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| rogead |
Posted: Wed Apr 07, 2010 4:44 pm
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Joined: 11 Feb 2006 Posts: 412 |
With the recent West Virginia mine disaster, and the long history of safety violations on the part of the mine’s corporate ownership; isn’t it time we applied the Supreme Court’s premise that corporations are people, to those corporations whose willful negligence results in death?
If so, there are several officers of this company who should be indicted for manslaughter. In addition, United States law allows for the confiscation of property which has been accrued through criminal activity. This should extend to corporate entities which ignore safety regulations and safety citations for the purpose of increasing their profits. A significant majority of worker (and consumer--think Toyota) deaths in the United States could be avoided if companies and corporate officials faced severe penalties for their “mistakes”. |
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| Bill Sable |
Posted: Wed Apr 07, 2010 7:14 pm
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Joined: 14 Feb 2009 Posts: 259 |
Brother Rogead
That would be a thing of beauty. The logic is impeccable. Perhaps some of the state attorneys-general who are busy (or not busy) suing the Feds over the recent healthcare law could undertake to sue the execs at Massey Energy (et al.) for their legal violations. Got to pass this along to Rachel Maddow. 
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| rogead |
Posted: Wed Apr 07, 2010 9:57 pm
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Here’s a Forbes profile of Don Blankenship, Massey’s CEO
2008 total compensation: $11,226,717.00 This page also contains several links relating to the company’s safety violations. http://xrl.us/bhf2tk |
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| John A. Joslin |
Posted: Thu Apr 08, 2010 3:00 pm
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Joined: 02 Apr 2006 Posts: 83 Location: Detroit, Michigan U.S.A. IBEW #58 |
There is at least one real reporter in West Virginia that is still trusted by coal miners & other W. Virginians to get thru the wall of bulls**t protecting Blankenship, Massey Energy , and many of West Virginia's highly placed elected officials.
The reporters' name is Ken Ward Jr. and he has been on this beat for 20 years fending off intimidation while being the go-to guy for out-of-state media folks to read while they are huddled in their motel rooms waiting for ' press releases ' from Massey Energy's public relations flacks. Ward's writing appears in the Charleston Gazette and the curious can follow his valuable reporting at Coal Tattoo. |
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