The Chamber of Commerce has outlived its use. It should be dissolved immediately. The Chamber is nothing but a corporate whore and does nothing for small business. Anyone killing those in charge at the Chamber would do the world a favor.

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Don't forget to add he bought off a local judge as well.

This is long over due. Don Blankenship is the scum of the earth. He is the vile stuff that grows on open air sewage. It is way past time to hold PEOPLE criminally responsible for these acts, not corporations. Corporations are not people no matter what Chief Justice Robers and his little gang of wingnuts say. It is time to put people in jail for very long sentences when the kill people for their own profit. There is no difference here between these acts and the acts of an armed robber who kills someone for profit. Put them in jail.

He is clearly liable under the doctrine of manslaughter based upon depraved indifference. How hard would it be to get a grand jury to indict this fat scumsucking pig? Not hard at all . . .

What ever happen to the motto SAFETY FIRST. Just another reason why this mine should be unionized.

I'm no lawyer, but this is clearly a manslaughter case, even to a layperson. If I knowingly endanger the lives of other through my negligence, it could be negligent homicide or involuntary manslaughter. I think 25 years in Leavenworth would be a fair punishment.

People need to, have the right to, defend themselves against criminals. Don't they have a concealed carry law in West Virginia? You know, so people can stop murderers before they keep killing?

Where's the right to lifers; protecting the innocent lives that must toil under such a murderer as Blankenship?

Blankenship was also a keynote speaker at a Tea Bagger party a few weeks back. They played an audio clip of his speech on “Make it Plain” on XM Radio last week. In his speech he states how bad all the environmental laws are for the mining industry. The guy should be arrested and the audio clip used as evidence against him.

Blankenship was also a keynote speaker at a Tea Bagger party a few weeks back. They played an audio clip of his speech on “Make it Plain” on XM Radio last week. In his speech he states how bad all the environmental laws are for the mining industry. The guy should be arrested and the audio clip used as evidence against him.

Blankenship SHOULD be arrested and tried for mass murder. As should have happened to that venal swine what's-his-name Murray for the miners killed in Utah. MSHA is culpable as is Congress for gutting MSHA. Blankenship will NEVER get more than a slap on the wrist. Corporates got the power and the controls in our 'land of the free' and just see how this all plays out. A one act play of the politically absurd.

Blankenship SHOULD be arrested and tried for mass murder. As should have happened to that venal swine what's-his-name Murray for the miners killed in Utah. MSHA is culpable as is Congress for gutting MSHA. Blankenship will NEVER get more than a slap on the wrist. Corporates got the power and the controls in our 'land of the free' and just see how this all plays out. A one act play of the politically absurd.

This never happened under a Libertarian, Conservative, Christinesta (All the exact same)

This never happened under a Libertarian, Conservative, Christinesta (All the exact same)

Reagan declared Safety was socialistic.

Can be argued that it was Premeditated via the internal memos also.

The Chamber Of Commerce are enemy combatants. They are a treat to success for the middle class. Blankenship is one vein running off a network of well organized thugs. Putting him behind bars is only the start. The machine that allows for this must also be put to rest.Let us start with the Chamber of Commerce. Call your Congress person.Turn up the heat on Eric Holder to a bring charges. “Give the corporations some complications”-Michael Franti.

Shoot, I think that, since the S.Ct. has determined that corporations have “personhood” which establishes their freedom of speech, I think that Massey Energy Co., the corporation, should also be charged with 29 counts of voluntary manslaughter. If a corporation has the rights of personhood, then it should also have the legal responsibilities of personhood. Charge it, try it, convict it and throw it in jail right alongside the principals who have already established personhood by virtue of being . . . . human beings.

oops add a H to that treat and it becomes threat.

Oh, I think that someone should push for criminal charges against the corporation, Massey Energy Co. The S.Ct. has declared the personhood of corporations . . . if a corporation enjoys the right of free speech as a “person,” then the same corporation bears responsibility for its criminal activities. Charge it, try it, convict it and throw it in jail, right beside its principals. [I want to see this happen. It would show the ludicrous nature of the Citizens United decision.]

Any prosecutors in VWA have the gonads to indict Blankenship on 29 counts of manslaughter?

As long as we are indicting Blankenship should we not consider the Bush war criminals as well? These vampires still walk among us, enjoying their wealth and privelage after being responsible for the deaths of untold thousands.

i will bet he owns every one of them…

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I doubt whether President Obama will ask his A.G. to open a grand jury investigation on Blankenship….he will want to look forward, not back… tweak a few rules…pretend he is taking action by imposing heavier fines (but not collecting the fines), kick the Unions under the bus, (by not supporting or pushing for Employee Free choice act, ignoring fair trade issues, etc). ….so “it will never happen again”…just a half inch to the left of Bush and the GOP…change you can count on….

I doubt whether President Obama will ask his A.G. to open a grand jury investigation on Blankenship….he will want to look forward, not back… tweak a few rules…pretend he is taking action by imposing heavier fines (but not collecting the fines), kick the Unions under the bus, (by not supporting or pushing for Employee Free choice act, ignoring fair trade issues, etc). ….so “it will never happen again”…just a half inch to the left of Bush and the GOP…change you can count on….

And Don Blankenship's bought and paid for Repbulican Congressional Canidate….think he has anything to say about mine safety? Protecting workers is the last concern of these bastards.

Corporations are considered people now, so he has to be prosecuted just like any other American. He does not care about the lives of people, as long as he can make a dollar and can hire more people to kill without any consequences, he will do so. JAIL HIM NOW.

This bears repeating:

“This was not an accident, but rather the result of deliberate and intentional decisions and actions of Don Blankenship, a director of the United States Chamber of Commerce.”

He's no different from any other republican.

Corporations are people, but CEOs aren't.

Communist PLOT ??
I love it.

Communist PLOT ??
I love it.

Can they get the Death Penalty ?

Sure…another liberal “hit piece” writer, trying to take advantage of some poor miners deaths

You win that bet.

Blankenship harkens back to a time in our history that is painful to remember. People want less government and less regulation? No unions? Blankenship and people like him are what you get for a boss. Keep on supporting Tea Parties and Republicans and this is the result for all working Americans.

And gay.

They don't count, cause they were born…and are poor.

You mean like asking which periodicals a person reads? (And deaths? Let say killings, it's a tad more apropos. {Look it up.})

Personally, I think the dude should be in jail. He clearly put profit before safety and THAT is unacceptable!

Lou
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if there has been no accountability for the treason and war crimes, what the hell makes anybody think there will be any for corporate murders…?

Blankenship is just as criminal as any mass murderer or serial killer. He knew his actions would cause deaths but he did not care. He needs to be put on trial and sent away for a long, long time if found guilty.

And a communist plot from those liberal safety engineers

Sadly,You are right.

I see this man and am so overcome with horror, just gut level horror that this is the face of what is considered desirable as a citizen in this country, without scruple, consumed with greed, arrogant beyond belief and literally WRAPPED in the flag.

Scum is too much of a compliment for his attitude, as for being a Repub, I’ve known smart nice ones but not lately.

Tru'dat.
You know it just amazes me, these people will go kill a freakin' census worker or abortion doctor and bitch and march and carry guns to rallys protesting, themselves getting free health care…. but they will do nothing against the people who destroy their land and send them to their deaths. Wow, it is hard to fathom somebody can wallow in such willful ignorance, allow their mind to be controlled so thoroughly when their own llives are actually on the line.
I mean it's not like the information, the truth, ain't out there. You may have to do a little bit of looking and thinking but you can find it.
Boy, just start waving that fucking flag and cross and these people go….. BLANK.

Send it to the oil war too.

This guy represents what the Republican Tea Party is all about. People need to realize this is the choice…

unfortunately you may be right on this… I don't get why though – because it seems like a political gimme to me. who would side with this guy now? and if the Tea Party Republicans want to take his side… let them. Let people see what they are all about.

I would like to see Blankenship prosecuted criminally, and anyone who aided and abetted him as well. There are now 29 families without family members. This explosion was totally unnecessary. Do you see this happening at any union mines? That is because the union miners do not fear retaliation by reporting safety violations.

Blankenship's public statements declaring his mines to be safe, that the regulators are incompetent, that he cares more than anyone about safety, are obscene after the deaths of 29 of his miners. But the bigger question is this. WHY did federal regulators not close this mine after so many violations? What on earth is the point of laws that are so easily ignored? Why is this man still in business? If Intel or Boeing killed 29 employees, after being warned and fined repeatedly many millions of dollars for safety violations, would they be allowed to operate? What does a CEO have to do before he faces prosecutors? What is worse than preventable death? How many laws must be broken broken? How many deaths? How much arrogance? It seems are living in a third-world country, where laws are meaningless, and corruption and graft are the rules of the day.

Hell, if county and state prosecutors can try people for exposing others to HIV, regardless of actual transmission of the disease, they can charge this idiot with negligent homicide for exposing the miners to conditions that killed them.

Great Idea but it will never happen. Blankenship has local, county and state government all bought and paid for.

Lenin's tomb was removed from display in Red Square. Now he's buried in a communist plot.

If Justice were to prevail (which is sheer fantasy, as this man is one of the plutocrats), he would be found guilty and sentenced to work down in the deepest part of the mine until the day he draws his dying breath.

And while you are at it….If that old shit fred phelps and his gang of polyps show up, grab them and throw them down the shaft and seal it.

He should be on that idiotic tv show, “Undercover Boss”, for 25 fucking years. Just lower him down in the mine for eight hours. Reel his ass out so he can be in a jail cell to eat. Then lower his down again, etc. The whole 25 years there will be no safety what so ever in place.

Err, the tories probably think there should be a “military tribunal” and have it in jefferson davis' house.

Guillotine. When his head rolls 3 feet away, it gets a birds eye view of his body for maybe a minute.

Works for me ..
In PUBLIC

Another Chamber of Commerce tool only happy when he makes money off of dead workers! I wonder how much dead peasant insurance he will collect and give to the teabaggers?

Why not? Because it would send a chill down the spines of all of the criminal corporate overlords. And, that's not good for fundraising. It's not “moderate.” It's too divisive.

Too bad there is actually no such thing as Hell … otherwise this guy would have a special place waiting just for him. The best we can hope for is that his life here is short and filled with pain and sorrow.

The Chamber Of Commerce…….hmmm, who ever thought of this:

…..”To ensure that everybody thought in the correct manner, Goebbels set up the Reich Chamber of Commerce in 1933. This organisation dealt with literature, art, music, radio, film, newspapers etc. To produce anything that was in these groups, you had to be a member of the Reich Chamber. The Nazi Party decided if you had the right credentials to be a member. Any person who was not admitted was not allowed to have any work published or performed. Disobedience brought with it severe punishments. As a result of this policy, Nazi Germany introduced a system of censorship. You could only read, see and hear what the Nazis wanted you to read, see and hear. In this way, if you believed what you were told, the Nazi leaders logically assumed that opposition to their rule would be very small and practiced only by those on the very extreme who would be easy to catch.”…….

Will the Massey-Chamber of Commerce-Republican corruption and conspiracy to ignore safety laws hold tight? Probably. If it cracks, a sign will be king-pins Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) and his wife criticizing Blankenship and Massey, as they save themselves.

I'd go for murder in the first degree, conspiracy, racketeering. Sentence: Life in the mine without parole.

Sad but true. Obama will do the lookaway look forward, look up Sarah Palins skirt, but don't look at me to uphold the law.

Obama is obstructing justice in his refusal to prosecute Bush or Cheney for torture.
He is also tight with big coal, and is fully on board with the big lie of clean coal. Obama serves the coal industry like he serves other big business. His fans and devoted are oblivious to this, and they can count on rawstory to keep them in the dark about that.

Obama has done the bidding of big coal since the day he took office.
A google search will confirm that.

Certainly not.

I've heard some of the family members refer to these deaths as Gods will. With that kind of mentality amongst those who have lost loved ones it is hard to imagine anyone being held accountable.

we need more of us to call the emperor on his (lack of) clothes…

I am glad to see this cause this guy has such a disdain for conformity of any kind. Also, it was sad to see some of the families that felt that the spector of death was the norm, and they had no other means of making a living.

Love to see him get the shaft.

I wouldn't be so fast as to count Obama out as far as pursuing some kind of prosecution in this case, or at least a revamping of the structure ruling the mines safety.

Not only should this mining CEO be arrested and indicted, but the whole GD West Legislature was well!

Not just Blankenshit. Put all the executives and the board of directors on trial. Talk about stimulating alternative energy..

http://www.republicansAreADisease.com

I think it is time for all coal mining to unionize. If miners are waiting for the Blankenshits of this world to keep them safe they might as well buy life insurance and have and “accident” to put food on their family.

And sonny, you even have the Cheney’s committing treason on a regular basis trying to undermine our president as he tries to keep us safe by reversing their torture doctrine.

http://www.RepublicansAreADisease.com

I say prosecute the Cheney Gang for treason. I mean, I don’t recall Al Gore coming out and condemning the Bush Crime Family for ignoring all those warnings before 9-11.

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Because Obama has no spine and still wants to be friends with the Right

Well people who can't afford their own judges and politicians who commit negligent homicide are usually arrested. I guess Blankenship is too big to fail.

We have been here and done that, been here and done that, been here and done that …

Life in the mine without proper ventilation…

http://www.RepublicansAreADisease.com

Interesting that they moderated my comment about what should be done to everyone in charge at the Chamber of commerce and decided to not allow it to be posted. I suppose I'll get a visit from the FBI because our government protects big business at all costs. The least expensive of those costs are the lives of The People. We are truly living in a Fascists society.

Who were the people that were listening to this guy wrapped in a flag telling them how he values the safety of his miners more than the Federal Government or any Union? Did they think that the costume he was wearing made him a bastion of the American Way? What retirement and Medical coverage does the Massey kabal provide for their American workers. I am sure that they are receiving all of the benefits that Blankenship provides for the Board members of Massey. He's one of Palins “Real Americans”. I expect her to show up and collect some money to speak to the issue of how mine safety is a Nazi plot designed to thwart the success of Massey and their Flag drapped leader and how corporations will take better care of the worker than any collective headed up by those who risk their lives working IN the mines.

and Federal

Blankenship portrays Federal mine regulators as outsiders who have little coal mining experience. In reality, regulators have vast experience in the mining industry. Blankenship is willing to trade coal miners lives for profit, plain and simple.

Not since Eisenhower.

I agree. Our last genuine hero who was also an honest politician who told it like it was. “Beware the military industrial complex…” Heck, I'd vote for him but no…. I want Sarah cuz' she winked and my heart went pitter patter and ah'm 'merikun ™ and I'm very suspicious of anyone who is smarter than I am, which is most of the world these days.

i’m new… expectancy to brief approximately more often!

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