Sunday, December 17, 2006

Taking stock in evil

I was listening to the Jerry Doyle show on the radio last night on WNOX (local talk radio, 100.3 FM), and he was talking about the fact that some companies from overseas that sell stock have direct links to terrorist groups. He mentioned a woman (I don't recall her name) who had an idea that Jerry loved, about not buying those stocks despite the fact that they may have good returns, in order to help stop giving money to terrorist organizations. This was an idea that Jerry loved and supported whole-heartedly, as do I. But what disturbed me was the people that called in. Some complained that if they sold their stock in these companies, others would just turn around and buy them back up. Others mentioned the fact that once the stocks are bought the company gets its money, regardless of what you sell them for. But no one mentioned the morality of it. If you knew that a company you bought stock in was helping fund terrorism overseas, thereby possibly helping fund the forces that are killing our soldiers in Iraq and elsewhere in the Middle East, how could you, in good conscience, NOT sell that stock? How can the returns or dividends be worth the human lives that are destroyed by providing these companies with money? Where does morality take precedence over greed?

There is a website that you can look up companies with known ties to terrorist organizations; I would strongly urge anyone with any stocks to find it (there may be a link on www.jerrydoyle.com) and sell off these stocks, wash the blood off your hands.

*Update* I looked on jerrydoyle.com and couldn't find a link. Darn him.

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