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Re: Art Debate Was: [Re: Swearing?]
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Thu, 27 Jan 2000 18:55:05 GMT
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James Brown wrote in message ...
> > Putting the CEO in jail is a last resort that one uses to get the
> > attention of a seriously malfeasant corporate administration.
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> And I would say that if you are dealing with a "seriously malfeasant • corporate
> administration" then all jailing a CEO is going to do is make them fire the
> CEO, and keep on being malfeasant without him.
Well, you may ultimately have to jail more that the CEO. I wish I could
remember more. I seem to remember a recent case where a company officer was
jailed because the company wouldn't do what the court ordered, and wans't a
newspaper editor recently put in jail for not releasing the name of an
source (though I think that case was on very shaky grounds, newspapers do
need some freedom to keep their sources confidential, and the court must
find that lives are at risk, or some other equaly significant danger, before
they are forced to divulge information like that, the same protections need
to be extended to anyone whose job is to consult with people about the
situations they find themselves in [lawyers, clergy, doctors, psychiatrists,
whatever])?
> Now if you're advocating punishing the CEO when he doesn't enact the court-
> ordered restitution, *THAT'S* a completely difference kettle of fish.
Well, that is what we're talking about, and I admit, we haven't done very
well at describing that.
Frank
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| (...) No, actually. Try "Either the CEO is personally liable for everything or the company is." I have no problems with the concept of a group of people being responsible, as a group, for what they do. (...) And I would say that if you are dealing (...) (25 years ago, 27-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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