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herb, thanks for pointing me towards this book ‘the sociopath
next door’.

I usually try to general a %age of 10% as the portion of bad
people in the world. Reviews of this book on amazon indicate a
much lower number of ‘bad’ people but as there are
~7,000,000,000 people residing on earth, I think that it is
possible for 700,000,000 of them to be of the bad sort, and
these miscreants do have the intelligence to worm their way into
positions of power on the large scales of government and
economics. And to deal with them, it may mean taking drastic
measures before they ‘deal’ with you.

Why worry? The culture has supported this type of cover up of all corporate excesses to this point. It is for your comfort. It fits right in with fracture drilling, nuclear power, and mountain top removal.  Will you defend to your death the right to turn on the water tap, the lights in your homes, the food at the local super store? Do you defend the right of the city state to steal the resources from the surrounding land base? If so then madness has taken the place of reason.

The culture is trapped unless it can undo the almost religious beliefs that technology is the answer to all problems. Science and reason seem to have been infected by the same madness that infects the social, political and religious structure off this culture.

Were is the line to drawn, how much is the culture willing to give up, and what price is it willing to pay.

The aristocracy will not give up without using force to continue their comfort, and the rest, well what are you complaining about?

samosamo:  The organizational principle that was supposed to prevent the “wrong” people from “taking over” was embodied in Constitutional principles like “right of the people to peaceably assemble” and “advise and consent”, “representative government, “the Bill of Rights”, etc.

The organizational principle that took over and abolished the Constitutional principles is “organized business” with the help of an “organization” called—ominously—“the Supreme Court.”

How come that word “organize” keeps coming up?  Could it be the bald fact that the “right” people do not, cannot, will not “organize” themselves?

Item after item, corporations are being protected from being held accountable for their cheating.

And always by Re-Thuglicans.

Imagine people, millions of people behind that chicken wire..Without freedom that’s
where we will all end up.  Yet thousands of people die every year from diseases that are
caused by our poisoned food. From, cancer, to heart disease it all starts on your dinner
plate. Agribusiness is in the business of making profits, and most of them don’t care
what happens after you buy their food. America maybe the sickest country in the world,
and that sickness is highly profitable to those that deal in poison. Lies and government
collusion make it all possible.

I wonder if the Soylent Green folks are behind this stuff, ALL of this stuff?

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gerard,

re: ““Constitutional Democracy is the only form of government
in the world that was organized with built-in rights of the
people to govern themselves.”“
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Therein lies the problem, the wrong or should I say the ,
corrupt and criminal people have taken over governing of
‘ourselves’.

Let’s be clear about one thing here:  It is not the States who are “making it a crime to investigate Agribusiness abuses”.  It is the Agribusineese that are making it a crime by buying legislators, executives and judges. 
  Of course the receivers of these benefits, donations and bribes should not accept them, but the source of the crime is the bribers, not the bribed. Given the cost of political campaigns dependent almost solely on contributions, it is unrealistic to expect officials to resist bribes.
  Fund political campaigns from the public treasury and take away the power to bribe and the temptation to be bribed, and see what happens.
  It’s been suggested for years.  Why don’t we do it?  Because we are more or less gutless and lack the self-confidence to do it, using the sheer force of numbers and organized pressure. It’s been so long since we did anything for the country that we forgot how.  As Kennedy said:  “Ask not ......etc.”

I have never met a right-winger fascist type who is a vegetarian. They fear us. To them, it is worse than being a pedophile with leprosy.

I am reminded of Sarah Palin talking to a reporter in the foreground about turkey while in the background workers shove the live turkey’s head into a meat grinder. Blood and feathers flying, Palin never bats an eyelid at the horror going on behind her.

I often times pondered about such simple ,perhaps banal children’s animations and the more profound meanings that are actually projected .I am convinced that many Truthdiggers ,if they put their ‘memories’ to it can corroborate on the meaning of many more such comparisons. just for the hell of it!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVdlxwX6A7g

Lawrence Britt’s 14 Characteristics of Fascism:

#6: Controlled Mass Media.  Sometimes to media is directly controlled by the government, but in other cases, the media is indirectly controlled by government regulation, or sympathetic media spokespeople and executives. Censorship, especially in war time, is very common.

#9: Corporate Power is Protected.  The industrial and business aristocracy of a fascist nation often are the ones who put the government leaders into power, creating a mutually beneficial business/government relationship and power elite.

Peace.  (?)

Where’s the outrage from the “free press”.

Penalizing a whistle blower is open admission that the State will not tolerate criticism and is supporting forceful repression. Whistle-blowers are democracy’s fail-safe device for self-correction in time to avoid crisis.
  The sickest part of this Constitution-wrecking is that it hits at the heart of democratic possibilities by outlawing the procedures that were meant to support and strengthn democratic rule.
  Constitutional Democracy is the only form of government in the world that was organized with built-in rights of the people to govern themselves.  Destroy those built-in rights, and the people are left with nothing but the power to revolt, as in the present Middle East.
  Are we awaiting the day when the UN Security Council will issue a “mandate” to send NATO in with drones to quell rebellion in the “land of the free and the home of the brave?” Or to support the U.S. hapless rebels who were not smart enough to study non-violent strategy and tactics before they went into the street?

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You know what this is. Case in point of the way corporations are
gaining ever stronger control, now at state levels, to cover their
nefarious agendas and behavior. Ordinarily this would be
considered a crime, but hey, when your buy all those eager to
get rich politicians, how can you lose?

For sure, any corporation in(if there are any left) or doing
business in america damn well needs to be transparent and
regulated and investigated when needs be.

they dont want people to see the atrocity and horror the animals go through.

dont eat meat and give a defenseless animal a break

Every time I think the world has gone insane, Re-thuglicans introduce or pass legislation that makes me realize I wasn’t even close to how insane it could get.

The Queen of Hearts rules.  “Sentence first, then the trial!” “Off with their heads!”

Applause is what undercover right winger James O’Keefe got for filming at Planned Parenthood and ACORN without permission.

Somehow undercover ‘journalism’ is OK if it plays to the right-wing agenda?

Hi, Alice, move over, we’re all coming down the hole to join you, for in our world, we are now making it a criminal act to investigate a criminal act. Is there room left in the looking glass?

Poor Bernie Madoff, if he had just been born a couple of years later, he’d be a free, mega-rich thief today.
Ditto for Willie Sutton, Tricky Dick, the Watergate bunglars, the Enron gang, etc. etc. ad infinitum.

We should have known, when the political GOPers got their toes in the door, all the rest of their crooks would push their way through to join them.

A “felony” for exposing illicit food/farming/animal handling practices?  Are these
legislators serious?  Are they familiar with our Constitutional rights and egregious
punishment?  Unbelievable.  There will be a revolution and the legislators have
brought it upon themselves.  Reasonableness will return with an entirely new
electorate.  Hopefully.

The legislators have become more ‘sick’ than the unfortunate animals in these Factory Farm cesspools .What the hell is next in this Corporate State of Stupidity ;is it mandatory consumption from the preachers in the White Vatican?