Steve
Stephen Philion Lecturer/PhD Candidate Department of Sociology 2424 Maile Way Social Sciences Bldg. # 247 Honolulu, HI 96822
On Mon, 11 Oct 1999, W. Kiernan wrote:
> Stephen E Philion wrote:
> >
> > Bill,
> > How about the death penalty for CEOs of factories/mines who make
> > decisions that they have been told beforehand will cause deaths...?
> > The cases would have to be clear cut of course...to be fair...and of
> > course, those who are accused would have to have access to the
> > available Public Defender...to be fair of course...
>
> There is a strong case against Dow management with regard to Bhopal.
> Does the Indian government inflict the death penalty? There are the
> mining and logging industries; the occupational death rate for a logger
> is more than three times as high as that of a policeman working on the
> city streets. And of course there's the recent company-approved f***-up
> at that reprocessing plant in Japan, talk about clear-cut, the reckless
> illegal technique was written right down in their standard procedures
> handbook... some guy I read on the Internet right after the accident
> posted, "Look, it wasn't a reactor, it was only a fuel processing
> facility, so there's nothing to worry about!" A few hours after the
> accident, a mile from the plant, the radiation level was high enough (3
> millisieverts/hour) that a child standing in the open air got the U.S.
> D.O.E. maximum annual dose in twenty minutes.
>
> Yours WDK - WKiernan at concentric.net
>