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Amazing how blatant your words of right-wing rhetoric shows the most hateful of contempt for the average individual whether they are an American citizen or a foreigner.

1. The US is the most religious of all developed nations and it is of a fundamentalist nature in the main which encourages rigid thought and
belief and discourages questioning and curiosity.

2. It is the only developed nation where people both fear and hate their government.

3. It is the only developed nation which retains to a large degree, the 18th century belief that poverty is self-inflicted.

4. It is a fear-filled culture, perhaps because of the religion, which encourages aggression. Fear is always behind anger and rage.

5. It is a paranoid culture to a much larger degree than probably anywhere else which encourages the obsession with guns which has made the US the most heavily armed and most violent country on earth. It is also paranoia and fear which has created a social subset called 'preppers' which you don't find in any other developed nation and which to outsiders is sadly, laughable. This same paranoia has brought Americans to believe that social welfare, justice for the citizens, which is enjoyed by the rest of the developed world and denied to Americans, will somehow lead to socialism which, in the US, means communism. The fact that the rest of the modern world has managed to introduce and run social welfare programs while remaining healthy
democracies is probably not something the average American knows.

6. The society has been insular and arrogant for a long time, believing both in its exceptionalism and superiority and remaining ignorant and disinterested in the rest of the world. The internet is changing this but Americans have been fooled into believing for most of their history that they have it better than anyone else. They don't and they never did. And in this day and age they have it worst with the average American having a poorer quality of life than the average citizen in any other developed nation. If you cannot see the reality of your life then you cannot change it. If you believe that what you have is the best anyone has then you are less inclined to demand more. The average American still does not know or believe that they have the worst quality of life of any developed nation. This is particularly disgraceful given the wealth of the nation.

7. It has the worst media in the entire world which encourages ignorance, fear and paranoia.

8. Most Americans do not possess a passport and so have no knowledge of the rest of the world and therefore no perspective on how badly served they are.

I have one question for the corporate bastards and their whores on both sides of the political aisle. When you have achieved your ultimate aims of indenturing the middle class, especially young people burdened by a lifetime of student loan debt, destroying the social contract and safety net, and ultimately impoverishing the fools who keep voting against their own interests thanks to the game you're playing on them, who is going to have the income to partake of your products, services and scams? Hmmm? Thus, the system, thankfully, devours itself.

I can't wait to see if your comfortable, gated communities will insulate you from the dystopia you are creating. IMHO, I think not. Can't wait to see it either. I've got my popcorn all ready.

When you have managed to destabilize ahd destroy society to enrich yourselves, one wonders whether you will experience the shock and surprise of discovering that you too were parts of that society all along and that you are not insulated from its collapse.

This isn't about First Amendment rights. This is about shielding corporations from responsibility and protecting your profits at all costs.

I find your letter full of hyperbole, but that is usually the case with republicans. I take it that in your wonderful world, there is no global warming, all union members are overpaid thugs and trial lawyers should not exist. As for the environment, you are a blithering idiot if you perceive that big business has not caused the problems. The only salvation for the working man is unionism. Trial lawyers are the only stopgap between corporations and the little guy.
I suppose that you believe that great humanitarians like the Koch Brothers would be benevolent father figures if left to their own devices ? You're a fool that needs to have his head removed from his anal sphincter muscle. Kind of ironic that you utilize trial lawyers to strip any rights that may exist away from the little guy. Your ilk will not survive the dismantling of the ability to sue for tort damages. We now have the ability through social media to get the word out faster than you can buy tort reform. Good luck.

Do what you are saying, asshat, is that it is ok for you to be a piece of shit, b/c everyone else is also a piece of shit.

It's not even nuclear power generating fuel until it undergoes a lot of tedious processing. And it needs a lot more processing to make it weapons grade.

From your reference from scribd.com:

Israeli warplanes bombed a reactor project at the site in 1981. Later, U.N.inspectors documented and safeguarded the yellowcake, which had been stored in aging drums and containers since before the 1991 Gulf War. There was no evidence of any yellowcake dating from after 1991, the official said." [Emphasis added.]

In other words, it had been sitting there unused, and with no evidence of any plans to use it, all along.

Bush's claim was crap. BRITISH INTELLIGENCE got fooled and George W. Bush parroted what they said, just like any stupid wingnut on the Internet, because it helped him whip up support for the war he was spoiling for. Or maybe he thought quoting BRITISH INTELLIGENCE would cover his butt. Pretty thin coverage at best.

SCOTUS's decision reaffirms the 'chain of command' when determining discrimination, which in many ways is an issue of 'stand your ground' but is progressive, in fact. I agree with the court here, and this undermines the neo-liberal stance at the same time.

And there we have it...the average idiot does not check facts, so the Citizens United ruling drives all legislation.

The fact that you would make that comment in the manner you did while being the head of this organization without losing your job really says it all about the organization you represent. You and your organization are a disgrace to humanity.

Specifically, wing-nut squawk radio call-in people. Some communications director.

Messrs. Nichols and McChesney- Please check out my website AdvanceTheDialog.com. I have tried to codify basic constructs of logic and common sense for the public to use as tools to demand more from the media. The public can 'Call Them Out' when the media breaks the Rules, and vote on 'Cover The Topic', 'Ask The Question', or enter their own. It is a new site and I am building support still. I would love your participation & feedback! I am serious about this project. Thank you.

Command-and-control communists, marginally less radical nanny staters, and the plaintiffs' lawyers who tactically fund their respective propaganda operations would, presumably, prefer to have state lawmakers influenced only by the Natural Resources Defense Council, SEIU, AFSCME, AAJ and other outfits that support continued expansion of government and civil liability.

Well, tough luck, comrades. Because the First Amendment empowers Americans all along the political spectrum to freely associate and petition their government for redress of grievances. And one of the biggest grievances of those of us who prefer free markets and personal responsibility to crony capitalism and an all-powerful regulatory state is the extortionate transfer of wealth from productive businesses to parasitic personal injury lawyers and law firms.

So we're going to use any constitutional means necessary to pursue civil justice reforms at state and federal levels, just as the far left relentlessly pursues its anti-growth, anti-jobs and anti-U.S. competitiveness agenda. Whine and cry all you want, folks, and pretend that what we tort reformers do is somehow different than what the environmental radicals, thieving union bosses, and lying trial lawyers do every day. But you won’t persuade anyone who isn’t already a fellow traveler to join your cause, no matter how sinister you try to make the exercise of First Amendment rights sound.

Darren McKinney
Director of Communications
American Tort Reform Association

You could at least get my name right --- it's Matt Fullenbaum of the American Tort Reform Association, not Mark Fullenbaum as you have referenced me in your article. Thank you.