The travesty of HSBC getting away with their crimes should be a reminder of the value of the rule of law and an impetus to fight even harder against those that would think themselves above it.
And HSBC is something like that. It's exactly the bank that "we all the citizens" should trust in order to not be "anti-democratic" as another article put it.
And you know what, we're not going to trust HSBC or any other bank, no more.
To trust a bank with your money, under certain conditions, I understand.
But who in his right mind trusts a bank as a "moral entity"? Banks/bankers are the scum of the earth. To quote Brecht:
"What's breaking into a bank compared to founding one?"
http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2013/04/03/why-bitcoin...