ALEC's "right-wing ideologues & corporate stooges [are] the greatest threat to individual liberty"

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From the Maine weekly The Forecaster:

http://www.theforecaster.net/content/pnms-beem-universal-notebook-111611

The Universal Notebook: Smart ALEC, LePage and the unconstitutional right
By Edgar Allen Beem
Nov 14, 2011 10:40 am

Gov. Paul LePage has now proposed mandatory drug testing for welfare recipients. Unless he thinks needing financial assistance is reason enough to suspect illegal drug use, he ought to understand that what he is proposing is very likely unconstitutional.

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Where does LePage get these crazy ideas? Well, yes, he is a copycat governor, but it’s not just his fellow tea party gubernators who have his ear. For the most part, the LePage agenda comes straight out of the American Legislative Exchange Council playbook: a corporate legislative blueprint on how to restrict voting rights, privatize prisons and public education, repeal labor laws and worker rights, limit environmental protections, crack down on immigration and welfare, and enact tort reform.

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The hypocrisy underlying the ALEC agenda being pursued by hard-line Republicans and repudiated by the rest of us is perfectly clear. While complaining about the erosion of personal freedoms, these right-wing ideologues and corporate stooges represent the greatest threat to individual liberties in this country today.

If tea party Republicans like LePage were successful in enacting all of their reforms, restrictions, programs and punishments, every U.S. citizen would have another U.S. citizen keeping an eye on them. That’s not America. That’s ALEC.

More on this group's dangerous influence and the harm it does in the long compilation topic on the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC).

[midnight]

1. Koch family ran work camps for Hitler... Nothing American about what

they do....


"On September 1, Koch became Reichskommissar of Reichskommissariat Ukraine with control of the Gestapo and the police. His domain was extended from the Baltic Sea to the Black Sea; he captured ethnic German, Polish, Belarus and Ukrainian’s declaring that “Ukraine children need no schools. What they’ll have to learn will be taught them by their German masters” and “If I meet a Ukrainian worthy of being seated at my table, I must have him shot..”.

Koch worked together with the General Plenipotentiary for Labour Deployment, providing the Reich with forced labor. Due to his brutal actions, Nazi rule in Ukraine was disturbed by a growing number. Before once more getting away himself, by escaping through this Baltic Sea port on April 23, 1945, on the icebreaker Ostpreußen. He faced charges of war crimes for the extermination of 400,000 Poles, but was never indicted for his crimes in Ukraine. He was sentenced to death on March 9, 1959 by the district court in Warsaw for having planned, prepared and organised the mass murder of civilians. Russians thought he possessed information about art looted by the Nazis during the war."http://unknownjournal.wordpress.com/2010/10/06/▼-report-the-kochs-their-nazi-past-american-oil-the-foundation-of-republican-ideology/