Maybe the Left has mellowed. A century ago they didn't talk big about long prison sentences, instead they'd have just taken such Class Enemies down to the basement and put a bullet in each one's head.

Don't fall into a trap here.

Conservatives have no brief for white-collar crime. On the contrary, we punish theft, fraud and lies without regard to the race or class of the criminal.

He who has ears to hear, let him hear. We extend no amnesty to malefactors of great or little wealth.

I'm fine with 6 trillion years.

Of course, Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson should get long sentences for all their shakedowns, too.

But Greider probably considers their work to be uplifting. I wonder what he thinks of the Millberg Weiss indictment.

Either we have another Matt Murphy around here or somebody's posting bogus comments, as that one wasn't mine.

Nicely expresses my sentiments, though.

The problem with the left is that folks like Greider would like to sentence the honest execs of sucessful big energy companies to three trillion years, just for being the execs of successful big energy companies.

It's not the big talk about a long prison sentence. (Or their approval for extra-legal punishments like prision rape.) It's that you know that Lefties like this Grieder clown are against any punishment for common murders and thugs because "it's society's fault." Or how they will excuse whole victim classes, or selectively base their indignation on things that have nothing to do with the crime committed, like race or class. (See today's posting on man too short to be punished for a classic example of this sort of thing.) It's when you examine the whole of who and what and how they'd punish that you have to mock them for such tough-talk hypocrisy.

Yes, to Greider & Co., the crimes of capitalists and capitalism are always the worst and most important of crimes.