U.S. bending rules on Colombia terror?
Several lawmakers say multinationals that aid violent groups in return for protection are not being prosecuted.
By Josh Meyer, (LA) Times Staff Writer
July 22, 2007
WASHINGTON — For more than a decade, leftist guerrilla and right-wing paramilitary groups in Colombia have kidnapped or killed civilians, trade union leaders, police and soldiers by the hundreds and profited by shipping cocaine and heroin to the United States.
In that time, several American multinational corporations have been accused of essentially underwriting those criminal activities — in violation of U.S. law — by providing cash, vehicles and other financial assistance as insurance against attacks on their employees and facilities in the South American nation.
But only one such company — Chiquita Brands International Inc. — has been charged criminally in the United States. Now, a showdown is looming that pits some members of Congress against the Justice Department and the multinationals — including an American coal-mining company and Coca-Cola bottlers.
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You simply have to be a big corporation and make donations to our favorite party of Hypocracy ... its a free market taking care of itself and the more guns you have, the freer it gets.
War on Terror my friggin' left foot!
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