"bad book keeping, and horrible oversight, not robbery"
You do not know that, nor do you have any evidence of a lack of foul play, and clear evidence of malfeasance and mismanagement.
You certainly wouldn't accept that kind of crap if your bank told you, "oops, you have a few thousand dollars missing... bad bookkeeping, you understand. Bye." Yet that is $8,000 missing for each of us, missing, without even a kiss.
The truth is that (a)we know nothing about it other than the money is missing, and (b)we know from constant experience with Enron and scandals going back through history the following:
The truth is always worse than what is disclosed.
Where there is no accountability, there is the means, opportunity, and motive for theft, sure as the sun rises. To say otherwise is to put one's head firmly in the sand.
There is not reason to let them off the hook, or not to initiate criminal investigations, immediately, to cover the past 20 years.
Otherwise it's the same as once again endorsing the Oliver North / Poindexter / Wm Casey excuses, with their illegal grab of the public treasury, increased by several orders of magnitude. |