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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSo . . . . BP pleads guilty to criminal charges, including manslaughter . . . . now what?
http://www.latimes.com/news/nation/nationnow/la-na-nn-bp-pleads-guilty-to-manslaughter-in-2010-gulf-oil-spill-20130129,0,2609286.storyLet's see the flip side of that personhood shit.
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So . . . . BP pleads guilty to criminal charges, including manslaughter . . . . now what? (Original Post)
Stinky The Clown
Jan 2013
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NV Whino
(20,886 posts)1. Next step...
Slap on the corporatehood wrist.
Yeah, yeah, I know, just color me cynical.
htuttle
(23,738 posts)2. They should be sentenced to receivership for 10-15 years
Maybe parole after 7 years with good behavior...
Lizzie Poppet
(10,164 posts)3. "Corporations are people, my friend."
As htuttle suggested, how about 10-15 years in receivership?
kysrsoze
(6,023 posts)4. The corporation will be sentenced to prison, like any other person!
davekriss
(4,628 posts)5. The Board & corporate officers should be jailed
MrYikes
(720 posts)6. All stockholders shall attend prison for,,oh let's say 10 years.
Yeah, that oughta do it.
newfie11
(8,159 posts)7. Now it will be a slap on the wrist and off to the Artic
I hope they get what they really deserve but that never happens to the gilded oil companies.