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malthaussen
(17,187 posts)"If terrorists had poisoned the water of 300,000 Americans, we'd have already invaded the wrong country. But since a corporation did it, carry on."
-- Mal
hunter
(38,310 posts)Our government spies on anyone who might be a "terrorist" on the flimsiest of pretexts, but it can't properly inspect and regulate dangerous corporations.
It's pretty obvious who our government is "protecting" and it is NOT "We the People."
KansDem
(28,498 posts)If so, arrest Freedom Industries and sent it to GitMo to be waterboarded. Then put it in prison for a long, long time.
Jakes Progress
(11,122 posts)Damn that Orwell. (Another George.)
awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)I will believe corporations are people when Texas executes one.
tblue
(16,350 posts)Make all the corp directors drink it.
KansDem
(28,498 posts)yurbud
(39,405 posts)Scootaloo
(25,699 posts)I would love to see one get a proverbial bullet in the head just to keep the rest of them on their toes.
mountain grammy
(26,619 posts)uponit7771
(90,335 posts)Paladin
(28,252 posts)Silent3
(15,204 posts)Then we'll see some action.
A Simple Game
(9,214 posts)some of our best terrorists haven't had Arabic sounding names or even been dark complected.
The problem is we don't call them terrorists, if we did, we would have to ban assault weapons.
L0oniX
(31,493 posts)adirondacker
(2,921 posts)meegbear
(25,438 posts)AtheistCrusader
(33,982 posts)xocet
(3,871 posts)AtheistCrusader
(33,982 posts)xocet
(3,871 posts)AtheistCrusader
(33,982 posts)Andy Richter beat his ass.
valerief
(53,235 posts)malaise
(268,930 posts)I will never forget that evening
CFLDem
(2,083 posts)Jakes Progress
(11,122 posts)tclambert
(11,085 posts)they'd have gotten some help right quick.
Doctor_J
(36,392 posts)Something like,
Woman: "Suppose we regulated the coal companies to death??? How would we heat our homes???
Man: "Wow, that sun is really bright today"
lark
(23,091 posts)American terrorists, including the corporations that are mainly the culprits, are completely exonerated, even if a bunch of people die or get sick.
valerief
(53,235 posts)tjwash
(8,219 posts)...the inevitable hospital bills from the cancer-clusters, and other deaths and illnesses that are sure to follow a chemical spill of this magnitude.
RainDog
(28,784 posts)colsohlibgal
(5,275 posts)That is the American people. Way too many are some combo of: not the brightest bulb/unbelievably gullible/lazy. Without these kind of easily led folks dimwits like Rick Perry couldn't get elected dogcatcher.
Donald Ian Rankin
(13,598 posts)antigone382
(3,682 posts)I have lived there for a long time. Life and property are secondary to the financial interests of coal companies and always have been. The industry figured out that the absolute worst acts of overt political oppression, theft, violence, and murder which they committed (or paid others to commit on their behalf) were simply too risky and bad for business (google "Baldwin-Felts" or "The West Virginia Mine Wars" if you want to know the details). But the human toll continues in every mine disaster, every blackened river, every corner that is cut to save a few dollars at the potential expense of the land and the people.
These guys know that their actions will likely poison or kill a few people, and they have chosen to kill as many as they can get away with without cutting too far into the bottom line. For this express purpose, the big dogs expressly set up "independent subsidiaries" which can be shut down and declared bankrupt with incredible ease when recklessness inevitably results in tragedy. We've seen it happen again and again.
Extractive industry is violence, and it is deliberate violence. Make no mistake about that.
Gothmog
(145,130 posts)pa28
(6,145 posts)Not quite bright enough to be embarrassed for himself.
Martin Eden
(12,863 posts)Industrial pollution by corporations is not treated as a crime because the industry owners get rich from deregulation.
We have a massive response to acts of terrorism because the owners of the military industrial complex get rich from it.
Really, what is there not to understand here?
countryjake
(8,554 posts)Coyotl
(15,262 posts)Maybe a wig too.