Remind me DU, when was the last time a corporation was held accountable for anything?

[ColbertWatcher]

Enron?

Exxon?

Imperial Sugar?

Genwal Resources?

Anyone?

Please post the last time it's happened, I really cannot remember.

[ananda]

1. Got me...

nt

[ColbertWatcher]

2. I can't remember either, which is why I asked. Maybe someone else does. n/t

[norepubsin08]

3. Union Carbide in Bophal

sort of

[hlthe2b]

15. You are kidding, right? Good Lord, that is the singular story

of a conglomerate getting by with murder,,,,

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9401E4DE1238F93BA25751C1A962958260

http://www.bhopal.org/whathappened.html

http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/08_23/b4087000856552.htm?chan=top+news_top+news+index_top+story

http://www.greenpeace.org/usa/campaigns/toxics/justice-for-bhopal

[sam sarrha]

4. HERE IS WHY.. waste of time.. any fine or legal monatary penalty is written off their taxes..

[ColbertWatcher]

5. I'm asking when was the last time any company was held accountable.

Not, what we expect a corporation to do to avoid responsibility.

[DBoon]

6. under Bush II, many were held accountable

accountable for trying to obstruct his illegal policies, that is.

For example, QWEST was held accountable for opposing illegal wiretaps:

http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2007/10/qwest-ceo-nsa-punished-qwest-refusing-participate-illegal-surveillance-pre-9-11

[ColbertWatcher]

7. Well, there ya go!

NOT!

LOL!

Thanks for posting this, maybe it will stop the anti-unionists before they start!

[EFerrari]

14. Bingo!

[Hannah Bell]

8. never happened. public hand-slap & hand-wringing, on to the next con,

the next murder, the next theft.

since the beginning of the corporation, back in the days of the "india" companies & the crown corporations.

i swear we live most of our lives in dreams, manufactured by our masters.

[ColbertWatcher]

11. Do you know if any corporation has ever been sued/boycotted out of existence? n/t

[Cleita]

9. Hardly ever it seems. Maybe Exxon for a while for the Valdez oil spill, but

it seems they got away Scot free too.

[ColbertWatcher]

13. Yup, they appeal and appeal until they get the verdict they want. That's not justice. n/t

[Lasher]

22. And they drag it on so long, most of the plaintiffs will be dead before there's any reckoning.

Corporations don't have life expectancies to deal with.

[ColbertWatcher]

27. Exactly.

And far too many laws that favor non-people over people.

[Lasher]

28. I blame the lawyers and judges more than corporations.

Just look at the Ken Lay case. The courts allowed that to drag on and on so long that Kenny Boy died before he could be sentenced. And that being the case, any judgment against Lay's estate was null and void. His heirs will forever wallow in luxury thanks to the slow ass courts and the dumbass law that let Lay's widow and children keep the millions he stole.

Any delay of justice is injustice itself.

[ColbertWatcher]

30. The lawyers do what they're hired to do.

The judges have to be fair.

The corporations on the other hand, manipulate the system for the greatest profit.

[Lasher]

31. I'm for being fair.

It is not fair for lawyers to seek, and for judges to grant, endless delays for no good reason.

[ColbertWatcher]

32. They cannot deny any for no good reason either.

The corporations manipulate the system for their benefit.

[hlthe2b]

10. Well, back when we had a real FDA, there were several

--Tylenol (over tamper proof packaging post cyanide scare) and again over warnings related to acetaminophen and heavy alcohol use
--Many meat producers over E. coli 0157:H7 outbreaks (mandatory recalls and closures) Hudson's is one....
--Other food producers have as well

as a start...


But given the anti-regulatory nature of the past 8 years and the Bush I and Reagan years, far too little.

[ColbertWatcher]

12. Oh, yeah, I remember when we had an FDA. n/t

[GrpCaptMandrake]

16. Chiquita Brands and Massey Energy

The former got a monetary slap on the wrist for doing business with known terrorists in Colombia and the latter got hundreds of millions of dollars in mine safety fines reduced to twenty million. In both cases, human beings died as a direct and proximate result of intentional corporate conduct.

In the same vein, Wal-Mart will probably even contest the dead man's worker's comp, citing his status as a "temp" worker.


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[ColbertWatcher]

17. "contest the dead man's worker's comp, citing his status as a "temp" worker."

Yes, I was thinking the exact same thing.

And on the day that comes down, people will still be in the stores throwing money at them.

[GrpCaptMandrake]

19. Welcome to "Consumerism,"

America's true religion, with its own Holy Profit.


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[ColbertWatcher]

18. I don't consider slap on the wrist fines justice.

That's what happened to Exxon and it was shameful.

[GrpCaptMandrake]

21. Exxon even got the punitive award overturned

by the SCOTUS, didn't they? Just in the last year?

[ColbertWatcher]

24. What I remember was that the award was lowered.

I don't think the entire thing was overturned.

[GrpCaptMandrake]

29. Lowered enough to be meaningless

Yeah. That sounds about right.


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[sam sarrha]

20. your question is really impossable for any layman to answer .. so i just Googled it..>>Link>>

http://search.live.com/results.aspx?setlang=en-US&mkt=en-US&q=when+was+the+last+time+a+corporation+was+held+accountable+for+anything%3F

[ColbertWatcher]

25. Some DUers are not laymen! n/t

[Kaleva]

23. How do you define "corporation"?

It can be a multi-national conglomerate or it could be as small as a one man farming operation.

[ColbertWatcher]

26. Good point. I mean multi-national conglomerates not a one-guy kind of thing. n/t