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Politics : Ask Michael Burke -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Pogeu Mahone who wrote (108510)	7/19/2007 7:16:34 PM
From: Freedom Fighter	Respond to of 132070

>That is the massage of the $660,000,000 fine! To punish the catholic church for the evil of Rape of catholic children.< Zeus, I have long agreed with you that the guilty need to be punished, but you still seem to be missing the point that it's not the guilty that are being punished by this award. It's the parish members that made donations to the church for schools, their communities etc.. and the poor and needy that benefit from church programs. If the guilty priests, bishops, cardinals etc... were individually wealthy or shareholders of a vast corporation, extracting 600M from them would be a perfect way to send the message (much like we do with corporate criminals). They are not however. All the priests (guilty and innocent) will live exactly the same way they did before (very modestly). A different method of punishment and message sending was required in this case. This award is all downside for innocent and poor people of the communities, all upside to already wealthy lawyers, and a little justice for the victims. That's why I bashed the lawyers. They were the only winners in this case. Everyone else is a loser and the guilty weren't punished.