No ifs, no buts - corporate crime is completely fine!
Penny Crayon | 15.12.2006 03:12 | Analysis | Anti-militarism | South Coast
A major criminal investigation into alleged corruption by arms dealer BAE Systems was halted yesterday when Tony Blair claimed it would endanger Britain's "national security" if the inquiry went any further.
No ifs, no buts - unless Blair says so.
Of course, that might not be true, but now we'll never find out.
Corporate crime must be so much easier with the head of state on hand to veto any investigation into (alleged) trails of brown envelopes used to secure arms deals.
Still, we should thank BAE and the Saudi Embassy for their concern for public coffers. Since they're squeaky clean, they obviously only relentlessly lobbied the government to stop the investigation because it was a needless waste of several million pounds of taxpayers' money. How nice of them!
If you ever needed any proof that the state is complicit in corporate corruption and dodgy deals - especially those involving weapons and control of oil - look no further.
(Image shamelessly plagiarised and hacked together with a massive cap-doff for inspiration to Rough Music
http://www.roughmusic.org.uk/ and other guilty persons who know who they are, as well as the bastards at the DWP.)
See also:
http://www.caat.org.uk/press/recent.php?url=141206prs
http://www.guardian.co.uk/armstrade/story/0,,1972749,00.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/6180945.stm
Corporate crime must be so much easier with the head of state on hand to veto any investigation into (alleged) trails of brown envelopes used to secure arms deals.
Still, we should thank BAE and the Saudi Embassy for their concern for public coffers. Since they're squeaky clean, they obviously only relentlessly lobbied the government to stop the investigation because it was a needless waste of several million pounds of taxpayers' money. How nice of them!
If you ever needed any proof that the state is complicit in corporate corruption and dodgy deals - especially those involving weapons and control of oil - look no further.
(Image shamelessly plagiarised and hacked together with a massive cap-doff for inspiration to Rough Music
http://www.roughmusic.org.uk/ and other guilty persons who know who they are, as well as the bastards at the DWP.) See also:
http://www.caat.org.uk/press/recent.php?url=141206prs http://www.guardian.co.uk/armstrade/story/0,,1972749,00.html http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/6180945.stm
Penny Crayon
Homepage:
http://www.baesystems.com/state-sanctioned-corruption
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