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cprise Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-01-04 08:26 AM
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Multiple Corporate Personality Disorder
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As of this writing, of all of the corporate crimes committed that have cost the United States hundreds of billions of dollars over the past couple of years, only two top level executives are in prison.

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Glasbeek says that the creation of the corporation allowed for this "fungibility of responsibility."

"Sometimes the executives plead the corporation to relieve the executives from responsibility," Glasbeek told us recently. "Sometimes the corporation causes the executives to plead, a couple of people take the fall. And it is very difficult. We have created a separate entity with separate property. So, you have multiple personalities with different legal duties and rights that the actors are allowed to take on at any one time. That allows a shifting of responsibility that we cannot control."

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http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0120-01.htm

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Hotler Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-01-04 10:15 AM
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1. A fancy way to say....
greedy crooks
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cprise Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-01-04 11:15 AM
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2. So,
How do we get them featured on COPS?

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yella_dawg Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-01-04 12:34 PM
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3. Actually...
I'm leaning towards angry mobs and impalement. It's more cost effective.
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Jackpine Radical Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-01-04 07:50 PM
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4. Now, THAT is
a sensible suggestion.

Or maybe something along the lines of torches & pitchforks.
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