Culpability

I'm very disinterested in domestic news, being an internationalist (I think I'll change my BBC News edition to World), but I noticed an article about the Hatfield rail crash.

Railtrack, the company that owned the rail system, was charged with Corporate Manslaughter. However, this week the charges were dropped because "The judge found that there was no evidence to support the prosecution case that performance or profit was placed before safety in Corbett's case."

I'm sorry, I forgot that capitalism cared about people. Exactly what would cause a company to ignore a problem for two years if it wasn't about cost? Did they do it so as not to inconvenience commuters? Did they do it for the good of the people that died?

"Jonathan Goldberg QC, for Jeffries [an executive], told the court it would be unfair to make the five men scapegoats in the "blame culture of modern-day Britain"

So do we just sweep aside justified blame because some Americanised arseholes are out for money? Oh wait, out for money...

I am sick of people who proclaim "Oh, communism is all good in theory..." - What fucking good did privatising the railways do? They blindly defend the companies that will one day kill them. Are you listening smokers?

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