dagblog - Comments for "LIFE IN A BOX"

Amen, Austin, amen to that!!!

Richard Day — Wed, 15 Sep 2010 21:52:21 +0000

In reply to This did happen in Chicago

Amen, Austin, amen to that!!!

This did happen in Chicago

Austin Train — Wed, 15 Sep 2010 18:36:17 +0000

This did happen in Chicago when I lived there, after a horriffic death in a film processing silver recovery plant, where the workers - many of them could neither speak nor read English - were being poisoned by the chemicals they used in their work.

The execs were released on appeal.

What we need is a once-and-for-all-time end to "corporate personhood" in the US.

Hi Momoe. There are laws on

Richard Day — Wed, 15 Sep 2010 17:18:02 +0000

In reply to I think it is time that

Hi Momoe. There are laws on the books in all our states and terratories and even federal laws allowing for such prosecutions. But the normal path is to fine the corporation which simply takes money from the corporation's shareholders.

But corporations help elect the judges as well as district attorneys. ha

Between the open campaign bribes and the nuanced bribes:

AINT GONNA HAPPEN.

I think it is time that

trkingmomoe — Wed, 15 Sep 2010 07:49:55 +0000

In reply to LIFE IN A BOX

I think it is time that corporate managers be jailed for manslaughter when industrial accidents cause mulitple deaths due to safety violations.

Damn right.Let's tax and fine

quinn esq — Tue, 14 Sep 2010 21:39:56 +0000

In reply to Boy am I relieved. I thought

Damn right.

Let's tax and fine our way through their ill-gotten gains.

Boy am I relieved. I thought

Richard Day — Tue, 14 Sep 2010 21:28:46 +0000

In reply to Jail the rich.And no, I'm not

Boy am I relieved. I thought you wanted to jail everyone NAMED rich. whew.

You know the thing of it is, the prosecutors could bring in so much money into their districts if they hired people just to go after the rich. Some guy selling a baggie full of maryjane cannot pay a million dollar fine.

But someone involved in a pyramid scheme--and all the superrich are involved in pyramid schemes of some sort--can pay a million dollar fine quite easily.

We could literally bring trillions of hard stolen dollars into government coffers.

And every movement or campaign needs a theme song:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqowmHgxVJQ

Jail the rich.And no, I'm not

quinn esq — Tue, 14 Sep 2010 21:12:03 +0000

In reply to LIFE IN A BOX

Jail the rich.

And no, I'm not joking. If ever there was a group that we KNOW has been breaking the law, it's the rich. I want 'em jailed for tax avoidance, for insider trading, for health and safety and environmental laws, for bribery. Jail as many as you can. Make the prisons burst. And then, when the rich start bitching about "conditions," start releasing those convicted of soft drugs crimes and possession and non-payment of fines and shit like that.

Jail the rich.