Who needs terrorism when you have corporatism?

[Kelvin Mace]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17349427">Risks of tainted food rise as inspections drop

The federal agency that’s been front and center in warning the public about tainted spinach and contaminated peanut butter is conducting just half the food safety inspections it did three years ago.

The cuts by the Food and Drug Administration come despite a barrage of high-profile food recalls.

“We have a food safety crisis on the horizon,” said Michael Doyle, director of the Center for Food Safety at the University of Georgia.

You know, I really don't understand why homicidal lunatics like Osama bin-Laden go to all the trouble and hassle of suicide bombings and training camps for terrorists. If you want to kill Americans, come to America and start a corporation. As an American corporation you are permitted to murder people all the time and simply refer to it as "regrettable lapse in safety standards". In 2005, 5,700 Americans were killed in work place accidents, yet few people, if any, went to jail. If you run a coal mine, you can kill people a dozen at a time by ignoring safety regulations and simply pay a small fine. But don't worry about that, the government will work hard to keep pesky regulators out of your hair and even pass laws to exempt you from law suits, or at the very least, drastically curtail any damages you might have to pay.

If you work in the restaurant industry you can off another 5,000 people each year, and put 325,000 in the hospital. If you count the number of people you just make sick, but don't kill or hospitalize, you get to harm a whopping 76 MILLION people!

Who needs dangerous, hard to manage things like sarin nerve gas and anthrax when your little friend e. coli can do the job faster, cheaper and with practically ZERO chance of you going to jail or getting your country bombed.

And little escherichia coli (Ricky to his mates) has lots equally helpful colleagues. Open your own chicken processing plant and you get to kill and maim your workers with substandard safety practices while poisoning the public with salmonella and listeria monocytogenes.

Want to sicken and possibly kill those American whores who appear naked on sports magazines? The open your own catering business and slip a little hepatitis A into their bottled water and salads (the only thing American models are allowed to eat without puking it up afterward).

Remember, you are only a terrorist if you kill people and aren't running a large American corporation.

http://www.thoughtcrimes.org/s9/index.php?/archives/1806-Killing-us-softly-with-neglect,-killing-us-softly....html">Thouhgtcrimes.org

[Greyhound]

1. Well done.

You forgot to mention, or maybe it isn't really necessary, the tens of thousands of "brown people" in other countries that are killed and injured each year with impunity.
:kick: & R

[Kelvin Mace]

2. Yeah, and I forgot

to mention getting a job running FEMA or Walter Reed.

[singingbiscuit]

3. Depends on who you work for...

...reminds me of a little item that Schoolhouse Rock won't ever show:
Pirates and Emperors: Size does matter!

http://youtube.com/watch?v=TmkKltfp5lw

[newyawker99]

10. Hi singingbiscuit!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[unpossibles]

4. why do you hate freedom so much?

sorry. I totally agree with you, but that's the typical response - that those corporations have the right to kill us or whatever in the name of the Allmighty God, $

What are you, some kinda commie or sumthin?

[Kelvin Mace]

7. Apparently, I am

and a traitor too.

[unpossibles]

8. haha... good to know

I guess if we don't consume the world's resources like a cancer and - in the words of the adroit wordsmith, Ann Coulter - "rape the earth", then you must hate Jesus or something. I don't know - lies confuse me sometimes.

[Kelvin Mace]

12. I try to be honest about my shortcomings

:)

[dfgrbac]

5. And how do we stop corporatism?

There is only one way. Since our elected officials and representatives will not do it (it doesn't matter what Party), we the people must.

And there is only one presidential candidate talking about this - Mike Gravel!

[T Wolf]

6. The only way is to make those who run (and exploit) the system

personally pay for the evil they do.

Anything less is doomed to failure.

[havocmom]

14. Absolutely

:thumbsup:

[Greyhound]

16. My only beef with him is his advocacy of replacing income tax with

a national sales tax. He does mention a monthly refund to cover the amount paid for basic survival, but I see far more negatives than positives in his plan.

[blues90]

9. It is amazing isn't it .

They manage to kill more people in a year than on 9/11 but no one notices this .

It's a real crime that they get away with the fear used on 9/11 even when 9/11 the official story sounds like one huge lie .

But without their fear and wars they would not be able to fund the military industrial complex or the big oil corps .

People , the average citizen means nothing no matter how you look at it .

I have not idea how to hault the corporations now since they have gained so much power . I can;t imagine most people will stop buying their products to starve the beasts .

[ArmchairMeme]

11. Corps that write laws to keep them safe

Yes, I saw the next new headline about adding desserts to the peanut butter warning. Also the double about fish being bad for pregnant women because of the mercury and now they say that fish is safe for pregnant women.

I remember reading an article about how the dairy industry became subsidized by the gov. and then was introduced into public schools and then leap to being the perfect food despite the large percentage of the population being unable to digest it each school child got a carton of milk with their lunch and lots of cheese on the menu.

Cheese is high cholestrol and also a staple of fast food. I am astounded that someone would eat a triple beef burger covered with bacon and cheese - wow now that's a heart attack being planned for.

The pharma industry along with the help of fda put drugs on the market that are known to be unsafe and only after people have died in some number is something done. They probably change the name and change it to over the counter sales. The medical industry works with them. Then there are all the unnecessary drugs weight loss, skin products, perpetual youth stuff.

[Kelvin Mace]

13. It's all about the Benjamins

I plead guilty to a serious cheese habit, but stay clear of the chains as much as possible and try to patronize locally owned establishments. The food may still be bad for you, but the people aren't evil.

[manic expression]

15. It's capitalism that's the problem

corporations are just the natural and logical conclusion of capitalism and property. Let's do away with those ills (property, capitalism, the bourgeoisie) and make a better world.