Hey that ' s wonderful so you ' ve learned how just about all companies have to operate in Africa and any other developing region ? You said Shell was blameless because everything it had done was legal . That seems highly suspect now . I don ' t understand how you can say that the government is evil and corrupt when Shell is evidently manipulating the government . You also somehow think that isn ' t the standard operating procedure for the rest of the world as well ? It absolutely is . As I ' ve been saying , Globalization 101 . That doesn ' t mean that it ' s okay . It ' s basically all that happens in the EUUS since they want to find out if representatives are going to be voting for things in their favor or not . Do you think that ' s okay . ? This is the mechanism by which business controls government . Where profits drive policy because companies can funnel money to politicians in so many ways . And that money drives policy that benefits companies the public good is not the priority . It never will be as long as money controls politics . So you ' re still saying that they shouldn ' t be trying to fix their government and make it do it ' s job properly , they should just sue all the companies for just operating in the country ? How ' s that fair or even logical ? You think they ' re not trying to fix their government ? They ' re dirt poor how can they compete against Shell ' s money ? They should pursue whatever peaceful means they have to achieve justice for themselves . I ' m not sure if Shell is breaking any laws or not , but they have certainly profited enormously from the oil wealth they ' ve extracted from Nigeria over the years . Just operating in the country means different things for different businesses and oil has a lot of bad side effects on the environment that are well known . It ' s in Shell ' s interest to ensure they don ' t have to pay for any environmental damage and unsurprisingly the Nigerian government is doing nothing about it . Because Shell has infiltrated the government . And you ' re saying that the citizens of Nigeria aren ' t allowed to seek help from other governments ? How is that fair or even logical ?