Murder is Murder

[unhappycamper]

http://www.opednews.com/articles/Murder-is-Murder-by-David-Glenn-Cox-Administration_Chevy_Engineer_Murder-140814-582.html



Murder is Murder
By David Glenn Cox
OpEdNews Op Eds 8/14/2014 at 15:32:03

It was in Freedom Plaza in Washington D.C. when I saw the first sign which read, "I'll believe corporations are people when Texas executes one." Corporations are legal people and board members can be held responsible for the criminal acts of the corporation, so why not execute them?

General Motors as early as 2005 began receiving reports of drivers losing control of vehicles and of air bags failing to deploy in crashes. GM engineers immediately identified a litany of possible causes, all of them not GM's responsibility. As early as 2004, GM engineers had found a problem with the ignition switch location on the Chevy Cobalt, citing it could be switched off with the bump of a careless knee. GM engineers had decided against relocating the switch due to "cost and long lead times."

The defects assessment division of the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration e-mailed the office of defects in 2007, citing owner complaints beginning in 2005, plus a pattern of warranty repairs and injuries as grounds for an official investigation.

GM responded, Problem? What Problem? What are you talking about? GM claimed to have no evidence of a defect, while company engineers had been working on the issue for over two years. The National Highway Transportation Safety Administration declined to open an investigation, but revisited the issue in 2010. In May of 2009, a Chevrolet Cobalt was involved in a fatal crash, where the air bags had failed to deploy. Once again, the government and the company agreed to review their data and nothing was done. But here is some data worth reviewing; GM had approved this ignition switch for production in 2002, despite the switch failing to meet company specifications.

[Demeter]

1. Ah, well, there's Murder, and then there's murder

and there's murder for profit, and then there's Murder for Profits....

it's all nuance, baby!

[Dustlawyer]

2. In the BP Texas City explosion 3/23/2005, BP had taken over an old, rusty refinery and

were trying to decide how much to spend to fix it up and operate it. They had 4 different budgets proposed. They put cartoon pictures of a straw house (bare minimum), stick house, brick house, and something they called the impenetrable fortress (fix everything). Then they had each budget estimate production to see which one made them the most money. Because they estimated that they would end up with some dead workers under the straw and stick house budgets, they decided they needed to know how much each death would cost the company. Of course on the document they put it thusly, "How much $ will it take to save our little (picture of cartoon piglets) bacon?" And "Amoco (previous refinery owner) wasn't willing to do this, but we at BP, in order to have a more accurate budget, determine $10,000,000 for each death." Out of that amount, the majority was to go to their defense costs defending the wrongful death suit, a big chunk to advertising to rehab their image, and dome to settle with the family of the deceased. They decided on the stick house budget where profits were maximized, despite estimates that they would kill "one or two" workers. Several months later they killed 15 starting up a unit (the most dangerous time) without evacuating all unnecessary personnel, without hooking up the necessary gauges and alarms (they had been doing some of the repairs mentioned above) because gas prices were at an all time high so they were in a big hurry.
After giving Eric Holder all of our key trial documents, including the little piggy doc, we asked for him to move to revoke BP's probation (they were on "probation from Texas City) after the Deepwater Horizon explosion that killed 11 more. Holder let BP off early!