tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7657367.post3779365692334889365..comments2024-03-28T02:13:53.054-05:00Comments on <img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v701/Attaturk/fez.png"> Rising Hegemon : Get this to the Supreme Court Stat!Attaturkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08511961896699190171noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7657367.post-1316124809476316462013-09-23T14:29:12.036-05:002013-09-23T14:29:12.036-05:00chiquita isn't dead yet?chiquita isn't dead yet?pansypoohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06164502315120164024noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7657367.post-74475061470615947352013-09-23T14:23:14.233-05:002013-09-23T14:23:14.233-05:00Hasn't Chiquita suffered enough? They paid the...Hasn't Chiquita suffered enough? They paid their mercenaries $1.7 million, and a $25 million fine, and they were, like, blackmailed and stuff. Now they gotta answer to their victims and their survivors? When does it end? How long, O Lord?<br /><br />This is starting to look like a bad business move, and we all know what that means: Bailout! Buy your Chiquita stock today.gratuitousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7657367.post-74336532106811719702013-09-23T13:38:48.035-05:002013-09-23T13:38:48.035-05:00Doesn't everyone get off with paying a trivial...Doesn't everyone get off with paying a trivial fine when convicted of supporting terrorists? What happened to being shipped to Guantanamo or Supermax for life and having all their assets confiscated?<br /><br />So "corporations are people" but they get slap-on-the-wrist treatment not avilable to actual humans.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7657367.post-24084274463651181612013-09-23T09:35:26.603-05:002013-09-23T09:35:26.603-05:00Chiquita was once known as United Fruit, which has...Chiquita was once known as United Fruit, which has a long, long history of special pleadings to the government for favors. IIRC, it was United Fruit's Sam "The Banana Man" Zemurray that asked his old friend, John Foster Dulles (a stockholder in United Fruit), to do something about that upstart Arbenz in Guatemala that was costing him money. John Foster sent Henry Cabot Lodge to threaten Arbenz, and when that failed, John Foster reported to Eisenhower and the National Security Council that Arbenz was a communist, and that assertion (although patently untrue) was all it took to get Eisenhower to approve a coup, which Allen Dulles (another United Fruit stockholder) happily mounted.<br /><br />The mafia has nothing on American business when it comes to getting its way, especially in the third world. I'm sure the Black Hand in the current court will accommodate. Montaghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03531503205815503135noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7657367.post-2332458246344442932013-09-23T09:03:32.453-05:002013-09-23T09:03:32.453-05:00corporations are not people???corporations are not people???kingweasilhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16741238756192304503noreply@blogger.com