Did you know that there is now such a thing as "too big to indict"? This generally refers to institutions that are so big and so central to the entire economy of the whole world that there is nothing anyone can do to punish criminal activity and specifically refers to HSBC, a multinational banking conglomerate that laundered money for Mexican drug cartels and conducted business on behalf Iran and Sudan in spite of international sanctions. My, that sounds fun!
With billions in fines, I think the DOJ could well afford a criminal trial or three. In fact, why not make 'em pay for the trial as well?
Sending these fuckers into retirement with tens of millions of dollars is not exactly creating a deterrent -- you have to make this sort of shit <i>not worth doing.</i> New banking regulation: any executive convicted of a felony must forfeit all bonuses, from the date of the criminal activity. (GOPtards will howl about regulations interfering with the job creators, but fuck &#039;em.)
Seems to be <a href="http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/robert-reich\/corporate-campaign-finance_b_1082500.html" target="_blank">Robert Reich</a>, who actually said <blockquote>Despite what the Supreme Court and Mitt Romney say, corporations aren&#039;t people. (I&#039;ll believe they are when Georgia and Texas start executing them.)</blockquote>Google will turn up a lorryload of protest signs and <a href="http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/timworstall\/2012\/11\/17\/ill-believe-corporations-are-people-when-texas-executes-one-what-is-this-foolishness-from-robert-reich\/" target="_blank">one asshat at Forbes</a> that all leave Georgia out. The Forbes creature is attributing it to Reich a year later, so Reich may have re-used the line.
(30 years of teaching have rendered me pathologically incapable of leaving questions unanswered.)
Whoever has the campaign contributions, makes the rules.
Not nearly as much as converting the skyscrapers <i>into</i> prisons...
which is what I think you were deliberately implying, subtly, at a frequency only small animals can hear.
With billions in fines, I think the DOJ could well afford a criminal trial or three. In fact, why not make &#039;em pay for the trial as well?
Sending these fuckers into retirement with tens of millions of dollars is not exactly creating a deterrent -- you have to make this sort of shit <i>not worth doing.</i> New banking regulation: any executive convicted of a felony must forfeit all bonuses, from the date of the criminal activity. (GOPtards will howl about regulations interfering with the job creators, but fuck &#039;em.)
<i>Charging people with crimes means more trials, which requires more money, time and evidence.</i>
Yeah, I hate doing my job, too.
Ask ArthurAnderson. Oops, can&#039;t
Too big to fail is also too big to jail.
meh. fuck the corporate world and the limo it rode in on.
Seems to be <a href="http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/robert-reich\/corporate-campaign-finance_b_1082500.html" target="_blank">Robert Reich</a>, who actually said <blockquote>Despite what the Supreme Court and Mitt Romney say, corporations aren&#039;t people. (I&#039;ll believe they are when Georgia and Texas start executing them.)</blockquote>Google will turn up a lorryload of protest signs and <a href="http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/timworstall\/2012\/11\/17\/ill-believe-corporations-are-people-when-texas-executes-one-what-is-this-foolishness-from-robert-reich\/" target="_blank">one asshat at Forbes</a> that all leave Georgia out. The Forbes creature is attributing it to Reich a year later, so Reich may have re-used the line.
(30 years of teaching have rendered me pathologically incapable of leaving questions unanswered.)