Tuesday, May 8, 2007

Amoral corporate America By Joseph Farah

I take a backseat to no one in defense of free enterprise.

But, just as America's founders warned that freedom and self-government would only last so long as the populace was God-fearing and moral, so too will the efficacy of our free-market economy.

Corporations in America, especially the big, multinational ones, are increasingly without scruples, without morality, without any sense of right and wrong.

Take, for example, Verizon Wireless' decision to "partner" with hip-hop superstar Akon, a despicable, criminal, misogynistic sleaze artist who last month was caught on video simulating the rape of a 14-year-old girl on stage in a Trinidad nightclub.

I'm delighted that Verizon executives have come to their senses and recognized the historic blunder they made in embracing this monster, this miscreant, this unbelievably bad role model for young people around the world.

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