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Posted: Thu Aug 26, 2004 9:41 am
by Counterparts
Mark Thatcher (son of the Iron Maiden herself) has been arrested in South Africa:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/3601098.stm
It's about time that this arms-dealing POS got his comeuppance.
Two down, two to go?
Royston
Posted: Thu Aug 26, 2004 10:07 am
by BingoTheClowno
It seems that the fossil fuel supplies are dwindling and big consumer countries are getting more desperate each passing year.
Posted: Thu Jan 13, 2005 9:35 am
by Counterparts
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/4169557.stm
I don't want to sully the board too much with what I think about this, but it's a disgrace that the South African "justice" system can be bought out with a bribe which is what this boils down to.
Mark Thatcher:
"Yes, I admit I'm an arms dealing piece of shit who tried to arrange a coup in Equatorial Guinea to get my dirty little hands on a share of its oil, but here's a quarter of a million quid. Can I go now?"
"Justice" System:
"Yeah, everybody else involved is in a hell-hole jail for years, but they didn't have £250,000 knocking around hahaha!"
Posted: Thu Jan 13, 2005 10:33 am
by Spirit
The SA "justice" system is hopelessly corrupt. Buying decisions or bribing police to disappear evidence is standard practice at all levels. There's been a few good feature stories about this over the past few years...
Posted: Thu Jan 13, 2005 1:24 pm
by garyb
BELIEVE me. that happens in the USA and GB ALL the time. it just costs a little more....
Posted: Thu Jan 13, 2005 2:16 pm
by alfonso
Not to mention Italy....
Posted: Thu Jan 13, 2005 6:18 pm
by Spirit
Of all nations I admire the legal system of Finland the most.
Not only does Finland usually rate at or near the top in general "non-corrupt" indexes, but their system of fines is based on income.
That means that an extremely rich person caught speeding can pay hundreds of thousands of dollars for a traffic fine !
Posted: Thu Jan 13, 2005 10:10 pm
by next to nothing
On 2005-01-13 18:18, Spirit wrote:
Of all nations I admire the legal system of Finland the most.
Not only does Finland usually rate at or near the top in general "non-corrupt" indexes, but their system of fines is based on income.
That means that an extremely rich person caught speeding can pay hundreds of thousands of dollars for a traffic fine !
how about ppl that are unemployed?
hehe, no i totally agree, it should ofcourse be based on income. it is norway as well by the way.
(we also had a rich guy who got away from a ticket because "his mercedes was an extremely safe car buildt for high speeds", so nothing s perfect
)
oh and the non-corrupt-score might mean that someone should look harder
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Posted: Thu Jan 13, 2005 10:55 pm
by hubird
do I smell some neighberhood competition here?
Posted: Fri Jan 14, 2005 1:02 am
by Spirit
2003 corruption index - Best 20 nations
1 Finland
2 Iceland
3 Denmark
4 New Zealand
5 Singapore
6 Sweden
7 Netherlands
8 Australia
9 Norway
10 Switzerland
11 Canada
12 Luxembourg
13 United Kingdom
14 Austria
15 Hong Kong
16 Germany
17 Belgium
18 Ireland
19 USA
20 Chile
Bottom 12 nations (from rank # 122)
122 Indonesia
123 Kenya
124 Angola
125 Azerbaijan
126 Cameroon
127 Georgia
128 Tajikistan
129 Myanmar
130 Paraguay
131 Haiti
132 Nigeria
133 Bangladesh
From here:
http://us.rediff.com/money/2003/oct/07corrupt.htm