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Topic: Why Is Killing for Capital Not a Capital Crime?
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urbanman
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posted 07-23-2001 09:16 AM
  
By knowingly sacrificing human lives for corporate profit,
executives at the Ford and Firestone Corporations recently surpassed Timothy McVeigh’s body count
for American citizens killed over the past five years. Unlike McVeigh,
these executives have received no punishment for their actions.
Indeed, there has not been a single indictment of either corporation,
nor of any culpable corporate officers to date.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA)
has recorded 203 deaths (McVeigh killed 168),
and more than 700 injuries, amid thousands of complaints involving rollover-prone Ford Explorers
that crashed following sudden tread separation on factory-installed Firestone tires.
The deadly duo also was implicated in at least 48 deaths in Venezuela and the Middle East.
Last August, the tire manufacturer Bridgestone/Firestone Inc.
announced a voluntary recall of 6.5 million tires,
most of them original equipment on Explorers.
By that time, Firestone had been replacing the defective tires in 16 other countries
for up to a year, all the while concealing the danger from U.S. citizens.
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