Wanted: A Perp Walk For Plutocrats

This is the first time you and I have hit upon a point of agreement. My solution to expressed to my wife was, “You only have to shoot the first one.”

I noticed, however you’re missing a major category of participant and cause of this outrageous situation

Posted by whattheheck on Mar 24, 2009 at 10:45 AM

I am most normally inclined to be forgiving to a fault some might say. So be it! In these times (no pun intended please) I am of a mind that the magnitude of the atrocities perpetrated willfully and maliciously by people whose only motivation was making huge piles of money for themselves at the expense of the economies of this country and many others around the globe simultaneously demand appropriate punishment when found guilty of these crimes by juries who will not be bought or swayed by these hugely corrupt and powerful criminals.

Ms. Douglas and her spouse seem to be echoing much of the same sentiments I hear expressed by those with whom I come into contact daily. They know that amoral and hugely self absorbed people have participated in a modern-day Ponzi scheme of gargantuan proportion. There needs to a reckoning. There must be severe consequences for the hubris and boundless greed of these criminals. Yes, I said criminals and I mean it in the simplest terms you can envision.

“In Ancient Greece, the voting public would write or scratch the name of a person in the shard of pottery. When the decision at hand was to banish or exile a certain member of society, citizen peers would cast their vote by writing the name of the person on the piece of pottery; the vote was counted and if unfavorable the person was put out of the city, thus giving rise to the term ostracism”. ( from Wikipedia the free encyclopedia). I cannot imagine a more appropriate response to the horrific criminal acts of the executives of these financial firms that have been visited upon our nation and the world at large. Why not use a modern form of the ostracon to tell these people that they are no longer welcome to live among us until they have paid a suitable penance.

As Ms. Douglas rightly observes “They also want faces and names attached to

Posted by Rev. Michael Weaver-Robbins on Mar 26, 2009 at 9:05 AM