This article does an excellent job of portraying the side of the unionization fight conservatives love to forget: their use of force and violence as a mean of intimidation and coercion to prevent laborers from organizing to gain a better work environment. Anybody paying attention knows that the industrialists are the powerful and have always been, despite Sean Hannity's griping about "big labor." Organization is a threat to the wealthy economic elite, because when the masses start to talk to one another and think for themselves, they realize how much they are getting screwed over and decide to do something about …
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I so totally agree that the military is so completely like high school, seriously for real the only difference is like "your toughest teacher lives with you and has a gun" because that is so completely like, dude, I'm going to shoot you if you don't pay attention! Delgado knows the scene, and he knows, just like high school with gun teachers, that the military will totally just shoot yo butt. This is so not reported. Military = teachers with guns in High School. Try getting that info in the Economist!
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" "I felt like they were trapped in the war as much as I was and we were all victims of it, so I felt that fighting them would be wrong," he says. " Same could be said for our prison system here. Still someone has to impose order somehow. I would like to think order can be established in Iraq better than how it was done under Saddam, but only time will tell. . . For better of worse, the Iraqis are going to decide what type of country Iraq is going to be - a decision that will affect …
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"'When I came face to face with the people who were supposed to be my enemies, I thought that I had no reason to fight them,' he says." He's damn right they're not his enemies. It's not his war or anyone else's but Bush's and Cheney's. It's a war for oil, no-bid contracts, and kick-backs (to Bush and Cheney), in exchange for no bid contracts, and, oh yes, the execution of a vendetta against Hussain and his sons. I sure would have liked Ms. Souza to flesh out in more detail exactly what Mr. Delgado thought the purpose of the war …
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Thomas, Order has to be imposed somehow? Have you ever cared to consider that most of the prisoners at Abu Ghraib are there not because they committed a crime but because they were arbitrarily rounded up in one of those infamous search and seizure missions by the military? The International Red Cross has estimated that up to 90% of the prisoners at Abu Ghraib are not criminals or terrorists at all. They have every right to protest!! Don't even get me started on our own prison system. We have the highest incarceration rate in the world! It is even worse in …
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