>To anyone unversed in the folkways of official Britain, the Green-Cameron exchange would seem strange. It’s hard to imagine a U.S. president, Donald Trump aside, being asked if he supported the FBI—let alone responding that it ought to think about the commercial damage when it goes after suspected criminals.
Oh, the hypocrisy. White collar criminals get by just fine if they play by certain rules there just as well.
>Green acknowledges the quandary. “You can detect a certain ambivalence about corporate crime,” he says. “You can see people wondering, ‘Why on Earth are you investigating blue chip, listed companies? Don’t we need those?’ But we’re one of the richest countries in the world. We have a responsibility to do business ethically.”
Again, oh the hypocrisy. Britain became one of the "richest countries in the world" by supporting sea piracy, the East India company, the colonial plundering of the third world, the Opium trade, and so on...
Oh, the hypocrisy. White collar criminals get by just fine if they play by certain rules there just as well.
>Green acknowledges the quandary. “You can detect a certain ambivalence about corporate crime,” he says. “You can see people wondering, ‘Why on Earth are you investigating blue chip, listed companies? Don’t we need those?’ But we’re one of the richest countries in the world. We have a responsibility to do business ethically.”
Again, oh the hypocrisy. Britain became one of the "richest countries in the world" by supporting sea piracy, the East India company, the colonial plundering of the third world, the Opium trade, and so on...