Sunday October 18, 2009, 9:16 pm
KRB and Haliburton, Blackwater and the paid murderers or private military that don't have a life out of the military are the problem. Corporate law is U.S. law or has corrupted U.S. law to the point of violating the U.S. Constitution's protections of individuals, not groups and not corporations.

It is TIME TO SEPARATE CORPORATE AND STATE and remove their rights PERIOD, and that is NOT a digression.

Stop private companies and individuals not under direct control of the U.S. government and U.S. law from having anything to do with other countries and certainly wars. We-our government should not even be at war with the countries we are currently at war with.

The current wars are just cover for U.S. corporate maneuvering to exploit oil or political power to control populations or resources.

Corporate Supremacy is a oxymoron misnomer just like Military Intelligence. Corporate Inferiority to Individual Rights is what should be true if we were following and living in a country governed by law.

Sunday October 18, 2009, 9:16 pm
Disgusting bought out criminal politicians .... that's tantamount to denying human rights ....

Sunday October 18, 2009, 9:29 pm
One wonders If that would have happened to one of those "gentlemen" daughter or wife what would be their verdict? in the plantation time in the USA, if a slave just looked at a white women , would have been hanged on the spot!! they have made a law for them selves , they are above any law! sign the petition!

Monday October 19, 2009, 4:47 am
No matter how things change, they seem to remain the same. Whether it is a woman being raped or a man being beaten by a gang (more then one) we seem to have more feelings for the perps then the viictims.
How do we come to a common understanding and stop using every excuse for the perp? I am not saying that being innocent until proven guilty is not the best way - the question is how do we stop lawyers from lying for their clients under the guise that they need a good defense.

Monday October 19, 2009, 6:13 am
"Jones, of Houston, was drugged and gang raped while working in Baghdad for KBR/Halliburton. She was locked in a shipping container by the company and warned to keep quiet. She didn't keep quiet. Franken and Senate Democrats took up her cause."

How did we arrive at a point where corporate need (greed) became more important than the simple human rights of their own employees. This case is just so typical of the way in which a growing number of politicians round the world view individual peoples Human Rights. It is right that these politicians should be forced out into the open to answer for their disregard of their fellow human beings rather than sheltering behind their 'party' or worse still the corporations that pay their fat retaining fees to have this kind of law passed.

One is reminded of pigs at a trough when we view many in political life today. They never raise their snouts long enough to see the real issues that are so obvious to the rest of us that they do not really need pointing out. These 30 need to be drummed out of public life with no pension for good...and perhaps if that container in Baghdad is still available a new use could be found for it?

Monday October 19, 2009, 6:34 am
well said David! there are many containers to be filled with lots of pigs in this world, or may be use the same weapons put them in a radioactive container!so they will be clean!

Monday October 19, 2009, 9:38 am
Sad but, excellent article. Thanks, David, for the article and your comments. Now, will someone please blow the bullhorn.

Monday October 19, 2009, 2:41 pm
Casey, are you against import/export companies? Are you against construction companies working overseas? Are you against all companies, including grocery shops? Who are the culprits?

Monday October 19, 2009, 4:25 pm
unbelievable.

Monday October 19, 2009, 7:13 pm
Al Franken lives!

As a conservative, I opposed Franken for Senate - until he stood up for the right of Americans serving our nation!

I ask anyone who wants to to carry a big sign that says Daniel Barker/Lakeland, Florida loves Senator Franken.

Keep up the good work. I believe in upholding the Constitution.

How do we end the madness of petroleum? The hybrid/electric vehicles, electric bicycles (which are faster in Chinese cities than cars), and mass transit.

It remains to be seen who is right: whether the Obama Stimulus Bill will create green jobs or was merely a humongous pork-barrel earmark bill that does nothing to get us out of war.

Monday October 19, 2009, 7:24 pm
Throw them in jail for being psychotic sovereigns then. They've done enought to undermine U.S. Sovereignty.

Tuesday October 20, 2009, 12:19 am
It is time for the people of capitalist countries to stop supporting capitalist parties, stop being apathetic, get up off your behinds, and campaign for a democratiation of the system, including a democratisation of the economy, with direct democracy in each workplace and corporations, etc..

This is what the people of Venezuela are doing. You can learn from them - though you can only learn the truth about them if you avoid the distortions and lies of the capitalist media machine, and get your infomration from non-capitalist sources, instead, such as these internet media sources:

Information Clearing House,
Common Dreams,
Countercurrents,
Counterpunch,
Electronic Intifada,
Granma,
Green Left Weekly,
Indymedia,
Le Monde Diplomatique,
Liberation magazine (of the CPI-ML),
Mother Jones magazine,
The Militant,
Prensa Latina,
Socialist Worker,
TeleSur,
Truth Out,
Upside Down World,
Venzuelanalysis,
World Socialist Web Site,
Z Magazine,
etc....

Tuesday October 20, 2009, 12:21 am
oops, I meant to spell it:

Venezuelanalysis

Tuesday October 20, 2009, 9:04 am
So how does one start a recall vote? Those 30 Republicans hardly qualify as human beings, much less "leaders" worthy of the power of a member of the Congress! Seriously - the people from their districts and states need to start shouting right there at home and begin recall proceedings! This is utterly hateful and totally disconnected from their constituents! They've shown, out in the open, that they have nothing at all to do with representing anyone but the corporations!

Ian

Tuesday October 20, 2009, 11:52 am
'These 30 need to be drummed out of public life with no pension for good...and perhaps if that container in Baghdad is still available a new use could be found for it?' I agree, David. I hope every mother, father, sister and brother of any girl will vote these callous corporate-backing scum out of office for good. The sooner the better. They are not fit to represent anybody anywhere.

Tuesday October 20, 2009, 3:58 pm
Amen to that, Eleanor & Ian. And, TY, David B. for your eye-opening commentary. Rape is a FELOLY. PERIOD. Those who committed this heinous crime ought to be behind bars, where they can be buggered by the tougher inmates they'll have to face in the general population; plus, the executives of KBR/Halliburton kicked out of their posts and compelled to pay this unfortunate rape victim at least $500 MILLION.

Those 30 Republican Senators who voted atainst the Franken Amendment ought to be drummed out of office with no pension - forever - as you say, Eleanor. I couldn't agree more. They're scum - a total disgrace to the halls of Congress.

Tuesday October 20, 2009, 6:10 pm
if the perpetrators are known there should be no alternatives! death! swift and sure?or slow and prolonged? either way it should happen. if your a rapist ,you don't deserve to live . period!
thanks for theupdate David.

Wednesday October 21, 2009, 11:11 am
morality or money? which one has the most clout with the GOP. Well I guess we answered that question.

Thursday October 22, 2009, 10:30 pm
Great and true comments, but knowing the American population of TODAY, nothing will happen to the slime republicans - it's business as usual with them. It seems like people in this country are asleep or just don't care.
It is NOT the country I grew up in - it has changed for the worse. I see it in politics, I see it in social life, every
where you look, life has taken a downward curve. It breaks my heart. Justice no longer seems to triumph !!