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Thursday, August 19, 2004

Evasion of the law by unternational corporations.

I said; "Corporations using their international networks to evade the law should be brought to justice, but apparently lawyers know what they can get away with". Steve Torok comments: "The problem (or opportunity?) is that no national law can be enforced beyond geographical borders, and no effective international law exists, except case law, dependent on treaties and the case load of international courts. It is a genuine gray area, where the nation state is obsolete, and no effective global organization outside the United Nations exists! Multinational corporations are more advanced than nation states in an organizational sense, and in terms of their geographic, and time, horizons. They could be effectively regulated only under United Nations auspices. Or they maybe destroyed by ideologically and financially motivated nation states, as the Templars were destroyed in the thirteenth century by the king of France!"