Green Change Wants Delaware to Revoke BP’s Corporate Charter

[Karmadillo]

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/06/25-0
by Russell Mokhiber
Published on Friday, June 25, 2010 by Corporate Crime Reporter

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But a group called Green Change is calling for the corporate death penalty.

It is calling on the state of Delaware to revoke BP's corporate charter.

"BP deserves the corporate death penalty," Green Change co-founder Gary Ruskin told Corporate Crime Reporter last week. " BP America Inc. does not have a God given right to perpetually violate our laws with near impunity."

"Look at BP's record. The Gulf of Mexico catastrophe. Three environmental crimes, one deferred prosecution agreement, and a very long string of big fines and other wrongdoing."

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Why is there such strong support in America for the death penalty for individuals -- but we rarely hear about the death penalty for corporations?

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"When you add it all up, our elected officials act like the most permissive kindergarten teacher in the world, when it comes to punishing corporate crime and violence."

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