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To: Freeport

There is a LOT more to this than Chiquita.

Though the US officially discourages corporations bribing foreign officials, when almost all other countries are more than happy to allow bribes; even the US cannot stop humanitarian NGOs from paying tyrants money just so they are allowed to deliver food aid to some minority the tyrant hates.

Doctors Without Borders, for example, is known to pay bribes to the most hideous of dictators and war lords, just so that it can give medical care, and try to give polio vaccinations.

So should DWB be liable when that dictator or war lord continues to persecute and murder others?

But the fools trying to pass this legislation are only doing so because Chiquita had to pay blackmail to a Colombian anti-communist gang. Not a word about the blackmail corporations had to pay to the drug running leftist FARC.

So it’s a cheap political gimmick to stop bribery just to “right wing” groups. But the consequences of this law passing could be awful.


6 posted on 06/05/2014 6:20:00 AM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy ("Don't compare me to the almighty, compare me to the alternative." -Obama, 09-24-11)
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To: yefragetuwrabrumuy

American companies pay in the form of political donations which are not legally known as bribes.


7 posted on 06/05/2014 10:16:49 AM PDT by B4Ranch (Name your illness, do a Google & YouTube search with "hydrogen peroxide". Do it and be surprised.)
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