tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7439821336238477882.post7056999950075509947..comments2023-04-10T04:25:40.802-04:00Comments on The Bowed Bookshelf: Law of the Jungle by Paul M. BarrettTrishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00246455872244287099noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7439821336238477882.post-73834860102151476242014-10-16T18:09:26.512-04:002014-10-16T18:09:26.512-04:00Okay, Paul. Your point is made. If Chevron is defe...Okay, Paul. Your point is made. If Chevron is defended in this book, it is no wonder they lost the case in Ecuador. Trishhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00246455872244287099noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7439821336238477882.post-80818477002912126202014-10-16T17:16:26.128-04:002014-10-16T17:16:26.128-04:00Trish, I am glad that you are a "clean slate....Trish, I am glad that you are a "clean slate." The overwhelming about of: evidence against Chevron and level of manipulation, dirty tricks, threats, bribes, "sting operations" and outright attempts to overwhelm the Ecuadorian court not even close to adequately represented in Barrett's book. Yet the quite flimsy "evidence" of Chevron's RICO filing - which Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03480901100139810579noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7439821336238477882.post-10139342473157871552014-10-16T16:29:59.090-04:002014-10-16T16:29:59.090-04:00Paul, I am not a lawyer and I must have been blind...Paul, I am not a lawyer and I must have been blind, deaf and dumb while all this was going on. I had no idea. I would make a good juror because none of this entered my consciousness before so I am a clean slate. But I am a humanist who does not knuckle under easily. Looking through the material and arguments you offered above, I must protest that Barrett <i>did</i> mention Chevron's attempts Trishhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00246455872244287099noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7439821336238477882.post-49276427849651636812014-10-16T14:46:36.522-04:002014-10-16T14:46:36.522-04:00Thanks Trish. Of course, it's important that B...Thanks Trish. Of course, it's important that Barrett points out the actual pollution Chevron caused - it's impossible to ignore that. The problem is that Barrett then promotes Chevron's narrative and avoids the truly scandalous and criminal examples of Chevron's tactics to hide contamination during the Ecuador trial, like swapping toxic soil samples with clean ones, and avoiding Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03480901100139810579noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7439821336238477882.post-61679186534034975742014-10-16T13:17:05.074-04:002014-10-16T13:17:05.074-04:00Thanks for the additional materials, Paul. I do no...Thanks for the additional materials, Paul. I do not think Chevron comes across vindicated in this book. It must be as embarrassing for them as it will be costly. I look forward to getting to those document links you sent.Trishhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00246455872244287099noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7439821336238477882.post-51587488092762690852014-10-16T11:33:45.637-04:002014-10-16T11:33:45.637-04:00This is not an independent researched book explain...This is not an independent researched book explaining the Chevron in Ecuador case, it's a pro-Chevron one-sided dump of their legal filings written to give the impression that Barrett actually researched the case. It shamelessly masquerades as “impartial” but the facts do not bear that out.<br /><br />Peter Maass, author of Crude World: The Violent Twilight of Oil in his review of Barrett'Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03480901100139810579noreply@blogger.com