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What if the Administration asked a company to go kill somebody in the name of fighting terrorism, somebody gets killed, but the company is exonerated? These Ame
by jksmith 18y ago
What if the Administration asked a company to go kill somebody in the name of fighting terrorism, somebody gets killed, but the company is exonerated? These American companies (incl ATT) had every right to refuse to support this, and could have chosen to do so, just as Qwest did. But ATT chose to cooperate, just because the Admin asked them to. So now we cut them a break by not allowing a lawsuit by American citizens to be filed?
That's the problem with all this stuff. The government compromises everything it touches to the point that bailouts overrule justice.
All this debacle will repeat itself, and next time it will be a little bit worse, and the circumstances get a little bit more ridiculous. But we American citizens will keep adjusting to it, because we become a little bit more compromised along the way.
This is wrong, and should be treated as such no matter what the consequences to any company.
- mattmaroon 18y agoIt's not the corporations' responsibility to police our government, it's ours. We should be impeaching Bush and various members of his administration undoubtedly for issuing the requests. But you just cannot have an orderly society in which corporations are expected to pick and choose which laws and governmental agency requests they are going to follow and which they are not.
- jamesbritt 18y ago"But you just cannot have an orderly society in which corporations are expected to pick and choose which laws and governmental agency requests they are going to follow and which they are not." Court orders and subpoenas. No need for arbitrary picking and choosing. And, really, in the end, I would hope that something was learned from Nuremberg.