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A little Graffiti? Six years. Massive environmental damage due to negligence? So far, nada.
One questions: Somebody explain to me how the enviro-nazis are "in charge". Rush says it all the time, so it must be true.
One questions: Somebody explain to me how the enviro-nazis are "in charge". Rush says it all the time, so it must be true.
Could face terrorism charges (Score:1)
The new chic in law enforcement... Dig it
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Kill me now.
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Kill me now.
No can do... The other idea is to keep you trapped in your biological cage forever.. Slowly dipping you in acid... pulling off your fingernails... Whatever horrible thing you can dream up, and know that somewhere, someone is doing it.
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We are all terrorists now.
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Kill me now.
I can't. The religious right has outlawed assisted suicide.
Crime awareness (Score:2)
When Michael Moore had a TV show in the early-to-mid-1990s (TV Nation), they did a segment (I didn't see it, but friends told me about it) in which they asked people if they thought street crime or corporate crime was a bigger problem. Most people, of course, thought street crime was a bigger problem. So they showed the statistics, and in terms of dollar value, street crime is of course just an insignificant speck compared to corporate crime. So then they "wondered" (for dramatic and comedic effect) why
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HciJF6rLBhI [youtube.com]
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People "feel" street crime personally as something that happens to then directly. They will never see the same connection with corporate crime.. Too much separation between the crime and the criminal, who they never see.. And besides, unlike a physical assault, corporate crime is somewhat consensual. To get people to take note and/or actually care, you will need to dramatize the event somewhat. You have to make it personal.. You have to present it as a direct attack upon the person.