[Newspoetry] Orwell was an Optimist

[Mike Lehman]

Note they talk about those Minneapolis attorneys.  I've been screwed by
Minneapolis corporate attorneys.  Remember that little Supervalu thing?

It is a rather frightening story though.  But it's what you start seeing
when the press ignores all the little labor/rights violations.  These
companies think they are God, or at least superior to the government,
and they pretty much ALWAYS get away with it.  Unfortunately this
newspaper was among those that thought what Supervalu was doing in
Illinois wasn't worth covering.  Or maybe we didn't get our rights so
outrageously violated as to be newsworthy in their little rag.  These
people are part of the problem, rather than the solution.

But most of all it's because the American people don't have the guts as
a whole to stand up and oppose this shit.  Maybe I'm bitter, but always
remember...

AN INJURY TO ONE IS AN INJURY TO ALL

Mike

 

Bill Wendling wrote:
> 
> It's finally happened. Corporations are now confiscating employees'
> personal machines IN THEIR HOMES!
> 
> http://www.startribune.com/stOnLine/cgi-bin/article?thisStory=81364200
> 
> Try to suppress your gag reflex. I wrote a letter to NW Air expressing
> my...dissatisfaction.
> 
> I'm sure people on here will be pleased with the line:
> 
>         "Business speech is not subject to the same protections as
>         political speech," said John Roberts, a Minneapolis attorney who
>         specializes in cyberlaw. "You can't say whatever you want about a
>         company."
> 
> I wonder when the Constitution was amended from "all speech" to
> "political speech only."