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Re:Microsoft Employees Pressure Leadership to Cancel ICE Con... by Ntrails on Wednesday June 20, 2018 @04:45AM (#17353598)
Why on earth would you want to prosecute the supermarket where ICE buys loo roll? The builders merchant who sold them fence posts?

I mean, the hyperbole is real here - because there's zero chance the international courts prosecute any US citizen - but if they did it's not going to be the people who sold them spreadsheet software.

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Re:Microsoft Employees Pressure Leadership to Cancel ICE Con... by eesmith on Wednesday June 20, 2018 @07:10AM (#17354237)
Perhaps for the same reason the US extended its trade embargo with Cuba to include foreign companies trading with Cuba - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helms%E2%80%93Burton_Act

Or for the reasons that people have divested from companies doing business with South Africa under apartheid, or the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions Movement regarding Israel, or any of a number of other examples.

See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solidarity_action .

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Re:Microsoft Employees Pressure Leadership to Cancel ICE Con... by mschuster91 on Wednesday June 20, 2018 @05:07AM (#17353679)
> Why on earth would you want to prosecute the supermarket where ICE buys loo roll? The builders merchant who sold them fence posts?

In mafiya/organized crime, (serial) murder cases it's common to prosecute knowing supporters as "aiding in criminal activities". The supermarket cashier selling loo rolls to the ICE may not be a "knowing supporter", but the fence post seller certainly is.

As for the people involved: there won't be justice, not as long as the US has nukes and refuses any international control.

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