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Major company behind the Keystone XL pipeline wants American police to treat people sitting in trees like Mohammad Atta.
Corporations are trying to use the PATRIOT Act in ways that have nothing to do with Osama Bin Laden because the PATRIOT Act gives transnational corporations the power to snuff out the activism of all those who oppose them.
Terrorism, as it is commonly considered, is the use of violence against civilians to achieve any number of political ends: the destruction of the federal government, the overturning of Roe V. Wade, the restoration of a Caliphate. If you try to kill people or succeed in killing people for a political purpose - youre a terrorist. If you blow up the Alfred P. Murrow Federal Building and kill 168 civilians, like Timothy McVeigh, youve committed an act of terrorism.
Seems pretty self-explanatory right? Not according to TransCanada Corp., the Canadian owned energy conglomerate that is the backer of the Keystone XL pipeline extension. A new set of documents obtained by the group Bold Nebraska shows that this foreign corporation is encouraging American law enforcement agencies to treat anti-pipeline protestors like terrorists. Yes, terrorists.
Read more at:-
http://www.alternet.org/corporate-accountability-and-workplace/corporations-think-protesters-are-terrorists
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(12,189 posts)cantbeserious
(13,039 posts)eom
fasttense
(17,301 posts)Without capitalism, they wouldn't have all the money and power.
cantbeserious
(13,039 posts)eom
truedelphi
(32,324 posts)As "Elected Officials." Never mind that the elections are extremely slanted - that for instance, Romney and Obama were pretty much the same when it came to Social Security cuts, endless wars, the "impossibility" of having good paying jobs return to this nation's citizens, Bailing Out Bankers, but punishing the Main Street merchants and middle class, and both men opposed marijuana. (In the last two weeks, DOJ under Obama has issued some 600 letters letting landlords to medical marijuana clinics in California understand the buildings they own will be seized if they continue to rent to the medical marijuana clinics!)
The only difference between the two men was that the Democratic candidate supported the issues of women's reproductive choice and health issues, and gay marriage. But having to tolerate the NSA spying, the collapse of the economy of the 99%, and life under what appears to be more more and more like a totalitarian state, in exchange for only those two issues, is not something I for one can agree to.
cantbeserious
(13,039 posts)tclambert
(11,193 posts)For those not into GoT, the Gold Cloaks were the city guard of the capital, kinda like the police. Lord Baelish, Minister of Coin, pays them. And he said this to Lord Eddard Stark, the "honorable man," shortly before Baelish betrayed Stark.
Why do the police protect the bankers and other corporate interests and harass protesters? Who controls the money?
tblue
(16,350 posts)Peace Fresno discovered what the PATRIOT Act was targeting. And it wasn't just al Qaeda.
meow2u3
(25,250 posts)They should be shut down and their executives locked up at Gitmo.
malaise
(296,076 posts)Just saying
RVN VET
(492 posts)none dare call it treason." ***
Saddest words because true. Corporate America is -- is -- America. We are just the peasants and soldiers.
I'm retired and living well. Those following me seem more and more to be screwed. There are some good things -- maybe that's "not so bad things" -- happening, like ACA. But there's also TeaParty subterfuge, workers conned into working with the corporations to stifle any and all efforts made by the Government (as the voice of the vast majority of the people) to make things fairer and better for us. Rights delineated by the constitution are being abrogated saving, of course, the dubious "right" left, like a smoking feces that won't dry up, of the 2nd Amendment -- and the media laughs and shrugs its shoulders. OWS is mocked by CNN as pointless and ignorant -- but OWS made clear the difference between the 1% "Them" and the 99% "Us." Yet the media shills made light of it, even to ambushing participants on site (like Erin Burnett of CNN did, by way of introducing herself to the public and, of course, to her media bosses). And Fracking causes environmental disruption that is softly whispered about by the media, while the method itself is hailed as a miracle method of making more energy available, (whispered: "for big profits"
to the 99%
***with a smile of irony and no apologies whatsoever to John Stormer.
malaise
(296,076 posts)but they like most generations will fight back
Civilization2
(649 posts)The "terrorists" are just the excuse to TAKE POWER.
You have a greater chance of dying from a fall in the shower, than you do from an act of "terror", yet people still eat that bullsht line,. "we are only taking your rights and monitoring your activity for your own protection",. sad and more than a little pathetic.
Corporate-military takeover is very real and accelerating daily.
Don't believe the "terror" hype,. drone strikes are the real war of terror.
TakeALeftTurn
(316 posts)A few people on DU already get it - like you.
Hopefully a few more will work it out too.