What a lovely world. We have corporations participating in government repression for cash. We have the E.U. capitulating to violent blackmail and agreeing to let the Islamo Fascists edit their no longer free press. And we have Don Kofi trying to consolidate his power and the left are his back up singers because of their dream of the end of the nation state(translation- the dictatorship of the self appointed Davos elite). Ten years ago I would have scoffed at this scenario but I’m afarid there are too many people who have bought into this con game

I worked in Import/Export for ten years and it was constant in the industry that international business was a priveledge – granted at the pleasure of the US government – not a right. If companies are operating overseas in ways that are contrary to US procedure, laws, policy, whatever, the govt. has every right to shut them down. (I know that the Mulinational Corporation is one of the left’s favorite monsters, but it is a monster mostly in their mind – but that’s a story for a rainy day and finally, here in Seattle, the sun is out.)

Google’s recent actions in China are reprehensible – especially for a company specializing in mass communications, founded and nutured in freedom, agreeing to state censorship: how repulsive.

I expected more from Google. It’s really a shame.

But if we can’t force them to put human rights above the dollar then we can certainly shame them for their failure to consider dignity and democracy over dictatorships and dollars.

If it Google vs. China google will win because Google can play the human rights card while China can only dangle cash in front of Google and hope Google will choose the dollar over the dream.

Its sad to see Google refuse to submit to US govt demands for information but Google will filter search results to get into the Chinese market. All their talk about how SOME GOOGLE is better for Chinese democracy than NO GOOGLE is all just a lame justification for their shameful actions. Everyone knows that.

But if some law is to be written whereby US companies cannot enable foreign suppression of human rights that the US considers inalienable then what effect will this law have on US oil companies overseas, among other companies?

I say screw the corporations and let human rights trump the dollar all the way to the democracy bank! we might take a hit for a while, and countries which WILL put the dollar first might capitalize on our reluctance to help these dictators, but we will will in the long haul because we will be on the RIGHT SIDE.