| Profiling 3.0, Green edition |
Subsequent to my last post, about the arrest of "Hurricane Carter" (Joseph Benson), the UK agency @EnvAgency and newspaper reporter, Cahal Milmo (@CahalMilmo), of the Independent @Independent, released this news that Benson has just settled his plea, three years later, after unsuccessful appeals taken through the court system.
The UK Independent reporter Milmo and UK Environmental Crimes units seem to absolutely crow over the Eleven thousand British pound settlement (about $23,000), sending tweets and photos. If Benson was interviewed, they don't use it.
Anyone in business knows that the cost of hiring a lawyer and running appeals was far, far more than the 11K plea settlement. I have not spoken to or dealt with Mr. Benson, but my suspicion is that it's evidence he wanted to clear his intentions and good name with this long appeal. Should I be going out on a limb for someone who has just accepted a financial settlement
Hurricane Benson was publicly accused (@Guardian as well as @Independent) in 2009 of primarily exporting TVs and electronics for primitive wire burning; David Fedele, Pieter Hugo, and others take film of African dumps and tie it primarily to men and women like Mr. Benson. That is thanks to one person: Jim Puckett of Seattle Washington, who has told everyone in the world that the scrap burned in Agbogbloshie and Guiyu is a "dirty little secret", that it comes from wealthy nations recycling programs.
