TOM TOMORROW: If It Were Terrorism...

[Hissyspit]

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[malthaussen]

1. I like TT, but the Twitter guy nailed it first.

"If terrorists had poisoned the water of 300,000 Americans, we'd have already invaded the wrong country. But since a corporation did it, carry on."

-- Mal

[hunter]

2. Yep. Again.

Our government spies on anyone who might be a "terrorist" on the flimsiest of pretexts, but it can't properly inspect and regulate dangerous corporations.

It's pretty obvious who our government is "protecting" and it is NOT "We the People."

[KansDem]

3. But I thought corporations were people?

If so, arrest Freedom Industries and sent it to GitMo to be waterboarded. Then put it in prison for a long, long time.

[Jakes Progress]

17. But. Some people are more equal than other people.

Damn that Orwell. (Another George.)

[awoke_in_2003]

22. As someone once said

I will believe corporations are people when Texas executes one.

[tblue]

26. Use that water when you water board it.

Make all the corp directors drink it.

[KansDem]

29. Hmmmmmm...

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[yurbud]

32. or send in the drones.

[Scootaloo]

36. Immortal people with no responsibilities

I would love to see one get a proverbial bullet in the head just to keep the rest of them on their toes.

[mountain grammy]

4. K & R for Tom Tomorrow and the truth!

[uponit7771]

5. +1

[Paladin]

6. K&R. (nt)

[Silent3]

7. We need to pass a law that gives every corporation an Arabic sounding name.

Then we'll see some action.

[A Simple Game]

11. Now, lets not discriminate,

some of our best terrorists haven't had Arabic sounding names or even been dark complected.

The problem is we don't call them terrorists, if we did, we would have to ban assault weapons.

[L0oniX]

8. If corporations are people too then they can also be terrorist too.

[adirondacker]

35. I'd be content if they just paid their taxes at this point:)

[meegbear]

9. SNAP!!

[AtheistCrusader]

10. Gotta love Wolf Blitzer

[xocet]

12. Is that real? n/t

[AtheistCrusader]

13. Yes. Yes it is.

[xocet]

14. Thanks. That is hilarious. n/t

[AtheistCrusader]

15. I think it was the singlemost enjoyable episode I have ever seen.

Andy Richter beat his ass.

[valerief]

24. Woo hoo. Love Andy Richter. nt

[malaise]

41. You think?

I will never forget that evening

[CFLDem]

16. I've never cried over 4 methyl-cyclohexane methanol!

[Jakes Progress]

18. You can't. It sucks the water out of your body.

[tclambert]

19. So if the people of West Virginia had sprinkled some fake bomb parts around the spill site . . .

they'd have gotten some help right quick.

[Doctor_J]

20. Lat panel could be improved a little - copy from dupe thread

Something like,

Woman: "Suppose we regulated the coal companies to death??? How would we heat our homes???

Man: "Wow, that sun is really bright today"

[lark]

21. That's foreign terrorist you're thinking of

American terrorists, including the corporations that are mainly the culprits, are completely exonerated, even if a bunch of people die or get sick.

[valerief]

23. On the money once again! nt

[tjwash]

25. Worse - they get to take advantage of US bankruptcy laws to keep from paying...

...the inevitable hospital bills from the cancer-clusters, and other deaths and illnesses that are sure to follow a chemical spill of this magnitude.

[RainDog]

27. k&r n/t

[colsohlibgal]

28. One Main Thing Enables This Irrationality/Insanity

That is the American people. Way too many are some combo of: not the brightest bulb/unbelievably gullible/lazy. Without these kind of easily led folks dimwits like Rick Perry couldn't get elected dogcatcher.

[Donald Ian Rankin]

30. Accidental harm *is* less serious than deliberate harm. N.T.

[antigone382]

37. The harm in coal country is not accidental.

I have lived there for a long time. Life and property are secondary to the financial interests of coal companies and always have been. The industry figured out that the absolute worst acts of overt political oppression, theft, violence, and murder which they committed (or paid others to commit on their behalf) were simply too risky and bad for business (google "Baldwin-Felts" or "The West Virginia Mine Wars" if you want to know the details). But the human toll continues in every mine disaster, every blackened river, every corner that is cut to save a few dollars at the potential expense of the land and the people.

These guys know that their actions will likely poison or kill a few people, and they have chosen to kill as many as they can get away with without cutting too far into the bottom line. For this express purpose, the big dogs expressly set up "independent subsidiaries" which can be shut down and declared bankrupt with incredible ease when recklessness inevitably results in tragedy. We've seen it happen again and again.

Extractive industry is violence, and it is deliberate violence. Make no mistake about that.

[Gothmog]

31. Great cartoon

[pa28]

33. T.T. really captures the journalistic uselessness of Wolf Blitzer.

Not quite bright enough to be embarrassed for himself.

[Martin Eden]

34. It makes sense both ways.

Industrial pollution by corporations is not treated as a crime because the industry owners get rich from deregulation.

We have a massive response to acts of terrorism because the owners of the military industrial complex get rich from it.

Really, what is there not to understand here?

[countryjake]

38. K&R!

[Coyotl]

39. That whacky scientist needs a new barber.

Maybe a wig too.

[DeSwiss]

40. K&R

- Well, he didn't lie. Change for the worst is still change......

[myrna minx]

42. Brilliant, as always.

[Electric Monk]

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