I've had people tell me that actions have consequences. Correct me if I'm wrong, but wouldn't the logical extension of that be --- horrifying actions have horrifying consequences?
You want to send a message to the powerful moneyed elites that recklessly fucking with peoples lives and livelihoods through financial fraud has consequences?
Public executions -- after a fair trial and conviction and after all appeals have been exhausted. That's the answer.
Change the goddamn criminal code to add institutional financial fraud to the list of death penalty offenses. I'm so fucking sick and tired of these Wall Street robber barons using their ill-gotten gains to procure the best legal representation money can buy to, in effect, purchase their way out of prison time and time again.
Perhaps these low-life pricks, after seeing a few of their partners in crime drop through a platform trap door with a noose snapping their pencil necks like twigs, might get the not so subtle message that the wholesale looting of American's futures like we've seen these fuckers do to people in this country these past several years is to never, ever, ever happen again.
Obviously, this post is borne of frustration, anger, outrage, and general disgust. But when stories like this one crop up in the news on an almost daily basis, one has a tendency to blithely chuck terms like mercy, empathy, and forgiveness right out the door and go for the jugular.
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