The Supreme Court and Big Business Are Never Held Accountable for their Actions

What is accountability? It’s what the Court, giant corporations, and Donald Trump do not ever need to worry about under the American system of “justice.”

So, a friend of mine literally wrote the book on “accountability” many years ago. It’s a shame that the book is ignored and possibly out of print, because it’s a very good and unique book, and very badly needed today.

The full title is Accountability: It All Depends on What You Mean and the author is Theo Brooks.

What IS Accountability?

Accountability means that a person or organization is held responsible for one’s actions. The actor suffers consequences for actions that cause hardship or suffering for others. IF those consequences are strong enough to 1) erase any net benefit the actor may accrue from bad behavior and 2) discourage any future repeat of that or a similar behavior, then meaningful accountability has taken place.

It’s not enough to suffer consequences. All to often, by doing something wrong a corporation collects millions or billions of dollars in unearned or swindled revenue, and then is “held accountable” by being charged some fraction of that amount in a fine. Often, the corporation does not even need to admit wrongdoing —…