Guilt of the Abu Ghraib Guards

The guards of Abu Ghraib (Baghdad Correctional Facility) during the Iraqi war have been criticized and consequently punished for their abusive behavior.

Punishing the guards is debatable, as such behavior was certainly known to develop, unless not especially prohibited. Thus the ones actually responsible to the abusive developments are those who should have controlled the guards: the prison officers and the US Government.

In 1971 Stanford University conducted a psychological experiment to understand roles and behavior in prison. In the experiment voluntary students were randomly appointed to act as guards or prisoners:

"The simulation became so real, and the guards became so abusive, that the experiment had to be shut down after only 6 days rather than the two weeks planned."

The Stanford Prison Experiment was funded by government grant from the U.S. Office of Naval Research.

For details of the experiment see Stanford Prison Experiment
For details of Abu Ghraib see Wikipedia

Presidential Administration slipping out of control

Supreme power has a tendency to get out of hand, if not democratically controlled.

In the 1980s Reagan Administration sold weapons to Iran to fund Nicaraguan Contras, the right-wing guerrilla organization.

• Selling the weapons to Iran was illegal, as Iran was considered an enemy of the US.
• Funding the Contras was illegal, as the Congress had decided against it.
• After the sales were revealed in 1986, President Ronald Reagan denied them on national television.
• Reagan Administration destroyed large volumes of related documents.

For details see Wikipedia

Managerial Bonus in Any Case

Finnish listed companies paid special bonuses to their sacked managers.

Even companies that were strongly on the red, and gave notice to hundreds of employees, paid very large bonuses to their managers who were responsible for the dire results.

Perlos, a Finnish product design and manufacturing partner for the telecommunications and electronics industries, sacked more than 1 000 workers in Finland. Also the managing director was sacked. He received a 160 000 € bonus and a 160 000 € golden handshake along with his 413 000 € annual salary.

Killing Tutsis

In 1994 militant fundamentalist Hutus killed 800 000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus with machetes in Rwanda in a few months.

The international community and UN were aware of the process, and reacted by withdrawing 2 000 peace enforcers from the country.

The massacre was preceded by centuries of disagreement.

Drivers with Selfmade Regulations

Every Easter Finns drive from cities to the country. In endless rows, mile after mile. Finns are people who love the countryside.

There are regulations and rules for the traffic to guarantee safety on the roads, and all car driving Finns have agreed to obey to those rules when getting their driver's licenses.

On Moundy Thursday several people lost their licenses after driving over 150 km/h on one lane winding country roads with 100 km/h speed limitation. Amidst the heaviest traffic.