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Judge orders Greenpeace to pay $345m over Dakota Access pipeline protest
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just declare bankrupty, creat the New Greenpeace, like GM did.
It would be highly unethical to pay anything, and no reason they can't just reorganize under a new organization, this time set up in a way with nothing to seize from court judgements, that can be dropped at the first lawsuit and form under a new organization at the drop of a form.
The very structure of at least corporations is such that only investor stock and assets owned by them is at risk, there is no personal liability of assets. These greenpeace people need to think about sheltering assets though, preferably in places like the netherlands more insulated from corrupt US courts, as they could find pretexts to claim they can personally strip officials in the organization of assets.
We are entering a period of oligarchic repression, we need to operate in a way that presumes bad faith, and betrayal of our rights.
We need to be sure to protect ourselves from bad charges; have places to flee in other countries that won't extradite for kangaroo court charges, and or will tip them off and allow them to skip out to other countries before they are grabbed; and to use these organizations as throw aways. To be dropped and a new unconnected one by new people in unconnected ways to take up the next fight. Make a dozen in the next year, use them as needed. Drop them as accused in court, rather than waste donor money defending. Instead if anything use that money for PR to call them out truthfully, abusing the legal system, corrupt prosecutions, etc.
Fundraising just needs new protocols, to be able to get some of the same donors without being connected to the old as prosecutors and will allege.
That's not correct. It's uncommon, but the courts can do something called Piercing the Veil and go after people who habitually create new corporations to avoid paying judgements.
That is why I'm saying to have these new organizations completely unrelated, all different people, organized mostly outside the US, organized mostly beforehand. So register a dozen in the next few months, use them as need be, so it's not like one dissolves and a new one is immediately organized. Different people, no connections for a netherlands court or what have you to plausibly freeze their assets at the behest of american courts.
I would like to know more about this piercing the veil, is there an example you can recall that it's been used recently?
https://www.nycourts.gov/reporter//3dseries/2017/2017_06419.htm
That's the court case for the crane that collapsed in NYC in the late 2000s (concluded in 2017)
I think I remember that actually, there were like 3 crane collapses right around the same time, these things seem to happen in groups oddly enough, just like the airplane crashes and near crashes just lately.
So whomever registers these, and is an officer of such a nonprofit, they would want to not have assets, be safely-ish-er in another country like the netherlands or denmark, and otherwise stay insulated from anything that could implicate them with a corrupted judiciary, keeping in mind corporate security contractors often hiring cops off duty will do things police can not and get away with it that will be used in court.