TRUE AND SCARY: Donny Rico & Chevron make it a crime to defend the environment (cartoon)

[CHOCOLATMIMOSA]

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The growing appeal of the RICO suit to Corporations fighting environmentalists and consumer protection.
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"Amazon Watch teams up with Pulitzer Prize winner Mark Fiore once again!

To draw attention to Chevron's threat to open society and freedom of speech Amazon Watch presents "Donny Rico". The satirical look at Chevron's actions highlights the serious threat to all environmental and human rights activism if the tactics Chevron has employed are replicated by other corporate actors. A grassroots campaign has already been launched by the Sierra Club and Amazon Watch asking members of the US Senate to investigate and put a stop to Chevron's vilification of the environmental and human rights community.

Chevron's tactics to avoid responsibility for its admitted acts of environmental destruction in the Ecuadorian Amazon have been unprecedented. Despite losing a 20 year legal battle and receiving a $9.5 billion judgment against it, Chevron says it will never pay. Not satisfied with role as corporate criminal on the run, Chevron launched an extraordinary racketeering and extortion lawsuit against the Ecuadorian and U.S. attorneys, and various consultants alleging they were all lying about Chevron's pollution and that the entire case was "sham litigation."

Chevron's actions set a dangerous precedent and represent a growing and serious threat to the ability of civil society to hold corporations accountable for their misdeeds around the world. Now a wide cross-section of U.S.-based environmental and corporate governance groups have condemned Chevron's most recent retaliatory attacks to intimidate the Ecuadorian indigenous peoples and farmers who have been harmed by the oil giant's massive contamination of their ancestral lands."

[savannah43]

1. If RICO is only a US law, how can it be used to prosecute citizens and corporations

of another country in their own country? Chevron, you have made one of the most ridiculous claims in history. And on top of that, you refuse to pay a court ordered judgment? Hubris--it kills. I will thoroughly enjoy watching the demise of your greedy, filthy, polluting corporation. Good-bye and good riddance.
However, TPP must be stopped or this outrage will become not just possible, but the law of the world. Corporations will run everything, and ruin everything.

[happyslug]

4. Equador has transferred to Judgement to the US in an effort to collect on it

Chevron does NOT have enough assets in Ecuador to satisfy the Judgment, thus Ecuador had to transfer the Judgement to the US for collection. That brings the action subject to US Laws which includes RICO.

[cprise]

2. K&R

[pam4water]

3. Brilliant!

I've been following the story on Democracy Now for years, but putting all the slap suits together at ounce really bring it in to prospective.