I killed 15 workers and injured 170 got off with a small fine then I killed 11 workers

[Ichingcarpenter]

and destroy an ecosystem because of negligence
and once again hoping to get off with a small fine.

Good thing it wasn't a DUI or possession of illegal drugs or I be in jail.



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_City_Refinery_explosion

Yes $50 millions is peanuts to me

[Egnever]

1. Apt graphic

[Luminous Animal]

2. Baaaa.

[truedelphi]

3. Thanks for the OP.

Yesterday a young man who posts here on DU had a long saga about how he gotten caught drinking while underage, and how he still had not done either his community service, or had the ability to pay the fine for his misconduct.

It was a first offense, and you might think maybe he could have just gotten off with straight probation.

But instead through not having a decent court appointed attorney, and because of this having happened at a time when his parents are under employed, and he is in school full time, he is very worried. Doesn't know the ropes about such legal matters, and he is sweating out about his future.

Meanwhile the Executives at Halliburton and BP are mildly inconvenienced that they have to come in and testify before Congress, thus missing out on whatever games of racquet ball or golf they had scheduled over the last week. And I am fairly sure that their concern over their possible punishment is minimal.

What sort of world is this?

One young man has a beer, and may face jail time, and on the other hand, some very "mature" community leaders and respected "business men" destroy the Gulf of Mexico, and kill people, and they are off scot free.

[Ichingcarpenter]

5. Some of US are more EQUAL than others

I read that thread and nominated it BTW

[Hannah Bell]

4. or you could have just been smoking cigarettes, that second-hand smoke

kills people even through the internet.

bp makes more than $50 million in profit EVERY FUCKING DAY.

[Robbien]

6. Oh come on, you're rich

No way do you go to jail for DUI or drugs. You get rehab.

The only way you go to jail is if you piss off someone richer than you. Thank Goddess that those people you killed were just a bunch of nobodies.

[Hissyspit]

7. At first I thought you were speaking of mine owners.

Despair.com is selling these:



Not shilling for them, just thought the designs were effective.

[Ichingcarpenter]

13. I like those but the one I found I think

Kicks ass and would sell even better. The coal companies got
away with criminal negligence or manslaughter
and had to pay small fines in comparison to their earnings



!

[fishbulb703]

8. Fuck the CJS

[geckosfeet]

9. Hmm. Wonder how many people recognize that image as the one

where a south vietnamese officer executed a suspected viet cong on the street.

Nguyễn Văn Lém

[Ichingcarpenter]

10. I did and chose it for its power

The image came out of a British environmental site I

[CanonRay]

20. I did pick up on that

Being of a certain age, I remember the photo vividly, and what a stir it caused. Wouldn't cause a blink today. So sad. The Freepers would defend it as an effective interrogation technique.

[Call Me Wesley]

11. Not just an officer,

but South Vietnamese National Police Chief Nguyễn Ngọc Loan who shot him. Do you know he came to the US in 1975 an opened a pizza restaurant?

[geckosfeet]

16. No - I did not know that became a pizza man.

[truedelphi]

14. I confess that I didn't.

I thought that it was a parody of the movie "Zoolander" gas fight Parody, and only now realize that this was not a spoof of a spoof, but a spoof of a tragic moment in the history of war (With the same thing now happening in Afghanistan, according to Seymour Hersh.)

Thanks for enlightening me.

[Skidmore]

12. Would make a great billboard.

Or a really big banner to drape over the Capitol.

[RT Atlanta]

15. Love your graphic

Do you have it on a sticker where we could purchase it and start placing on BP gas station pumps across the nation (right next to the sticker from the farm bureau that shows the pump was inspected on such and such date)?

[blindpig]

17. kick

Great graphic

[malaise]

18. Tut tut dear man

Tony Hayward, speaking to BBC radio, said the problems which affected the Apollo 13 moon mission had not resulted in the space program being halted and plane crashes did not stop people flying.

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Get over yourself - Hayward loves things green - dollars.

[rucky]

19. And all we get is this lousy t-shirt.

the graphic would actually make an excellent t-shirt