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- kemp34, on 08/28/2008, -7/+317Halliburton needs to be shut down.
- AmazingA, on 08/28/2008, -3/+182Something tells me this is only the tip of the iceberg. If KBR had a system in place to abduct and transport these men, then I'll bet they're using all kinds of slave labor.
- JoeParanoid, on 08/28/2008, -5/+109It's about time. Remember when Bush talked about stopping human trafficking in his State of the Union speech a few years back (no, not the human animal hybrids)? Ironic considering we currently have the largest operation in the world.
- inactive, on 08/28/2008, -4/+99Any of you remember when Cynthia McKinney chewed Rumsfeld's ass over human trafficing of young girls for sex work by one of our military contractors (bought tears to my eyes)? Is this the same company?
- sk11, on 08/28/2008, -3/+98"This spring, a judge at the Department of Labor ordered KBR's contractor, Daoud, to pay $1 million to the families of 11 of the victims."
That's pathetic, $1M is chicken feed for such companies! People get tougher fines for sharing music online. - dreamtiger, on 08/28/2008, -6/+90And their management needs to be jailed.
- chrissku, on 08/28/2008, -2/+75Halliburton...hey isn't that the company that owns the White House?
- sdocpublishing, on 08/28/2008, -4/+62The media brushed it aside when it was proven that Haliburton has been trafficking women and children as sex slaves throughout Europe and Asia.
Why do 12 men from Nepal make the news?
Haliburton is friends of the Bush admin, so maybe they get a few fines, but that is all.
Halirburton's senior staff and every field employee involved in sex and slave trafficking needs to be in jail, permanently. - GonzoLegend, on 08/28/2008, -1/+48Yeah remember it GWBE.
- Here is the McKinney clip grilling Rumsfeld about Dyncorp and Halliburton.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eootfzAhAoU - inactive, on 08/28/2008, -3/+46Pardons already signed.
- inactive, on 08/28/2008, -2/+28***** amazing... I don't know which I am more. Baffled or Disgusted.
- mr0nine2five, on 08/28/2008, -0/+25rAmen.
Between this ***** and the Jamie Leigh Jones case, I'm surpised the company is still in business. Must be nice to have friends in really high places.... - rmxz, on 08/28/2008, -1/+25And it's not just Dyncorp and Halliburton and KBR.
Titan, another big contractor there's apparently involved in prostitution scandals in Iraq as well:
http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=11590 - malex, on 08/28/2008, -4/+27I sure hope so. Don't you?
- JBmtk, on 08/28/2008, -4/+22I watched this on StarZ or somethin or other a few days ago and it really reinforced that fact that the current administration, especially Dick Cheney should be held responsible for the deaths and mistreatment and financial damages Halliburton and other contractors have caused.
http://iraqforsale.org/
Halliburton
CACI
KBR
TITAN
-all should be out of business and held responsible!
http://digg.com/movies/Iraq_For_Sale?OTC-kff digg it - jmpeagle, on 08/28/2008, -4/+22well considering they moved their HQ to Dubai, jurisdictional issues are going to interfere and assumming they are guilty, I doubt they will recieve any real punishment.
- inchrnt, on 08/28/2008, -1/+18Yeah, it's really "fun" to read stories about human trafficking.
There are more important things in this world than your imaginary war with "dopey liberals." Get a ***** clue. - GutterBall1200, on 08/28/2008, -3/+19No surprise. http://thinkprogress.org/2007/07/26/slave-labor-us ...
- inactive, on 08/28/2008, -1/+17Do they mean 1 million to each family? or 1 million total? Either way, this is a mediocre punishment. Almost like a slap on the wrist.
- VitriolAndAngst, on 08/28/2008, -1/+16People who would do this in another country would do this here if given the opportunity. When you consider the Republicans who have supported Haliburton during the Bush administration, and perhaps some of the Dems, it should be a chilling reminder that the Elite, really don't give a crap about anybody but the other members of their country clubs.
If they could do it here, the stock market would shoot up, Wallstreet news organizations would laud the "economic brilliance" of the program. Stern Law & Order Republicans, would of course, look at the many reasons why this was a deserved punishment for whatever transgression.
It all depends on how it was sold to us. As long as WE DON'T THINK IT CAN HAPPEN TO US, we will allow whatever it takes to make our lives better -- that's the sad truth.
America never ended slavery -- we just exported it. But, as we hollow out America and run out of things to export to keep the elite in the lifestyle that they enjoy, it might not be an offshored offense soon. Haliburton has just cut out the middle man. In some countries, they don't need to force people into these tasks -- because you either do them or you starve. They only have to enforce it in Iraq, because these people can run away and live better. - inactive, on 08/29/2008, -1/+16Former? Dick Cheney is a Halliburton CEO pretending to be our Vice President.
- Hrodrik, on 08/28/2008, -2/+17WTF? Halliburton is corrupt? No ***** way!
- Intercon, on 08/28/2008, -1/+16Your idiotic comments do nothing to raise the level of political discourse in this country, jackass. Official ties betwen KBR and Halliburton were severed in April of 2007. The alleged incident occurred before that separation. You obviously have the reading comprehension level of a fourth grader, but maybe you can comprehend this:
Shut the ***** Up! - smek2, on 08/28/2008, -2/+15Just a reminder: that's not just any private company. That's the one whose ex CEO is the current Vice President, a company which got contracts in advance, before the Iraq war even started and whose profits skyrocket (along with the current Vice Presidents shares) while the situation went out of control, claiming the lives of 4000+ US soldiers and that of many more Iraqis.
I'm just sayin' - sk11, on 08/28/2008, -2/+15But, but forced labour helps the economy. Besides, our slaves would be better treated than the others.
/John Yoo - smek2, on 08/28/2008, -2/+15"You are an old man who thinks in terms of nations and peoples. There are no nations. There are no peoples. There are no Russians. There are no Arabs. There are no third worlds. There is no West. There is only one holistic system of systems, one vast and immane, interwoven, interacting, multivariate, multinational dominion of dollars. It is the international system of currency which determines the totality of life on this planet. That is the natural order of things today. There is no America. There is no democracy. There is only IBM, and ITT, and AT&T, and DuPont, Dow, Union Carbide, and Exxon. Those are the nations of the world today. We no longer live in a world of nations and ideologies, Mr. Beale. The world is a college of corporations, inexorably determined by the immutable bylaws of business. The world is a business"
From the movie Network - inactive, on 08/28/2008, -8/+20... of course anyone in the Bush administration (and any republican) does not consider non-AmeriRightTards to be human beings. Certainly to them, Nepalese fall under the 'human animal hybrid' category. I await John Yoo's stunning legal defense!
- chase001, on 08/28/2008, -1/+13Including the former ones in the White House waiting on the "deferred payments" when they leave office. Vice President Penguin made it all possible.
- BeforeCalvin, on 08/28/2008, -0/+12I'm not really all that surprised.
Haliburton is pretty much THAT company that gets a free ride just because it has enough money to put people they can control into office or put people in office into their pockets.
It disgusts me how much these companies can get away with. - Ne007, on 08/28/2008, -2/+13Justice will be served.
NOT - inactive, on 08/28/2008, -3/+14They need to rot in prison.
- pintomp3, on 08/28/2008, -7/+18the free market at work.
- inactive, on 08/28/2008, -0/+10THANKS!!
- Siouxcourtesan, on 08/28/2008, -2/+12I have a feeling that when we finally get the full story of what happened in the White House from 2000-2008, we're going to be really horrified.
We need to get the whole story, so we can dole out justice to those responsible and ensure that America starts holding to its own principles in the future. What an embarrassment all this is. - SilverBlade2k, on 08/28/2008, -1/+11This isn't a surprise to me. Halliburton pretty much is Satan's army at this point..
- Kamacurus, on 08/28/2008, -11/+19I see Bush in jail in the next 2 years... wheres batman when you need him?
- ironhide, on 08/28/2008, -1/+10Where does the buck stop? Ever hear of plausible deniability?
- inactive, on 08/28/2008, -4/+13So are you a real republican or you just play one on digg?
- ashwinmudigonda, on 08/28/2008, -1/+10I think we should wait for the Chimp and his henchmen to get out and then bring a bevy of watertight lawsuits, put them through months of anguish about whether or not they will be arrested, then arrest them, and force them into jail. If any Democrat cowers at this thought and dismisses it as "politicking" or "political witch hunt", please then, let us invade the whole world, conquer it, and retire in peace 8 years later and hope that the Republicans will repay the favor.
Justice needs to be ***** served. Even one Nepali life is not inconsequential. This is not politicking, this is abiding by the rules of society or getting the ***** out. - theskyisblue, on 08/28/2008, -2/+11wouldn't expect anything less from Cheney
- zip000, on 08/28/2008, -1/+9I've worked in a public library for the past several years, and I helped dozens of people (probably 50-60, I'd guess) register for employment through KBR. Most of these people were completely computer illiterate - if not actually illiterate; I felt very sorry for them that they were at a place where going into a war zone seemed like an acceptable risk. It's true though that there were jobs that weren't actually in Iraq or Afghanistan, but most of them were.
Of course the people that I'm talking about weren't slave labor - no one forced them to go, though economic conditions may have made it seem like the best option for them. - sockpuppets, on 08/28/2008, -1/+9If by jail you mean his ranch, then yes. I hate the guy but you can guarantee he's got his escape plan cemented. Hell, he'll probably pardon himself on the way out.
- DonQueso, on 08/28/2008, -1/+9spell check? what would that do? know that he meant "will" and not "well".
- btschul, on 08/28/2008, -0/+8Not when the VP of the USA is associated with the company.
- normlsparky, on 08/28/2008, -1/+9so as a die hard ass kissing republican, do you support the practice of human trafficking? i was just wondering, since you avoid the issue completely.
- jennagen, on 08/29/2008, -0/+8almost a slap on the wrist?!
always a slap on the wrist - DyceFreak, on 08/28/2008, -1/+8lets not forget Diebold :P
- inactive, on 08/28/2008, -4/+10That was rhetorical question. If I wanted pile of ***** shoved at me I would listen to John McCain’s speeches.
- billessig, on 08/28/2008, -2/+8Your lack of concern for the well-being of your fellow human disgusts me.
Does this bother any one else?
EDIT: Oh, yes, and learn how to spell, *****. - inactive, on 08/28/2008, -0/+6Subsidiary does not equal Contractor
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