and yet .... somehow they got to a top ladder rung .
Coke’s CEO is a Brit, not an American. What do you expect.
Actually, it should be telling you who is in charge.
These guys don’t do whatever they want, anymore than you do.
The BP CEO, feeling 0bama’s “boot” on his corporation’s “neck”, was heard to say “I’d like to get my life back.” The die was cast, however. At least in his case. Wonders how many millions with which he sailed away from BP, where he sailed to, how much of a cramp was put in his style ultimately. He was probably no more blameworthy than anyone else in that whole sordid affair. Our Fearless Leader made it clear, though—he needed a scapegoat or sacrificial lamb. Out the poor fellow went.
At that time, with crude oil gushing uncontrolledly into the Gulf of Mexico, the corporation in question was being perceived by the American people as (or at least being portrayed to them as) unforgiveably, even criminally, uncaring.
0bama wasn’t necessarily interested in being part of the technical or engineering solution but did appear eager to be seen as a protector or savior of Mother Earth. Most people probably approved of the things 0bama said and did at the time. But the boot/neck image or metaphor (analogy) he came up with and tossed out there was a bit of a shock. It probably told us more about what made him tick, more about his overall bent toward inhuman cruelty and tyrrany, than about what other people, at the time not yet identified, deserved or did not deserve.
This is admittedly not a perfect hisorical analogue to Coke’s current misbehavior. Not sure, but beginning to think Coke’s cooperation with the heart of darkness is more thoroughgoing than was BP’s. Not that the American President will leap so readily this time, or even at all, to the victim’s defense.
Sometimes the victim needs to lead the charge in its own defense.