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	<title>Comments on: The Bottom Line on the Halliburton Rape Cases</title>
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		<title>By: Hank Edson</title>
		<link>http://thedemocraticdaily.com/2007/12/17/the-bottom-line-on-the-halliburton-rape-cases/comment-page-1/#comment-3160</link>
		<dc:creator>Hank Edson</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Dec 2007 01:14:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Harold, please share this article.  I am pleased to have readers who share this perspective!

In response to Darrell&#039;s excellent questions, I would say that we should consider all kinds of creative ways to achieve the goal of holding corporation&#039;s accountable for such conduct, especially ways that require us to pass new laws and new legal mechanisms capable of responding to the evolution of extremely complex global corporate activities.  The points I am trying to make are general, and hopefully will inspire the kind of detailed problem solving Darrell is anticipating.  The first point is that the current situation is unacceptable to a democratic society in which the people have the capacity to make the government protect their right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.  The second point is that these huge corporations have evolved incredible sophistication and it is time for us to evolve a sophistication of our own that will put them back in their place.  The hard part is that creating this sophistication may involve unsettling some pretty well established assumptions about how we do business, including those relating to limitations on risk investors in the stock market enjoy.  I think it is important to think big on this topic, but assume that the task is enormous and beyond my immediate means to propose a specific mechanism for imposing the kind of risk and liability we are talking about.   RICO and civil penalties are good starting points.  I would love to see detailed proposals being put forward, critiqued, and refined.  Thanks Darrell for calling attention to the need for this kind of specific detail.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Harold, please share this article.  I am pleased to have readers who share this perspective!</p>
<p>In response to Darrell&#8217;s excellent questions, I would say that we should consider all kinds of creative ways to achieve the goal of holding corporation&#8217;s accountable for such conduct, especially ways that require us to pass new laws and new legal mechanisms capable of responding to the evolution of extremely complex global corporate activities.  The points I am trying to make are general, and hopefully will inspire the kind of detailed problem solving Darrell is anticipating.  The first point is that the current situation is unacceptable to a democratic society in which the people have the capacity to make the government protect their right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.  The second point is that these huge corporations have evolved incredible sophistication and it is time for us to evolve a sophistication of our own that will put them back in their place.  The hard part is that creating this sophistication may involve unsettling some pretty well established assumptions about how we do business, including those relating to limitations on risk investors in the stock market enjoy.  I think it is important to think big on this topic, but assume that the task is enormous and beyond my immediate means to propose a specific mechanism for imposing the kind of risk and liability we are talking about.   RICO and civil penalties are good starting points.  I would love to see detailed proposals being put forward, critiqued, and refined.  Thanks Darrell for calling attention to the need for this kind of specific detail.</p>
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		<title>By: Darrell Prows</title>
		<link>http://thedemocraticdaily.com/2007/12/17/the-bottom-line-on-the-halliburton-rape-cases/comment-page-1/#comment-2960</link>
		<dc:creator>Darrell Prows</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Dec 2007 15:43:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I like the thought, but am still unclear on the details of accomplishing the remedy. You&#039;re using some language that seems geared towards RICO but I wonder if even a combination of civil and criminal RICO would be potent enough to actually reach the end result you favor. On the other hand, it seems to me like some of the jurisdictional stuff might be made easier this way.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I like the thought, but am still unclear on the details of accomplishing the remedy. You&#8217;re using some language that seems geared towards RICO but I wonder if even a combination of civil and criminal RICO would be potent enough to actually reach the end result you favor. On the other hand, it seems to me like some of the jurisdictional stuff might be made easier this way.</p>
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		<title>By: Harold</title>
		<link>http://thedemocraticdaily.com/2007/12/17/the-bottom-line-on-the-halliburton-rape-cases/comment-page-1/#comment-2921</link>
		<dc:creator>Harold</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Dec 2007 20:40:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hank Edson, may I forward/ share your SUPERB Article please with friends
please? Harold http://tinyurl.com/3az3et</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hank Edson, may I forward/ share your SUPERB Article please with friends<br />
please? Harold <a href="http://tinyurl.com/3az3et" rel="nofollow">http://tinyurl.com/3az3et</a></p>
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