Snip from Jason Linkin: You know, if I were to walk out of my office right now with a couple of cans of spray paint and a ball peen hammer, and set about vandalizing the local Citibank branch across the street… Its pretty much a given that Id be arrested on the spot, earn a no-brainer arraignment, and get convicted in a fairly open-and-shut case. Id have to make legal and financial restitution, and maybe do a little time. Id certainly be stripped of a lot of privileges…. ... its an entirely different matter if I were to say ... poison the entire Gulf of Mexico through my negligence. Or, say, destroy the global economy, through actions that only in the most charitable terms could be called negligent. For that sort of destruction, the wheels of justice grind much slower and with a greater degree of indifference. Heck, if you play your cards right, it can even end up being profitable. The big news this week in laffaire Freedom Industries is that the polluter has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy… the operative word here, of course, is protection,
Posted on: Sun, 26 Jan 2014 17:19:12 +0000
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