BAD BEHAVIOUR

We are all supposed to know what bad behaviour is. Things we shouldn’t do are drummed into us from a very young age, at home and at school.

Curiously enough, the same schools that tells us a lot of what we see as good and bad behaviour often also tell us about the so-called ‘captains of industry’ and what they have done to benefit us all.

Well, here are two examples about their behaviour and I will leave you to decide if they are good or bad.

1. According to David Rovics [and many others], Henry Ford [or at least the Ford parent company] sued the US government for bombing its tank-making facilities in Nazi Germany.

Yes, you read that right.

They also won the case.

“A brownshirt with a swastika draped in red white and blue” as the song goes.

2. According to John Pilger, the company that made the chemical Agent Orange which the US used to defoliate the Vietnamese jungle – simultaneously destroying animal and plant life and poisoning the Vietnamese population and their own soldiers, then sued the US government for not adequately protecting its soldiers.