Oh, how nice. "Not recently". How moral and upstanding!
The backpedaling and endless justifications for American torture practice and methods are just... torture, really, for moral men to hear. This "not as bad as Hussein" angle is not just that; it's propaganda.
What the US is doing is not just "humiliation"... it's TORTURE. And the only thing that's not stopping it is that there isn't a higher military power to invade the US to enact the necessary regime change.
Do not confuse the US "humilation of prisoners" with civil treatment by a moral society. Even the rules of war (to which the US professes to be a subscriber) prohibit the things that America now routinely does to prisoners taken in the Middle East. Hypocrisy, hypocrisy, hypocrisy!
The article is on the front page of the 2006 March 21 Tuesday WSJ, concerning the Danish system of retraining. I suppose that the reporting could be significantly slanted, and the single detailed example may be a lone success story... however, since the WSJ is such a pro-Capitalist rag, I'm satisfied that the info is balanced.
op said: "like the surplus in the automobile sector (which is undergoing massive layoffs)"
you said: "What should the government do exactly?"
The WSJ had an article a day or 2 ago featuring the government-sponsored retraining programs used in Denmark. (Sorry that I can't be more exact, since the article is sitting at home on my coffee table.) There's a good start to what a government can do, instead of constantly acting like a massive Corporate-Profit Support Agency.
Actually, I contradicted myself, since a government fostering an environment of retraining has a certain benefit to corporations and other businesses.
You remind me of those dipshit AT&T commericials in the late 1990s, where you saw things like yuppies sitting on a beach tapping on laptops, while the voiceover said something like "Did you ever imagine sending a fax while at the beach? YOU WILL.", etc.
Of course, those commericials weren't real, so that's very similar to you, since your situation isn't real either. Telecommuting is still a vanishingly small portion of the workforce. Such things will remain in the province of the elite, while 98% of the workforce will still have to slog through traffic for an average 60 minutes commuting each workday.
The problem is that how are companies supposed to know that you know more? Take your word?
It's not a problem since we're only pretending that it's a problem now. Resumes for any position have to be investigated. Furthermore, any "problem" that exists is almost solely due to the fact that HR departments have themselves been outsourced, downsized and reinvented, hence don't have the resources or the will to evaluate prospects anymore.
If the paper certs are so easy to get, why not just get them?
Because I'd be admitting that my experience is worth ZERO. I'm never going to devalue my experience to zero just to fit a FUD-based philosophy.
And in case you're wondering, yes, I work in IT, and yes, I do qualify to compete for other positions. I have an interview just tomorrow, coincidentally, at a law firm in my city looking for a replacement for their long-time IT guy. I directly asked in my pre-interviews about if my "lack" of certifications or degrees would knock me out of the competition for the job; I was directly told "no", and additionally that my experience DOES qualify me for consideration. (Of course, the primary voiced concern from the company contact was about the expected compensation. Honestly, she seemed more concerned about candidates demanding up to x2 of the average market rate, than anything else she expressed.)
I've noticed in this area (Toledo OH) that the people who are concerned about certs/degrees are primarily (1) scumbag IT businesses who will fold within 3-5 years due to constant underpricing in their mad attempts to capture market share, or (2) businesses who don't care to properly examine employees since they are so busy looting themselves for their executive class. Neither groups of businesses are worth working for.
To sum up: My experience has value and I'm defending it until the end.
Seeing your posting, I had the epiphany that there could be a good method of snatching command of the narrative back from the Free-Market Fundamentalists. The FMFs like to dote on the term "protectionism" in order to discredit arguments for protecting labor by regulating capital flows. But the natural and artificial barriers against the free movement of labor form just another version of protectionism. Nations are using immigration controls as a "protectionism" method against labor... and even the "cheap-labor Republicans" are semi-silent on the issue.
Hence, the next time some FMF pops the "protectionism" argument, we can try to point out that it only follows that they equally advocate the free movement of workers from high-wage nations to low-wage nations in order to follow the work. Hence (and for instance), the liberal laws that allow investment in China and India should equally allow for American workers to emigrate to those areas.
What you're telling me, Dada, is that the US Constitution's 1st Amendment can't actually be enforced by the federal government. Right?
Obscenity laws are the real unconstituionality, here. There should be no such thing as an "obscenity law" since its very nature is counter to the 1st Amendment. If anything, the SCOTUS should have supported the principle that the Constitution is the "law of the land", hence takes precedence over local law of any type.
Supreme Court -1. They've taken yet another big step backward in honoring the principle of law in the nation... and one of the basic principles is that the Constitution is the base upon which all else stands. "Home rule" provisions had already gotten waaaaay out of control (often used to deny the 2nd Amendment). Now more than ever, local mobs masquerading as city, county and even state governments can cross the US Constitution with impunity. Mobs are not in line with the rule of law.
That's precisely the reason, but now we have to hear all the elitist bitching about how these people need to "get a real job" and "stop being a Luddite". The digital class doesn't want to deal with this truth.
Internet access is not a piddling expense. At a minimum average, people have to pay about $15/mo for dialup; hence, $180/yr. And the Internet at dialup speeds is only so interesting; for example, no online low-ping games, no video, very little audio, no large graphics, etc.
The only next step upward is DSL, cable or satellite, and the price jump is very significant. There are people who can eke out a minimum increase in their monthly costs, and with select bundling I know people who have SAVED money (because of having 2 phone lines to begin with, etc.). But largely, taking the next step means you're suddenly in the $50/mo realm -- $600/yr on average.
Well, six hundred bucks is an extra fucking RENT payment. Broadband is still too expensive for the masses. If the bb providers don't drop that rate to about $20/mo, what we're going to see is people starting to either downgrade to dialup, or lose the Internet connection entirely.
By that logic, why shouldn't the rich want to keep their higher standard of living by outsourcing our jobs?
Because, assface, they are not doing it to KEEP their wealth. They are doing it to EXPAND their wealth, often greatly. The middle class and the common prosperity is merely being cashed out in order to make millionaires vastly more rich than before. All stats of wealth growth in America since 1990 show this. Wealth growth for the middle class was at most modest (arguably negative, considering the housing bubble), while wealth growth for the rich grew at double- and triple-digit percentages. And the wealthy are much more insulated from the housing bubble.
I punctured your so-called argument in 4 seconds flat. But why pay attention to proof? You've got your wealth-worshipping agenda to run. You're going to be a poster boy for the Rise and Fall of the Turd Right, that's for sure.
Well, why do you think we inherently deserve a higher standard of living? Because we were born with it?
Yes, that's precisely it. We were born into a large nation of civilized people, with large amounts of natural resources, and where roads and rails run from sea to shining sea without anyone at all lobbing a bomb or bullet towards you along the way. And one may note that the rule and force of law extends everywhere in this area.
America's peace and abundance can only translate into prosperity. This is the American inheritance.
Too bad the elites in both major political parties don't see it that way, and apparently, neither do you, fuckface.
I can only wonder where shitbitches like you come from. You didn't grow up in my America, if you don't advocate supporting the common prosperity through the control of trade and immigration at the borders. You didn't get raised in my America, if you can't see that your parents having good jobs with strong labor laws allowed the creation of the home you remember from childhood.
Quote: "The American Civil Liberties Union of Ohio today sent a letter to the Toledo Public Schools demanding that they cease allowing staff to teach intelligent design in science classrooms throughout the district."
Quote: "Recently, a news article in the Toledo Blade featured teachers in the Toledo Public School system who admitted teaching intelligent design in science classrooms. In the article, teachers acknowledged they taught lessons on various pieces of evidence that seemed to refute evolutionary theory, despite the fact that all were proven to be hoaxes by the scientific community."
So, go ahead and make a few jokes about "Jesusland" for us here in Toledo, Ohio. The sad thing is that, such jokes better represent direct reality here than some farcical part of reality.
ID is being taught in public schools in America. The religious wack-jobs are constantly pushing it, and even teachers (i.e. people with enough education to know better about science, the seperation of church and state, and political liability) are involved on their own.
This is a sad state of affairs. It's not fringe; it's pervasive but insidious in various areas of the US.
Gosh, more evasion from the sheep-like bleating of a slave. Shocker.
Look, slave, anything you do that threatens a corporation's power can compel that corporation to sue you civilly or criminally. If your point is that you might be put into an uncomfortable position, and that nixes the idea of crossing the corporation in the first place, THEN you'll NEVER DO IT. All dissent against strong adversaries is risky.
Of course, the avoidance of risk itself is supremely risky, but the price to be paid there is spread across society. Slaves like you have long ago learned to keep your heads down, so what would you even notice about the slow decrease in society's individual rights?
Sheep never take a stand. Your submission is disgusting. Your rationales are simply cowardice. AND YOU WELL KNOW IT.
Your remorse has no bearing upon my righteousness. Your remorse is simply your remorse and that's your burden, and quite possibly your mistake.
As for the stance I've taken that I could go to prison for... well, I'm taking it, and there's no advantage in telling you all the details. I especially don't need "do gooders" playing the TIA game by reporting their fellows (i.e. me) whom they feel are "getting away with something" (that they are too timid to perform).
We are not constrained into moving into a shack in the wilds of Montana when we say we're out to assert citizen rights and keep corporations and wealth from running rampant over society. I've taken my hits economically as Heller may encounter himself, and these hits have made me frugal FOR LIFE.
This is still a war -- a CLASS WAR. And it's high time the working class recognized that it's being FIRED ON with economic weapons. But dipshits like you can't accept that the wealthy and corporate are out to enslave you, and that the working man has to enact Eternal Vigilance and suffer deprivation in order to escape these slavery traps. So you end up bleating like a retarded sheep. Congratulations. Now give me a real argument to support your points... one that I CAN'T destroy inside of 8 seconds.
Sorry, I have my own potentially-imprisoned future to worry about. My money has to be saved in order to counteract a myriad of environmental factors in the New Republican America, which affect me directly... namely, retirement funds, medical funds, unemployment funds, and -- oh yeah -- storage fees for my stuff in case I'm jailed for whistleblowing. The onus is upon Heller to arrange his life so that as a worker bee, he can survive being a dissenter.
The election-machine companies are frighteningly Republican. Of course, to be fair, they'll sell their easily-compromised election machines to anyone who wants to buy them.
I mean, this is the fucker of the thing: corporations who market election systems are serving ONE type of client only. That client is the highly partisan board of elections in each electoral district. Highly partisan boards of course would want systems that they can perform vote fraud upon, as either more fraudulent votes in the future, or less-detectable fraud for what they do now.
Gee, let me see. Let's say I lived in the People's Hyper-Socialist Republic of California. Let's also say I had 1 or 2 felonies, particularly from these bullshit charges.
Well, it would make good sense to consider moving out of the state, now, wouldn't it? No need to hang around when some minor infarction could end up getting me jailed for fucking eons.
As well, even if Heller is convicted, he can push for getting his record expunged later on in life. The wealthy do that ALL THE TIME.
You can't fight a war without a logical expectation of getting wounded. I'm a realist about that, but you're just afraid. Those who adopt your fearful attitude are not citizen soldiers.
So go crawl back to your mommy and have her pat your head and tell you everything's going to be just fine. Your standard of living is going to drop at any rate, so why not go down fighting?
Yep, that's right, chump. He should be grinning since he stuck it to the man... on ALL OUR behalf. Like I said, this is actual warfare, and in war, people get hurt and things get broken.
I've already taken my hits for everyone else before, although not as directly as Heller did. I expect to do so again, as corporations are becoming more blatantly illegal as time goes on. I expect to do EXACTLY as Heller did sometime along the way.
And by the way, go and fuck yourself, slave. You may be too knee-knockingly afraid to buck this outrageously illegal corporatized system, coward, but I'm not, and apparently neither is Heller.
Well, Heller is learning the modern lesson about corporations: if you cross them, they will slap (SLAPP?) you down HARD. The harder you cross them, the harder they will slap you down. In this case, crossing a highly Republican corporation in a politically-charged topic, the victim is facing THREE FELONIES.
Of course, if it were me, I'd go to prison with a big, shit-eating grin on my face. The corporations are trying to Rule the Earth, and so this is a war between normal citizens and the elite. In war, people get hurt; I accept that. Heller may be a necessary sacrifice. He can eat at my dinner table anytime, and he can always ask me for a job when he gets out of prison. I hope there are many citizens who feel the same way and will help him when he needs it.
Even as we speak, dead physicists the world over are spinning in their graves from the posting of this Slashdot article. We simply need to harness this energy to solve the worlds energy problems!
Nah. The oil companies will just buy them up like all the other secret energy technologies and... bury 'em. {chirp chirp} Hey, is this mike on? {pap pap}
Overall, that shouldn't happen, since hiring to upskill also produces upward pressure on wages -- and corporations now are enjoying a fad in decreasing wages. Still, with all the unemployed around, overqualified people are falling into (lower) positions, so your musings might well come to pass.
Poster1: "skilled investigative reporters with the resources to pursue stories in depth"
Poster2: "Errr? We actually had those at one time?"
Yes, we did, but the 1990s were a hallmark in the die-off of investigative journalism. Several books have been written about the subject. The 1990s produced a corporatized media system that tipped over a hump in concerns of financial controls, corporate ownership, and the vast background hum of elite influence. The end product is that major media outlets are streamlined to produce consumerist news (HappyNews{tm}), not anything else. Investigating financial topics, for instance, not only takes a while, but tends to cross some corporate donor or owner somewhere.
The (in)famous meta-story of the Fox News / Monsanto story is an outstanding example of how highly-corporatized ownership of news (and in fact all industries, as well as corruption of government) kills investigative journalism.
An American is much more likely now to find investigative journalism from independents like Greg Palast, and foreigners (notably, the BBC). His domestic media otherwise has been completely subverted and simply cannot be trusted.
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Oh, how nice. "Not recently". How moral and upstanding!
... torture, really, for moral men to hear. This "not as bad as Hussein" angle is not just that; it's propaganda.
... it's TORTURE. And the only thing that's not stopping it is that there isn't a higher military power to invade the US to enact the necessary regime change.
The backpedaling and endless justifications for American torture practice and methods are just
What the US is doing is not just "humiliation"
Do not confuse the US "humilation of prisoners" with civil treatment by a moral society. Even the rules of war (to which the US professes to be a subscriber) prohibit the things that America now routinely does to prisoners taken in the Middle East. Hypocrisy, hypocrisy, hypocrisy!
The article is on the front page of the 2006 March 21 Tuesday WSJ, concerning the Danish system of retraining. I suppose that the reporting could be significantly slanted, and the single detailed example may be a lone success story ... however, since the WSJ is such a pro-Capitalist rag, I'm satisfied that the info is balanced.
So will I, as I've stated. :^)
op said: "like the surplus in the automobile sector (which is undergoing massive layoffs)"
you said: "What should the government do exactly?"
The WSJ had an article a day or 2 ago featuring the government-sponsored retraining programs used in Denmark. (Sorry that I can't be more exact, since the article is sitting at home on my coffee table.) There's a good start to what a government can do, instead of constantly acting like a massive Corporate-Profit Support Agency.
Actually, I contradicted myself, since a government fostering an environment of retraining has a certain benefit to corporations and other businesses.
You remind me of those dipshit AT&T commericials in the late 1990s, where you saw things like yuppies sitting on a beach tapping on laptops, while the voiceover said something like "Did you ever imagine sending a fax while at the beach? YOU WILL.", etc.
Of course, those commericials weren't real, so that's very similar to you, since your situation isn't real either. Telecommuting is still a vanishingly small portion of the workforce. Such things will remain in the province of the elite, while 98% of the workforce will still have to slog through traffic for an average 60 minutes commuting each workday.
The problem is that how are companies supposed to know that you know more? Take your word?
It's not a problem since we're only pretending that it's a problem now. Resumes for any position have to be investigated. Furthermore, any "problem" that exists is almost solely due to the fact that HR departments have themselves been outsourced, downsized and reinvented, hence don't have the resources or the will to evaluate prospects anymore.
If the paper certs are so easy to get, why not just get them?
Because I'd be admitting that my experience is worth ZERO. I'm never going to devalue my experience to zero just to fit a FUD-based philosophy.
And in case you're wondering, yes, I work in IT, and yes, I do qualify to compete for other positions. I have an interview just tomorrow, coincidentally, at a law firm in my city looking for a replacement for their long-time IT guy. I directly asked in my pre-interviews about if my "lack" of certifications or degrees would knock me out of the competition for the job; I was directly told "no", and additionally that my experience DOES qualify me for consideration. (Of course, the primary voiced concern from the company contact was about the expected compensation. Honestly, she seemed more concerned about candidates demanding up to x2 of the average market rate, than anything else she expressed.)
I've noticed in this area (Toledo OH) that the people who are concerned about certs/degrees are primarily (1) scumbag IT businesses who will fold within 3-5 years due to constant underpricing in their mad attempts to capture market share, or (2) businesses who don't care to properly examine employees since they are so busy looting themselves for their executive class. Neither groups of businesses are worth working for.
To sum up: My experience has value and I'm defending it until the end.
Seeing your posting, I had the epiphany that there could be a good method of snatching command of the narrative back from the Free-Market Fundamentalists. The FMFs like to dote on the term "protectionism" in order to discredit arguments for protecting labor by regulating capital flows. But the natural and artificial barriers against the free movement of labor form just another version of protectionism. Nations are using immigration controls as a "protectionism" method against labor ... and even the "cheap-labor Republicans" are semi-silent on the issue.
Hence, the next time some FMF pops the "protectionism" argument, we can try to point out that it only follows that they equally advocate the free movement of workers from high-wage nations to low-wage nations in order to follow the work. Hence (and for instance), the liberal laws that allow investment in China and India should equally allow for American workers to emigrate to those areas.
What you're telling me, Dada, is that the US Constitution's 1st Amendment can't actually be enforced by the federal government. Right?
... and one of the basic principles is that the Constitution is the base upon which all else stands. "Home rule" provisions had already gotten waaaaay out of control (often used to deny the 2nd Amendment). Now more than ever, local mobs masquerading as city, county and even state governments can cross the US Constitution with impunity. Mobs are not in line with the rule of law.
Obscenity laws are the real unconstituionality, here. There should be no such thing as an "obscenity law" since its very nature is counter to the 1st Amendment. If anything, the SCOTUS should have supported the principle that the Constitution is the "law of the land", hence takes precedence over local law of any type.
Supreme Court -1. They've taken yet another big step backward in honoring the principle of law in the nation
That's precisely the reason, but now we have to hear all the elitist bitching about how these people need to "get a real job" and "stop being a Luddite". The digital class doesn't want to deal with this truth.
Internet access is not a piddling expense. At a minimum average, people have to pay about $15/mo for dialup; hence, $180/yr. And the Internet at dialup speeds is only so interesting; for example, no online low-ping games, no video, very little audio, no large graphics, etc.
The only next step upward is DSL, cable or satellite, and the price jump is very significant. There are people who can eke out a minimum increase in their monthly costs, and with select bundling I know people who have SAVED money (because of having 2 phone lines to begin with, etc.). But largely, taking the next step means you're suddenly in the $50/mo realm -- $600/yr on average.
Well, six hundred bucks is an extra fucking RENT payment. Broadband is still too expensive for the masses. If the bb providers don't drop that rate to about $20/mo, what we're going to see is people starting to either downgrade to dialup, or lose the Internet connection entirely.
By that logic, why shouldn't the rich want to keep their higher standard of living by outsourcing our jobs?
Because, assface, they are not doing it to KEEP their wealth. They are doing it to EXPAND their wealth, often greatly. The middle class and the common prosperity is merely being cashed out in order to make millionaires vastly more rich than before. All stats of wealth growth in America since 1990 show this. Wealth growth for the middle class was at most modest (arguably negative, considering the housing bubble), while wealth growth for the rich grew at double- and triple-digit percentages. And the wealthy are much more insulated from the housing bubble.
I punctured your so-called argument in 4 seconds flat. But why pay attention to proof? You've got your wealth-worshipping agenda to run. You're going to be a poster boy for the Rise and Fall of the Turd Right, that's for sure.
Well, why do you think we inherently deserve a higher standard of living? Because we were born with it?
Yes, that's precisely it. We were born into a large nation of civilized people, with large amounts of natural resources, and where roads and rails run from sea to shining sea without anyone at all lobbing a bomb or bullet towards you along the way. And one may note that the rule and force of law extends everywhere in this area.
America's peace and abundance can only translate into prosperity. This is the American inheritance.
Too bad the elites in both major political parties don't see it that way, and apparently, neither do you, fuckface.
I can only wonder where shitbitches like you come from. You didn't grow up in my America, if you don't advocate supporting the common prosperity through the control of trade and immigration at the borders. You didn't get raised in my America, if you can't see that your parents having good jobs with strong labor laws allowed the creation of the home you remember from childhood.
"[T]here's no actual ID classes being taught outside of private parochial schools despite various proposals"
Er, you're wrong:
ACLU of Ohio Demands Schools Stop Teaching Intelligent Design as Science
2/14/2006
Quote: "The American Civil Liberties Union of Ohio today sent a letter to the Toledo Public Schools demanding that they cease allowing staff to teach intelligent design in science classrooms throughout the district."
Quote: "Recently, a news article in the Toledo Blade featured teachers in the Toledo Public School system who admitted teaching intelligent design in science classrooms. In the article, teachers acknowledged they taught lessons on various pieces of evidence that seemed to refute evolutionary theory, despite the fact that all were proven to be hoaxes by the scientific community."
So, go ahead and make a few jokes about "Jesusland" for us here in Toledo, Ohio. The sad thing is that, such jokes better represent direct reality here than some farcical part of reality.
ID is being taught in public schools in America. The religious wack-jobs are constantly pushing it, and even teachers (i.e. people with enough education to know better about science, the seperation of church and state, and political liability) are involved on their own.
This is a sad state of affairs. It's not fringe; it's pervasive but insidious in various areas of the US.
Gosh, more evasion from the sheep-like bleating of a slave. Shocker.
Look, slave, anything you do that threatens a corporation's power can compel that corporation to sue you civilly or criminally. If your point is that you might be put into an uncomfortable position, and that nixes the idea of crossing the corporation in the first place, THEN you'll NEVER DO IT. All dissent against strong adversaries is risky.
Of course, the avoidance of risk itself is supremely risky, but the price to be paid there is spread across society. Slaves like you have long ago learned to keep your heads down, so what would you even notice about the slow decrease in society's individual rights?
Sheep never take a stand. Your submission is disgusting. Your rationales are simply cowardice. AND YOU WELL KNOW IT.
Here's my prediction about your response:
"Baa! Baaa baa baaah baa. Ba-baaaa b-b-baa baah baa baaah!"
Your remorse has no bearing upon my righteousness. Your remorse is simply your remorse and that's your burden, and quite possibly your mistake.
... well, I'm taking it, and there's no advantage in telling you all the details. I especially don't need "do gooders" playing the TIA game by reporting their fellows (i.e. me) whom they feel are "getting away with something" (that they are too timid to perform).
As for the stance I've taken that I could go to prison for
We are not constrained into moving into a shack in the wilds of Montana when we say we're out to assert citizen rights and keep corporations and wealth from running rampant over society. I've taken my hits economically as Heller may encounter himself, and these hits have made me frugal FOR LIFE.
... one that I CAN'T destroy inside of 8 seconds.
This is still a war -- a CLASS WAR. And it's high time the working class recognized that it's being FIRED ON with economic weapons. But dipshits like you can't accept that the wealthy and corporate are out to enslave you, and that the working man has to enact Eternal Vigilance and suffer deprivation in order to escape these slavery traps. So you end up bleating like a retarded sheep. Congratulations. Now give me a real argument to support your points
Sorry, I have my own potentially-imprisoned future to worry about. My money has to be saved in order to counteract a myriad of environmental factors in the New Republican America, which affect me directly ... namely, retirement funds, medical funds, unemployment funds, and -- oh yeah -- storage fees for my stuff in case I'm jailed for whistleblowing. The onus is upon Heller to arrange his life so that as a worker bee, he can survive being a dissenter.
The election-machine companies are frighteningly Republican. Of course, to be fair, they'll sell their easily-compromised election machines to anyone who wants to buy them.
I mean, this is the fucker of the thing: corporations who market election systems are serving ONE type of client only. That client is the highly partisan board of elections in each electoral district. Highly partisan boards of course would want systems that they can perform vote fraud upon, as either more fraudulent votes in the future, or less-detectable fraud for what they do now.
Gee, let me see. Let's say I lived in the People's Hyper-Socialist Republic of California. Let's also say I had 1 or 2 felonies, particularly from these bullshit charges.
Well, it would make good sense to consider moving out of the state, now, wouldn't it? No need to hang around when some minor infarction could end up getting me jailed for fucking eons.
As well, even if Heller is convicted, he can push for getting his record expunged later on in life. The wealthy do that ALL THE TIME.
You can't fight a war without a logical expectation of getting wounded. I'm a realist about that, but you're just afraid. Those who adopt your fearful attitude are not citizen soldiers.
So go crawl back to your mommy and have her pat your head and tell you everything's going to be just fine. Your standard of living is going to drop at any rate, so why not go down fighting?
Yep, that's right, chump. He should be grinning since he stuck it to the man ... on ALL OUR behalf. Like I said, this is actual warfare, and in war, people get hurt and things get broken.
I've already taken my hits for everyone else before, although not as directly as Heller did. I expect to do so again, as corporations are becoming more blatantly illegal as time goes on. I expect to do EXACTLY as Heller did sometime along the way.
And by the way, go and fuck yourself, slave. You may be too knee-knockingly afraid to buck this outrageously illegal corporatized system, coward, but I'm not, and apparently neither is Heller.
Well, Heller is learning the modern lesson about corporations: if you cross them, they will slap (SLAPP?) you down HARD. The harder you cross them, the harder they will slap you down. In this case, crossing a highly Republican corporation in a politically-charged topic, the victim is facing THREE FELONIES.
Of course, if it were me, I'd go to prison with a big, shit-eating grin on my face. The corporations are trying to Rule the Earth, and so this is a war between normal citizens and the elite. In war, people get hurt; I accept that. Heller may be a necessary sacrifice. He can eat at my dinner table anytime, and he can always ask me for a job when he gets out of prison. I hope there are many citizens who feel the same way and will help him when he needs it.
I finally remembered one of the great books I had read about this topic:
:^)
Into the Buzzsaw
by Kristina Borjesson
Don't deny yourself. Go and get it from your library immediately.
Even as we speak, dead physicists the world over are spinning in their graves from the posting of this Slashdot article. We simply need to harness this energy to solve the worlds energy problems!
... bury 'em. {chirp chirp} Hey, is this mike on? {pap pap}
Nah. The oil companies will just buy them up like all the other secret energy technologies and
Overall, that shouldn't happen, since hiring to upskill also produces upward pressure on wages -- and corporations now are enjoying a fad in decreasing wages. Still, with all the unemployed around, overqualified people are falling into (lower) positions, so your musings might well come to pass.
Poster1: "skilled investigative reporters with the resources to pursue stories in depth"
Poster2: "Errr? We actually had those at one time?"
Yes, we did, but the 1990s were a hallmark in the die-off of investigative journalism. Several books have been written about the subject. The 1990s produced a corporatized media system that tipped over a hump in concerns of financial controls, corporate ownership, and the vast background hum of elite influence. The end product is that major media outlets are streamlined to produce consumerist news (HappyNews{tm}), not anything else. Investigating financial topics, for instance, not only takes a while, but tends to cross some corporate donor or owner somewhere.
The (in)famous meta-story of the Fox News / Monsanto story is an outstanding example of how highly-corporatized ownership of news (and in fact all industries, as well as corruption of government) kills investigative journalism.
An American is much more likely now to find investigative journalism from independents like Greg Palast, and foreigners (notably, the BBC). His domestic media otherwise has been completely subverted and simply cannot be trusted.