Readers' Comments

We are citizens with a conscience and members of society who need to look out for the best interest of our community, our nation and the world.

US needs to be a leader and take their position to lead ethically and logically by modeling good and responsible business.

Science has proven that our natural pollinators, the bees, are being affected by the new pesticides. Stand up for what is right, the bees can't talk and defend themselves...people need to be the caretakers. Logically, protect our future generations, our children, our crops, our resources...limit the use of these bio-nerve agents...it is even affecting the bees.

Business CEOs need to take a more responsible stand and show their good faith in preserving life.

As a seasoned veteran of the computer industry, and having worked in government. This all seems a little suspicious. First of all, nobody has ever heard of backups? Where were these computers? If they are on gov't networks, they are backed up. If it came via e-mail, that email was backed up.

This sounds like normal BS with both sides covering something. I'm calling hogwash on this.

This behavior on behalf of the WI GOP is immoral, illegal, unethical and just plain wrong. Heads should roll, congressmen should be indicted, nothing in government should be hidden from WE THE PEOPLE. It is totally unjustified except that the GOP feels it is above the law and anything done in their name has the blessings of God, in other words to them, the almighty DOLLAR! Get the bums' asses OUT of CONGRESS! Prosecute them! Jail them! Hell, get out the tar and feathers, I'll light the match! I saw it done in "John Adams" and it's not pretty, but I'll strike the match and with it a blow for WE THE PEOPLE (just in case they forgot whom they are SUPPOSED to be working for!
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I find your defense of the Koch bros. as merely benign businessmen to be insane. They are ideologues with an agenda and the money to try and implement it. In their vision of a world there would be no unions, no public education, no social security or other "safety nets", no marriage equality, no environmental protections. It would be every man for himself and the gov't would do nothing but protect the interests of the wealthy.

When I was in journalism school, it was considered "selling out" to take a job in PR. But now, selling out takes on a whole new meaning. There was a time when the FCC would not have allowed this sort of purchase of the Fourth Estate, but after years of regulatory gutting spawned by special interests, this is what "selling out" has become. Fairness, and accuracy, and the public good be damned. According to some special interests seeking protection, that was the "liberal" press. I've got news for you. They've been falling down on the job of being "liberal" for years. So now buy them out, just like some bought our government. Next, buy the public record.

The gun lobby already owns the right to be in charge. Gun regulation in the US is not new. In March 30, 1981, President Ronald Reagan and White House Press Secretary James Brady were shot on a Washington, D.C. street. The “Brady Bill” became law in 1993. It imposed a waiting period to buy a handgun and required buyers to undergo background checks. In 1994, the Assault Weapons Ban outlawed certain classes of semi-automatic guns and large-capacity magazines. It expired 10 years later. And just in case my one source, (If I were on the job, and not editorializing, it would have been two.) is inaccurate, here's its link:

http://www.wcti12.com/Guns-In-America/History-of-gun-control-in-the-U-S/-/18553878/18563348/-/iostkt/-/index.html

These were regulations imposed by a harder-to-influence Congress, and we, as citizens, have since allowed their work to be undone by money. Is that what one calls "success" for the perpetrators who profited?

Too few understand how the media is, by necessity, the only watchdog that keeps our democracy sound. Does that make it "liberal?" Good journalists know that truth and opinion are not the same thing. There are many opinions, yet so few good journalists left on anyone's payroll to tell the truth.

You want freedom? Well, now that cameras track your every move, what will happen when your "opinions," true or not, go against the grain of those in power who wish to silence you?

You might feel free if you agree with the opinions of the Koch Brothers, but what will happen when one day you don't? Or worse, what happens when no one gives you the sources and information that may not reinforce your existing opinions, but which are critical to ensuring you retain the freedom to decide?

Now I'll cross my fingers that someone doesn't buy my "opinions" right out of cyberspace.

And when wealthy corporate oligarchs buy up all the media outlets, where will we turn for news? This is not a product like paper towels, this is a propaganda platform that will spin the news to push their own political agenda which benefits THEIR investments. Should the wealthy in this country have that much power???? I do not believe people are savy enough to discern when news and issues are spun through the media. Ex. FOX calls itself fair and balanced and is anything but.... Look at the seniors in this nation who watch only FOX.
The Koch brothers have sworn to diminish the government of this great nation. They would see government in the hands of the corporations, not the voting public. To benefit whom?

alec consists of lying, money-grubbing piles of excrement. anything and everything they have to say is a lie and/or designed to make the wealthy wealthier at the expense of the rest of humanity and the earth.

Let Steven Colbert explain it. He does such a far better job than I: http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/425748/april-23-2013/austerity-s-spreadsheet-error

How about American Lawless Executives Committee for a rebrand? Or Anti-democratic Leaders Engaging in Crime? Or just plain BASTARDS works for me.

Headline “Bayer and Syngenta Lobby Furiously Against EU Efforts to Limit Pesticides and Save Bees”
If you cant prove your case with research and science as the case with Bayer and Syngenta, throw money and corruption at it!

Yes, the people of Wisconsin need to wake up, organize, more, etc.

But they shouldn't need to vote on what happens to lawyers who fail to direct their clients to impose a litigation hold on relevant documents, or those political flunkies who may have done the actual obstruction of justice. If the federal judges respect the system, they should ask themselves whether anything short of criminal contempt sanctions would be adequate.