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calimary

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36. There's also stocks and pillories.

Thu Nov 20, 2014, 10:10 PM

Nov 2014

You know those wooden things that were erected in the Town Square? Where someone would be placed in public shame-display - caught between two pieces of wood with three holes cut in it, each piece of wood with half-holes. Their hands stuck through two small holes on either side of a larger hole. In the larger hole went their heads. And then the two pieces of wood were locked together to imprison the hapless punishee in place for full exposure to public derision and scorn and rotten-tomato-throwing. And they were made to stand there in that bent-over position, for whatever length of time was their sentence for various kinds of schmuckery.

Although I don't think that's a bad enough penalty for some of these assholes. Heck, for MOST of these assholes!

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Goldman, Morgan Stanley And JP Morgan Named In Commodity Manipulation Investigation [View all] malaise Nov 2014 OP

Break them up, smash them to atoms hifiguy Nov 2014 #1

Personally I'd walk them to a ledge and say malaise Nov 2014 #5

That works too! hifiguy Nov 2014 #8

And then heat them malaise Nov 2014 #11

I say bring out Le Guillotine. Odin2005 Nov 2014 #37

They Laugh in Our Faces! They Poke Us in Our Eyes! KoKo Nov 2014 #2

These pigs factor in the "fines" as a cost of doing their evil business. hifiguy Nov 2014 #4

Until they pay dearly this madness will continue malaise Nov 2014 #7

Like Harry Truman said back in '48 hifiguy Nov 2014 #9

all I want for Christmas is to see the CEOs do a perp walk irisblue Nov 2014 #3

I want more malaise Nov 2014 #14

I want even more. calimary Nov 2014 #26

I'm not a fan of the death penalty but they really need to learn malaise Nov 2014 #27

Back in the day... nikto Nov 2014 #31

There's also stocks and pillories. calimary Nov 2014 #36

They had a great chance edhopper Nov 2014 #6

Which is Obama's single greatest failing as POTUS hifiguy Nov 2014 #13

I think the decision was made a lot sooner FiveGoodMen Nov 2014 #20

Was this before or after Jamie was given Presidential cuff links from the White House? Autumn Nov 2014 #10

I hope this amounts to something but I expect it to be another joke. nm rhett o rick Nov 2014 #12

Hey! They do it with money, too. It's like a hose with a crimp. Octafish Nov 2014 #15

Sadly people do not pay attention malaise Nov 2014 #16

It's the unseen bullwhip of today's master race, er, masters of the universe... Octafish Nov 2014 #21

They should all be in prison malaise Nov 2014 #22

It's just too complicated and boring for the average person to want to think about nikto Nov 2014 #32

you mean those goddamn welfare recipients? redruddyred Nov 2014 #35

BAIL EM OUT BAIL EM OUT! Rex Nov 2014 #29

That's the truth malaise Nov 2014 #33

Al Capone would be looking for a way to get his 'cut' in derivatives. Rex Nov 2014 #34

It gets all this official attention because it's the rich stealing from the rich. Jackpine Radical Nov 2014 #17

The stealing from the poor is more like a heist malaise Nov 2014 #23

Hire the Iceland prosecutors, they are almost done with the banking crime jailings there. Fred Sanders Nov 2014 #18

Ding ding we have a winner malaise Nov 2014 #19

Doesn't matter. Nobody are going to jail. TRoN33 Nov 2014 #24

I predict a flurry, I say, a flurry of sternly worded letters as punishment. valerief Nov 2014 #25

SHIT!!! HURRY UP AND BAIL THEM OUT FOR A FEW TRILLION DOLLARS! GO GO GO! Rex Nov 2014 #28

These crooks have options... Segami Nov 2014 #30

k&r... spanone Nov 2014 #38

LOL, Wall Street OWNS Obama, nothing will happen. Odin2005 Nov 2014 #39