Andy Asmus This is Me

 Web References

1. 1. Oil Giant 'Guilty' of Crimes against Humanity, Protesters Say -- 05/29/2002

   www.conservativenews.org/ViewB - [Cached]

   Published on: 6/9/2002   Last Visited: 6/9/2002

   Andy Asmus of the anti-corporate protest group Pressure Point told CNSNews.com , "the purpose of this trial is to raise public awareness of crimes that ExxonMobil continues to commit against the people of the developing world and in our own country."
   
   Asmus said he would like to see ExxonMobil's corporate charter revoked. The company did not respond to an invitation to defend itself at the trial, according to Asmus.
   
   Anarachists?
   
   Niger Innis, national spokesman for the Congress of Racial Equality, said he was not impressed by the mock trial. He called the protesters remnants of "the anarchists, socialists, communist types of the 1960's."
   
   Innis said he asked the mock trial's organizers to let him testify on ExxonMobil's behalf, but the request was rebuffed. "They told me the mock trial was scripted already. Apparently I did not fit the script."
   
   The participants in the mock trial are misguided and "arrogant" for opposing economic growth in the developing world, according to Innis.
   
   "It's a pretty arrogant message coming from folk who are from Europe or the U.S. -- both first-class, first-world countries where people are economically comfortable for the most part -- to say to the Third World, 'No you don't have the right to develop the way we have for centuries,'" he said.

2. 2. ConservativePetitions.com

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   Published on: 8/20/2001   Last Visited: 6/3/2002

   Andy Asmus of the anti-corporate protest group Pressure Point told CNSNews.com , "the purpose of this trial is to raise public awareness of crimes that ExxonMobil continues to commit against the people of the developing world and in our own country."
   
   Asmus said he would like to see ExxonMobil's corporate charter revoked. The company did not respond to an invitation to defend itself at the trial, according to Asmus.
   
   Anarachists?
   
   Niger Innis, national spokesman for the Congress of Racial Equality, said he was not impressed by the mock trial. He called the protesters remnants of "the anarchists, socialists, communist types of the 1960's."
   
   Innis said he asked the mock trial's organizers to let him testify on ExxonMobil's behalf, but the request was rebuffed. "They told me the mock trial was scripted already. Apparently I did not fit the script."
   
   The participants in the mock trial are misguided and "arrogant" for opposing economic growth in the developing world, according to Innis.
   
   "It's a pretty arrogant message coming from folk who are from Europe or the U.S. -- both first-class, first-world countries where people are economically comfortable for the most part -- to say to the Third World, 'No you don't have the right to develop the way we have for centuries,'" he said.

3. 3. Oil Giant 'Guilty' of Crimes against Humanity, Protesters Say -- 05/29/2002

   www.cnsnews.net/ViewBusiness.a - [Cached]

   Published on: 9/1/2001   Last Visited: 6/14/2002

   Andy Asmus of the anti-corporate protest group Pressure Point told CNSNews.com , "the purpose of this trial is to raise public awareness of crimes that ExxonMobil continues to commit against the people of the developing world and in our own country."
   
   Asmus said he would like to see ExxonMobil's corporate charter revoked. The company did not respond to an invitation to defend itself at the trial, according to Asmus.
   
   Anarachists?
   
   Niger Innis, national spokesman for the Congress of Racial Equality, said he was not impressed by the mock trial. He called the protesters remnants of "the anarchists, socialists, communist types of the 1960's."
   
   Innis said he asked the mock trial's organizers to let him testify on ExxonMobil's behalf, but the request was rebuffed. "They told me the mock trial was scripted already. Apparently I did not fit the script."
   
   The participants in the mock trial are misguided and "arrogant" for opposing economic growth in the developing world, according to Innis.
   
   "It's a pretty arrogant message coming from folk who are from Europe or the U.S. -- both first-class, first-world countries where people are economically comfortable for the most part -- to say to the Third World, 'No you don't have the right to develop the way we have for centuries,'" he said.