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...express the truth that is in their heart. But I don't think that rappers are part of this debate. This debate is about corporations and other corporations. This debate is about the sponsors and the people who are concerned and the people who have a business to protect. But the artists' rights have to be protected. Sometimes America can go so far that people's rights are taken away. The bogeyman will come and destroy a business or hurt a person that is giving an honest expression through his art. That has happened a lot in this country...
...express the truth that is in their heart. But I don't think that rappers are part of this debate. This debate is about corporations and other corporations. This debate is about the sponsors and the people who are concerned and the people who have a business to protect. But the artists' rights have to be protected. Sometimes America can go so far that people's rights are taken away. The bogeyman will come and destroy a business or hurt a person that is giving an honest expression through his art. That has happened a lot in this country...
There wasn't much choice for the British Petroleum chief who smeared his gay lover to protect himself, or for the Administration's "AIDS czar," Randall Tobias, 65 and a father of four, who resigned after his name surfaced in the case of Deborah Jeane Palfrey, the "D.C. madam" charged with racketeering. She denies running a brothel; he denies getting anything more than a massage. But that was sufficient to sink him, since his mission was promoting abstinence and fighting prostitution...
...made its own deal with at least one backer of the Colombian paramilitaries: Under an agreement with the U.S. Department of Justice in March, banana giant Chiquita Brands International acknowledged it had paid $1.7 million to Colombia's paramilitary groups. The company said it had made the payments to protect its employees, but about half of the money was paid after the paramilitary federation in question, the United Self Defense Forces of Colombia, or AUC, had been placed on Washington's list of foreign terrorist organizations in September...
...Chiquita spokesman Michael Mitchell said that the company had felt obliged to make the payments to protect its employees. "We believe they saved people's lives," he said. However, during the time Chiquita was making the payments, thousands of people across Colombia died at the hands of the AUC, which expanded its power. In the banana belt alone between 1997 and 2004, right-wing paramilitaries are blamed for 22 massacres in which 137 people were killed, according to government figures...