First post is rated 5 insightful and parent is at 4 insightful. Many more comments share the same view of 'bend down and take it like a grown up woman'. Does that phrase ring any bells? From two weeks ago? From the deranged mother yelling at her daughter to take the judge's sadistic beating 'like a grown up woman'?
Many north americans are so fucked up in the head that when someone speaks about people's rights they automatically feel the yank in the corporate chain and jump up to yell 'right? what rights? (north american corporation) has rights too!!'
It's sad when a society founded on fighting oppression gets infinitely more of what it was (or so it thought) ready to leave behind. North americans are censoring themselves so effectively that what I see in this story makes me feel like reading 1984. When I read the english that people devoted to truth use (take as an obvious example scientists like Einstein and Feynman, their private letters of their professional output), compared to the abysmal excuse for a language I see on TV, websites and elsewhere including here, the tortured convolutions people want to pass for truth or fact, the petty arguments, the banality, I think of the exact relationship between language and thought, and can only conclude that there's only shit inside many people's heads. You can say, like any junkie, that you can quit it any time, but it has become second nature. I see time and again that north americans cannot react anymore than fucked-up people in South America or Africa, used as you have become, to the corporate shafting and erosion of your rights. A quote from Kierkegaard says that people die to defend so-called freedom of speech while willingly forgoing freedom of thought. Again the close link between speech and thought.
That's a sad state when you could aspire to a better world and have lived in the time of such giants as the ones mentioned, and many more. Only humans, yes, they also had to wipe their ass when going to the bathroom, but they strived for more than you, that's for sure.
When someone speaks a sane idea, like the Icelandic MP, you corporate rats should hide and try to reflect on what you have made of your lives.