09-04-2011, 03:05 PM
Jan Klimkowski Wrote:As children, we're brought up always to tell the truth and take responsiblity for our actions.
Whistleblowers are mostly individuals who've wrestled with the knowledge of corporate or institutional malpractice for years, or even decades. Then, finally, their conscience wins, and they reveal the truth.
But whistleblowers are not rewarded or praised for doing the right thing. Rather, multinationals and governments attempt to discredit or bankrupt truth tellers, and turn them into pariahs.
This goes to the fetid sickness at the heart of C21st global market capitalism.
I'd only add that a select group of 'whistleblowers' [who should be the most honored in a democratic society of checks and balances] are sometimes murdered - and it is even usually made to look like a 'suicide'. The only 'morality' (sic) predatory corporate capitalism knows is money/'moola'/gold/drugs/arms/exploitation/war/indentured servants/slaves and taxes for the others; NO taxes for the rich! Fuck the 1%.....maybe the top 5%.....they should be 'eliminated', ImHO non-violently, of course [to spare my poor ass from legal problems]. :finger:
"Let me issue and control a nation's money and I care not who writes the laws. - Mayer Rothschild
"Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience! People are obedient in the face of poverty, starvation, stupidity, war, and cruelty. Our problem is that grand thieves are running the country. That's our problem!" - Howard Zinn
"If there is no struggle there is no progress. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and never will" - Frederick Douglass
"Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience! People are obedient in the face of poverty, starvation, stupidity, war, and cruelty. Our problem is that grand thieves are running the country. That's our problem!" - Howard Zinn
"If there is no struggle there is no progress. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and never will" - Frederick Douglass