Responsibility

One wonders what people are thinking when they let people get away with things. Think Sandy Berger risking national security and getting away with a slap on the hand. We have this warped sense of wanting to forgive people, but not holding them accountable.
Here's a Northwest version of that.
From RoguePundit, we hear of an indian tribe in the Puget Sound area that was allocated a certain Salmon haul by the state. All salmon fishers are constrained by this rule, as Chinook are an endangered species.

Washington's Makah Tribe [took] about 20,000 chinook from the ocean north of the Olympic Peninsula when their allocation for the winter troll catch was just 1,600.

So what's the punishment?

Yesterday we found out that the Makah's winter troll allocation has been raised considerably for 2006, and to make up for this, the fishing seasons for other fishermen--excluding other tribes--have been restricted.

Nice accountability. Apparently not everyone suffers equally when there is a shortage of certain resources.