What Madoff's victims say about our society

[Beavker]

I understand the anger. There's the Wall Street CEO's are Crooks bit as well. But this is one thing that gets me, and it's in part in reply to the interviews with Maddoff's victims, as well as the responses from my co-workers. Keep in mind, I understand he destroyed some rich people as well as some not for profit's and charities. I think he should pay dearly.

However, I sense more hostility, and more, "someone's going to shoot him walking out of court" and things like that than I hear after a horrific story of someone raping and murdering a child. Never do I hear a, "Someone ought to just shoot that sick bastard" after a molestation or murder story are run (I'm saying it to myself though). I just think that it's amazing that Bernie should be shot for this, but yet the same feelings, though I'm sure very strong, don't flow out of the mouths of my co-workers after someone's life had been taken. They are Republican and work in the Financial Services industry, but I can't imagine that would be all of it. I hope not anyway.

[Fumesucker]

1. Interesting point..

All Madoff did was take advantage of people's credulity and greed.

Which is what people in the financial services industry largely do anyway.

http://www.portfolio.com/news-markets/national-news/portfolio/2008/11/11/The-End-of-Wall-Streets-Boom

Eisman was appalled. “Look,” he said. “I’m short. I don’t want the country to go into a depression. I just want it to fucking deleverage.” He had tried a thousand times in a thousand ways to explain how screwed up the business was, and no one wanted to hear it. “That Wall Street has gone down because of this is justice,” he says. “They fucked people. They built a castle to rip people off. Not once in all these years have I come across a person inside a big Wall Street firm who was having a crisis of conscience.”

[sinkingfeeling]

2. Maybe because money is more valuable to your Republican coworkers than humans?

[NNN0LHI]

3. You Can't Cheat an Honest Man

[T Wolf]

4. Systemic and systematic damage is always worse, on a larger scale, than individual violence. But it

is hardly ever even discovered and rarely punished.

That is the sense of rage and inequity that drives the anger.

As for someone just shooting down that asshole, I would shed no tears. IMO, the sooner something like that happens, the sooner it might be possible to fix the system that has caused so much destruction.

The individuals who commit the crimes have to be held accountable. So far, the US government has done nothing in this aspect of "law enforcement." It is thus, up to the populace, to exact justice.

Until the specific people who do this are caused to suffer consequences, there is no reason that others will not continue to do the same. Make the Wall Streeters and the bankers and the other corporate pigs fearful for their lives and those of their families and they might behave differently. Allow them to walk, with their millions, and not a god damned thing will change.

[Beavker]

6. I agree

I just know that if someone swindled my money, I'd be raging pissed. Kill them? Maybe, maybe not. I'd start over unfortunately.

If someone did something heinous to my 9 month old. That person, to the best of my ability, regardless of sentencing from our rediculous 'justice' system, would die.

[Rambis]

5. Why is he not in jail again?

oh he is "rich" never mind:crazy: