How Do You Put A Corporation In Jail?

You don't. You can't. It's only a piece of paper that exists, most likely, in some back room of a drab looking state building in Delaware. A small white piece of paper, with more rights than a person, yet without the unfortunate application of responsibilty and accountability that we ourselves have to be saddled with.

I want to be a corporation.

"Drugmaker Merck & Co.'s research facility in West Point dumped a chemical compound that included cyanide into the sewer system, killing more than 1,000 fish in Wissahickon Creek, federal authorities said Thursday."

"It's hard to believe that a huge company like Merck would take this long to get to the bottom of such a serious problem," said Tracy Carluccio of the Delaware Riverkeeper Network, a nonprofit environmental group.

Um, actually, no. It's not.

And than, as if on cue from the devil himself, "A week after a contaminant was released into the Wissahickon Creek, killing more than 1,000 fish, malfunctions at the Ambler sewage treatment plant Monday night sent 55,000 gallons of raw sewage into the waterway."

Philadelphia Inquirer

Merck & Company Inc.
West Point Facility
P.O. Box 4
770 Sumneytown Pike
WP20-208
West Point, PA 19486
Montgomery County

Contact:
Steven C. Wittmer
Director, Site Environmental Management
Merck & Co. Inc. - West Point
215-652-6427
215-652-3931 (fax)
steven_wittmer@merck.com