This “sentence” is an outrage. (see article at very bottom)
After all this time this is all that is done to punish these corporate criminals.
Where is the outrage of the peoples of the world?
I find it very interesting how “justice” works.
Peter Erlinder sits in a prison cell in Rwanda and these Union Carbide criminals get a little slap on the wrist while the CEO of British Petroleum isn’t even fired and continues to receive his huge salary and bonuses and Native American Indians are facing stiffer penalties for exercising their Treaty Rights for fishing in Lake Bemidji and I am banned from Canada for life for writing an article against racism and for the rights of working people.
These corporate criminals ply the world in quest of maximum corporate profits as they engage in these criminal activities destroying lives, families, entire communities along with our living environments and democracy as they use all kinds of racist, ethnic and cultural differences to drum up hate between peoples to keep people divided so cannot unify to put an end to this corporate exploitation of people and the rape of their lands--- and the injustices go on and on--- once again we see in this Bhopal “judgment” how there is one set of laws for the rich and powerful and another set of laws for working people.
I wonder why the corporate attorneys who defended Union Carbide are not sitting in a prison cell like Peter Erlinder? A question you might want to ponder while sitting around the dinner table tonight.
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From: Working_Class_Study_and_Action@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Wednesday, June 09, 2010 7:35 AM
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Subject: [Working_Class_Study_and_Action] Bhopal Judgment Sends Wrong Message
Bhopal judgement sends 'wrong message' to business community
Updated June 9, 2010 19:30:15
http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/asiapac/stories/201006/s2922990.htm
There has been outrage in India at this week's two-year prison terms meted out to local managers of Union Carbide, the company blamed for the 1984 Bhopal gas leak disaster that killed three thousand people. In the world's worst industrial accident, the lethal cyanide gas leak also maimed an estimated 25,000 people. Indian government statistics put the chronically sick at another 100,000 in 1994. Victims say they have been treated with contempt by the courts and the Indian government.