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Main Forums => Politics => Topic started by: MillCreek on May 02, 2013, 08:25:35 PM

Title: There is a time and place for governmental regulation and intervention
Post by: MillCreek on May 02, 2013, 08:25:35 PM: http://www.heraldnet.com/article/20130501/BIZ/705019820#Abused-disabled-Iowa-plant-workers-awarded-%24240M

And boy, this was it.
Title: Re: There is a time and place for governmental regulation and intervention
Post by: RoadKingLarry on May 02, 2013, 08:45:37 PM: Ain't near enough. There needs to be criminal prosecution. I think a fitting punishment for those involved would be for them to live as they forced the disabled men to live, including the physical abuse, for the rest of their life.
Title: Re: There is a time and place for governmental regulation and intervention
Post by: Bigjake on May 02, 2013, 09:05:26 PM: Corporate aholes like that get stupid laws made for the rest of us. Well done, *expletive deleted*ers. :mad:

Here's hoping the victims of this actually get their settlement, rather than the courts saying "You get X", from a company with no assets.
Title: Re: There is a time and place for governmental regulation and intervention
Post by: MillCreek on May 02, 2013, 09:07:00 PM: Quote from: RoadKingLarry on May 02, 2013, 08:45:37 PM
Ain't near enough. There needs to be criminal prosecution. I think a fitting punishment for those involved would be for them to live as they forced the disabled men to live, including the physical abuse, for the rest of their life.

+ eleventy. This was cruel, calculated malice upon the most vulnerable of us.
Title: Re: There is a time and place for governmental regulation and intervention
Post by: Jamisjockey on May 03, 2013, 09:18:53 AM: Life would be simpler if the family members just strung the corporate aholes up.
Title: Re: There is a time and place for governmental regulation and intervention
Post by: roo_ster on May 03, 2013, 10:17:03 AM: Quote from: jamisjockey on May 03, 2013, 09:18:53 AM
Life would be simpler if the family members just strung the corporate aholes up.

Sadly, justice has been outlawed.
Title: Re: There is a time and place for governmental regulation and intervention
Post by: TechMan on May 03, 2013, 10:41:33 AM: Quote from: Roo_ster on May 03, 2013, 10:17:03 AM
Sadly, justice has been outlawed.

Very True.
Title: Re: There is a time and place for governmental regulation and intervention
Post by: Tallpine on May 03, 2013, 10:57:26 AM: So this requires government regulation ???

I thought that assault and kidnapping were already crimes =|
Title: Re: There is a time and place for governmental regulation and intervention
Post by: MechAg94 on May 03, 2013, 01:49:59 PM: Quote from: Tallpine on May 03, 2013, 10:57:26 AM
So this requires government regulation ???

I thought that assault and kidnapping were already crimes =|
Working conditions and other stuff are already covered also. Enforcement is rarely addressed very well by politicians.
Title: Re: There is a time and place for governmental regulation and intervention
Post by: Tallpine on May 03, 2013, 06:11:49 PM: It's interesting that about a hundred years ago the US gov was sending out the military to protect the right of corporations to treat people like that ;/