Company Responsible for Major Chemical Spill Is a Great Candidate for the Corporate Death Penalty

[unhappycamper]

http://www.opednews.com/articles/Company-Responsible-for-Ma-by-Thom-Hartmann-Corporate-Accountability_Corporate-Crimes_Corporate-Personhood_Corporate_criminality-140117-595.html



Freedom Industries should face some serious accountability

Company Responsible for Major Chemical Spill Is a Great Candidate for the Corporate Death Penalty
OpEdNews Op Eds 1/17/2014 at 22:58:35
By Thom Hartmann

It's time to kill some companies.

When businesses operate in ways that are clearly detrimental to the public interest -- they should be dissolved and their assets should be distributed to the people they hurt

This will create a marketplace opportunity for a company that behaves in a more reputable fashion.

Take what's going in West Virginia right now for example.

[politicman]

1. I am insane for this theory?

Apparently Freedom Industries bought the storage tanks 11 days ago, so what if the leak was occurring under the previous owners of these storage tanks and they found out and decided to sell the storage tanks to a shell company called Freedom Industries which was heavily in debt, and letting it declare bankruptcy?

I mean the previous owners of those tanks could have sold/transferred to the shell company as a way to avoid themselves having to cop the cost of the leaks, and Freedom Industries was the perfect way out as it is probably been structured from its inception as a shell company that could take the fall for any accidents.

[unhappycamper]

2. West Virginia's energy regulations are just the way WV lawmakers want.

None of those pesky inspections, reports, etc. etc.

[politicman]

3. the voters give them that power

The problem is that Conservative voters are so dopey that they are easily brainwashed by their elected officials and conservative groups that have their own agendas, namely to make money for themselves.

Seriously when a group of people wilfully watch fauxnews, when a group of people automatically dismiss facts because some conservative millionaire asshole tells them to, when a group of people votes against their own interests, then that group of people pave the way for the WV lawmakers to exploit them so their millionaire buddies can make another couple of billion to add to the billions they have sitting in the bank accounts collecting dust.

[A HERETIC I AM]

5. After further investigation, I am deleting the above comment.

Here's the reason why I did;

http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-01-13/meet-freedom-industries-the-company-behind-the-west-virginia-spill