Wry Catcher
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Union Carbide was an "accident"If corporations are people then why haven't we hanged any of the BAD ones, yet?
Why aren't some BANSTER corporations in prison?
THIS is a silly debate.
Corporations are legal entities granted many of the rights normally associated (by sane societies, at least) only to PEOPLE
No Conservative..none...has ever held that Warren Anderson be returned to Bhopal.
The Union Carbide accident was worse then 9/11..in terms of human suffering.
9/11 was a premeditated attack. Premeditated murder of thousands.
Comparing the two is pure left wing liberal lunacy.
Seriously, as Obama pisses his Presidency straight down the fuckin' toilet, the bullshit coming from you loons has ramped up ten fold lately.
9/11 was a premeditated attack, much as when an armed robber kills another; about 3,000 lives were lost.
Union Carbide engaged in a legal activity which caused great harm. Both the criminal law and civil law impose penalties for negligence: "Conduct that falls below the standards of behavior established by law for the protection of others against unreasonable risk of harm. A person has acted negligently if he or she has departed from the conduct expected of a reasonably prudent person acting under similar circumstances".
I don't know the facts of Union Carbide actions or their culpability per the law in effect in India at the time but the death toll is reported to be much greater than 9/11: "Estimates of the death toll vary greatly. Most sources say at least 3,000 people died from immediate exposure to the gas, while higher estimates go up to 8,000. In the two decades following the night of the disaster, approximately 20,000 additional people have died from the damage they received from the gas./11".
See: Poison Gas Leak in Bhopal India