If Halliburton gets to move the company's money & papers to Dubai .....

[Botany]

.... Would it not be like letting Bonnie & Clyde go to Mexico with
the banks that they robbed having to send them money every
month?




When is enough, enough?

[RB TexLa]

1. They can put their money or any papers they want where ever they want

as can anyone or any company.

[JDPriestly]

3. That is true.

Companies can do what they want. So can the American people. If Halliburton moves to Dubai, we can fire Halliburton and not give it no-bid contracts. Surely we can rescind the no-bid contracts if they can move.

[RB TexLa]

4. They already have employees in UAE, they are moving more there

including some officers. IBM has employees there, so do many companies, cancel their contracts too?

[JDPriestly]

7. The Halliburton move is a watershed.

It highlights the conflict between continuining to exist as a sovereign nation with our own government and subordinating our national interests to "free trade" or "world trade." What governs, our local and national laws and regulations or the international interests of the international corporations? Halliburton is escaping American law. An American corporation can have employees all over the world and still keep its headquarters, processes and documents in the U.S. and pay American taxes. Halliburton is announcing that it is not keeping its headquarters in the U.S. The processes and documents will follow. Just wait and see.

Halliburton will go through the motions of paying taxes and answering to our law for a while and gradually loose itself from American oversight. The move to Dubai is just the first step.

Halliburton is so closely linked to our military power that its move to Dubai is virtually a transfer of control of the day-to-day support systems for our military to Dubai. In time, our military will just be mercenaries for foreign interests (if it isn't already). We no longer have a people's army. A people's army was the foundation of our country.

[Erika]

2. You have to understand that W and his oil friends

could care less about Americans. W was made corporate globalist king. Period. It's all about profits.

[Gato Moteado]

5. actually, they couldn't care less

nt

[Dover]

6. Hey, their life of crime began years ago. Remember this story?

ABOUT HALLIBURTON

Iran


"If these companies are going through the back door to invest in terrorist nations, Congress must take action to immediately close, lock and seal those doors," Senator Max Baucus (D-MT) the ranking Democrat on the Senate Finance Committee said in February 2004.1

As investigators from 60 Minutes discovered, Halliburton has used an offshore subsidiary incorporated in the Cayman Islands (where the company has no oil and gas construction or engineering operations) to trade with Iran, a country that the Bush administration has described as part of an "axis of evil, arming to threaten the peace of the world."2

Federal law disallows American companies from transacting business with nations that sponsor terrorism, but foreign subsidiaries of such companies are not banned from such transactions. In May 2004, the U.S. Senate voted against legislation that would have stopped companies like Halliburton from using offshore subsidiaries to invest in Iran. The legislation was defeated in a 50-49 vote, mostly along party lines.

As CEO of Halliburton, Mr. Cheney lobbied the Clinton administration to ease sanctions on Libya and Iran, according to various news reports. "I think we'd be better off if we, in fact, backed off those sanctions , didn't try to impose secondary boycotts on companies .. trying to do business there," Cheney told an Australian television interviewer in April 1998...>

http://www.halliburtonwatch.org/about_hal/iran.html