Dictatorship? Naw, It Could Never Happen Here

by Sheila Jackson, opednews.com/

times would fill one volume of a history book, at least.  Those of us who attempt to keep abreast of the news are hard put to ferret out the important stuff from the fluff and connect the facts to one another in some kind of a dot pattern that yields a coherent picture.  But, I will try. 

Rupert Murdoch has succeeded in gobbling up The Wall Street Journal.  One more formerly objective, respectable publication to be reformated ala the New York Post. 

The Supreme Court has handed down yet another corporate friendly, individual rights unfriendly decision that rewards Goodyear Tire Company for discrimination based on gender.  And to heap insult upon injury, Goodyear has decided to sue the woman they underpaid for years, to cover their court costs.  On top of that, congress has to prove that passing a Ledbetter law that protects the individual citizen from being persecuted by a corporate giant with billions of dollars at its disposal; that in so protecting a persecuted individual it does not somehow cause damage to the persecutor by shaving off a bit of some CEO’s huge salary, stock options and bonuses.  So, what is likely to happen to Valerie Plame’s case if and when it reaches The Court?  Just the kind of Court the right wing loves, one that pets the powerful and punishes the underprivileged, the victims of discrimination. 

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