For the first time a member of the Oligarchy has been indicted for 29 coal-miner deaths! It's

[Cal33]

about time. He is accused of putting profits before the lives of coal=miners.

http://www.truth-out.org/buzzflash/commentary/finally-a-member-of-the-oligarchy-is-indicted-for-culpability-in-the-death-of-workers-29-coal-miners-killed

[sharp_stick]

1. That's good news

but I'll wait until the piece of shit is convicted and serving time before celebrating. Assholes like him have been getting away with this shit forever and you can bet that he's been padding the bank accounts of more than a few people that can help him out of a sticky situation.

[Cal33]

12. Yes, the wait will probably be a long one.

[indepat]

2. Someone said the bidness of America is bidness and the aim of bidness is to make money, so

putting profits ahead of the welfare of workers is the standard model for America-style capitalism. It ain't capitalism that is the problem, it is capitalism run amok, all aided and abetted by an insidiously corpulent corporatist Congress.

[Cal33]

3. Just think of all the other unnecessary deaths caused by corporate business people: 47,000

annual deaths of people who can't afford medical care, which is kept so high
in our country because of business people.

And what about the wars promoted by big business for their own profit?
Some 4,000+ American deaths for the Iraq War, and around a million of
Iraqi deaths (mostly civilians who were caught in the crossfire), plus
2 million homeless, and 2 million Iraqis who had to become refugees in
neighboring countries. All that in a country of 26 million. That involves
20% of the entire nation. And the whole infra-structure of the nation was
destroyed. Iraq used to be the most advanced of the Arab nations, too!
They had women professionals, university professors, etc..... God knows
how long it will take them to get back to that level again!

Some of the biggest criminals in the world are living right here.

[Sunlei]

4. The 4? already convicted have implicated him, he will be found guilty.(Federal charges)

The state gov. , those who warned when inspections were coming..nothing at all happened to the state gov.

[Cal33]

5. If he should be able to bring his case all the way up to the Supreme Court..... Who knows???

[Sunlei]

7. who knows. Those corp mines have killed thousands of workers especially during the 80ish years they

'leased' prisoners.

[Cal33]

9. Yes, sad to say, we do have murderers among our nation's industrial leaders.

[crazylikafox]

6. As the daughter and granddaughter of coal miners who died at the hand of coal operators

who couldn't spend a nickel to make the mines safer for their employees....

I was so happy to hear this news.

[Cal33]

8. Sorry to hear about your father and grandfather. Hopefully justice will be carried out.

[crazylikafox]

10. Thanks Cal33.

They've both been gone a very long time. But I'll never forget, and I welcome a chance to see some justice, even if it took 50 years.

[Cal33]

11. Hi fox: May this be the beginning of the end of corporate executives being able to literally

not only get away with murder, but also to make a profit out of playing God with human lives.
Let real justice take over -- not only in an occasional case here and there, but on a permanent
basis from now on -- the way it was originally intended by our nation's founders.

[hue]

13. I was so grateful to read of his indictments! Hope this happens to Bill Williams (G-Tac).

Perhaps he'll be extradited to Spain for the destruction they wrought at the Cobre Las Crucesto mine to face sentencing & imprisonment there.