now commonly-referred to as) 'Multi-Level Marketing ' been: 

1). a fundamentally-lawful enterprise created, self-regulated and openly-declared by honest and ethical Americans who have sold economically-viable 'business opportunities' in which significant numbers of fully-informed participants around the globe have been able to earn their livings by regularly retailing exclusive, good-value products, and/or services, to the public for a profit ?

2). a fundamentally-unlawful enterprise created, centrally-controlled and occulted by various gangs of narcissistic US-based racketeers who have (as a result of chronic US regulatory failure and political corruption) been allowed to pretend absolute moral and intellectual authority whilst luring an endless-chain of tens of millions of ill-informed individuals around the globe into unconsciously participating in a series of essentially-identical, dissimulated closed-market swindles, and related advance fee frauds, which have generated, and continue to generate, many billions of dollars by exposing their victims (without their fully-informed consent) to co-ordinated, devious techniques of social, psychological and physical persuasion designed to shut down individuals' critical and evaluative faculties and convert them to the self-gratifying, but economically-suicidal, group-delusion that the exact duplication of a plan of self-consumption and recruitment can lead anyone to 'total financial freedom?'

David Brear (copyright 2011)