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Title: ‘Anonymous’ Targets The Brothers Koch, Claiming Attempts ‘To Usurp American Democracy’
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RawStory
URL Source: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/02/ ... s-to-usurp-american-democracy/
Published: Feb 27, 2011
Author: Stephen C. Webster
Post Date: 2011-02-27 16:20:12 by Brian S
Keywords: None
Views: 25349
Comments: 20
The decentralized protest group "Anonymous" has a new target: no, it's not a middle eastern dictator, a major bank or even a bit player in the military-industrial complex. It's none other than tea party financiers Charles and David Koch, who were being targeted, an open letter stated, for their attempts "to usurp American Democracy." "Koch Industries, and oligarchs like them, have most recently started to manipulate the political agenda in Wisconsin," an announcement posted to anonnews.org declared. "Governor Walker's union-busting budget plan contains a clause that went nearly un-noticed. This clause would allow the sale of publicly owned utility plants in Wisconsin to private parties (specifically, Koch Industries) at any price, no matter how low, without a public bidding process," they explained. "The Koch's have helped to fuel the unrest in Wisconsin and the drive behind the bill to eliminate the collective bargaining power of unions in a bid to gain a monopoly over the state's power supplies. The group, which was responsible for taking MasterCard Worldwide offline for an entire day -- along with numerous other organizations that plotted against secrets outlet WikiLeaks -- said it would now be "actively seeking vulnerabilities" in Koch industries. "In a world where corporate money has become the lifeblood of political influence, the labor unions are one of the few ways citizens have to fight against corporate greed," the release added. "Anonymous cannot ignore the plight of the citizen-workers of Wisconsin, or the opportunity to fight for the people in America's broken political system. For these reasons, we feel that the Koch brothers threaten the United States democratic system and, by extension, all freedom-loving individuals everywhere." They added that if one would like to withdraw their unknowing support for the brothers Koch, an array of products would need to be boycotted -- and not just by Americans, but people world-wide. "Anonymous hears the voice of the downtrodden American people, whose rights and liberties are being systematically removed one by one, even when their own government refuses to listen or worse - is complicit in these attacks," they continued. "We are actively seeking vulnerabilities, but in the mean time we are calling for all supporters of true Democracy, and Freedom of The People, to boycott all Koch Industries' paper products. We welcome unions across the globe to join us in this boycott to show that you will not allow big business to dictate your freedom." In the US, those products were listed as Vanity Fair, Quilted Northern, Angel Soft, Sparkle, Brawney, Mardi Gras and Dixie. For Europe, they were Demak'Up, Kitten Soft, Lotus / Lotus Soft, Tenderly, Nouvelle Soft, Okay Kitchen Towels, Colhogar, Delica, Inversoft and Tutto. All were produced by the "Georgia-Pacific" company, and all bear the logo seen above. The Koch's, who've seen their libertarian cause raised to a full-blown rightwing boogyman status, were principle financiers of Wisconsin's Republican Governor, Scott Walker. Among his first items of business as the state's governor was attempting to crush public worker unions by making it illegal for them to organize into a union. And while he'd been saying throughout the affair that this was not an attempt to bust unions, a front group for the Koch brothers had one of its spokesmen at this year's Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), who plainly stated that their goal was to take the unions out "at the knees." Walker was humiliated last week by a gonzo journalist with The Buffalo Beast, who managed to get him on the phone by pretending to be David Koch. During the conversation, the governor admitted to considering sending agent provocateurs into the throngs of protesters to try and stir up trouble. He also appeared to accept an offer for a flight to California, where he was to be shown "a good time" by the tea party financier. "Anonymous" was calling their latest project "#OpWisconsin". They asked that supporters begin boycotting the Koch paper products right away.
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#1. To: Brian S (#0)
Get 'er done!!!!
"Keep Your Goddamn Government Hands Off My Medicare!" - Various Tea Party signs.
libTURDS are hypocrites, LIARS and just base TRASH. libTURD SOP eh gurls? When will we hear about them going after SOROS? Uh YEAH, sure you BETCHA! NEVER is when, because SOROS funds them and their ilk. libTURDS are hypocrites, LIARS and just base TRASH.
Living in mouth breather's empty noggins 24/7/365 totally rent free!
In the US, those products were listed as Vanity Fair, Quilted Northern, Angel Soft, Sparkle, Brawney, Mardi Gras and Dixie. Stock up now. When the progressive hits the fan, the new currency will be bullets, beans, and Quilted Northern. I recall a re-run of MASH I saw where this uber right winger named Colonel Flagg... I can't stand some people who are liberal on a personal basis even should we agree. And I have conservative friends who are like family. We just agree to disagree on political stuff. One's political paradigm doesn't say anything on how decent, honest or good they are in other aspects of their lives. I imagine you are from a rural area; just a guess, mind you. When I lived in Bend. OR I noticed people in sparsely populated areas tend to be fiercely independent and much quicker to form black and white opinions on people really quickly. Nothing against them on this sort of trait -- it's just how it works when one depends more on oneself to survive and does not deal with hundreds of people every day in a city. In a city, one runs into so many different types of people, many tend to become more tolerant of difference as they get a better perspective of how, where and what those differences influence things. For example; when I grew up in a wooded area of Clinton. CT and went to private schools I loathed gay people; but as I dealt with them more and read up on them in order to post on threads on them in an up to speed fashion I learned that their sexual preference was really not a good indicator on how decent or functional these folks are at living their lives. Just some observations M. Doggie Dog, but I know your style necessitates you to usually attack, so go ahead. ;-)
You liberals need socialism, you're incapable of survivng on your own initiative. You flock together like sheep and need a shepherd to guide and protect you. You're fookin weaklings.
LOL! You see, the basic problem here cornflake boy is that you can never ever tell when a liar is telling the truth. So any nice little conversatition that we ever could have had is really impossible now. Since we all know that you are a self declared liar. As to you trying to talk down to any human on earth, THAT'S is a real side splitter weasel gurl! You libTURDS are the ones who think that diversity means skin color, and it is you libTURDS who flee from true open discussion and conversations, because you are interested in accumulating power unto the state to do your self declared "enlightened" agenda items so dem 'po 'ol fat, stupid, lazy, rednecked hoi polloi can have their sad little pitiful lives controlled by people "who know better" such as YOU. While the rest of us NORMAL FREE AMERICANS don't give a rusty damn what the wrapping of a soul is but we care above all things about the soul of THAT individual being able to do what they want to do best and most. We NORMAL AMERICANS support individual FREEDOM for ALL people, for ALL AMERICANS. WE don't make skin color or "fill in dotted line" grades of either HUMANS or CITIZENS; you pitiful, insipid, useless, little libTURD whore.
Living in mouth breather's empty noggins 24/7/365 totally rent free!
No doubt your lack of social skills got you booted from the flock. No wonder you seem bitter.
You have the courage to tell the masses what no politician told them: you are inferior and all the improvements in your conditions which you simply take for granted you owe to the efforts of men who are better than you. Ludwig von Mises in a letter to Ayn Rand
Your 'liar' label is a tactic that gains you no ground. And I don't label people in rural areas as 'unenlightened rednecks.' I planted trees and fought fires in many very rural areas and got to know and love the residents of communities like Wallace, and Avery Idaho, and I really like meeting and knowing people of all sizes, shapes, races, conditions or whatever makes them different. So, I don't see how your attempt to go at me on that angle does anything for you. And you do not believe in freedom for all people and Americans; just conservative ones. Anyone liberal you want oppressed, harassed and done away with. So, you appear either conflicted, or very closed minded. As far as all your labels, name calling and groundless posturing I am a liar go, they do not affect me in the least. I have a thick political skin, do not find you very intellectually deep or engaging, and very amusing to watch.
The Koch brothers, who were born in the U.S., have spent their entire lives delivering goods and services that people want to buy. Of course, that makes them evil. George Soros, who was not born in the U.S., has spent his entire life in financial speculation, short selling companies and countries. Of course, that makes him a leftist hero. Got it.
The Koch brothers have worked their entire lives on trying to keep rank and file Americans from the sort of spending power that allows them to invest in their children's future and have upward social and economic mobility. They feel the rich should get richer and have more power, and that somehow goods and services will magically sell themselves without people with the spending power to fuel the economy. Poverty level wages, no benefits = no orders, no sales, closed stores, closed plants; got it.
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No, they've worked their entire lives to build a very successful business. They've had to spend some amount of time to protect themselves from people like you and Lucysmom who want to use the FORCE of the government, rather than the CHOICE of the market to get your way.
I don't need some union thugs to preserve employment for me. Why do you support liars, thieves, fornicators and socialism?
Clearly the Koch brothers have committed themselves to using the force of government to make sure the common folk don't have a fair shake in the free market.
You have the courage to tell the masses what no politician told them: you are inferior and all the improvements in your conditions which you simply take for granted you owe to the efforts of men who are better than you. Ludwig von Mises in a letter to Ayn Rand
Oh, do you live in Alaska too.
You have the courage to tell the masses what no politician told them: you are inferior and all the improvements in your conditions which you simply take for granted you owe to the efforts of men who are better than you. Ludwig von Mises in a letter to Ayn Rand
I live where I want. I don't need a union to direct me.
Yawn ... LOL! You see, the basic problem here cornflake boy is that you can never ever tell when a liar is telling the truth. So any nice little conversatition that we ever could have had is really impossible now. Since we all know that you are a self declared liar. As to you trying to talk down to any human on earth, THAT'S is a real side splitter weasel gurl! You libTURDS are the ones who think that diversity means skin color, and it is you libTURDS who flee from true open discussion and conversations, because you are interested in accumulating power unto the state to do your self declared "enlightened" agenda items so dem 'po 'ol fat, stupid, lazy, rednecked hoi polloi can have their sad little pitiful lives controlled by people "who know better" such as YOU. While the rest of us NORMAL FREE AMERICANS don't give a rusty damn what the wrapping of a soul is but we care above all things about the soul of THAT individual being able to do what they want to do best and most. We NORMAL AMERICANS support individual FREEDOM for ALL people, for ALL AMERICANS. WE don't make skin color or "fill in dotted line" grades of either HUMANS or CITIZENS; you pitiful, insipid, useless, little libTURD whore.
Living in mouth breather's empty noggins 24/7/365 totally rent free!
Yeah, and I'm sure they did it out of the goodness of their hearts. You're not that naive, are you? George Soros, who was not born in the U.S., has spent his entire life in financial speculation, short selling companies and countries. Of course, that makes him a leftist hero. Curious comment there. Hmmm... I'm probably what you'd call a "leftist" and I couldn't care less about Soros. But let's test the converse, shall we? Are the Koch brothers "rightist" heroes?
And I bet your employer even gives you the bare basics, in that company town you used to brag about living in.
"http://first-draft-blog.typepad.com/.a/6a00d8341c5ced53ef0148c7a28c4b970c-320wi"
that company town you used to brag about living in. Self-employed for 30 years. You must be drunk.
The group, which was responsible for taking MasterCard Worldwide offline for an entire day -- along with numerous other organizations that plotted against secrets outlet WikiLeaks -- said it would now be "actively seeking vulnerabilities" in Koch industries.
#2. To: Brian S (#0)
#3. To: Brian S (#0)
unions across the globe to join us in this boycott
"We (government) need to do a lot less, a lot sooner" ~Ron Paul
Godwinson posted on 2011-02-23 11:47:32 ET
http://libertysflame.com/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=18011&Disp=46#C46
#4. To: Mad Dog (#2)
#5. To: Ferret Mike (#4)
Just some observations
#6. To: Ferret Mike (#4)
#7. To: Ibluafartsky (#5)
You flock together like sheep and need a shepherd to guide and protect you. You're fookin weaklings.
#8. To: Mad Dog (#6)
#9. To: Brian S (#0)
"Everything that can be invented has been invented."-- Charles Duell, Commissioner of US Patent Office, 1899
#10. To: jwpegler (#9)
#11. To: lucysmom (#7)
#12. To: Ferret Mike (#10)
(Edited)
The Koch brothers have worked their entire lives on trying to keep rank and file Americans from the sort of spending power that allows them to invest in their children's future and have upward social and economic mobility.
"Everything that can be invented has been invented."-- Charles Duell, Commissioner of US Patent Office, 1899
#13. To: lucysmom (#7)
you booted from the flock.
#14. To: jwpegler (#12)
They've had to spend some amount of time to protect themselves from people like you and Lucysmom who want to use the FORCE of the government, rather than the CHOICE of the market to get your way.
#15. To: Ibluafartsky (#13)
I don't need some union thugs to preserve employment for me.
#16. To: lucysmom (#15)
Oh, do you live in Alaska too.
#17. To: Ferret Mike (#8)
#18. To: jwpegler (#9)
The Koch brothers, who were born in the U.S., have spent their entire lives delivering goods and services that people want to buy. Of course, that makes them evil.
#19. To: Ibluafartsky (#16)
(Edited)
I live where I want. I don't need a union to direct me.
#20. To: Rek (#19)
your employer
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