I know he's committed the financial crime of the young century, but I still find some of vengeance porn around the Bernie Madoff sentencing a bit off-putting. There's a bloodthirsty quality to the digital mob, as if Madoff were the American economic equivalent of Guy Fawkes, planting explosives under our vulnerable financial infrastructure. Because he revealed our weakness, he must watch his entrails roasted before his own eyes on the public commons.
Writing in the How about making the worst of the defrauders and bilkers and scam artists and life ruiners - people like Bernie - be eligible for the death penalty? I'm very serious about that."
Over on MSNBC's Newsvine thread, it's much tougher - no lethal injection clinician to ease the Ponzi king's departure from this mortal coil.
Bernie Madoff should be WATERBOARDED to reveal where he has all this money stached!
scumbag. I say let him out, and publish his address on the internet......
He is an evil man. If there's a Hell, he's headed there. And I hope the
prisoners there LOVE him and show him exactly how much.
He should have been taken out in back of the courthouse and strapped down on a hill of fire ants - as a starting point...
It's just gonna be hell sitting in prison remembering why he's there. Too bad he couldn't have been turned over to the people he defrauded
Bernie Madoff is a crook alright. But the size of his monetary theft doesn't make thievery any worse; it's like swimming - once the water's six feet deep, it may as well be 10,000. What stirs this particular pot is the social status of his victims (generally upper middle class and higher, plus some horribly victimized charities) and the poor judgement they showed in trusting the Madoff name without adding up the returns and asking questions. And the "torture Bernie till he bleeds money" chorus mourns not just some personal fortunes lost, but an era of financial blindness just ended.
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