How Iran Deals With Bank Fraud

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If you're going to be a country barbaric enough to still have the death penalty in you justice system, might as well use it against those whose crimes hurt the most people, and Iran - of all places - has decided to use it on four of the people charged with disrupting the country's economic system through fraud. The others' sentences read from jail time (some up to 10 years) to fines.

Other defendants were handed down sentences varying from flogging to paying cash fines and being barred from public office, he said.

Mohseni-Ejei also stated that almost none of the companies involved in this case were ordered closed by the court.

The defendants stood trial for misappropriating a total of USD2.6 billion of funds by using forged documents to obtain credit from banks to purchase state-owned companies. - See more at: http://www.presstv.com/detail/2013/02/18/289652/iran-sentences-4-to-death-in-scam-case/#sthash.vyxaT0JI.dpuf

Other defendants were handed down sentences varying from flogging to paying cash fines and being barred from public office.

The defendants stood trial for misappropriating a total of USD2.6 billion of funds by using forged documents to obtain credit from banks to purchase state-owned companies.

In the U.S., fraudulant bankers are not even prosecuted, and some are almost revered; in Iceland, they are jailed; in Iran, they are treated the same way as anyone else who would attempt to disrupt, corrupt, or destroy the system - as it should be.

I do not condone the death penalty; I am totally against it. The State should not have rights individuals don't have in the treatment of its citizens.

However, fraudulant bankers responsible for robbing the system of billions of dollars should and must be treated the same way as traitors and terrorists because, in a way, that's exactly what they are. Same goes for corrupt politicians.

Iran's system goes against logic on many issues, but this is one case where we could definitely learn from them.

Other defendants were handed down sentences varying from flogging to paying cash fines and being barred from public office, he said.

Mohseni-Ejei also stated that almost none of the companies involved in this case were ordered closed by the court.

The defendants stood trial for misappropriating a total of USD2.6 billion of funds by using forged documents to obtain credit from banks to purchase state-owned companies. - See more at: http://www.presstv.com/detail/2013/02/18/289652/iran-sentences-4-to-death-in-scam-case/#sthash.vyxaT0JI.dpuf

Other defendants were handed down sentences varying from flogging to paying cash fines and being barred from public office, he said.

Mohseni-Ejei also stated that almost none of the companies involved in this case were ordered closed by the court.

The defendants stood trial for misappropriating a total of USD2.6 billion of funds by using forged documents to obtain credit from banks to purchase state-owned companies. - See more at: http://www.presstv.com/detail/2013/02/18/289652/iran-sentences-4-to-death-in-scam-case/#sthash.vyxaT0JI.dpuf

Other defendants were handed down sentences varying from flogging to paying cash fines and being barred from public office, he said.

Mohseni-Ejei also stated that almost none of the companies involved in this case were ordered closed by the court.

The defendants stood trial for misappropriating a total of USD2.6 billion of funds by using forged documents to obtain credit from banks to purchase state-owned companies. - See more at: http://www.presstv.com/detail/2013/02/18/289652/iran-sentences-4-to-death-in-scam-case/#sthash.vyxaT0JI.dpuf

Today's Sign Of Our Civilization's Decadence

I'm not stupid; I know media organizations are way, way past ''trying to provide accurate, objective information'' as the Fourth Estate - the one designed to protect and inform the people about and from sources, mostly the government and the outside world.

But to actively demand the death of a person kind of crosses so many lines it makes me sick:

So far, the suspect is an alleged mass murderer. A trial will likely find him guilty, and the jury will probably think so even before the trial begins. These things happen. (They're wrong in theory, but with the prevalence of news sources and their choice of hiring commentators rather than journalists have led to this type of situation.)

But to ask for someone's death before even a single shred of evidence is put forth in what we, as a civilization, have agreed hundreds of years ago was the proper medium to do so is disgusting.

Not to mention that civilized countries no longer have the death penalty as an option, as the U.S. is the sole G-7 representative to have it, and the other countries where it is prevalent are China, Iran, North Korea, Yemen, Saudi Arabia, Lybia, Syria, Bangladesh, Somalia, and Sudan. Countries the Western World sees as being governed by ruthless tyrants, some of which have been deposed, most of which are at war with their people.

The way I see it, if we're going to live in a world where we have the right to bear arms and an armed shooter kills a bunch of people in public, the only ones who are allowed to ''put him to sleep forever'' are people who were there and make that call. Anything beyond that is unacceptable.

If you're going to bitch about the State's right to tax your fucking ass, you'd better do everything you can to ensure it doesn't have the right to kill you; you'd just be asking for trouble...