Posted by
Icarus on Thursday, April 09, 2009 2:44:57 PM
Those with eyes to see and ears to hear know that, in Hollywood, coming out in support of a strong American military; coming out in support of America in the war against Islamo-Nazism is a potential career death sentence, unless, that is, one is too big to take down (sometimes, however, even
being a big star doesn't make one safe). Blacklisting, it appears, is not just a Hollywood phenomenon; construction and engineering industry seems to have a blacklist as well that is unassociated with one's position on labor unions.
KBR, "a leading global engineering, construction and services company
supporting the energy, hydrocarbon, government services and civil
infrastructure sectors," had a
highway construction contract pulled by the Hays County Commission because, it seems, KBR did work in Iraq.
According to Hays County Commissioner
Jeff Barton (
Democrat), "
Sometimes it does matter who you associate with and what's going on in your company." A government official telling a private company that who that company associates with will determine whether or not that company can do work in the county. Where, my friends, is the outrage?