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Wednesday, September 19, 2007

Moral Investment

The parents of Rachel Corrie, who was vehicularly detrimented while supporting terrorism in Gaza, have been denied permission to sue Caterpillar Inc., the manufacturer of the mobile Arab clearance appliance which killed her. A federal court has ruled that Caterpillar, in which the Church of England holds shares owing to its partial decision to disinvest from almost any company which profits from the occupation of Palestine, cannot be sued because it would "bring the judiciary into conflict with the executive branch of the US government". The Corries, and four Palestinian families which have been reduced to manageable numbers by similar clearance-oriented incidents, argued that Caterpillar "knew, or should have known, that the equipment was going to be used to demolish homes in violation of international law in incidents that at times led to the deaths of innocent people". However, Caterpillar and the US government argued that "the machines had been paid for by the Pentagon as part of the government's military aid" and, as we know, all that legalistic checks-and-balances stuff is as piffle before the winds of the War on the Abstract Noun, not to mention the War on Selected Anti-Semitisms, the War on Holocaust Denial, the War on Potential Persian-Induced Cartographical Wipery, etc., etc. The judges argued that the matter could not have gone to trial "without implicitly questioning, and even condemning, United States foreign policy towards Israel", and that settles that. So while the Church continues its moral contortions over homosexuality, at least it won't have to do so under the shadow of its worldly goods being tainted by legal action.

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