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- r0mper, on 01/22/2009, -8/+86I am all for this.
Imagine if the US took the same no-***** stance towards corporate criminals here. - inactive, on 01/22/2009, -13/+65"When the scandal broke in September, it emerged that Sanlu had known it was selling toxic milk - and allowed around 900 tonnes of it to leave its dairies".
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I'm speachless. - JAVandiver, on 01/22/2009, -15/+60One thing that China is doing right! I wish we would met out similar punishment to those responsible for the September Crash. When someone destroys so many lives maybe capital punishment should be in effect.
- oatmeals, on 01/22/2009, -3/+37I'm beyond speachless. I'm appaulled.
- upick, on 01/22/2009, -10/+42Justice served
- inactive, on 01/22/2009, -6/+29I'm torn.
One half of me is glad that the corruption in China is being dealt with, with the people to blame actually being blamed.
On the other hand, I'm against the death penalty in all circumstances, due to the fact that I believe punishment can be better served by locking them up for the rest of their lives. It's a death sentence, but since there's no hell/heaven, they can spend a lot more time regretting what they did.
Help me digg. - rushiku, on 01/22/2009, -4/+27FTA: "It led to product recalls across the globe, and further damaged China's reputation for producing safe and reliable products"
Oh dear, you misspelled a few words, let me get that for you.
"It led to product recalls across the globe, and further substantiated China's reputation for producing unsafe and unreliable products" - ineptsavant, on 01/22/2009, -0/+19While I'm against the death penalty I'm glad to see that corporate criminals can't hide behind an army of lawyers and merely pay a fine. They killed people with their greed and poisoned many more. I've been following this with a bit of personal interest as I have consumned quite a few melamine tainted products, though thankfully I don't think it has had any effect on me. I can't imagine the anger felt by those who lost their family to the companies deception.
- inactive, on 01/22/2009, -5/+22These comments are tainted.
- damack, on 01/22/2009, -5/+22They sold 900 tons of milk they knew was toxic and made 300 thousand people ill.
It's a shame death is he worse they can do these scum. - inactive, on 01/22/2009, -0/+15No use crying over... oh, ***** it! 5 people must have said it already.
- hokie47, on 01/22/2009, -1/+14China is full of people who do shorty jobs, but this time it made China look bad, and the one thing you don't do in China is make your country look bad. Overall, China reminds me of American in 1900(1906: Upton Sinclair) The people of China are stating to demand accountability for people like this. Things will get better but it will take time.
- inactive, on 01/22/2009, -0/+12If this happened on US soil, the CEO would only get a 3 million dollar bonus instead of 5.
- Daemastrius, on 01/22/2009, -1/+13You are a troll so anything you say isn't right whatsoever IMO
- ORBAT, on 01/22/2009, -0/+11How horrefying.
- purplelantern, on 01/22/2009, -2/+12I am peachless
- fafaforza, on 01/22/2009, -5/+15Why don't you go and assign blame to someone. We'll see how that goes.
Once you untangle the jumble of actions and players, from the thousands of finance workers, to speculative, neophyte realestate investors, to individuals looking to buy into the higher social class, to the people in the government, try to prove your case in court, often against higly paid defense teams. We'll see you in a decade when the process is close to finalising.
Mixing antifreeze in milk or knowingly selling it is somewhat easier to prove. - sildude, on 01/22/2009, -0/+9Well I don't know much about trolls but maybe you should first learn how to type.
- sirber, on 01/22/2009, -2/+11with cookies?
- googooly, on 01/22/2009, -14/+23They deserve worse
- spyd3rweb, on 01/22/2009, -0/+8Imagine if the US took the same no-***** stance towards criminal politicians and law enforcement here.
- empraptor, on 01/22/2009, -1/+8life sentence and 3 million dollar fine for the boss of Sanlu.
death penalty for farmer and milk trader for producing and selling the stuff. - NJank, on 01/22/2009, -0/+7based on past evidence, I believe most people would have to try not outsmarting you. sorry.
- jorisb, on 01/22/2009, -6/+13China's death penalty inmates are like a storage facility for human organs. When a specific organ is needed, the prisoner is executed and his organs harvested.
Also, these guys were just middlemen. While the people who made the real decisions are getting jail terms or getting off completely.
What they did was very wrong, but they're getting more than they deserve. - inactive, on 01/22/2009, -2/+9This is inaccurate, two men are sentenced to the death penalty, and one woman is sentenced to life in prison.
See: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7843972.st ... - ineptsavant, on 01/22/2009, -1/+8Try not talking out of your ass next time. I live in China and can read the story as well as the comments.
- diggduggjoe, on 01/22/2009, -0/+6Having the death penalty for humans is a tough call, but for corporations, I am all for it. In the case of something in the order of this tainted milk scandal, jailing those involved is warranted. Today, in the US we slap the corporations wrists and most of those involved just move on. There must be serious consequences for such anti-social behavior.
- inactive, on 01/22/2009, -5/+11I'm typeless......
- xxxkrogoth, on 01/22/2009, -0/+6I am in Taiwan, which is China with a semi-democratic spin on it, and 2 of my friends here got kidney stones from drinking milk powder with coffee in the morning. They are 20 and 25 years old and in great health. I encouraged them to both file lawsuits, but it seems the Taiwanese goverment has beat them to it, filing a lawsuit on behalf of all victims in Taiwan. The numbers for this are much higher than they are reporting.
- maddskillz, on 01/22/2009, -0/+6dalectrics...they made the choice when they chose greed over the well being of people.
- shaka999, on 01/22/2009, -1/+6You do know that that drug addicts have a strong voting block here on Digg don't you?
- iDiggYa, on 01/22/2009, -5/+10How culd this ever hapen?!
- i4ybrid, on 01/22/2009, -1/+6You could have said "spilled milk" "poisoned milk" "dead infants"
- zantos420, on 01/22/2009, -2/+7no, justice would be taking 900 tonnes of the same kind of milk and making the people responsible drink it until their stomachs rupture.
- Blacksoth, on 01/22/2009, -1/+6And she got a life sentence instead of the death sentence the others got.
I got no problem with these people getting executed seeing as how what they did amounts to premeditated murder. But why do I get the feeling the wrong people are going to die? - Blacksoth, on 01/22/2009, -0/+5I agree. The selection of guilt certainly seems circumspect.
- m0llusk, on 01/22/2009, -5/+10This is essentially admitting that they have no control. The scale of the punishment has no influence on the decision to commit a crime. None. The only thing that matters is improving the chances of getting caught. Robust testing of milk is the only way to solve this, but it seems that is still too hard.
What is really unfortunate is the number of comments on this thread encouraging the Chinese to end a life for no reason while their markets for milk and other products continue to operate without any effective oversight. You think you care, but you are too stupid to realize this doesn't matter and there is no excuse for that. - xxxkrogoth, on 01/22/2009, -3/+8I agree. Simple and quick justice. If we had that in the US, we would not be in this stank-hole situation right now.
- jcpudd, on 01/22/2009, -3/+8Enron and WorldComm's CEOs get my vote!
- inactive, on 01/22/2009, -3/+7You know, some people are against the death penalty altogether? I guess they say it's primitive, barbaric, hypocritical and is proven to not be effective as a deterrent. Weird, eh?
/s - konartis, on 01/22/2009, -8/+12Death by tainted milk.
- falafelkiosken, on 01/22/2009, -4/+8China's way of handling scandals: cover up until it's not possible anymore, find scapegoats, punish them really hard (death penalty) and hope everyone forget about it
- andersleet, on 01/22/2009, -2/+6that is china for you, quantity over quality.
- FireResurrected, on 01/22/2009, -0/+4*****, I guess I must have somehow cut corners and poisoned the food that I made for dinner for my friends yesterday, since it's in my genes.
And OBVIOUSLY those farmers knew melamine is poisonous. I doubt any of them drank their own milk. But that does not justify any blanket statements about the Chinese.
Otherwise, I can also claim that "North Americans have a penchant for murder" because 1. There are murderers in North America, and 2. They probably knew murder was wrong, but did it anyway. Does that make ANY sense? No. - iDiggYa, on 01/22/2009, -4/+8Judging from your being dugg down, apparently some people believe killing people is right.
- billizm, on 01/22/2009, -1/+5They don't ***** around in China. Here in the states, they probably would have received a slap on the wrist compared to Chinese punishment standards.
- dalectrics, on 01/22/2009, -1/+4They probably can't even access the site. BBC journalists had to fight to be allowed to upload their own content during the Beijing Olympics.
- thelif, on 01/22/2009, -3/+6Yeah it makes perfect sense for someone in the government to be responsible for a private sector scandal as part of their massive conspiracy to poison babies.
- maddskillz, on 01/22/2009, -3/+6What should the maximum penalty be then? I am pretty sure I would rather die then be stuck in a prison for the rest of my life.
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