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BuzzFlash Editor's Blog: Bush Lets Enablers of Terrorism Go Free, As Long as They are GOP Corporations. The Case of Chiquita.
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We haven't finished with Judges David Sentelle and Laurence Silberman and how these Federalist Society, partisan hacks sitting on the D.C. Appellate Court have often had more influence on the direction of our government than Congress as they act as rubber stamp judicial bench advocates for the GOP. We'll be wrapping up our first series on the BuzzFlash editor's blog next week.
But we came across a story that we've posted on BuzzFlash at least a couple of times that we just had to comment on, how the Bush adminsitration gives you a pass if you are a corporate enabler of terrorists.
Read on.
November 18, 2007
On November 14th, we posted a CNN news article on BuzzFlash with the headline, "Colombian families' suit says Chiquita liable for torture, murder." In the CNN bullet points about the article, you can read, "Chiquita admits paying a group that the U.S. labeled a terrorist organization."
In fact, Chiquita struck a deal with the Bush Administration earlier this year that it would plead guilty to directly paying a terrorist organization, allegedly for the "protection" of its banana fields in Colombia. Naturally, the Bush White House let Chiquita, a member in good standing of the Republican corporate cartel, off with a slap on the wrist. They fined them $25 million, pocket change to Chiquita..........................