Jon°
2003-07-01 09:25:40 UTC
If you want to know why on Earth our lads are in Iraq waiting to be shot at
and perhaps murdered. Read the article I show below. In the States a company
can now be heavily fined (Federal law) if it does not report a customer
who asks if a product was made in Israel. If this does not show you that
America has a ring through its nose and the rope attached to it goes
straight to Tel
Aviv, (via Wall Street) nothing will.
Our Tony and his Mandy's (Jewish) are just oarsmen in the financial slave
ship
"Western Society" that is under the command of the "El Al Navy" whose
admirals studied seamanship at the "Abacus College".
I wonder if the oil pipes that are being blown up in Iraq are
pointing toward the promised land?
.....................................
www.unknownnews.net/0626-2.html#below
Company fined $6,000 for answering customer's question
"Is any of this stuff made in Israel?"
By Helen & Harry Highwater, Unknown News June 27, 2003
A Missouri company has been fined $6,000 for answering a customer's
question and not reporting to the federal government that the question was
asked. The question that's punished by law is: Are any of these products
made in Israel, or made of Israeli materials?
The Kansas City Star reports:
The anti-boycott provisions bar U.S. companies from providing
information about their business relationships with Israel. They also
require that receipt of boycott requests be reported to the Bureau of
Industry and Security, formerly known as the Bureau of Export
Administration.
We ask: Why is this question forbidden? Why is any question forbidden?
It sounds more like the USSR than the USA, to punish people for asking
a forbidden question, or for not immediately reporting to the government
that someone else asked a forbidden question.
Only a few years ago, during South Africa's apartheid era, it was
considered the height of good moral backbone to ask whether a product came
from that country. Today, many Americans are asking such questions about
products they suspect came from France, after the French government declined
to join "Operation Iraqi Freedom."
The article doesn't make it clear whether these restrictions apply
only to US companies selling stuff outside the US, or whether the law
applies to everyone. Either way, it's reprehensible.
If K-Mart is having a sale on cheap plastic chess sets and we ask the
clerk whether the board or pieces were made in Israel, is the clerk allowed
to answer? Must the store promptly file a form with the Bureau of Industry
and Security reporting that we asked?
Well, we'll be asking the forbidden question in every store we enter.
Not because we're boycotting Israel - we're not. Heck, if we were boycotting
products from countries whose policies are abhorrent, we'd start by
boycotting anything marked "made in USA."
We'll be asking the forbidden question because we believe in freedom.
In a free society, the government doesn't tell people what questions they
can ask, and what questions they can't, and what questions must be promptly
reported to the authorities.
We had heard of this law before - banning people from even asking
about boycotting Israeli products - but we had foolishly assumed it wasn't
often enforced.
According to the article, though, "more than $26 million in fines"
have been levied for violations of this law, suggesting that enforcement of
the Forbidden Question Law is not at all uncommon. The fine in this case was
$6,000, so assuming that's average and doing the math, more than 4,000
Americans or American companies have been fined - for asking the forbidden
question, or failure to report that someone else asked the forbidden
question
and perhaps murdered. Read the article I show below. In the States a company
can now be heavily fined (Federal law) if it does not report a customer
who asks if a product was made in Israel. If this does not show you that
America has a ring through its nose and the rope attached to it goes
straight to Tel
Aviv, (via Wall Street) nothing will.
Our Tony and his Mandy's (Jewish) are just oarsmen in the financial slave
ship
"Western Society" that is under the command of the "El Al Navy" whose
admirals studied seamanship at the "Abacus College".
I wonder if the oil pipes that are being blown up in Iraq are
pointing toward the promised land?
.....................................
www.unknownnews.net/0626-2.html#below
Company fined $6,000 for answering customer's question
"Is any of this stuff made in Israel?"
By Helen & Harry Highwater, Unknown News June 27, 2003
A Missouri company has been fined $6,000 for answering a customer's
question and not reporting to the federal government that the question was
asked. The question that's punished by law is: Are any of these products
made in Israel, or made of Israeli materials?
The Kansas City Star reports:
The anti-boycott provisions bar U.S. companies from providing
information about their business relationships with Israel. They also
require that receipt of boycott requests be reported to the Bureau of
Industry and Security, formerly known as the Bureau of Export
Administration.
We ask: Why is this question forbidden? Why is any question forbidden?
It sounds more like the USSR than the USA, to punish people for asking
a forbidden question, or for not immediately reporting to the government
that someone else asked a forbidden question.
Only a few years ago, during South Africa's apartheid era, it was
considered the height of good moral backbone to ask whether a product came
from that country. Today, many Americans are asking such questions about
products they suspect came from France, after the French government declined
to join "Operation Iraqi Freedom."
The article doesn't make it clear whether these restrictions apply
only to US companies selling stuff outside the US, or whether the law
applies to everyone. Either way, it's reprehensible.
If K-Mart is having a sale on cheap plastic chess sets and we ask the
clerk whether the board or pieces were made in Israel, is the clerk allowed
to answer? Must the store promptly file a form with the Bureau of Industry
and Security reporting that we asked?
Well, we'll be asking the forbidden question in every store we enter.
Not because we're boycotting Israel - we're not. Heck, if we were boycotting
products from countries whose policies are abhorrent, we'd start by
boycotting anything marked "made in USA."
We'll be asking the forbidden question because we believe in freedom.
In a free society, the government doesn't tell people what questions they
can ask, and what questions they can't, and what questions must be promptly
reported to the authorities.
We had heard of this law before - banning people from even asking
about boycotting Israeli products - but we had foolishly assumed it wasn't
often enforced.
According to the article, though, "more than $26 million in fines"
have been levied for violations of this law, suggesting that enforcement of
the Forbidden Question Law is not at all uncommon. The fine in this case was
$6,000, so assuming that's average and doing the math, more than 4,000
Americans or American companies have been fined - for asking the forbidden
question, or failure to report that someone else asked the forbidden
question