Monday, May 31, 2010

A Modest Proposal: Why Not The Death Penalty For Egregious, Reckless and Widespread Corporate Pollution? | Crooks and Liars

A Modest Proposal: Why Not The Death Penalty For Egregious, Reckless and Widespread Corporate Pollution? | Crooks and Liars

3 comments:

Unknown said...

Right on!

Tim Murray said...

I know Sherry can't agree with this barbaric idea.

And where does it end? A company that makes a machine it knows might kill someone (which is pretty much every machine ever invented) will shut down. It would be the death of innovation and the end of risk taking -- the things that made America "America."

Besides, this area would not be immune from the infirmities of our current system that regularly sees men wrongly charged for and convicted of crimes they didn't commit. Kind of difficult to undo the death penalty when you find out it was wrongly applied.

By any measure, an awful idea.

Sherry Pasquarello said...

hi tim- this post just shows my frustration at BP. you know, as well as i do that it's a pretty sure thing that BP is going to walk away from this pretty much unscathed. oh, there will be boycotts for awhile and some well deserved outrage but in the end-sadly true- money talks. THAT fact is a big part of my frustration.
if there were to be some concrete punishments, say jail time in something other than a "martha stewart" type of confinement i'd be happy and i think some executives may think twice before gambling on such a grand and deadly scale. if not,other catastropes are surely to come i have never seen such greed and such distain for life and livelyhood and the planet as i have seen exposed recently.
BP went out of their way to maximise profit and damn the risks, starting from the papers originating in the marshall islands to the arguments on the rig before the disaster.
even a mellow old soul like mine gets pissed off at times.
nice to "see " you tho. : )