Thursday, July 21, 2005
Today Dead with Steve Vizard
Naughty, naughty, naughty.
That silly boy, Steve Vizard, seems to have been caught with his hand in several cookie jars all at once. And quite blatantly at that.
The Australian reports that Stevie Baby faces a $600,000 fine and a ban on being a director. Oh my hat. Whatever will he do now? He would be shaking in his shoes, wouldn't he?
Lets see. Vizard's accused of insider trading, on an investment of about $850,000. That's what he put in. A quck estimate of how he was hoping that was going to turn out is here.
So he's made $1.1m, definitely. What happens? A ban and a fine.
Compared to this character, who got 18 months in the clink for pinching cattle. Or this man, who copped 7 years in the big house - for emigrating without a passport, presumably because he thought staying alive was more important.
This isn't a politcal post. The courts are separate from the politcians (unless you live in South Australia), and that's how it should be. And no, I'm not saying that Howard and Vanstone got Vizard off or any rubbish of the sort.
I'm just saying that sometimes, just sometimes, this country is fucked.
That silly boy, Steve Vizard, seems to have been caught with his hand in several cookie jars all at once. And quite blatantly at that.
The Australian reports that Stevie Baby faces a $600,000 fine and a ban on being a director. Oh my hat. Whatever will he do now? He would be shaking in his shoes, wouldn't he?
Lets see. Vizard's accused of insider trading, on an investment of about $850,000. That's what he put in. A quck estimate of how he was hoping that was going to turn out is here.
So he's made $1.1m, definitely. What happens? A ban and a fine.
Compared to this character, who got 18 months in the clink for pinching cattle. Or this man, who copped 7 years in the big house - for emigrating without a passport, presumably because he thought staying alive was more important.
This isn't a politcal post. The courts are separate from the politcians (unless you live in South Australia), and that's how it should be. And no, I'm not saying that Howard and Vanstone got Vizard off or any rubbish of the sort.
I'm just saying that sometimes, just sometimes, this country is fucked.
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This absolutely is a political post and this absolutely is a political issue. That our political/legal systems and our prosecutorial policies are so overwhelmingly geared towards convicting poor people while ignoring the crimes of richer people speaks damningly about the fundamentals of our system.The number of people prosecuted for insider trading and other white collar crimes is miniscule and that's not because those kinds of crime are inherently harder to prove.
Well, if you want to make that point and that connection, then that's fine. My point was that this was not intended to be a party political polemic. Just an observation on how fucked the whole thing is.
But yes, you're right - the fundamentals of our system are in serious trouble. And I can;t see much will to change it.
It's like the payouts to James Hardie execs, or Frank Cicutto getting $30m to fuck up the NAB. But our government seems to think unions are the real issue.
Fucktards.
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But yes, you're right - the fundamentals of our system are in serious trouble. And I can;t see much will to change it.
It's like the payouts to James Hardie execs, or Frank Cicutto getting $30m to fuck up the NAB. But our government seems to think unions are the real issue.
Fucktards.
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