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Appalachia

TreasonousBastard

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1. I listened to that and there's...

Reply to theHandpuppet (Original post)

Thu Nov 13, 2014, 10:29 AM

Nov 2014

no excuse for not jailing the owners and managers. Nobody died from the parking tickets you get hammered for.

Confiscating the mines is not a bad idea, either.

But, the law as written does not provide for collection of fines, and politicians from mining states are making sure it never does.

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