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Judi Lynn (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-22-07 03:08 PM Original message |
U.S. bending rules on Colombia terror? |
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Kagemusha (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-22-07 04:00 PM Response to Original message |
1. According to those rules, paying ransom is material support. |
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Judi Lynn (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-22-07 04:04 PM Response to Reply #1 |
2. Quite a leap between good Iraqis & multinational officials paying death squads to kill union workers |
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Kagemusha (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-22-07 06:02 PM Response to Reply #2 |
3. There's ransom money, there's protection money, and there's assassin money. |
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struggle4progress (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-22-07 08:41 PM Response to Reply #3 |
9. USW links Colombian assassins with American companies payrolls -- testifies before Congress |
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struggle4progress (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-22-07 08:54 PM Response to Reply #3 |
10. You never seem to provide any evidence for claims. Here you are again, |
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Kagemusha (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-22-07 10:08 PM Response to Reply #10 |
11. You really do not need to bludgeon me to death like a baby seal. |
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struggle4progress (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-22-07 10:46 PM Response to Reply #11 |
12. I merely provided a few links. You still provide none. |
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Kagemusha (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-22-07 11:00 PM Response to Reply #12 |
13. This is a message board. It is for discussion, not trials. |
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struggle4progress (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-23-07 12:34 AM Response to Reply #13 |
14. Opinion informed by facts is nicer than mere opinion. And yet, for some reason, |
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Kagemusha (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-23-07 09:17 AM Response to Reply #14 |
17. I never said any such thing. |
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struggle4progress (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-22-07 07:58 PM Response to Reply #1 |
4. Relatives of Colombia Death Squad Victims Sue U.S.-Based Fruit Giant Chiquita |
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struggle4progress (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-22-07 07:59 PM Response to Reply #1 |
5. Colombia probes US firms' financing of death squads |
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Judi Lynn (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-23-07 02:31 AM Response to Reply #5 |
15. Nothing could be clearer, from the country's chief federal prosecutor, Mario Iguaran. |
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struggle4progress (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-22-07 08:04 PM Response to Reply #1 |
6. Colombian warlord says US firms paid death squads for bananas |
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Judi Lynn (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-23-07 02:40 AM Response to Reply #6 |
16. Here's more on Salvatore Mancuso, written earlier this year: |
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struggle4progress (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-22-07 08:08 PM Response to Reply #1 |
7. Drummond's Colombia rights trial begins in Alabama |
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struggle4progress (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-22-07 08:21 PM Response to Reply #1 |
8. We've gone around on your "ransom" claim before: it seems unsupported by facts |
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Judi Lynn (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-23-07 01:24 PM Response to Original message |
18. Colombian Free Trade Pact Shot Down |
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Judi Lynn (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-23-07 03:51 PM Response to Original message |
19. The latest evidence that ties Colombia’s President to the paramilitaries |
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Judi Lynn (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-23-07 07:29 PM Response to Original message |
20. Right-wing President's paramilitaries had a free hand in the last election! |
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struggle4progress (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-23-07 11:16 PM Response to Reply #20 |
21. Congressional Testimony on Violence against Trade Unionists and Human Rights in Colombia |
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Judi Lynn (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-24-07 12:31 AM Response to Reply #21 |
22. Oh, my God! Nearly swallowed my tongue reading this part of your link.... |
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Judi Lynn (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-24-07 08:58 AM Response to Original message |
23. CHIQUITA BRANDS INQUIRY:Details of Colombia payoffs, U.S. plea agreement sought |
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SpikeTss (308 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-24-07 08:58 AM Response to Reply #23 |
24. But this is NOT support of terrorism |
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gratuitous (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-24-07 08:58 AM Response to Reply #24 |
28. Right - it's only terrorism if you torch an SUV |
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Kolesar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-24-07 08:58 AM Response to Reply #23 |
25. IIRC, the United Fruit Company became Chiquita |
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dipsydoodle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-24-07 08:58 AM Response to Reply #25 |
26. Whole sordid history of bananas is here |
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Kolesar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-24-07 08:58 AM Response to Reply #26 |
27. Elsa Miranda (no relation to Carmen) was the most famous Miss Chiquita |
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mod mom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-24-07 08:58 AM Response to Reply #26 |
29. another gem-Zapata Corp: |
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Jeff In Milwaukee (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-24-07 09:25 AM Response to Reply #26 |
30. Follow this link... |
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dipsydoodle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-24-07 10:01 AM Response to Reply #30 |
31. A real gem |
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redqueen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-24-07 10:34 AM Response to Original message |
32. Not the first time... |
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Judi Lynn (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-25-07 11:46 AM Response to Original message |
33. Justice under fire for stance on corporations in Colombia |
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