Bring Back The Stocks! Bring Back Tar And Feathers!

Personal transgressions do not deserve public humiliation. 

Public transgressions do. 

For people who abuse the public trust, bring back the stocks - new and improved!  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stocks

And be sure to tar and feather the bastards first.

Then let Tom, Dick and Harry get right in their face to hurl insults. 

Start with every Great Recession financier who privatized profit while socializing risk.  http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2011/10/daily-dose-october-152011.html

Test drive Bernie Madoff.

Fines mean nothing to fabulously wealthy scum slurpers: prison time doesn't even show on radar.

The Feds just fined British Petroleum $200 thousand dollars for destroying criminal evidence in the Macondo spill case.

$200K!

The maximum amount permitted by law!

Jesus F. Christ! 

$200,000.00 gets lost in the CEO's sofa... 

Daily.

As a nation we do not intend -- have never intended -- to punish "job creators."

To compensate moneybag's "free ride," we make spectacle of scapegoat little guys.

You know, "the takers."

Make no mistake.

America intends for 1% felons to walk.

As a nation we are coded to exonerate every asshole with a wallet thick as his impenetrable conscience.

Which reminds me of Chesterton: "Among the Very Rich you will never find a really generous man, even by accident. They may give their money away, but they will never give themselves away; they are egoistic, secretive, dry as old bones. To be smart enough to get all that money you must be dull enough to want it." http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2013/07/mans-final-wish-that-his-heirs-leave.html   

Doctor of the Church, St. Catherine of Siena, overstates the same case... but not by much. "Every evil, harm and suffering in this life comes from the love of riches."  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Catherine_of_Siena 

Do you know the line? "A philanthropist is someone who gives away what he should give back."