Posted on 08/01/2010 9:14:54 PM PDT by bruinbirdman
Seems we fought a revolution over things like this
yes we did.
Our Democratic Congress are fools. They operate on ideology, and are led by sudden events, with ad hoc responses.
That is truly a recipe for failure.
What they SHOULD do instead is cite a minimum threshold for safety violations over a sliding time window. I seem to recall BP having something like 300+, whereas American companies like Exxon were instead down around 2. Clearly BP is used to operating in a reckless and negligent fashion, and therefore SHOULD be subject to restriction as a result. Let them clean up their act and start operating responsibly, and they're back in.
Sine when does UK claim protection under US Constitution?
When Dr. Savage can travel to UK, then BP can start complaining! LOL
UK is a lost cause, completely overrun with Commies, Islamic Extremist, Soros money, and corruption of the Upper Class!
Well, that does make it Bizarro world. Simple solution is that they should draft a Declaration to state their independence of the colonies and go their separate way after a protracted war.
Which side do the french take this time?
/johnny
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I think a corporation 39% of whose stock is held by Americans (or at least its American shareholders) can claim constitutional protection against a bill of attainder.
Okay, who here, without my reminding you, remembered that BP is the result of a merger between British Petroleum and Amoco (the American Oil Company)? It turns out that the company is 40% British owned, 39% American owned, with the remainder of the stock held by folks in other countries—if I had to bet, I suspect mostly Commonwealth countries other than the U.K.
Ex Post Facto?
In applying the same standard, what’s next?.. Is Obama going to be banned from working anywhere in the United States?
shake down. ...
Thanks, I stand better informed, and once again humbled!
Hah. That went by the board years ago. The new improved constitution doesn't need old fashioned concepts like that. All those old pieces have been jettisoned for "auras,penumbras and emmanations"
why wasnt bp up to code..? who let that slide?
Anyone or anything operating within American jurisdiction enjoys the protections of the US Constitution. Where privileges to non-US citizens do not apply (i.e. voting rights), the term ‘citizen(s)’ is specifically used.
Thank you. This thread was about to go off the rails.
And I’m chuckling at the alternative: a British company gets screwed by the U.S. government, and it’s first recourse should be to run to a British court?
Britain is about to meet the tyranny of the limitless “Commerce Clause.”
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