Date: Wed, 4 Jul 1990 00:31:51 -0700
Reply-To: Debi Webi <mtngal@SIERRATEL.COM>
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From: Debi Webi <mtngal@SIERRATEL.COM>
Subject: Re: Mobil Oil and Indonesian massacres?
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Is anyone interested in the topic of Mega-Mergers and the fact that in 1998
EXXON merged with MOBIL, the 4th largest merger for that year ( and now the
largest oil company in the world) according to the book in front of me
called:
"CENSORED 1999" News That Didn't Make The News
By: Peter Phillips & Project Censored
----- Original Message -----
From: S Sittservl <Ssittservl@AOL.COM>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Wednesday, September 08, 1999 9:16 PM
Subject: Re: Mobil Oil and Indonesian massacres?
| > From: harald_nancy@EARTHLINK.NET (harald_nancy)
| >
| > Hi all,
| > I need to know a good substitute for 15/50 Mobil synthetic
| > motor oil for my wasserboxer.
| >
| > After having read the news report about Mobil's possible
| > involvement in mass killings and disappearances near
| > Mobil's drilling sites in northern Sumatra, I definitely won't
| > buy another quart of Mobil oil for a long time,
| > and just the name makes me feel sick.
| >
| > Some excerpts from "The Final Call, on-line edition"
| > titled "Mobil Oil implicated in Indonesian Army massacres",
| > discussing the "Business Week" article titled "What did Mobil Know?"
| > http://www.finalcall.com/international/indonesia1-12-99.html
|
| Before anyone starts boycotting Mobil, I think it's worth noting
| the following:
|
| - "The Final Call" is published by Louis Farrakhan and the Nation
| of Islam. I certainly do not wish to provoke any debate in this
mailing
| list regarding Mr. Farrakhan, so I will confine myself to the facts
| that:
| (1) Mr. Farrakhan and his views are extremely controversial, and
| (2) Since "The Final Call" bills itself as "The official
| communications
| organ of the Nation of Islam", it reports from a rather
| distinctive
| point of view.
|
| - Based on what it says in the "Final Call" article:
| (1) Mobil is facing "allegations"; that is, it apparently has not
| at this time been found guilty of any complicity or wrongdoing
| in the horrifying Indonesian masacres. If I boycotted every
| company that had "allegations" of wrongdoing against it, I'd
| have to stop shopping altogether.
| (2) The massacres occured near (not on) a drilling site in
| which Mobil owns a minority share; the majority, controlling
| share is owned by the Indonesian government, which is
| accused of the massacres.
| (3) The only evidence supplied of complicity or wrongdoing
| by Mobil is the statement of one Mobil employee that
| "rumors ... and unconfirmed reports" had been discussed
| at work.
| (4) There are allegations that Mobil-owned equipment
| bulldozers, etc.) was used in the massacres, but no
| clear allegations that Mobil knew about it or authorized it.
| (5) Mobil provided food and supplies to soldiers who guarded
| the drilling site.
|
| Now, Mobil may be guilty as can be, or it may be innocent as
| a baby, but based on the rather weakly supported accusations
| in this article, and a personal bias toward "innocent until proven
| guilty", I think I'll wait for more substantial evidence before
| draining the Mobil One out of the ol' crankcase.
|
| -Steven Sittser
|
| 
