We can't let backwards dictatorships have any say in how a democracy is ran.
Marion should be made an example of in the US. Say a wink wink nudge nudge major tax audit of every single Marion hotel.
Unfortunately we can, we do, and we will continue to, unless we make it more expensive for companies to submit to than to oppose such forces.
Given the role money plays in our legislative process, I think we will be seeing more of this.
>Enable foreign police to collect and wiretap people's communications from U.S. companies, without obtaining a U.S. warrant.
>Allow foreign nations to demand personal data stored in the United States, without prior review by a judge.
>Allow the U.S. president to enter "executive agreements" that empower police in foreign nations that have weaker privacy laws than the United States to seize data in the United States while ignoring U.S. privacy laws.
>Allow foreign police to collect someone's data without notifying them about it.
Any kind of extra-legal and arbitrary "making an example" of a company domestically would be disastrous to confidence in the market.
The better implementation of your objective would be to create a policy (enshrined in rules) first, then go after anyone who violates it.
The market is in place to serve the country, not the other way around. Corporate charters are given by government and can be revoked. Colluding with a foreign country that we have a strained relationship with should be grounds for at least looking at the company much more closely.
Which leads us to a bought political system, at the moment at least.
Some would say it has always been bought, because markets are made to serve people (some of those people may have different governments), and the people running the markets will use that leverage over others in varying degrees…
So in your opinion both Gulf Wars had nothing to do with the strong influence Saudi Arabia has over the USA and in specific, the Bush family?