MOUs whinng about dead people harshing their mellow
by digby
Even when they are directly responsible for the death of another, they whine and complain about being held responsible for it:
Here’s something you probably never knew about Tom Perkins, the venture capitalist who gave his name to one of Silicon Valley’s most iconic partnerships. The investor, backer of companies such as Compaq and boardroom schemer at Hewlett Packard, was once convicted of involuntary manslaughter. In 1996, the yacht-crazed financier was racing off the French coast when he collided with a smaller boat, killing a French doctor on board.
In a passage from the Valley veteran’s forthcoming memoirs, Perkins writes: “I was arrested and tried in a foreign court in a language you don’t understand, by judges indifferent – or worse – to justice, represented by an inappropriate lawyer with the negative outcome preordained.”
The negative outcome? He was made to pay a $10,000 fine. (And yes, the zeros there are correct.)
A French doctor died at his hands in a yacht race. And all he could say was that he was tried in a French court where they didn’t even speak English and was unjustly held liable — for a $10,000 fine.
One just does not do that to billionaires. Especially ones who have been knighted by Norway. Which, in an earlier, fairer time would inevitably have led to their ordination by God to rule the peasants. As it should be.
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