Latest Obama Administration Thug Tactics - Blacklisting CEO's

Posted by Brian
h/t Hotair and Mark Levin
The Obama Administration cotinues to use intimidation, threats, and Stalin-like tactics in dealing with businesses in the private sector. This new tactic is to hold CEO's personally responsible for illegal activities which may occur in their organization, regardless of whether they have any knowledge of the activities, effectively stripping the individual of due-process rights for the individual(s) involved.

Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word, equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude.
Alexis de Tocqueville

Obama administration attempting to force out CEO over marketing violations
Share posted at 1:35 pm on April 26, 2011 by Ed Morrissey
 

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According to the Wall Street Journal, the Obama administration has launched an effort to remove a CEO in a private-sector pharmaceutical firm as punishment for violations in marketing laws.  The Department of Health and Human Services notified Forest Laboratories that it plans to blacklist CEO Howard Solomon from doing any business with the federal government, a status that would effectively lock out Forest from any government contracting:
 

A government attempt to oust a longtime drug-company chief executive over his company’s marketing violations is raising alarms in that industry and beyond about a potential expansion of federal involvement in the business world.

READ MORE HERE--->  http://hotair.com/archives/2011/04/26/obama-administration-attempting-to-force-out-ceo-over-marketing-violations/

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