Death to Bankers

[adamjay]

From a site called News of the Weird:

While Americans Just Sigh: After a trial on fraud charges, the Iranian judiciary sentenced four bankers and their collaborators to death in February and several others to public floggings for obtaining loans by forgery in order to purchase government properties. The total amount involved reportedly was the equivalent of about $2.6 billion -- tiny compared to losses suffered since 2008 by investors and customers of large American banks' illegality, money-laundering and corner-cutting, for which no one has yet been jailed even for a single day. [PressTV.ir (Tehran), 2-18-2013]


Makes me wonder who's really got it backwards.  In general I'm not for killing people, but the public floggings seem reasonable enough.  More reasonable than, say, replenishing their losses out of the public coffer.  I know it sounds barbaric, but it also sounds kind of fun, doesn't it?   

[Suz-goose]

I am not sure they deserve to die as let's face it everyone cheats a little bit if they think they can get away with it. But hell yeah they should be punished, not flogging but super demeaning jobs for super low pay for ever, aka what pretty much everyone else has to do 

[The 13th Earl]

Considering I just got a warning for posting a tongue in cheek remark that didn't mention death to anyone at all,  but yet this thread is allowed to stand.


Double standards from the admin team.

[adamjay]

I am not sure they deserve to die as let's face it everyone cheats a little bit if they think they can get away with it. But hell yeah they should be punished, not flogging but super demeaning jobs for super low pay for ever, aka what pretty much everyone else has to do 

Compromise accepted.  Chain em to the cash register at Mcdonald's for twenty years.  Pretty much a flogging without the mess.

And I'm bored so here are some more words:

In all sincerity, why don't we (los estados unidos) execute people for nonviolent crimes?  We surely execute people violent ones - if you kill one person, depending on the circumstances you just might be killed in turn by the justice system.  But for a guy like Bernie Madoff, who destroys billions in wealth and investment, including pension funds and charities, the death penalty is only ever mentioned in jest.  Why?  It's fairly obvious to me that Madoff did more damage than some idiot with a knife, so where's the rub?  What are we afraid of?  (Like I said before, I'm against killing people, but if we're gonna do it, let's do it right.  Right?)

[boeta777]

if the american public can decide to abolish the federal reserve bank -a private bank , and let the government print it's own money then they can become debt-free in 20 short years...16000000000000 is a lot to pay off...all americans will have to pay or become slaves...