Turncoat Style
If you’re going to do a turncoat, do it in style. One Lord Peter Melchett, ex head of Greenpeace UK, has jumped ship to work for a corporate PR company, Burson-Marsteller. These are’nt just any old PR company, but basically could have been apologists for the Spanish Inquisition in former days. Some of their clients have included:
- Union Carbide, after the company killed 2,000 people and injured tens of thousands more in Bhopal, India
- Babcock and Wilcox, after the company’s nuclear reactor suffered a near meltdown at Three Mile Island in 1979
- Exxon, after their jolly ship Valdez ran aground killing a big chunk of Alaska
- Monsanto, who specialize in Frankenfoods and poisoning communities
- Big tobacco (not to be confused with Big Meat)
- Argentina’s military junta, when they were eliminating thousands
- Suharto, Indonesia’s ex-dictator and the guy who killed a big chunk of East Timor
- Saudi royal family, a nice bunch who make the Windsors seem well-balanced, generous, and kind
- Nicolae Ceausescu, the ex-Romanian dictator and all-around Bad Guy
- Nigerian government during the Biafran war, to discredit reports of genocide
Which just goes to show, I guess, how English toffs like Melchett will always get a good paying gig, no matter what they have to do for it.