The Enron Corporation: Corporate Complicity in Human Rights Violations

Human Rights Watch ^ | 1999 | HRW staff

[RightOnline]

The salient points, IMO, in bold.

Here are my key points.

This article was written in 1999. You see the time frames of the above stated in the article.

Now..........quiz time. Who was President of the United States from 1992 through 1999? What do we know about that President..........specifically his willingness to go to bat for large donors ("direct" or "indirect" donors, I hasten to add; everyone here knows the difference when it comes to the Clinton administration)? Is there any doubt that HUGE pressure was put on the Indian authorities by the Clinton administration on behalf of Enron?

Anyone here care to guess what Clinton may have gotten in return for such pressure?

Whatever Enron spent to get this done, it worked. They got their mega-project.

I just thought it fair to show this in light of all the chest-thumping in the major liberal media about Bush, his administration, and Enron.

Your comments welcome.

[RightOnline]

Bumping for those who believe that the Democrats (who controlled the White House during these years) were far more up to their eyeballs with Enron than the media would like to discuss..............or even look for.

[Shermy]

Just type -maharashtra enron- in to a search engine and you get a minefield of info. Clinton involved, Bush admins. too. Lots of dirt all around. Here's an article from the Hindustan Times dated Jan. 13, 2001 showing Indian interest in following American politics re: Enron How Enron energised Bush’s campaign

BTW, looking at Singapore, Aussie, etc. newspapers the Anderson angle is big and followed closely. AA has branches anywhere, and the articles tend to the question whether AA can be trusted. Very bad PR for that business.

[AM2000]

The Enron Saga- from rediff.com, an Indian portal.. it comes with a timeline, and concentrates on Enron vis a vis India..

[RightOnline]

Note that this article is specifically focusing on 1992 through 1999. I have yet to research what happened before or after that time frame............but if the Clintonites want us to believe they're lily white in Enron doin's, they're in for a shock.

[RightOnline]

Whaddya think? Zip evidence of quid pro quo here? Too much of a reach?

[MJY1288]

We will be uncovering Clinton's corruption for the next 20 years. Who would of guessed the Lippo Group would be mixed up in this ENRON gift to Clinton's party

[RightOnline]

Ping-a-roo.

[RightOnline]

Heads up.

[RightOnline]

Heads up.

[BluesDuke]

Bumping for those who believe that the Democrats (who controlled the White House during these years) were far more up to their eyeballs with Enron than the media would like to discuss..............or even look for.

Enron did contribute to both political parties as the moments suited them. And, to their credit, those in the Bush White House whom were contacted regarding the pending Enron mess were more or less politely told not to let the door hit them on the butt on the way out. If you look carefully enough, you will see a tiny handful of The Media's otherwise trained parrots acknowledging as much. And if (big "if") that should begin to gather a little running power, be not surprised if in due course Enron proves even more of a tarnish upon the Clinton era. (Though considering all the tarnish already on that era, it might be difficult to pinpoint Enron's smudges...)

[RightOnline]

Excellent link; I appreciate that. Have you seen anything about this in the "mainstream" media? Darned sure I haven't.

[Dog Gone]

Oh, there's no question that Clinton went to bat for Enron. It would be absurd to claim otherwise. The facts are irrefutable.

But I'm a little bit of a contrarian on these threads. While I certainly recognize the hypocrisy of the Democrats trying to find a Republican connection in helping out Enron, I don't think that most of the things the Clinton Administration did on behalf of Enron were wrong.

Promoting American business and getting them footholds in foreign markets is a good thing. Sometimes it takes government pressure to make that happen, but if the final result is that an American business has beat out a French business, that is something to be happy about.

Now, some of the things that the Clinton Administration did for Enron look a little too cozy and may not have been in America's long-term interests. And there is no excuse for that, although it fits in with a lot of what Clinton did for fatcat contributors. He sold out American security on the Loral deal with China, for example.

But, the Administration ought to do some things for American businesses, whether or not they were political contributors. It's good for America.

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the heads up!

[RightOnline]

Believe it or not.............I agree with you completely. My point is this: The media are going way out of their way to paint a picture of Enron - Bush coziness because they supported him. Period. No evidence of quid pro quo. Zip. Nada. Here, we have direct evidence that the Clinton administration put tremendous pressure on Indian officials (if you follow the link that MJY1288 put up in reply #7, you'll see that this was ONLY after they had contributed a HUGE chunk of cash) to allow this project. Many may argue that "that's just the way things get done"; that may be. BUT.............isn't it convenient that the press ignores this, something this big, smack in front of their faces, while trying to pin something on Bush that they're fabricating out of whole cloth?

P.S. I'm not surprised, by the way..........

[Dog Gone]

I don't have a link for you, but the Clinton Administration was even more blatant in squeezing Mozambique for Enron in exchange for more contributions. The Clinton Administration, I'm convinced, didn't do this for America; they did it for political donations.

And, sure, the press is totally hypocritical in not reporting this, which surpises none of us here. The press isn't interested in the truth. They are interested in gotcha politics, and Clinton doesn't interest them anymore.

Eventually, the Republicans will get the truth out about this, but they're having a hard time getting the media out of its current frenzy. The GOP can't yell that corporate money corrupts everyone, because it didn't corrupt the Republicans. Plus, they don't want to play into McCain's hands and his unconstitutional campaign finance reform.

The Republicans have time on their side here, because there is obviously no smoking gun, and the frenzy will stop once people realize it. Fortunately, the elections weren't last week.

[MJY1288]

I will bet my last dollar that the RATS will regret this smear campaign, they got the press behind them so they could demagogue this ENRON deal, but I wonder if they realized this would become a full scale DOJ investigation?

Now we all have complained that President Bush was not aggressively going after Clinton. I kinda understood why he did'nt want to, to start off his presidency with a Bush ordered investigation on Clinton it would of been a big mistake.

But now we have an investigation being conducted because of democrats claiming illegal and unethical ties to ENRON by the Bush Administration, NO ONE can claim Bush asked for this investigation by the DOJ. The DOJ is bound by law to thoroughly investigate this matter and is required to persue any and all illegal activities without prejudice.

This is where the RATS have screwed up bigtime, now that the DOJ is working with a fresh case that will not have the appearence of re-opening a Ken Starr investigation, IT'S OPEN SEASON to expose all of Clinton's corrupt dealings with the Department of Energy, Department of Commerce, Deparment of Treasury, and the DOJ.

Now lets play connect the dots between the above Departments of Government and these Clinton's Cabinet: 1)John Haung, 2)Ron Brown, 3)Robert Rubin, 4)Mark McCarty, 5)Bill Lam Lee, 6) Mickey Cantor, 7)The Lippo Group, and #8)"The Orchestrator" Bill Clinton.

Message to the RATS: Be careful what you wish for

[MJY1288]

Here is a brand new post that explains what I just said but a lot better Dem's picked the wrong fight

[Chapita]

I am a but skeptical when it comes to HRW!