On 08/04/2010 7:19 AM, hk wrote:
On 4/8/10 8:03 AM, thunder wrote:
On Wed, 07 Apr 2010 18:58:54 -0600, Canuck57 wrote:


Agreed. Going for the little guy is stupid. Even though that is what
will happen.

Get the CEO, make him personally pay out of his own pocket $20,000,000
to the families without being re-imbursed by the company. And the
company match the payout to the families for another $20,000,000.

If they complain, double it.

If they still want to fight it, lay down criminal negligence carges on
top of it with jail time for the senior executives and board members.

Then there will be progress.

Or learn from the Chinese, and execute the CEOs. Fines just don't cut
it, when 25 are dead.

Well, I don't favor the death penalty, but...serious criminal penalties
(as in prison terms), heavy fines against personal assets, et cetera,
especially for notoriously bad apples like the CEO of the mining company
under discussion, would suffice. I'd said one year in prison doing hard
time for each worker killed, plus a million dollar penalty paid to each
of the families, would be appropriate.

There are always going to be deaths and serious injuries in connection
with dangerous work, like mining, construction, et cetera. *Responsible*
business executives take the steps necessary to minimize those risks.
The irresponsible should be prosecuted and penalized.

Ordinarily I think death penalties should be used with reserve. But
there are people bad enough where reclaim is too risky. Generally
wanton crimes, drug smuggling, pedofile rape/murder, and those types of
crimes that are not accidents...


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