No Punishment for Deadly, Toxic Oil Spills or War Crimes, But a Baseball Player Faces Prison for Steroid Use
http://blog.buzzflash.com/contributor/3547Submitted by Mark on Sat, 08/21/2010 - 9:04am.
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JACQUELINE MARCUS FOR BUZZFLASH
Last night, it was reported that scientists discovered a twenty-two mile long plume in the Gulf that poses a continuing threat to wildlife for months or years.
Truthout brought to our attention that other countries are investigating war crimes, specifically torturing detainees. The U.S. Justice Department is turning a blind eye.
According to Shashank Bengali, McClatchy Newspapers: "While US courts and the Obama administration have been reluctant or unwilling to pursue
cases, countries that once backed former President George W. Bush's war on terrorism are carrying out their own investigations of the alleged US torture program and the role that their governments played in it." Read Article
The famous baseball player, Roger Clemens, is not an oil executive. Therefore, the laws will be executed. If he lied about taking steroids, he will be punished to the full extent of the law—possibly a long prison sentence. This man may spend the rest of his life in prison for lying to the government. By contrast, BP Execs can kill an entire ocean and everything in it, and then sail off into the sunset making toasts to the next deepwater drilling plans in the Gulf.
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