The MASSEY MINING MASSACRE: A Possible Solution

Twenty nine miners were killed in early April at the Massey Energy's 'Upper Big Branch Mine' in West Virginia.


Over the years, the safety record for Massey Mines has been horrendous-- with accidents and deaths much higher than the average in an admittedly hazardous occupation.

Fines-- however high, never seem to solve this problem. Obviously the company has MONEY TO BURN... otherwise fines would be a deterrent, but I've thought of a SOLUTION!

Instead of paying fines this time, how 'bout we stick the Massey Offices underground as a show of solidarity with the men who go down into those hellhole tinderboxes day after day? If the men can take the risk, well hell....it seems only reasonable the men who are being made rich by these ridiculous risks, take them themselves. Here's what I'd like to see:



A smiling Massey top executive just inside the glass doors and looking out fondly at his boys- putting one thumb up, checking the canary and wearing a rabbit's foot around his pencil neck.

If you want to read real, unadulterated, self-serving horseshit, visit the PRESS ROOM-- and you will be stepping in it several STORIES deep.

I want to see jail time for these murderers. It's proper that they do time for killing this many human beings over the years by their flagrant disregard for human life --and the rabid quest for profit, profit, profit. It seems easy to see a crime has been committed-- why don't we prosecute?

I sincerely hope the corporate upper echelon is troubled by broken sleep the rest of their natural lives (and oh, yes-- the board of directors as well. They're the ones most removed from the reality of what they've done.)

But honestly...the simplest solution is the one offered above. Give the bastards a lunch bucket, and send them a mile down. Let THEM put their asses on the line every day....

PROBLEM SOLVED.