:38:00
He probably did know
:38:03
after all he had
very few customers.
:38:05
Watson didnt want
to do it.
:38:07
It was not because he thought
it was immoral or not
:38:10
but because Watson
:38:12
with a very keen sense
of public relations
:38:14
thought it was risky.
:38:17
It should not surprise us that
corporate allegiance
:38:19
to profits will trump their
allegiance to any flag.
:38:22
A recent U. S. Treasury
Department report
:38:25
revealed in one
week alone
:38:27
57 U. S. corporations
were fined
:38:29
for trading with official
enemies of the United States
:38:33
including terrorists tyrants
and despotic regimes.
:38:44
...you can roughly locate any
community somewhere along
:38:47
a scale running all the way
from democracy to despotism.
:38:55
This man makes it his job
to study these things....
:38:58
Well for one thing
:39:00
avoid the comfortable idea
:39:02
that the mere form of
government can of itself
:39:05
safeguard a nation
against despotism.
:39:11
For big business despotism
was often a useful tool
:39:14
for securing foreign markets
and pursuing profits.
:39:18
One of the U. S. Marine corps
most highly decorated generals
:39:21
Smedley Darlington Butler
by his own account
:39:25
helped pacify Mexico
for American oil companies
:39:28
Haiti and Cuba
for National City Bank
:39:31
Nicaragua for the Brown
Brothers brokerage
:39:34
the Dominican Republic
for sugar interests
:39:37
Honduras for U. S.
Fruit companies
:39:39
and China
for standard oil.
:39:44
General Butlers services
were also in demand
:39:46
in the United States
in the 1930s
:39:49
as president
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
:39:51
sought to relieve
the misery
:39:53
of the depression through
public enterprise
:39:55
and to offer regulation
on corporate exploitation
:39:58
and misdeeds.
:39:59
more power to you
President Roosevelt