Prosecutors Seek Three Year Jail Sentence for Nut Rage Incident
I don’t have much sympathy for Heather Cho, but to send her to jail for three for this is ridiculous when rapists in South Korea get less time or no time at all:
Prosecutors demanded a three-year prison term for former Korean Air Executive Vice President Heather Cho at her trial over the “nut rage” incident, Monday.
This came after the prosecution concluded she forced a flight from JFK International Airport in New York to change course, an allegation that has a maximum sentence of 10 years. [Korea Times]
You can read more at the link.
I don’t think she’ll see any time Inside. She is a First Time Offender, and she has Bank. She will be hit with a fine, and a suspended sentence.
Not just the Korean Way, not just the American Way, it’s pretty much the World’s Way.
The Golden Rule: Whoever has the Gold, gets to make the Rules.
“The Golden Rule: Whoever has the Gold, gets to make the Rules.”
The Sandwich Rule: Life is a shyt sandwich… and the more bread you have, the less shyt you eat.
Three years in jail for this is not justice. A reasonable fine is meaningless to her and an excessive fine is not just. It would take wise consideration to formulate true justice… but it is likely closer to community service which encouraged the development of empathy toward those she currently sees as inferior.
The biggest thing they could do to her would be to put her on a No-Fly list. If she can’t fly commercially, she will have to charter a flight every time she wants to go shopping in Manhattan, or soak up the rays in Bora-Bora or go to a business conference in Beijing.
Seeing the loss of profits might convince other Chaebol executives to not treat the staff like serfs. Probably not, but maybe.
Arbitrary additions to no-fly lists without due process, or even real cause, is not justice.
It is the opposite of justice.
And as long as we are on the subject of “Rich D-Bags on Airplanes! let’s have a look at Mr. Conrad Hilton III:
http://www.salon.com/2015/02/04/conrad_hilton_wont_be_sullied_by_peasants/
The younger Hilton sibling surrendered to the FBI Tuesday after being charged with “assaulting and intimidating several flight attendants aboard a British Airways flight from London to Los Angeles” in late July. The Telegraph reports that according to a 17-page affidavit,witnesses said Conrad claimed, “I will f_cking own anyone on this flight; they are f_cking peasants” and complained that another passenger was giving him the “stink eye.” He also reportedly announced, “I could get you all fired in five minutes. I know your boss. My father will pay this out. He has done it before. Dad paid $300,000 last time.” His father is Hilton & Hyland
Look folks, this isn’t a contest. You don’t get a prize for being the biggest A-Hole.
Conrad Hilton had better be careful.
In the last round of dark days of American crony capitalism, the One Percent had less to fear… as the American peasants knew their place.
Now, after a couple of generations being told everything they did and thought was valid and that they would all grow up to be rap stars and millionaires, this kind of elitist behavior, so many aspire to but are denied, is not appriciated… and yet another reason in a growing list of reasons to sharpen the pitchfork.
Something is coming.
It’s going to be ugly for a lot of people. .. and it’s going to make the 60s look like the 50s.