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american government uses 114 year old law to facilitate illegal trade

Greenpeace claims that Bush is attempting to stop free speech from enviromental campaigners, concerned by Amazon logging.

“ The environmental group is accused of sailor mongering because it boarded a freighter in April 2002 that was carrying illegally felled Amazon mahogany to Miami.”

“ Greenpeace says the decision by the U.S. Attorney's Office to prosecute the organisation rather than just the activists who boarded the APL Jade freighter is a sea change in policy, and a conviction would throttle free speech everywhere.”

“[...] It yields fatter profit margins than cocaine and is blamed for the destruction of vast swathes of the Amazon.”


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