ackman
join:2000-10-04
Acworth, GA
 ·AT&T Southeast
| reply to deadzoned
Re: Filibusters - a mechanism that has outlived its usefulness
and the point most often left out is that they may have been doing it prior to 9/11/01, which defeats the argument that it was done to keep us safe after the attack. If big corporations didn't wield so much power these days, then I would probably lean toward letting them off the hook. To hold them liable is like going after the drug user instead of the pusher. But with corporate power and abuse the way it is today, and the clear shift into fascism, I have less problem with leaving the complicit telecoms on the hook. Qwest said "no", the others could have also. But, then again, their CEOs would have also ended up in federal prison if they didn't cave, so what are you gonna do? |
