It's really, really hard not to be cynical about this, given that Greenpeace's ship Rainbow Warrior (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinking_of_the_Rainbow_Warrior). Given the tiny size of the fine relative to EDF's cash flow, one could cynically guess that the two EDF "security staff" that got sacked for doing this were just losers in some weird, inside-EDF corporate power play.
Hard not to be cynical given that the Rainbow Warrior...what? More generally what is there to be cynical about? Should we be cynical about the integrity of the french court?
In France are damages related to the cash flow of an organization? If not what is the connection between the fine and the cash flow?
Ah. Pardon the half-thought. Hard not to be cynical given that a French secret service scuttled the Rainbow Warrior at the French government's behest.
And yes, I think we should be cynical about the French court. After "People United", we should be fairly cynical about the US courts, too, at least with respect to any cases involving ordinary citizens vs corporations.
