Chiquita Banana and AUC

[PDH]

If more beaners get greased, and I get delicious bananas at low prices well, then fuck the beaners.

First you get the bananas, then you get the the women.

[Barrister]

It's a troubling concept.  Take it to an individual - should you hold a shop owner liable because he pays protection money to the mafia (or else his business gets vandalized) for the other crimes the mafia perpetrates?

Exactly what I was thinking.

But the flip side is that it is forseeable that giving money to a terrorist organization (and AUC was on the terrorist list) will fund terrorism (yes CdM, I'm looking at you).

If this was merely a bribe, or an easier way of doing business, then why shouldn't they be liable?

Because I'm a criminal lawyer I think of everything in terms of criminal law.  The defense of necessity might apply - if there was no other reasonable legal alternative available you can be excused for breaking the law.  But the Banana people would have to show there was no reasonable alternative.

[DontSayBanana]

But the flip side is that it is forseeable that giving money to a terrorist organization (and AUC was on the terrorist list) will fund terrorism (yes CdM, I'm looking at you).

If this was merely a bribe, or an easier way of doing business, then why shouldn't they be liable?

Because I'm a criminal lawyer I think of everything in terms of criminal law.  The defense of necessity might apply - if there was no other reasonable legal alternative available you can be excused for breaking the law.  But the Banana people would have to show there was no reasonable alternative.

I think in the case of protection money, it's reasonable that the level of force necessary to invalidate the threat would have been illegal for a non-government entity.

[jimmy olsen]

But the flip side is that it is forseeable that giving money to a terrorist organization (and AUC was on the terrorist list) will fund terrorism (yes CdM, I'm looking at you).

If this was merely a bribe, or an easier way of doing business, then why shouldn't they be liable?

Because I'm a criminal lawyer I think of everything in terms of criminal law.  The defense of necessity might apply - if there was no other reasonable legal alternative available you can be excused for breaking the law.  But the Banana people would have to show there was no reasonable alternative.

I think in the case of protection money, it's reasonable that the level of force necessary to invalidate the threat would have been illegal for a non-government entity.

Blackwater

[derspiess]

They gave me free bananas at a recent event, and Jaron says yes, so I'll state a firm NO.

[Ed Anger]

They gave me free bananas at a recent event, and Jaron says yes, so I'll state a firm NO.

Turn those bananas into a puddin'. Kids love banana pudding.

[jimmy olsen]

They gave me free bananas at a recent event, and Jaron says yes, so I'll state a firm NO.

Turn those bananas into a puddin'. Kids love banana pudding.

Chocolate Pudding Uber Alles!

[DontSayBanana]

Blackwater

Blackwater is authorized as a private contractor for the state department, and DOJ has questioned its status since State Department contractors are exempt from military law, as of 2006.

[Ed Anger]

They gave me free bananas at a recent event, and Jaron says yes, so I'll state a firm NO.

Turn those bananas into a puddin'. Kids love banana pudding.

Chocolate Pudding Uber Alles!

Fag.

[lustindarkness]

It all goes back to the times of 100 Years of Solitude.

[derspiess]

Turn those bananas into a puddin'. Kids love banana pudding.

I turned 'em into something else 

[garbon]

I turned 'em into something else 

Banana boats?

[Ed Anger]

Turn those bananas into a puddin'. Kids love banana pudding.

I turned 'em into something else 

We don't want to hear about the sex toys. 

[derspiess]

Banana boats?

I guess you could call it that.

[The Brain]

On the one hand you have a nasty terrorist organization. On the other sweet golden bananas. Not much of a choice, is there?