Chevron, Total Accused of Human-Rights Abuses in Burma

[JBeukema]

To the list of Big Oil companies with p.r. problems add two more: Chevron and French energy giant Total. In a report published on Monday, the NGO EarthRights International accuses the firms of being implicated in human-rights violations in Burma, claiming that soldiers guarding Chevron and Total's natural-gas pipeline in the country have murdered locals and forced others to do backbreaking, unpaid labor in order to keep the gas exports flowing smoothly. The report also holds that the revenues from the operation have been propping up the country's oppressive military government for more than a decade

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[editec]

Corporate cops.

Is there anything less libertarian than that?

 

[JBeukema]

Corporate cops.

Is there anything less libertarian than that?

So libertarianism is all-for forced labour and human rights violations?

 

[Old Rocks]

It's private enterprise. Has to be good, right?

 

[JiggsCasey]

So libertarianism is all-for forced labour and human rights violations?

Well, this distorted new connish mutation of libertarianism, yes...

The movement has been hijacked by angry conservatives who are all butt-hurt that 8-years of Bush excuse-making had to come to an end.

((This does not mean I support Obama at all))