Stick to the man...

"The man ruined the ozone, is burning down the amazon and he kidnapped Shamu and put her in a chlorine tank!"

Jack Black, School of Rock.

I have to admit I'm pretty new to this fight and I've been ranting for some time to people about the evils of corporations but at least they don't have to read about it on any of my other blogs.

But today let us think what we are up against. Back from the late 19th century it was the government who kept people down, who beat them into the floor with everything from riot squads, firemen and their hoses to the army.

But now the man is money. The huge multinationals with more money than God (not that I necessaily believe in God or not. I do not believe religion is the 'opium of the masses' either. Television probably is.).

These corporations are nasty things. They are capable of totally evil acts because they have only one principle:

"Make as much money as possible."

Now, if it was JUST about that I could maybe understand, we all like money, corporations act for this interests of their stockholders. But at some point the principle changed to this...

"Make as much money as possible, whatever it takes."

Coca-Cola fund paramilitary action in Columbia to beat up union workers. Meaning they can charge less wages, remove the rights of their workers through corporate terrorism. Now you might be like me and think such actions are evil and how can anyone possibly give the green light to such a diabolical scheme?

But did anyone?

Are these things so maniacally out of control that such things occur merely as 'accidents'?

I think this is a question we should be asking ourselves as well as the CEO's of corporations. Who is really in control of these things? Or are they so big and unwieldy that they are out of control and nobody really knows what is going on?

I find that thought even more terrifying than 'The Man' behind his desk plotting evil. That something man has created, something which is essentially artificial and doesn't exist in one place or time can tramble over people in another country.

It's time to take the Power back...

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How I got started:
www.thecorporation.com
www.corpwatch.org
www.seen.org

More when I have it.

Ram.

A long time ago in a Glaxosmithcline group far, far away...

"If we give up our liberty, in the name of security, we shall have neither,"
Benjamin Franklin

So it begins, the first of my postings against the evils of capitalism. I wonder if I will make any difference at all...