Which is sickening. We need some sort of heavy handed regulation that stipulates that labor up and down the supply chain of a given American company conforms to American labor protections. We also need this regulation to be backed by consequence which would directly harm the lives of those individuals who directly decide to eschew these regulations.

I think we can stand to hold executives far more accountable for them deciding to commit human rights abuses via casual email or shareholder memo, some 3000 miles out of sight and out of mind from the crimes themselves.

These sort of regulations would be very painful for the economy in the near term, but far less painful than continuing the status quo for those being abused.

“These sort of regulations would be very painful for the economy in the near term, “

I am not even sure about that. Companies would adapt very quickly. That’s what they are good at.

You wouldn't think that if you listened to what these neocons have been preaching as scripture for the past 50 years...