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In reply to the discussion: Obama taps "cognitive infiltrator" Cass Sunstein for Committee to create "trust" in NSA [View all]Dustlawyer
(10,539 posts)chasers and such, but we fight these big corporations on behalf of the 99% to make things safer. Grayson has made his money and now chooses to truly serve his country doing the right thing, and I for one am grateful!
My firm has been fighting BP since March 23 2005, when they killed 15 and injured 6,000, and again for the 11 killed and over 1 million economically injured. I have watched them control Obama, Congress, the Judge, the Plaintiff's Steering Committee and the media. These big companies have so much money that most people cannot comprehend what they are able to do with it.
At the risk of going too far off on a tangent, the McDonalds coffee case was another example of big corporation power. They got the media to sell that case as a frivolous case pushed by trial lawyers. "Woman spills hot coffee, sues McDonald's and gets millions." Stella Liebeck almost died b/C Mickey D's realized they could get twice as much coffee from the same amount of beans if they super heated it. Worldwide the savings were huge even after settling some 2nd and 3rd degree burn cases confidentially. She was awarded 1 days profits from coffee sales, 2.3 million I think. The Judge thought that was excessive just for having her labia and clitoris burned off and reduced it down to $900,000.
These corporations bend our whole set of laws and institutions to their will. They have the Representative government, not We the People! I say fuck that, lets fight to get it back! I just wish more of the Democrats and Progressives here would stop and think about the root cause of why we cant pass even background checks for assault rifles when 90% of the people want them. Why cant we give gays the same rights as the rest of us. Add to that voter ID laws that only a small fraction of us would want. The list would go on and on (like I have here, sorry), but tackling the root cause, the corruption of our election process, gets overlooked. The last example is the lack of security of our electronic voting. They already found that enough votes were switched by a "King" computer to give Bush Ohio or Pennsylvania, I cannot recall. One of Rove's IT guys was linked to it but died in a mysterious plane crash right before he could be deposed. Did the Democrats demand electronic voting protection, NO they didn't! There is only one reason I know of to explain and that would be that their bosses wanted to be able to do it again when needed. They could put in the same protections that the credit card companies have had for years and we would be good to go. We are a deluded, lazy electorate, brainwashed and hung out to dry!