Better 15 years late than never:
A United States judge has ruled that lawsuits can go ahead against several companies accused of helping South Africa's apartheid-era government. [...]
The judge disagreed with IBM's argument that it was not the company's place to tell clients how to use its products.
"That level of willful blindness in the face of crimes in violation of the law of nations cannot defeat an otherwise clear showing of knowledge that the assistance IBM provided would directly and substantially support apartheid," she said.
When it's finally their turn Caterpillar won't be able to plead any kind of "blindness", willful or otherwise, since they've got plenty of people documenting exactly what's being done with their equipment and advising them to stop selling it to inveterate human rights abusers like Israel.
I wish this judge would rule as such for all the arms that the uS sells all over the world, as well as guns here? Can you imagine the lawsuits?
Posted by: KDelphi | Thursday, April 09, 2009 at 10:03 PM