-Caveat Lector-
You know ... I think the issues centre around *what* law has precedence.
Yes, yes, we have a bazzillion laws on the books, dealing with all kinds of
human events, including fraud. That to which I refer is the 'law' that
corporate and other power-mongering types yield to as their primary
motivator. it seems with tobacco and some of the others, it's the
unwritten/unspoken law of the particular culture in which they live that
rules over all else; ordinary law becomes less important, at times a mere
nuisance. So, when there is discussion of 'secret societies' and shadow
groups and the like, it becomes necessary to understand decisions and
policies from that perspective rather than the run-o'da'mill John/Jane Q.
Citizen, who, although as real as any other person, becomes an abstraction,
a statistic, an indicator or a proof of the (I need a name here)(inanh ?),
okay - of the inanh's 'law' (motivation). Sales are up, therefore, the
product is good; polls are down, therefore, the policies need adjusting.
It becomes not a matter of the law of the land or the good of the people --
as generally or universally applied; rather, it becomes the law, the good
of the tiny little group. Not satisfying THAT group constitutes "breaking
the law".
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The only real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking
new landscapes but in having new eyes. -Marcel Proust
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: From: E Mael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
: To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
: Subject: [CTRL] Fwd: *Corporate* Perjury and Obstruction of Justice
: Date: Thursday, February 11, 1999 1:42 PM
:
: -Caveat Lector-
:
: Hear ye, hear ye, hear ye.
:
: Today we hear the case of corporate perjury, corporate fraud and
corporate
: obstruction of justice.
:
: Members of the Senate, let us turn to exhibit one: the 1994 transcripts
of
: tobacco industry executives' testimony before a House of Representatives
: committee.
:
: Having raised their right hands and swore to tell the truth, the whole
: truth and nothing but the truth, so help them God, each then testified
: under oath that nicotine was not addictive. That was a blatant lie under
: oath -- albeit one less serious than the industry's decades-long
: conspiracy to lie to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and other
: federal and state agencies about cigarettes' health effects and
: addictiveness. These are lies with severe consequences: hundreds of
: thousands die from smoking-related disease every year.
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