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<p style="TEXT-ALIGN: center" data-mce-style="text-align:
center;" align="center"><b><span style="FONT-SIZE: 18pt;
LINE-HEIGHT: 115%" data-mce-style="font-size: 18pt;
line-height: 115%;">From The WarZone</span></b></p>
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center;" align="center"><b><span style="FONT-SIZE: 18pt;
LINE-HEIGHT: 115%" data-mce-style="font-size: 18pt;
line-height: 115%;">Sanctioned Murder in America</span></b></p>
<p><span style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 115%"
data-mce-style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Corporate
negligent homicide [murder] has become a significant cause
of death in America. Case in point: General Motor’s
failure to recall faulty vehicles. Consider how many
deaths occur because of product liability, workplace
safety violations and then note the absence of penalties.
America stands out among industrialized nations in
legislating amnesty for corporate murder, limiting damages
with Tort reform, bankruptcy courts and getting a free
pass on criminal negligent homicide even when it’s
premeditated. Whatever a corporation does that negatively
impacts the lives of consumers and ordinary Americans is
no longer subject to constitutional authority, the bill of
rights, the judicial branch of government, or even the
charter laws each state has to force corporations to act
in the interest of the public. How did this happen?</span></p>
<p><span style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 115%"
data-mce-style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">The
ascension to Corporate Fascism began almost as soon as the
ink dried on the Bill of Rights. The truth is, as
citizens, we have no rights! In the late 1800”s citizen
status was granted to corporations in a questionable brief
written by a railroad employee on behalf of a corrupt
federal judge in favor of a railroad. Now, corporations
have their cake and eat it too. They can enjoy massive tax
breaks, hidden offshore tax havens, and buy elections at
will. But when they break the law, cause the death of
consumers, or grievous public harm, they’re not citizens
anymore. Lobbying [political bribery] has become an art
form that guarantees legislators untold wealth, future
careers as lobbyists, and the ability to completely ignore
their constituency while prostituting their elected
positions to the highest bidders. The problem is, with
that kind of power, corporations deny ordinary Americans
their democracy and push America deeper into fascism and
poverty.</span></p>
<p><span style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 115%"
data-mce-style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Nothing
offers more proof than the current political climate where
billionaires are buying elections on behalf of the
corporate elite aided and abetted by the second biggest
whorehouse in America; mainstream media! While they
possess a more lavish street corner, they are whores to
corporate advertisers who control the national
conversation and the information you and I need to make
important decisions. Brian Williams, Candy Crowley, Wolf
Blitzer, the Fox news mob, and even MSNBC avoid real
issues. It was that cowardly career saving shirking of
responsible journalism that led us into a phony oil war
that cost us thousands of our children’s lives, hundreds
of thousands wounded, more than 750,000 innocent civilian
lives, and millions of homeless refugees while bankrupting
our economy. </span></p>
<p><span style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 115%"
data-mce-style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">In
the case of General motors, the defects that caused
thirteen known deaths, with more to surface, was known to
GM for more than ten years. It was cheaper for GM to keep
killing than recall the affected vehicles and pay the
expense of repairs. For ten years, GM was willfully
killing consumers. To me that smacks of premeditation
whether you want to call it murder or criminal negligence.
What penalty or what charges would you or I face for
committing the same act? We would be treated as serial
killers. All those at GM who had knowledge of the defects
have some liability in the deaths of thirteen people. If
you knew and did nothing you are an accessory. If you
concealed or covered up information about the deaths, it
is conspiracy and obstruction; and if you were in the
decision-making to allow the deaths to continue, then you
are a murderer. But that’s in a real world in a real
democracy with a real rule of law. Not in America.
Corporate terrorism in America is assisted by the most
politically corrupt Supreme Court in our nation’s history.</span></p>
<p><span style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 115%"
data-mce-style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">GM
has now placed Mary Barra on the coveted throne as CEO.
Was Barra the brightest bulb in the GM chandelier or is
this more damage control? Facing congressional hearings,
there is a real plus to putting a woman and mother in the
hot seat. We have seen that before and it is effective as
legislators are less hostile in their approach. Barra
testified days ago that she had no knowledge of the
defects but refused to turn over complete reports of an
internal investigation. Barra has thirty years at GM and
an engineering background, so it’s very unlikely her
testimony was truthful. There is no way she floated within
the upper echelon without knowing about the defects. Risk
management is always a major concern in every corporation.
</span></p>
<p><span style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 115%"
data-mce-style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">It
has been announced that Barra is scheduled for a prime
time interview. Let the games begin and the circus put on
the show. GM and Barra will now Wal-Mart and BP the
airwaves with a willing media blitz that will transform
even the most blatant lies. Rumor has it that Barra may
even show up with a rented baby slung on her hip. </span></p>
<p><span style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 115%"
data-mce-style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Barra
has terminated a few low level engineers to placate public
outcry but no one of any significance has been charged nor
will they be. Barra should be asking herself what her real
role in this debacle is. Is she the fixer, the social
ambassador for the media, or the fall guy for the former
CEO and the Board of Directors?</span></p>
<p><span style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 115%"
data-mce-style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Just
when you think GM can’t stoop any lower, out comes the
scumbag legal department. GM just announced that victim’s
families will be told by GM.s premier scumbag just how
much compensation they will receive in settlement. If the
families refuse and file suit they will get nothing citing
bankruptcy protection. GM is apparently not satisfied
killing their customer’s; they want to rape their dead
bodies as well! In an article earlier this year, I
questioned the legitimacy of the GM bankruptcy. GM’s super
speedy recovery was just too remarkable. Securing a
devastating contract that UAW members were resisting in
spite of the international union’s effort to ram it down
their throats, raised red flags all over the place. Obama,
the Wall Street shill with his anti-worker auto czar,
Ratner the rat, did the ultimate fleece job on American
autoworkers and taxpayers. I am personally convinced the
GM bankruptcy was a fraudulent as GM’s concern for
customers or GM employees. </span></p>
<p><span style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 115%"
data-mce-style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">In
the past two decades no one has done more to damage GM’s
reputation than GM. GM’s passion for attacking its
workers, lowering their standard of living and forcing
contracts that roll the clock back 50 years, has not
helped the culture at GM. It is difficult for workers to
have pride and loyalty to an employer that keeps kicking
dirt in their faces. For customers, loyalty to GM products
is deeply damaged when GM pisses on those their lawless
behavior has victimized. For the public at large, GM’s
antics create more cynics when they rub our noses in the
fact they are above the law.</span></p>
<p><span style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 115%"
data-mce-style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">American
democracy is at risk when it is owned solely by those of
wealth, power and corporate entity. The current
congressional hearings on GM are a perfect example of
democracy derailed. What results will Americans who need
protection from corporations get? NOTHING! The hearings
are nothing more than street theater; a dog and pony show;
a media exercise in fraud. These hearings are held in the
biggest whorehouse in America. Except for a handful, no
congressman or senator will risk a lucrative career that
corporate America has the power to take away. Government
of the Corporation, By the Corporation, For the
Corporation. </span></p>
<p><span style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 115%"
data-mce-style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Mike
Griffin WarZone Education Foundation Decatur IL</span></p>
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