Warran Anderson and 20,000 Indians Dead, Poisoned In Their Sleep

[Gates9]

This story really is a stunning example of the biggest evil we face globally; huge corporations and their morally devoid executive management.

Sometimes I think the only reason I hope for an afterlife is that possibility that guys like this will spend eternity getting pineapples shoved up their asses.

One can only hope.

Good article about a journalists attempt to track down the bastard in 2006;

"I happen to remember the day the news of the explosion broke. But there are many young adults and children in the United States who know nothing about the Bhopal disaster, some of whom were not even born yet. Shouldn’t they hear Warren Martin Anderson speak about the importance of corporate responsibility? Shouldn’t children and adults in India hear from him, as well? Because in many of their eyes, Warren Anderson is corporate America. It was a long time ago, as Lillian Anderson says. Not long ago enough, however, for people in Bhopal. Maybe deep down he does feel intense shame. But his silence is a very loud symbol of moral failure, whose first consequence was the industrial accident site that remains poisonous two decades after Union Carbide’s deadly Bhopal disaster. There’s another consequence, though. Anderson’s silence sets a terrible example for the future stewards of corporate America. I can’t honestly say I blame Anderson for fleeing India back in 1984, rather than face the prospect of doing time in an Indian prison. And I’m not going to begrudge him his privacy in a comfortable house a short walk from a beautiful beach on the Atlantic Ocean. But I do condemn his silence. For that, too, he ought to be ashamed."

-Warren Anderson’s Silence | Tracking down the man who presided over Bhopal
By Kirk Nielsen, May 2006 issue

http://www.progressive.org/nielsonmay06.html

[Catherina]

1. Warren Anderson. Capitalist Criminal

Journalist Shakti Bhatt located former Union Carbide Chairman Warren Anderson's luxury home in New York, declared unknown by the American and Indian governments, in India Abroad, the newspaper owned by Rediff.com, back in September 2002.



As a Bhopal court convicted eight people on Monday, June 7, for the worst-ever industrial disaster, we reproduce the global scoop:

Warren Anderson's home in Bridgehampton, New York, militates against the notion of a hiding place.

Located on a street that runs off the main road, the gates of the house are open. As you enter, the neatly trimmed garden flowers, alternatively red and white, vie for attention with the sparkling vintage Buick Roadmaster parked outside the door.

If you stroll around the house, you come upon a large freshly cut lawn with two full-size beach chairs. The curtains in the bedroom are drawn. A king size bed with cream sheets and satin blue pillows, flanked by an ornate headboard, has just been tidied.

Anderson and his wife Lillian live in this luxury home in the Hamptons, the weekend resort for the rich and famous. And, occasionally, the infamous.

Anderson has lived here since he was charged with 'culpable homicide' for the disaster at the Union Carbide factory in Bhopal in December 1984 that consumed the lives of over 20,000 people. If Anderson -- then Union Carbide CEO -- is ever extradited to India, he could face charges leading to 10 to 20 years in a dirty, overcrowded, rat-infested Indian prison.

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http://news.rediff.com/slide-show/2010/jun/07/slide-show-1-Warren-Andersons-nine-hundred-thousand-dollar-luxury-home-in-new-york.htm

[BrklynLiberal]

2. I hope he does end up in that filthy Indian prison....and that is where he spends his final hours.

[BrklynLiberal]

3. why can't he be extradited???

[Gates9]

4. Because he's rich and untouchable

[rfranklin]

5. Is the United States like one of those rogue nations with no extradition?

It seems it would be easy enough to retrieve him otherwise.

[GeorgeGist]

6. I think you're being a sap ...

Obviously, it's difficult for some to begrudge the fruits of capitalism. I suspect it's because they too hope to feast at the expense of others.

On edit: you're not your

[Gates9]

9. I Think It's Time We Made A Further Distinction In This Country...

Between "regulated" capitalism, and what the far right has convinced us that "real" capitalism is. That is, unregulated, "laissez faire" capitalism. Which is, essentially just as barbaric and dangerous as extreme authoritarianism.

As a result of the rights push to paint this narrative, we've allowed such atrocities as the Bhopal disaster and the BP oil spill to be considered "normal" and "unfortunate accidents".

[kenny blankenship]

7. That's the thing about multinational corporations: the shareholders may be shielded from penalties

But at least you get swift justice!

http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/7018930463
Yamini Kaul - AHN News Contributor

Bhopal, India (AHN) - The mild punishments meted out in the Bhopal gas tragedy on Monday can be attributed to a decision taken by the Supreme Court of India on Sept. 13, 1996. While aid organizations, civil society and even the Union Law Minister have called the sentence inadequate, it was the Supreme Court that forced the prosecution to charge the accused under a law that dramatically limited the prison time the defendants might serve.

As a result, on Monday a Bhopal trial court held seven former managers of the Bhopal plant guilty of death by negligence and gave each a sentence of two years. The court also imposed a fine of about $ 2,123 each.

Prosecutors had originally charged the defendants under a law that provided for 10-year sentences.

The trial was the final chapter of a long tale that began Dec. 3, 1984, when 32 tons of toxic gases leaked from the plant into the surrounding community. The initial death toll was officially placed at around 5,000, and as many as 18,000 may have died in the ensuing two weeks. The incident is often called the world's worst industrial disaster.

[Uncle Joe]

8. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, Gates.

[lib_wit_it]

10. Another wealthy murderer, another miscarriage of justice. USA! USA!

[Staph]

11. It has been more than 25 years

and methyl isocyanate is still being produced in Institute, West Virginia. Though now it is owned by Bayer Crop Science, the same fears of a chemical release still exist.

I have thought for many years that all owners and executives of extraction, processing and manufacturing industries should be required to live in the communities of their plant or extraction site. Down stream, down wind, required to drink the locally-processed water, eat the locally grown foods, and breathe the local air. That should make safety a much higher priority!

[Gates9]

12. Side Note: Kelley Drye & Warren; Warren Anderson's Defence Lawyers

Per Wikipedia;

Notable Litigation

Kelley Drye played a leading role in defense of the Agent Orange litigation and defended Union Carbide following the Bhopal disaster. In 2002, the firm represented J.P. Morgan Chase in a lawsuit against insurance carriers seeking $1 billion in compensation for its Enron-related losses after white shoe firm Davis Polk & Wardwell was disqualified after a conflict of interest (Davis Polk also represented Chubb Corporation, an insurer). In 2003, Kelley Drye negotiated a settlement on behalf its client and obtained nearly 60% of the $1.1 billion demanded.<1> It also prosecuted the unsuccessful Addamax lawsuit.

[malaise]

13. Warren Anderson is a mass murderer

I hope he's haunted by those dead and injured Indian people for the rest of his days. I'm betting he can't sleep without shoving down a pile of big pharma pills.

He'll never speak unless he's about to lie about some religious conversion.

[Spheric]

14. The corporatists and their right wing supporters hate history. Thanks for reminding us. K&R /nt

[Scurrilous]

15. K & R

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