Toon: Freedom Industries

[Playinghardball]

Found on the Obama Diary

[Aerows]

1. Look who it all goes back to ...

Freedom Industries was founded in 1992 by Gary Southern, and Carl L. Kennedy II.[1][2] On December 31, 2013, Freedom Industries merged with three other companies, Etowah River Terminal, Poca Blending, and Crete Technologies.[1][2] Southern remains as president of the newly formed company.[1] The company distributes chemicals used in coal mining[1] and is a distributor for Georgia-Pacific.[3] Georgia-Pacific is in turn owned by Koch Industries.[4]

Anyone shocked?

[underpants]

2. Poca Blending in Nitro WV is just downstream from Poca WV

It probably started in Poca. Poca at one point had a high school, their mascots was The Dots.

Just some local knowledge from my WV relatives.

[TimeToEvolve]

3. If the TPP gets ratified

environmental destruction like this will become commonplace

[Rex]

4. A libertarians wet dream! THIS IS what they want for America!

THIS is the reason we need to remind them of how wrong they are!

[awoke_in_2003]

5. The same libertarians

will fight tooth and nail to keep these things out of their backyard, though.

[Rex]

6. Yes they will! TO that end, they are no different than GOPukers

which is why I always say, 'show me a libertarian and I will show you one very confused republican'.

[calimary]

15. Or the optional "show me a libertarian and I will show you someone who's too chicken to admit

they're a republi-CON." 'Cause "libertarian" sounds so much more harmless!

[WinstonSmith4740]

13. AND those same libertarians

will fight tooth and nail to regulate, and therefore keep, the government in our uterus'.

[Gothmog]

7. Great cartoon

[Spitfire of ATJ]

8. Look at a map of West Virginia....

There could be a major highway between Richmond and Cincinnati if they employed all of the people and equipment that usually top off mountains to stripmine.

[FSogol]

9. K & R. n/t

[jsr]

10. Also, polluters rarely live where they pollute.

A good polluter should always have a second home in Hawaii.

[Solly Mack]

11. The freedom to fuck the people over.

[raven mad]

14. Got it in one, Solly Mack.

And the Koch assholes pretty much control oil refining throughout Alaska, as well. Their plant here in the Interior has already contaminated the small town of North Pole's main water supply with sulfolane (see http://dec.alaska.gov/spar/csp/sites/north-pole-refinery/ ) Scary, hmmm? But the Kotch Crotches have it knocked - a huge "in" with the repukes here and everywhere!

[calimary]

16. Welcome to DU, raven mad!

Glad you're here! So sorry about the malignancy in Alaska - that beautiful natural treasure that these bastards think nothing of trashing. Guaranteed the koch brothers live safely far far away. Certainly don't wanna be gettin' their own hands dirty!

[mountain grammy]

12. The free market at work again.

see, this is how it works. We'll be so outraged by the spill, we'll stop buying any coal and the company will succumb to the pressures of the free market and self regulate... Riiiiiiight... then there's that bridge in NJ, the joke, as always, is on us.