Rewarded For Pillaging As An Incentive Not To Pillage
August 28th, 2007
A really good post on the People’s Independent Intelligentsia blog as to the singular fucking insanity in giving former Newmont Mining CEO Wayne Murdy a humanitarian award in hopes of encouraging humanitarianism.
Why did Tom Farer, Dean of DU-GSIS, recommend that Murdy receive the award, of all the people on Earth? He answers this question to the Denver Post, namely to give Newmont an incentive to respect human rights. Now just imagine; a man is robbing a bank with a loaded weapon, and the chief of police arrives on the scene to take control of the situation, which turns out to be the chief himself taking the robber to dinner to offer him a firm and crisp $50 bill as an incentive to not rob the bank! Then the chief drops him off at the bank, allowing him the freedom of choosing whether or not to continue robbing the bank. This is all the police are going to do to stop the bank robbery? This is essentially the same scenario as that between Farer and Murdy, given that Farer has the level of influence and prestige to draw attention to Murdy’s crimes by merely publicly announcing the reason for not awarding Murdy any honors at all, specifically over his outrageous human rights record. I suppose Farer can kiss that reputation goodbye, considering that he has chosen to address Newmont’s disgraceful human rights record in this way.
I love the logic. Humanitarian awards aren’t presented for, like, actual humanitarianism, but in the hopes that really shitty people and corporations will behave in a mildly less shitty manner. Got it. Humanitarian awards should, by this logic, go to the worst human rights offenders. (Which might, actually, be the only sensible explanation of Henry Kissinger’s Nobel Peace Prize I’ve ever heard.)
I can’t decide whether Wayne Murdy’s nominator over at DU, Tom Farer, just thinks we’re all fucking stupid or if his braincase ought to be sawed open to see what kind of maggots are writhing around in there.
August 29th, 2007 at 10:16 am
I’ve been on a 12-state crime spree of raping, murdering, and robbing people. I was wondering if there was anyone out there who would be willing to give me a Humanitarian Award? I’d really like to stop this crime spree, and I just can’t think of any single other way to end it….
If Tom Farer is serious about cleaning up the mining business, there are a number of political action groups that he can join and become active in. If he is a member of these groups that are actively working to clean up the mining business, then his claim of wanting to clean up mining through awards might hold some weight. My guess is that Tom Farer is no environmental activist. He’s all about the bling and the money and he’s abusing the good name of environmentalism to excuse his motives.
He’s using environmentalism in such a way as to treat it like toilet paper. To him, environmentalism is something to use to wipe his ass when he gets himself in deep shit. When he’s done, and the award ceremony is over, he’ll discard it and never do a damn thing to stop environmental damage caused by mining.
Hey, Tom Farer, this is your chance to make a fool out of me by proving me wrong. Just pony up some proof that you are a hard-core mine activist interested in cleaning up their environmental damage. Show us that this award is just one piece of a larger puzzle of your environmental activism. Otherwise, drop the bull and stop raping the good name of environmentalism by twisting it for your own advantage.
August 29th, 2007 at 12:04 pm
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/04/24/business/AS-FIN-Indonesia-Newmont-Trial.php
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