Sunday, October 26, 2008
Some small measure of satisfaction
Sam Allis, writing in the Boston Globe, sees public humiliation as a way to exact some return from the boardroom bozos who did so much to ruin the economy.
We begin with a profusion of long frog marches at noon into police cars. No more 5 a.m. courtesy arrests for the big cheese to avoid those irritating flashbulbs and rude reporters. These walks will be advertised in advance, much like boxing events, and carried out amid ugly crowds for maximum effect. (Remember the roar of the masses as the tumbrels laden with aristocrats rolled to the guillotine during the French Revolution.)I like this idea and just regret that the guillotine has been retired.
The maximum penalty, of course, is humiliation. This is what these people dread most. It would be nice if prosecutors got some convictions, but that's almost beside the point. The process is more important than the outcome. We can't get back the billions they blew, but we can take from them what they value most - whatever is left of their good names.
We need to see the perps in court for yeasty two-week trials, alone in the witness chair, subjected to brutal questions from nasty prosecutors. All of this will be reported in detail by the media. Day after day.
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