Chevron vs Big Green: Capitalism Finally Grows a Pair (Delingpole)

Finally! Chevron won it's civil RICO suit against Donziger. Only the business press are reporting the good news. Here a good summary from Breitbart London by author of Watermelons, James Delingpole.

Chevron vs Big Green: Capitalism Finally Grows a Pair http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-London/2014/03/06/Chevrongate-capit alism-finally-grows-a-pair-in-the-war-on-Big-Green

Green hubris.

Almost none of this information would have come to light in court if Donziger had not made one fatal mistake. In a supreme act of arrogance, he decided to turn his legal adventures into a Michael-Moore-style documentary with himself as the crusading hero negotiating his way through a corrupt legal system, battling a powerful and heartless oil giant, on behalf of the ordinary people of Ecuador. The movie - inevitably - was premiered at the Sundance Festival.

Donziger was under the illusion that this supposedly independent (though not really) movie could not be used in evidence. Judge Kaplan thought differently and subpoenaed 600 hours of footage.

This enabled the court to demonstrate some entertaining contrasts between what Donziger said about the Ecuadorean legal system in court - ie that its decision was reliable - and what he said about it in the various outtakes from Crude.

"They're all corrupt! It's - it's their birthright to be corrupt."

"These judges are really not very bright."

"I've never seen such utter weakness. It's the same kind of weakness that leads to corruption."

It was, as we now know, Donziger himself who was doing all the corrupting in this case.