Lock 'Em Up!

 Lock 'em up, flog 'em, drive them through the streets naked, shoot 'em, cut bits off 'em, hang them by their heels from the lamp post.

Punish them any way imaginable , just DON"T fine them.

NZ Herald has the headline:

ANZ fined $280,000 by High Court for misleading customers over credit card insurance policies

What the headline in fact conveys is that ANZ customers are being charged (fined) $280,000 for being robbed by ANZ.

Any fines of companies not individually owned and most fines on any business are paid for by the customers of that business.

Even if the owners/directors dip their hands into their own wallets to pay the fines the money in those wallets, and the money to replace that used to pay the fines, comes from customers.

I won't at this stage comment on the bloody ridiculous shyster employment scheme that is the fining of Government Departments except to note that these fines also are paid by customers, called tax payers.

The grossly over-used fining scheme, the fallback of the absolutely corrupt and bone-idle stasi, may work on the poor and the downtrodden but ALL other fines are paid by the innocent as well as (and in most instances "instead of") the recipients of that fine.

I don't care what the punishment is but punish only the guilty, they're the bastards that done wrong!