Joe Nacchio
One can certainly sense the glee and gloating from the media and the public with the stiff sentence handed down to Joe Nacchio.
Lest the editors and columnists of the Denver Post and Rocky Mountain News get too heady eith being able to kill so many trees for a story, be they reminded of the late-1990s when they filled endless pages with glowing stories about Nacchio and Qwest. Any counterpoint was quickly ridiculed and squashed. I did not see the newspapers as co-defendants for aiding and abetting Nacchio’s efforts to blue-sky Qwest to investors, but perhaps they should have been. Those who take sides indiscriminately simply for the sake of personal advantage are guilt of pandering.
Within the context of a retributive justice system Nacchio’s sentence certainly seems ‘fair.’ But what can we say about the retributive system in general? What, really, does it accomplish in such cases? Other than temporarily sating one of the lowest of human emotions - vengeance - not much.
Two wrongs don’t make a right; but if the human race hasn’t learned that by now, it is not likely to ever learn it. We’ll keep going with a retributive system of justice and judges intoxicated with power belching out the tired old bromide, “A stiff sentence will send a message to others” whilst knowing full well there isn’t a shard of evidence to indicate any such thing.
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He's rich so Bush will just pardon him
Posted by jimmyd on August 1, 2007 07:07 AMMorphing but give me a break; it is within subject matter:
It is quite likely that Nacchio despises Judge Nottingham; however, I love the Judge.
Bankruptcy Judge Sidney Brooks found me in contempt and fined me $1,000. On appeal Judge Nottingham reversed. The all-knowing Brooks violates the rules that govern his own conduct. Find here some hidden scathing remarks about bully Brooks.
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