Executive Order 13303

[Dave Farber <dave () farber net>]

> Date: Fri, 08 Aug 2003 13:53:43 -0500
> From: Valued Customer <s5218906 () earthlink net>
> Subject: Executive Order 13303
> To: Dave Farber <dave () farber net>
>
>
> Haven't seen much press about this. You'd think that Bush signing an 
> executive order putting American oil companies beyond the reach of the law 
> when it comes to exploits involving Iraqi oil would garner a little more 
> attention.
>
> Executive Order 13303 decrees that 'any attachment, judgment, decree, 
> lien, execution, garnishment, or other judicial process is prohibited, and 
> shall be deemed null and void', with respect to the Development Fund for 
> Iraq and "all Iraqi petroleum and petroleum products, and interests therein."
>
> In other words, if ExxonMobil or ChevronTexaco touch Iraqi oil, it will be 
> immune from legal proceedings in the US. Anything that could go, and 
> elsewhere has gone, awry with U.S. corporate oil operations will be immune 
> to judgment: a massive tanker accident; an explosion at an oil refinery; 
> the employment of slave labor to build a pipeline; murder of locals by 
> corporate security; the release of billions of tons of carbon dioxide into 
> the atmosphere. The President, with a stroke of the pen, signed away the 
> rights of Saddam's victims, creditors and of the next true Iraqi 
> government to be compensated through legal action. Bush's order 
> unilaterally declares Iraqi oil to be the unassailable province of U.S. 
> corporations.
>
> http://www.seen.org/pages/media/20030723_Oily_Immunity.shtml

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