The Yes Men - Bhopal results

The Yes Men Andy Bichlbaum is interviewed after the media finds out about his Dow Chemical impersonation -- for more info go to www.theyesmen.org

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News & Politics

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• Yes
• Men
• Bhopal

[TK1Fiasco]

the Dow chemical company is the one with no ethics. "this devious creep" you are talking about pulled this stunt to expose that truth. Think about how bad it looks for Dow Chemical to have to go and say "this story is false, we are not going to do anything whatsoever to compensate our victims."

[NaropaMind]

These men are our champions. They are delivering the message that we all have in our hearts. Those who caused the earth harm (Dow) and need to be cut down to size need to be held accountable. They are doing a great job.

[EnglishChannel1]

Andy Bichlbaum is his real name.

[sternumagnum]

The impersonator is guilty of bringing attention to the issue - and, yes, for giving false hopes of justice for a few hours to Indian people. So? At the same time, hundreds of thousands of LIVES have been irreversibly damaged from the Bhopal disaster.Some people (actually, a lot of people) have their priorities all wrong.

[JohnSMartineau]

Corporations don't have ethics - they're not people - they are planet-trashing self-serving automata, and currently mankind's masters.

[justanotherfakeid]

: Artists use lies to tell the truth. Corporate Executives use them to cover the truth up.

[SuperAk1987]

This man is briliant

[CannabisPhilosopher]

@GoBears711

And it's not like they make up things that can damage a companys reputation, they do things that can damage their rep themselves, the yes men just expose it by using lies with the purpose of getting the real story out in the end, it's not like they are really trying to hide facts with lies or something similar.

[CannabisPhilosopher]

@GoBears711

And it's not like we have that many options to 'fight evil', I think we all know just informing people of bad things isn't doing that much good, protesting doesn't do much good. Any other good options besides hijacking mainstream media with stories that are the opposite of what the companies actually do??

Think about how many people you can reach with it etc...

[CannabisPhilosopher]

@GoBears711

Unethical?

Lol, the companies they pretend to work for are the real unethical ones, if it needs lies to expose them and bring media attention to it.... Why not...

And you can call it lies, they call it "pretending to be a company and say what those companys are really supposed to be doing", which I really respect.

You have any idea how much more this can make people think instead regular protesting or similar things?!?

[aikidoka00]

Although I admire their activist attitude and completely agree with their phliosophy, I do question their methods. They use lies to expose truth. And well that sounds ok in theroy, the repercussions could be severe. Think of a cop who plants evidence on a suspect he knows to be guilty but can't legally get the evidence. Even though he arrested the bad guy, he leaves the door open for all kinds of... mistruth. I worry that with imposters and such straw man tactics comes misinformation.