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Volume One!
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Issue One
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1. ...............................................................Editorial
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2. ...............................................................Letterz!!
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3. .............................................Milk... It Does a Body Dead
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4. ............................................................You're Next!
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5. ....................................................Why Everything Sucks
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6. ................................................Pray, Mutherfuckaaaaaaa!
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7. ....................................Corporate Crime & Violence in Review
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8. ............................................................Engage Spiel
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9. ........................................................The War on Drugs
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10. ................................... Excerpt from: Diet for a New America
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11. ..............................................................Just Stuff
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12. .....................................................Absolutely NOTHING!
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Comments, criticism, letters, hate mail, donations, contributions,
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questions, cheesy stories about god, submissions, remissions,
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demonstrations, revelations, hot tipz, etc. should all be directed to:
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mto@foul.cuug.ab.ca
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Editorial:
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You may notice that next to nothing in this e-mag is an original work of
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mine. Then again you may not. But the truth is, I haven't had the time to
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do any research as of late. I hope this will change in the future so I can
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stop feeling as if I'm the guy sitting beside the guy talking, who at the
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end of the long winded mind blowing speech says '.....ditto'.
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Although I tend to agree with a great deal of the things said in this
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e-mag (why the fuck else would I take the time to retype them!?!?), I do
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not expect you to take it as 100% truth. If anything, these articles have
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taught me that you always have to think for yourself. We rely far too much
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on mass media owned by biased major corporations for our daily news. We
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have to learn to think for ourselves again.
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The reason why I am doing this, is because I feel there are a great deal
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of people who just accept what is put in front of them, and continue on
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happily with their lives. People have stopped questioning the reality of
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what is being thrown in their faces. The dairy bureau of Canada recommends
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3 to 4 servings of dairy products a day. The majority of "bureaus" such as
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this are made up of the people who benefit from you buying their products.
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Of course they recommend you use it alot, how else are they going to make
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a profit? The fact is, a great deal of media is filled with bias. We have
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to learn to see through this.
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Anything that you want to send to me, go ahead, send it. I dare you! I
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read and reply to most anything that shows up in my mailbox. It may take
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me a while, but I will read it. And I will reply to it. Maybe.
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My mail feed at this moment is not 100% relaible, so if you do send
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something and get no response within a few days, try sending it again. Do
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not send something 100 times just to be sure it gets through, though.
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Something ironic about the name of this e-mag, is that I'm not sure
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whether there will be more than one issue of 'more than one'. It's taken me
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about 2 months to put this together (admittedly I wasn't working very hard
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on it the first month.) Depending on the what kind of reply this generates,
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more than one could go various places. I would like to have it as an actual
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hardcopy magazine, though it will always be available for completely free in
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electronic form.
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I've labelled other people's work where I can, and tried to provide as
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much information ABOUT the information as I could. In some cases, it just
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isn't possible. But NEVER will I try and say that I wrote something when I
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didn't (except when it will make me look really cool and suave, but thats
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different). I have asked none of these people for their permission to
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reprint their work. I hope they don't mind, but if they do.. To hell with
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them, I don't believe anyone can have ownership over the distribution of
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words. So there..
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<Insert witty end remark here>
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Sereptitiously,
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Jack Maxx
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This is the first issue in case you haven't noticed. I haven't gotten the
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multi-million dollar advertising campaign off the ground quite yet. Hence,
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This article was taken from King's Mob Returns (Vol. 2)
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(Completely without consent or permission of ANY kind.)
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Jim D. Peri
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jdperi@panix.com
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Who in turn took it from:
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Milk... It Does a Body Dead
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by Razzle Spooner
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Originally Published in Kidney Room #2
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Available by mail at: PO Box 589; Village Station; NYC, NY 10014
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It seems a few people had a problem with my sticker that reads: MILK IS
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LIKE RAPING A WOMAN, STEALING HER BABY, AND COMING BACK TO HER HOUSE
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EVERYDAY TO PUMP HER BREASTS DRY. These people said you can't compare rape
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and the consumption of milk, they are just not the same. Anyone who agrees
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with these people is obviously uneducated on the subject, so, once again, I
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am going to go through the life and death of an opressed animal.
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The statement I made is false in one sense. I was only telling half the
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story.
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Cows are not the grazing, roaming and romping animals they once were.
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They are now subjected to afflictions far worse than anything a human has
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ever experienced, and it happens everyday, to 5 million cows a year.
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These loving animals are set up on "raping racks," literally strapped
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down to a machine, and a gigantic rod full of bull semen (a few male cows
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will be reared as bulls spending their lives in solitary confinement,
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banging "canvas cows and rubber tubes" - male rape -) is forced into their
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vaginal openings (75% of all pregnancies are "artifically inseminated").
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They have no choice in the matter. They don't even get a chance to
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recuperate, because three months after they give birth, they are raped
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again. The cow is milked 10 months out of the year and spends her whole
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life in a cage too small for her to turn around in. There is no connection
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between the bull and the cow, they have never even seen each other.
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It is obvious that this constitutes rape. Anyone who eats or drinks
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dairy might as well shove the inseminating pole up the cow's hole
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themselves.
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Once the baby is born, mommy cow is lucky if she even gets a glimpse of
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her baby, which she carried for nine months. It is very important for a
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bonding process to start at this point, but that would not be profitable,
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so it is not allowed. Instead, her calf will be subjected to suffer through
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one of the following fates.
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The "luckiest" calves are slaughtered immediately and used in pet food,
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and pet food veal and ham pies. Rennet (from the stomach linings of newly
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born calves) is used in cheese making.
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Hundreds of thousands of calves are exported each year only to be
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committed to suffering all the horrors of life in veal crates. In these
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crates, they are fed milk substitute deficient in iron and fiber to keep
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their flesh white (they could have natural milk, but you need that for your
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coffee). With no room to move, they will gnaw at their crates and their own
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hair to get the roughage they crave - malnutrition and confinement lead to
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widespread disease.
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Some females will be reared on milk substitutes to become dairy herd
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replacements, thus beginning the cycle of continual pregnancy (rape) at the
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ages of 18 to 24 months.
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Because of drugs (funny how straight edgers won't take drugs but will
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drink milk thats been drugged) this poor, unfortunate milk machine
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produces 6,000 litres of milk per year. That is the equivalent of 3,000
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soda bottles. This is 10 times the amount her calf could drink, not that
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the calf would get a chance to taste a drop - after all, a human's
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chocolate bar or slice of pizza is more important than a newborn calf
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dependent on those nutrients for survival. Dairy "technology" has made it
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so that a cow can be milked three times a day and a full udder can weigh as
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much as 50 bags of sugar. They have even been known to drag on the ground
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causing Mastisis (inflammation of the udder caused by spending the winter
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on concrete floors, immersed in feces).
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Cows are naturally vegan and all they need to survive in a natural
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surrounding is grass, yet, because of the mass amounts of milk they must
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produce, they are fed huge quantities of mixed grains (1/3 of all the grain
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in the world, which could be used to feed us hungry humans, is fed to
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livestock). Some farms have started feeding cows sheep brains, which, in
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most cases, results in B.S.E. (mad cow disease).
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Dairy cows are slaughtered when they are no longer useful. The natural
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life span of a cow is 20 to 25 years, but, in these stressful conditions,
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they probably won't see their 6th birthday.
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So, let's see. Maybe the people who opposed my sticker were right, I
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should change what it says. I guess I should say: DRINKING MILK IS LIKE
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RAPING A MAN WITH A MACHINE, THEN STRAPPING A WOMAN TO ANOTHER MACHINE AND
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RAPING HER WITH A GIGANTIC DILDO, THEN SHOOTING HER UP WITH DRUGS, THEN
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WHEN SHE GIVES BIRTH, STEAL HER BABY AND SELL IT TO A LIFE OF
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UNDER-NOURISHMENT, THEN COMING BACK TO THE WOMAN'S HOUSE THREE TIMES A DAY
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TO PUMP HER BREASTS DRY AND RAPE HER AGAIN TO START THE PROCESS OVER. On
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second thought, that would be too much to put on one sticker - so I will
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stick to the condensed version.
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Anyone who is vegetarian for the animals must realize that dairy is
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just as cruel to the animals, and just as bad for you.
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(Editorial notes from Kings Mob Returns Editors
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Neil: Good good good good good (read fast). This is just a sample of the
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torture all species that we eat must endure. True, there's a life cycle and
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a food chain - but we don't need to torture the animals.
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Jim: I feel as if I've been lied to all my life by those damn "milk it does
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a body good" commercials. No one ever told us that those were paid for by
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the milk industries, I always thought it was just a public service
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annoucement. Think about it... "butter makes it better," "cheese glorious
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cheese"... how about "bovine growth hormone makes it better?" Never heard
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that one.
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Taken from The Calgary Herald, Fri, June 25, 1994, Section A7
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-Board hears of false arrest-
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(Man jailed after woman lies about sexual assault)
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Dartmouth, N.S. (CP) -- A Halifax man arrested for a sex assault he didn't
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commit says sloppy work by two police officers ruined his life.
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Stephen MacCormack, arrested last July after a woman lied to police
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about being sexually assaulted by a stranger, has filed six complaints
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under the Police Act.
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Police ignored major features in Twila Cunningham's description of her
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attacker, his lawyer Mark Knox said as a four-day Police Review Board
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hearing into the complaints wound down this week.
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The complaints say Sgt. Shane Halliday and Const. Robert Lomond:
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- Had no cause for the arrest;
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- Abused authority by being rude to MacCormack's wife;
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- Made a disparaging remark that wives lied for their husbands.
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- Neglected their duty by failing to contact witnesses.
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- Denied MacCormack his right to call a lawyer.
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- Disclosed confidential information to his landlord, an RCMP officer.
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The police officers' lawyer, Ron Pink, said the complaints are
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frivolous and groundless because police had reasonable and probably arrest
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grounds.
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Pink accused MacCormack of using the board simply as a prelude or "free
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discovery" for his civil suit against officers.
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MacCormack lost his airport job, and claims he's blacklisted and can't
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get any security work, so he's using the complaints as a way to get money,
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Pink said.
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Police arrested MacCormack and another innocent man, Peter Theriault,
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after Cunningham, 27, lied about being attacked by a stranger in her
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apartment in July last year. She was jailed in April for 90 days.
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Police found her lying in the fetal position on the floor of her
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apartment, shaking uncontrolably in a blood-soaked sun dress, with marks on
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her face and body.
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Cunningham, who picked MacCormack from a police photo line-up, claimed
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she answered a knock at her door. A stranger burst in, she said, wrapped a
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phone cord around her neck and raped her. She later said she lied. She said
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she was assaulted by a family friend and lied to protect herself and his
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family.
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MacCormack's lawyer said police ignored parts of her description that
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didn't fit MacCormack -- a dimple, freckles, black hair and calloused
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hands.
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The board will hand down it's decision at an unspecified date.
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The Holy Words of Jack Maxx Lie Here:
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I find it quite reassuring to know that at any given moment I can
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be accused of rape and be completely stripped of my rights and freedoms,
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perhaps lose my job if I'm lucky and maybe... just maybe the arresting
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officers would be so kind as to insult my family too.
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10 Easy Steps to Selling Out Yourself, Fans, Morals, and Ending Up
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Wondering Just What the Fuck You're Doing, Part I.
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Why Everything Sucks
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By Jack MaXXX
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To me, selling out is not about signing major record deals, or making
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videos for eMpTyV/notMuch Music/The Porn Channel/Whatever. Selling out is
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the point where you stop making music for the music, and start making music
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for the money.
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Of course, people need money to live. But when you start making your
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music because you need the money it generates to live, you're no longer
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making the music just for the sake of the music. It's a hard concept to
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grasp, I know.
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One of the bands that has been labelled a 'major sell-out' of the past
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while, is Bad Religion. I personally like Bad Religion. If it wasn't for
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them I don't think I would have ever gotten into Punk/Hardcore music. I
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would still be content sitting around listening to Metallica and Megadeth,
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and 'rocking on'.
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At the time of Bad Religion's 'sell-out', I was volunteering for a local
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independent music festival, which BR were supposed to be playing (though we
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all had our doubts). I remember sitting there at one of our volunteer
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meetings, when the organizer told us that Bad Religion would not be playing
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because the band was having 'personal problems'. At that one moment, I felt
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the shittiest I have ever felt in my life. I knew there was something going
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on with the BR that I wasn't going to like. It came to light at a later date,
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that these 'personal problems' were the signing of a major record deal. Bad
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Religion was no longer going to play our independent music festival because
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they had signed to a major label.
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This is the problem I see with 'selling-out'. You lose sight of your
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fans when you're dreaming about how you're going to spend all that cold
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hard cash. You start charging $25 a person for a gig, $20 for T-Shirts,
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jack the prices of your albums up. You lose sight of what was fun about
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playing the music in the first place.
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You can always hide under the guise of wanting to reach a wider audience
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though. And maybe, just maybe you really DO want to reach a wider audience.
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Maybe you do want to get your message out there. But to me, it invalidates
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that message when you cease to play your music for that message and take on
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the attitude of 'we did it for the money.'
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I'll still listen to Bad Religion. I'll still listen to many bands that
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in my opinion have 'sold-out'. But the music has definately lost a great deal
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of meaning when you realize the only reason that message is coming across
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to you is so that you can be sold on it and throw some more money at the
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cause.
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Kneel down, dear people of Quebec
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The Rosary solves every problem
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Quebec seperatists are communists, revolutionaries, no matter what the
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label of their movements might be. The seperatists are liars. They claim to
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be nationalists, but their communism is international. They claim to be
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"independentists", but they are submitted to International Finance.
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It is on behalf of this same "independentist" nationalism that a
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communist revolution took place -- and communism seized power -- in the
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Congo, Algeria, Guinea, Angola, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Vietnam, Cambodia,
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etc. One sees now what is presently taking place in Croatia and
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Bosnia-Herzegovina, which are martyr nations.
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Those who bawl for free Quebec, for free Britanny in Frace, for a free
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Jura in Switzerland, for a free Basque country in Spain, are talking about
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freedom only to surrender themselves, and all of us, to the worst
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dictatorship of history.
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It is a worldwide plot, with a clever and proven structure and strategy,
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led by Communist leaders, and well financed by leaders of High Finance.
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Will Quebec escape from this attack of the enemy?
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The Rosary solves every problem. Couldn't our families find fifteen
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minutes to pray the Rosary, like it used to some years ago in every home in
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Quebec?
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Kneel down, dear people! We must kneel down! Only God can overcome
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Lucifer and his hellhounds. God is infinetly merciful; He only asks for a
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minimum of goodwill on our part, that is to say, that we kneel down and
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acknowledge His fatherly goodness and power, that we keep His Commandments
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which are everlastingly wise, for the good order of societies on earth, and
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eternal happiness of souls.
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The Holy Ranting Words Lie Here of Jack Maxx
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This was taken from a newsletter that appeared in my mailbox a short
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while ago. It didn't really have a cover page, but it did have an address
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(which will be provided). It talks mostly about how the attempted
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seperation of Quebec from Canada is a ploy by world communist leaders. The
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newsletter has some valid ideas, though it also has some ideas that were
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making me wonder just what the authors of it had been smoking (Such as the
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one illustrated above.) I recommend picking it up if at all possible.
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"Michael" Journal
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1101 Prinipale St.
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Rougemont, Quebec
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Canada J0L 1M0
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Tel: Montreal (514) 875-6622; Rougemont (514) 469-2209; Fax (514) 469-2601
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Taken From: CENSORED: The News That Didn't Make it To The News--And Why
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By Carl Jensen
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Corporate Crime & Violence in Review: The 10 Worst Corporations of 1991
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By Russel Mokhiber; Multinational Monitor - December 1991
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The past year has seen corporate crime and violence on the move at an
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accelerating pace--public corruption, environmental degredation, financial
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fraud, procurement fraud and occupational homicide are all on the increase.
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Criminal corporate collectivist action has inflicted injuries on the
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planet and its people that even the most evil of individuals acting alone
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could not dream of inflicting--the growing hole in the ozone layer, global
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warming, and increasing cancer rates, to name a few.
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Yet, many people in positions of authority continue to deny this reality
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and defy common sense.
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The vast majority of crime shows on television today, for example, focus
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on street crime, not corporate crime.
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Earlier this year, Washington Post columnist Richard Cohen wrote that
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"Young Black males commit most of the crime in Washington, D.C." This
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statement is demonstrably false. In making it, Cohen ignored the research
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of corporate criminology, which has found that all corporate crime and
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violence combined inflicts far greater damage on society than all street
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crime combined.
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Apparently, Cohen did not take into account Exxon, International Paper,
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United Technologies, Weyerhauser, Pillsbury, Ashland Oil, Texaco, Nabisco,
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and Ralston-Purina, all convicted of environmental crimes in recent years.
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All of these convicted corporations operating in Washington, D.C. None of
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them are young black males.
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All of the 46 individuals convicted in the Operation Ill-Wind
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prosecution of defense procurement fraud were white males. The six
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corporations convicted in that operation--Cubic, Hazeltine, Loral,
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Sperry/Unisys, Teledyne and Whittaker--are controlled by white males. And
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of the people convicted in the recent Wall Street insider trading scandals,
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the vast majority were white males. Cohen apparently redlines these
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white-collar criminals and their Washington associates from his definition
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of crime.
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Jeffrey Parker, an associate professor of law at George Mason University
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School of Law, put forth the idea earlier this year that "there is no
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corporate crime--only individuals can commit crime."
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"Crime can only be committed by an individual human being who can be
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held morally responsible through punishment," Parker wrote. "The idea of
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'corporate crime' is a corruption of the core meaning of crime and a
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dilution of the underlying ethic of individual moral responsibility and
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autonomy."
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Parker's theoretical idea that a "corporation has no mind, and therefore
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cannot commit crime" defies reality. Sure, a corporation doesn't have a
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mind in the human sense, but as Thomas Donaldson points out in his book,
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'Corporations and Morality', corporations have "practical and theoretical
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knowledge that dwarves that of individuals."
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And their crimes dwarf that of individuals too. In support of a
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different view of criminology, specifically, that a corporation can commit
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a crime, that white people commit more crime than black people and that
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television is still a vast wasteland, we present the Ten Worst Corporations
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of 1991.
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Alyeska: Invasion of Privacy
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Charles Hamel is a former oil industry executive in Alaska. He left the
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business when he discovered that oil he was sending to foreign customers
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was significantly diluted with water. Hamel investigated the problem and
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found that oil companies were aware of the water problem but failed to take
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action to correct it. "Instead, they denied the truth, and apparently hoped
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I would forget about my business, and damage to my credibility and
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reputation and my lost income," Hamel says.
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In 1985, Hamel decided to expose the "dishonesty of the oil industry."
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In addition to the water-in-the-oil problem, Hamel concluded that "the oil
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industry was turning Alaska into an environmental disaster."
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Hamel focused his attention on Alyeska Pipeline Service Co., the
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|
consortium which represents the major oil companies operating in Alaska.
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|
"The more I heard, the angrier I got about what was going on," Hamel
|
|
told a congressional committee earlier this year. "Alyeska was polluting
|
|
the water by introducing toxic sludge, including cancer-causing benzene,
|
|
into the pristine waters of Port Valdez and Prince William Sound. Alyeska
|
|
was poisoning Valdez fjord's air by venting extremely hazardous hydrocarbon
|
|
vapor directly into the atmosphere."
|
|
Alyeska insiders began turning information over to Hamel about
|
|
environmental and other violation committed by Alyeska. Hamel passed the
|
|
information to federal enforcement agencies, to the media and to Congress.
|
|
Hamel's advocacy led to enforcement agencies, news stories,
|
|
congressional investigations and growing public awareness of the problems
|
|
of oil in Alaska. He became a major thorn in the side of the industry.
|
|
Then, Alyeska sought to silence Hamel. The company hired Wackenhut
|
|
Corp., a major security firm, to investigate Hamel. Alyeska claims that it
|
|
hired Wackenhut to recover "stolen documents." But Representative George
|
|
Miller, D-California, who investigated the Wackenhut operation, said that
|
|
the surveillance operation "involved the much more sinister and disturbing
|
|
motives of silencing environmental critics and intimidating whisteblowers."
|
|
Wackenhut created a fake environmental group to try to trick Hamel. "One
|
|
day in April 1990, a Dr. Wayne Jenkins came to me," Hamel told
|
|
Representative Miller's Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs earlier
|
|
this year. "He described his company, Ecolit Groups, as a well-funded group
|
|
of attorneys who wanted to help me. They would provide me the tools to
|
|
protect these workers who had turned to me for help. Ecolit could help
|
|
protect their jobs, and supply me support staff and assistance to manager
|
|
what had become a full-time, financially costly job of protecting
|
|
whistleblowers and coordinating government investigations. I thought it was
|
|
too good to be true." And it was. Dr. Wayne Jenkins was in fact a Wackenhut
|
|
investigator. Wackenhut surreptitiously video-taped the meetings with
|
|
Hamel. And that was only the beginning.
|
|
"Alyeska authorized stealing our trash, monitoring and taping our
|
|
telephone calls, concealing video cameras in a hotel room, stealing our
|
|
mail and illegally obtaining our personal and financial information," Hamel
|
|
testified.
|
|
Based on the information gathered through this surreptitious operation,
|
|
Alyeska fired a number of employees who fed Hamel information.
|
|
Virginia state police are investigating allegations that Alyeska and
|
|
Wackenhut might have violated state laws by secretly intercepting Hamel's
|
|
telephone calls.
|
|
Miller's committee believes that the Wackenhut/Alyeska operation may
|
|
have violated federal mail and wire fraud statutes, and laws governing
|
|
theft, eavsdropping, tape recording and obtaining telephone toll records.
|
|
Both companies deny engaging in any illegal activities.
|
|
"I refuse to believe that any citizen of this country has to tolerate
|
|
the invasion of privacy that I have been subjected to simply because I have
|
|
exercised my Constitutional rights and responsibilities as a citizen to
|
|
petition Congress," Hamel says.
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American Home Products: Puerto Rican Racket
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|
|
What do Chef Boyardee pasta, Jiffy Pop popcorn, Wheatena, Advil, Anacin,
|
|
Robitussin, Dristan have in common? They are all made by American Home
|
|
Products Corp., a company that cares little about its workers.
|
|
In November 1990, AHP announced that it would close down its Whitehall
|
|
plant in Elkhart, Indiana, throw its 775 employees out of work and move the
|
|
facility back to Guyama, Puerto Rico.
|
|
Unfortunately for American Home Products (AHP), its Indiana workers
|
|
refused to go quietly into the night. Last year, the Oil, Chemical and
|
|
Atomic Workers Uninion (OCAW) launched a grassroots compaign called "Keep
|
|
Whitehall Open: Hometowns Against Shutdowns" to prevent the plant from
|
|
closing [See "American Home Products Moves Abroad," Multinational Monitor,
|
|
April 1991]. The campaign has seen a number of street actions and numerous
|
|
lawsuits against AHP, including a $100 million racketeering lawsuit. The
|
|
National Labor Relations Board has charged the company with numerous labor
|
|
law violations.
|
|
"The closure of Whitehall looms like a death sentence over our members,"
|
|
says Connie Malloy, president of OCAW local 7-515. "American Home Products
|
|
has displayed a total lack of respect for the law and a total lack of
|
|
respect for [its] long-term employees."
|
|
In Puerto Rico, U.S. District Court Judge Jaime Pieras agreed with
|
|
Malloy, at least in part. In August 1991, Pieras cited AHP for an
|
|
"outrageous violation" of a discovery order in connection with the
|
|
racketeering lawsuit. Pieras held that AHP had improperly withheld
|
|
thousands of documents which the labor union had requested.
|
|
OCAW's racketeering lawsuit, filed in January 1991, alleges that
|
|
American Home Products fraudulently obtained federal tax benefits by
|
|
falsely certifying that the plant would not harm existing employment in
|
|
company facilities on the U.S. mainland. Under federal tax law,
|
|
corporations cannot utilize a number of tax breaks available in Puerto
|
|
Rico if mainland jobs will be lost as a consequence.
|
|
|
|
Clorox: Mud Ball
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|
|
Everybody's Business: A Field Guide to the 400 leading companies in
|
|
America, by Milton Moskowitz, Robert Levering and Michael Katz, calls
|
|
Clorox "a good corporate citizen in their hometown of Oakland."
|
|
But the giant bleach manufacturer has its dirty side, too, and that side
|
|
reared its ugly head earlier this year when a public relations firm
|
|
prepared a "Crisis Management Plan" for Clorox, advising the company on how
|
|
to deal with the environmental movement.
|
|
The plan, prepared for Clorox by the public relations division of
|
|
Ketchum Communications, recommends labeling environmental critics as
|
|
"terrorists," threatening to sue "unalterably green" journalists,
|
|
dispatching "independent scientists" on media tours as a means to
|
|
counteract bad news for the chlorine industry and recruiting "scientific
|
|
ambassadors" to tout the Clorox cause and call for further study. The
|
|
Clorox plan makes reference to studies linking chlorine use to cancer, and
|
|
suggests key ways to discredit the findings if they ever become public.
|
|
The plan was apparently prompted by fears that the environmental group
|
|
Greenpeace would target household use of chlorine bleach and call for its
|
|
elimination.
|
|
And those fears proved correct later in the year when Greenpeace issued
|
|
a scathing report, "The Product Is Poison: The Case for a Chlorine
|
|
Phase-Out." According to the report, chlorine is one of the world's most
|
|
severe toxic pollutants and should be phased out. The report also called
|
|
for plans to protect the 10,000 to 20,000 workers employed in the chlorine
|
|
industry and the communities where such industries are located. The report
|
|
found that in U.S. and Canadian populations, 177 organochlorines have been
|
|
identified in human fat, breast milk, blood, semen and breath.
|
|
Greenpeace has instituted an international program aimed at ending the
|
|
use of chlorine in the pulp and paper industry. Greenpeace's slogan,
|
|
"Chlorine-Free in 1993" is cited in the Clorox crisis management plan,
|
|
which outlines numerous "worst case scenarios" in which Greenpeace and
|
|
"unalterably green" journalists figure prominently.
|
|
Water pollution from the use of chlorine in the paper industry has
|
|
contaminated rivers, streams and lakes throughout the world. Chlorine is
|
|
the base chemical in DDT, PCBs, Agent Orange, CFCs and many other
|
|
persistent toxic pollutants, according to Greenpeace's Shelly Stewart.
|
|
Fred Reichler, Clorox's director of corporate communications, backed
|
|
away from the plan when stories about it hit the press in May of this year,
|
|
saying the plan was "rejected by Clorox." But, he added, "all responsible
|
|
corporations must be aware of issues that may affect their products and
|
|
services."
|
|
|
|
Du Pont: Worst Polluters
|
|
|
|
Earlier this year, E.l. Du Pont de Nemours & Company began running a
|
|
television advertisement featuring sea lions, otters, dolphins and penguins
|
|
playing in their natural environments while Beethoven's "Ode to Joy" plays
|
|
in the background. The 30-second commercial shows a shoreline and pans the
|
|
horizon, as the narrator remarks, "Recently, Du Pont announced that its
|
|
energy unit would pioneer use of new double-hulled oil bankers in order to
|
|
safeguard the environment."
|
|
Friends of Earth's Jack Doyle points out, however, that Du Pont's oil
|
|
subsidiary, Conoco, does not have any double-hulled ships in service and
|
|
that its fleet will not be double hulled until the year 2000. And the
|
|
company has no plans to put double hulls in two of it's supertankers,
|
|
according to Doyle.
|
|
In fact, Du Pont is the nation's number one corporate polluter.
|
|
According to an exhaustive report issued by Friends of Earth earlier this
|
|
year, Du Pont has paid out nearly $1 million in fines, penalties or lawsuit
|
|
settlements for alleged environmental and public health problems between
|
|
March 1989 and June 1991. Du Pont reported that it emitted 348 million
|
|
pounds of pollution in 1989--14 times more than Dow Chemical, 20 times more
|
|
than Chrysler, and 30 times more than Mobil. The Friends of the Earth
|
|
report, "Hold the Applause," found that, among the largest 10 companies in
|
|
1989, Du Pont had the highest ratio of pollution to profit and the lowest
|
|
value of sales generated per pound of U.S. pollution.
|
|
According to the study, Du Pont has dumped pollutants into the world
|
|
oceans, invented chemicals which are now destroying the earth's protective
|
|
ozone layer, injected millions of pounds of hazardous wastes underground
|
|
with unknown consequences, produced pesticides that have infiltrated the
|
|
world's foodstuffs and drinking water, sold lead additives for gasoline in
|
|
developing countries and lobbied Congress, state legislatures and foreign
|
|
governments to oppose or weaken environmental measures.
|
|
An incident reported earlier this year sheds light on the company's
|
|
callousness and disregard for human life. The News Journal of Wilmington,
|
|
Delaware reported that, in its quest to develop a method of dry-cleaning
|
|
women's clothing, Du Pont exposed volunteers to Freon 113 during early
|
|
experiments, leading to the death of a company secretary. Du Pont continued
|
|
the experiments even after the death of 44-year-old Beverly B. Manning,
|
|
according to company documents obtained by the Journal.
|
|
But if large megacorporations go the way of the dinosaurs, Du Pont will
|
|
probably be most remembered for for producing chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs),
|
|
the chemicals which destroy the earth's protective ozone layer. The
|
|
Environmental Protection Agency estimates that exposure to ultraviolet rays
|
|
brought on by ozone destruction will result in 200,000 additional deaths
|
|
over the next 50 years.
|
|
"Du Pont is perhaps the most culpable for stringing out the CFC era for
|
|
its own business reasons and for delaying a shift to safe alternatives.,"
|
|
asserts Doyle [See "Du Pont's Disgraceful Deeds: The Environmental Record
|
|
of E.l. Du Pont de Nemours," Multinational Monitor, October 1991].
|
|
|
|
Ethyl Corporation: Poisoning Third World Children
|
|
|
|
The hazards of lead to children are well known: low birth weight,
|
|
decreased intelligence, behavioral abnormalities and other life-long,
|
|
irreversible damage. A public education campaign in a number of Western
|
|
countries forced governments to ban lead additives in gasoline.
|
|
However, a U.S. corporation still produces tetraethyl lead (TEL), a
|
|
toxic gasoline additive--for export to Third World countries.
|
|
"Ethyl is exporting a developmental toxin to developing countries," says
|
|
Kenny Bruno, co-ordinator of Greenpeace's Hazardous Exports Prevention
|
|
Campaign. "Lead was taken out of gasoline in North America after it
|
|
poisoned countless children, but Ethyl continues to export lead additives
|
|
abroad. Ethyl's decision to fuel profits by exporting this deadly
|
|
[chemical] demonstrates contempt for children around the world" [See
|
|
"Poison Petrol: Leaded Gas Exports to the Third World," Multinational
|
|
Monitor, July/August 1991].
|
|
While most industrialized countries have banned or reduced the use of
|
|
leaded fuel, Ethyl, which manufactures TEL at a plant in Canada near
|
|
Sarina, Ontario, applied for permission to double its production capacity
|
|
of the additive. Later, under pressure from environmentalists, the company
|
|
abandoned it expansion plans, announcing that it would instead buy TEL from
|
|
other suppliers.
|
|
Ethyl is one of only three companies in the world that produce TEL. The
|
|
others are Du Pont and the United Kingdom-based Octel. Ethyl, the
|
|
second-largest producer of the additive insists that TEL is not linked to
|
|
lead poisoning.
|
|
But, according to Dr. Sergio Piomelli, a hematologist at Columbia
|
|
University who has published a number of studies on lead poisoning, there
|
|
is very strong evidence that lead exposure even at low levels interferes
|
|
with the intellectual function of the developing brain.
|
|
"The removal of lead from gasoline in this country has had a fantastic
|
|
effect on children's health," Dr. Piomelli says. "It is unfair and immoral
|
|
to inflict more exposure to lead on children in developing countries."
|
|
Many Third World countries still rely exclusively on highly leaded fuel.
|
|
According to David Schwartzmann, professor of geology at Howard University,
|
|
lead poisoning of children in the Third World cities "can be expected to be
|
|
truly epidemic."
|
|
Bruno concludes that "there is no technological impediment to preventing
|
|
almost all of the lead contamination stemming from the use of leaded
|
|
gasoline."
|
|
It's the political impediment--Ethyl Corp and the other lead additive
|
|
producers--thats blocking change and creating health problems worldwide.
|
|
|
|
General Electric: Bringing Nasty Things To Life
|
|
|
|
After a two-year absence, General Electric (GE) is back on the Ten
|
|
Worst List. General Electric is still a criminal recidivist company, it is
|
|
still heavily engaged in building weapons of mass destruction, and is still
|
|
trying to whitewash its image by flooding the national media with it's
|
|
catchy jingle, "GE Brings Good Things to Life."
|
|
But the people at INFACT, the Boston-based public interest group that is
|
|
calling for a consumer boycott of all GE products, want you to know that
|
|
GE has brought some very bad things to the environment, too--namely
|
|
extensive pollution and contamination.
|
|
In a report released last year, "Bringing GE to Light: General
|
|
Electric's Trail of Radioactive and Toxic Contamination from the Company's
|
|
Nuclear Weapons Work," INFACT found that GE's nuclear weapons work has
|
|
created environmental health and safety nightmares across the United
|
|
States.
|
|
INFACT charges that GE knowingly contaminated residents of Washington,
|
|
Oregon, and Idaho with radioactive contamination from its Hanford nuclear
|
|
weapons facility. Workers and communities faced similar dangerous
|
|
contamination problems at GE facilities throughout the country.
|
|
In addition the report found that:
|
|
- GE ranks number 1 in Superfund sites, being a "potentially responsible
|
|
party" at 51 sites as of August 1990.
|
|
- GE released more cancer-causing chemicals into the environment than
|
|
any other U.S. company during 1988.
|
|
- While conducting a nationwide repair program for over one million of
|
|
its refrigerators, GE intentionally released more than 300,000 pounds of
|
|
CFCs into the atmosphere where they destroy the Earth's protective layer.
|
|
- For over 30 years, GE dumped hundreds of thousands of pounds of PCBs,
|
|
which cause birth defects and may cause cancer, into New York's Hudson
|
|
River. Over 250,000 pounds remain in the river bottom. All fishing is
|
|
banned in sections of the river and commercial fisheries for striped bass
|
|
had to be shut down as far as Long Island.
|
|
- In 1977, an epidemiologist noticed high levels of cancer and leukemia
|
|
among workers at GE's plant in Pittsfield, Massachusetts. He began a study
|
|
that initially showed an excessive number of deaths. Then GE took over the
|
|
funding and provision of employee records for the study. In 1990, GE
|
|
announced that the study failed to find a link between toxics used at the
|
|
plant and cancer deaths, and that there would be no further studies. A
|
|
closer look at the present study shows a number of "associations" between
|
|
toxics and specific cancers found among workers at the plant.
|
|
And in a report released earlier this year, "Workers At Risk: A Survey
|
|
OSHA's Enforcement Record Against the 50 Largest U.S. Corporations,"
|
|
Essential Information's James Donahue found that of the 50 largest
|
|
industrial corporations surveyed, General Electric was by far the most
|
|
frequent violator of federal workplace and safety health laws. From 1977
|
|
through 1990, GE received 2,017 citations and paid a penalty for 27.3
|
|
percent of those citations. GE received 550 penalities during the period,
|
|
more than any other corporation in the survey.
|
|
GE was also heavily involved in killing in the Persian Gulf. INFACT
|
|
reported that GE received nearly $2 billion in U.S. military contracts for
|
|
systems employed in the Gulf War effort.
|
|
GE owns NBC, the television network. During the Gulf War, as the media
|
|
watchdog group FAIR has pointed out, "Conflicts of interest at NBC were
|
|
an ongoing problem, as when the network aired a laudatory segment on the
|
|
Patriot missile (1.18.91), for which GE produces parts. [NBC anchor Tom
|
|
Brokaw] called the Patriot 'the missile that put the Iraqi scud in its
|
|
place.'"
|
|
FAIR also reported that "the government of Kuwait is believed to be a
|
|
major GE shareholder having owned 2.1 percent of GE stock in 1982, the last
|
|
year for which figures are available."
|
|
Conflicts of interest at NBC have not been confined to the war. When
|
|
NBC's "Today" show did a segment on consumer boycotts around the country,
|
|
many consumer products from Spam to Marlboros were mentioned. GE's light
|
|
bulbs were left out. Todd Butnam, editor of the National Boycott News, says
|
|
a "Today" show staffer told him "We can't do that one [GE]. Well, we could
|
|
do that one, but we won't."
|
|
Another "Today" producer joked that he would be looking for a job if he
|
|
publicized the GE boycott on NBC.
|
|
|
|
G. Heileman Brewing Co.: Racist Marketing
|
|
|
|
In June of this year, G. Heileman Brewing Co., the Milwaukee brewer of
|
|
Old Style, Schmidt, Tuborg, Carling Black Label, Iron City and a number of
|
|
other college favorites, decided to focus its energies on the
|
|
African-American community. Heileman unveiled PowerMaster, a malt liquor
|
|
that contained 31 percent more alcohol than other malt liquors, including
|
|
Colt45, also manufactured by G. Heileman, and 60 percent more alcohol than
|
|
regular beer. PowerMaster had an alcohol content of 7.5 percent and was
|
|
marketed primarily in minority neighborhoods already plagued by high rates
|
|
of alcohol-related diseases.
|
|
But unlike other sexist and racist advertising campaigns launched by the
|
|
alcohol industry in recent years, the PowerMaster campaign died a quick
|
|
death after a flood of public interest criticism. Within a week of press
|
|
reports that PowerMaster was hitting the street, a coalition of 21
|
|
community, consumer and health groups called on G. Heileman to halt the
|
|
marketing of PowerMaster and asked the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and
|
|
Firearms (BATF) to require malt liquor products to have no more alcohol
|
|
than regular beer. In a letter to Heileman, the groups called on the
|
|
company to remove PowerMaster from the market and charged that "given the
|
|
growing concern and outcry about the extent of alcohol related disease and
|
|
crime problems facing urban America, we believe that the targeting of the
|
|
product to inner-city communities is particularly irresponsible." Boycotts
|
|
of other G. Heileman products were planned in 25 cities.
|
|
U.S. Surgeon General Antonia Novello said she wanted G. Heileman to
|
|
change the name of PowerMaster and scrap a marketing campaign aimed at
|
|
minority consumers who were already at risk for alcoholism. Food and Drink
|
|
Daily reported that the BATF was examining all malt liquor ads and
|
|
labelling. Fathers Michale Pfelger and George Clement were arrested while
|
|
trying to meet with Heileman officials. In Chicago, liquor stores posted
|
|
signs saying "We will not sell PowerMaster in this story!! Save our
|
|
Children!!"
|
|
Reverend Calvin Butts of the Abyssinian Baptist Church in Harlem
|
|
condemned Heileman and the "insidious and diabolical marketing methods" of
|
|
this new malt liquor.
|
|
"PowerMaster is marketed to primarily low-income, powerless people so
|
|
you get a feeling of euphoria and [a sense] that you are powerful and
|
|
masterful when in fact things that make you powerful and masterful you are
|
|
not doing--you're drinking malt liquor," said Reverend Butts.
|
|
"Nightline" even did a show on PowerMaster. The already bankrupt
|
|
Heileman couldn't take the public pressure and buckled. In July, it
|
|
announced it was scrapping its plans to market PowerMaster, and by October,
|
|
the potent brew was reportedly off the market.
|
|
"The withdrawal of PowerMaster puts out the message to all the other
|
|
malt makers and to tobacco and alcohol companies in general that we aren't
|
|
sitting back and watching you stomp and kill and destroy and then just
|
|
saying 'that's too bad,'" Reverend Pfleger of the St. Sabina Church in
|
|
Chicago told the Wall Street Journal. "That era is over."
|
|
|
|
Kellogg's: Harassing the Police
|
|
|
|
"Kellogg's constantly lies about it's products. I don't believe anything
|
|
Kellogg's tells me."
|
|
Who said this? A person giving an on-the-street interview? An agitated
|
|
consumer? No, it's Stephen Gardner, a tough cop with a rough edge.
|
|
Gardner is an assistant attorney general in Texas, and chief of the
|
|
attorney general's consumer protection division.
|
|
Gardner led Texas and five other states into legal battle with
|
|
Kellogg's, charging the giant cereal maker with making false nutritional
|
|
claims about a number of its cereal products.
|
|
"I do believe that Kellogg's lies about its products to the public,"
|
|
Gardner says. "And I do believe that Kellogg's has lied to me and to the
|
|
court on any number of occasions to gain an advantage in the litigation. I
|
|
don't trust them."
|
|
In May 1991, Kellogg's sued Gardner for slander accusing him of
|
|
launching a "media assault" against the company.
|
|
In fact, what probably disturbed Kellogg's the most was Gardner's idea
|
|
of protecting the public trust. During the late 1980s, Gardner led Texas,
|
|
Iowa, Minnesota, California, Florida, and Wisconsin in an investigation of
|
|
Kellogg's claims about a number of cereals, including Special K and Sugar
|
|
Frosted Flakes and Heartwise. The states alleged that Kellogg's deceptively
|
|
promoted Special K as a high protein cereal which dieters could use to
|
|
"keep the muscle but lose the fat." The states charged Kellogg's with using
|
|
"scare tactics" by telling dieters they would lose their muscle tone
|
|
without eating enough protein. "Thats simply not true," Gardner said.
|
|
The states also investigated Kellogg's Heartwise cereal. In 1990
|
|
Gardner's office determined that in marketing Heartwise, Kellogg's was
|
|
actually promoting a laxative as a breakfast cereal. There is a fundamental
|
|
issue about whether it's safe to put a laxative in a breakfast cereal,
|
|
Gardner said. This is compounded by the fact that Kellogg's admittedly has
|
|
received over five dozen complaints of allergic reactions from peoplw who
|
|
ate heartwise.
|
|
Kellogg's has since stopped making the disputed claims for each of the
|
|
three products but has refused to settle with the states.
|
|
Kellogg's slander complaint alleges that on a WFAA-TV news telecast in
|
|
Dallas, Gardner made the "false statement" that the intended use of this
|
|
stuff [referring to Heartwise] is going to give you diarrhea. And the state
|
|
of Texas wants to know if Kellogg's ought to be selling mommies and daddies
|
|
laxatives to feed their kids at breakfast time.
|
|
"These statements constitute a slanderous attack on the good name and
|
|
reputation of Kellogg's Company," a company spokesperson said.
|
|
Texas Attorney General Dan Morales calls the slander suit against his
|
|
associate Gardner "a harassment suit."
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Gardner isn't backing down. "I believe that if we have to, we can
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establish that Kellogg's is a liar," Gardner says. When--as I
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anticipate--Kellogg's does violate the law in some new and novel way in the
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future, we'll be in touch with them.
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Hoffman La Roche: 80 Dead and Counting
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The giant Swiss drug manufacturer F. Hoffman La Roche discounted early
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warnings by its U.S counterpart that a drug used as a sedative and an
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anesthesiac could cause deadly side effects if sold in a highly
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concentrated form, according to internal company documents released earlier
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|
this year.
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The documents indicate that the company's marketing division felt that
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the problem was "less significant" than the "commercial exploitation" of
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the drug. Roche went forward and sold the drug, Versed, in the more
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concentrated form. Versed has been linked to about 80 deaths and many more
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|
near fatalities.
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In July 1991, Public Citizen's Health Research Group call on the Bush
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adminstration to launch a criminal investigation of the company for failing
|
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to report key findings about the hazards of Versed to the government. The
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Bush administration has yet to act.
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"It is clear from the FDA's own chronology of the events between
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initial U.S. approval of the concentrated (5mg/ml) dosage form in December
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1985 and the eventual introduction of [the safe, less concentrated]
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(1mg/ml) dosage form in July 1987, that FDA had not been informed of
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Roche's internal evidence that the concentrated dosage form was so
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dangerous for many patients, especially those getting the drug for
|
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diagnostic procedures so-called conscious sedation where an
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anesthesiologist is not present," says Public Citizen's Dr. Sidney Wolfe.
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The company has denied that the more concentrated form of Versed is
|
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unsafe and that it discounted safety concerns for marketing considerations.
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The incriminating documents include correspondence between Roche's U.S.
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affiliate in Nutley, New Jersey and its Swiss headquarters in Basel,
|
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Switzerland. The documents also include a summary and analysis of the
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correspondence between the Basel headquarters and the Nutley division
|
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prepared by the Washington D.C. law firm of Arnold & Porter prior to a Food
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and Drug Administration investigation into the marketing of the drug.
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The Arnold & Porter memorandum, marked confidential, concluded, "One
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|
interpretation possible from these documents is that Roche/Nutley
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disregarded its own concerns for safety of the drug in favor of the
|
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marketing and political pressure from Roche/Basel."
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"When the drug came out, I was very surprised at the concentration and I
|
|
ran some of the dosage numbers and found it was a dreadful mistake--that
|
|
drug was too concentrated for physicians to use responsibly," says Dr.
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Robert M. Julien, an anesthesiologist based in Portland, Oregon.
|
|
"My feeling was that the company was desperately trying to protect its
|
|
Valium market with a very expensive brand-named drug," Dr. Julien says.
|
|
"When it was marketed in early 1987, it was purported to be a Valium
|
|
replacement and Valium look alike. It is clear that Versed is about four to
|
|
six times as potent as Valium--although it was purported to be the equal to
|
|
Valium."
|
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Dr. Julien calls Roche "irresponsible" and says that he thinks the
|
|
company should remove the highly concentrated form from the market.
|
|
Public Citizen's Dr. Wolfe is calling on the FDA to punish Hoffman La
|
|
Roche. "Roche was well aware of this problem and it was essential to also
|
|
provide a more dilute dosage form in order to prevent deaths and serious
|
|
injuries," Wolfe wrote to FDA chief David Kessler. "This important
|
|
information appears to have been withheld from FDA for a significant amount
|
|
of time, resulting in dozens of preventable deaths in this country.
|
|
According to FDA officials, the belated introduction of the more dilute
|
|
dosage form has been accompanied by a significant reduction in these tragic
|
|
preventable deaths. The full force of the law must be applied to the Roche
|
|
officials responsible for these lost lives. Even a fine of a hudred
|
|
thousand dollars would be far too lenient. We hope that your investigation
|
|
will also lead to imprisonment for the Roche officials."
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Procter & Gamble: Of Dirty Rivers, Disposable Diapers and Coffee from El
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Salvador
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You would think that a company that makes products with such names as
|
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Ivory Snow, Mr. Clean, Sure and Sunny Delight would keep its operations
|
|
clean, sure and sunny. Think again.
|
|
Every day, Procter & Gamble's cellulose plant in Florida dumps 50
|
|
million gallons of wastewater into the Fenholloway River, which was once
|
|
known for its healing mineral springs.
|
|
Health officials have told residents not to eat fish from the river
|
|
because of dioxin contamination. Chemicals have seeped from the river into
|
|
drinking water wells. Procter & Gamble (P&G) now supplies bottled drinking
|
|
water for area residents and for workers at its plant.
|
|
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) officials say that, in parts of
|
|
the river, fish are no longer found. In other parts female fish have been
|
|
found with male characteristics.
|
|
The pollution of the river has been going on for years. Earlier this
|
|
year, Julie Hauserman, a reporter with the Tallahassee Democrat, pushed the
|
|
plight of the Fenholloway into the public spotlight with a series of
|
|
articles titled "Florida's Forgotten River."
|
|
According to the Democrat, since March 1991, environmentalists have
|
|
petitioned the EPA to overstep Florida environmental officials and upgrade
|
|
the river from its industrial classification to a recreational river where
|
|
fish can survive and people can swim. State officials are now undertaking
|
|
the most extensive review of P&G's permit since the plant was opened to
|
|
determine whether it should retain its permit.
|
|
"It's the worst river I've ever seen," says David Ludder, an attorney
|
|
with the Tallahassee-based Legal Environmental Assistance Foundation.
|
|
Ludder says the contaminants released into the river include a wide range
|
|
of chemicals such as ammonia, bromide, organic nitrogen, oil and grease,
|
|
dioxin, lead, mercury, phosphorus, magnesium and phenols. "The color in the
|
|
discharge has effectively prevented sunlight from reaching the bottom of
|
|
the river as well as from reaching the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico where
|
|
the Fenholloway flows," he says. "The result is that plant life and the
|
|
aquatic organisms that depend on sunlight can't survive. Chemicals have
|
|
consumed the available oxygen in the water."
|
|
Ludder says that P&G has polluted the river without violating state and
|
|
federal environmental laws, but that enforcement action may be possible for
|
|
the contamination of ground water.
|
|
P&G, the maker of Luvs and Pampers disposable diapers is the nation's
|
|
largest disposable diaper manufacturer. Earlier this year, attorney
|
|
generals from 10 states forced P&G to agree to refrain from claiming on
|
|
labels and in advertising that its diapers are readily degradable.
|
|
New York Attorney General Robert Abrams said that the company's
|
|
advertisements create the overall impression that the diapers are
|
|
completely biodegradable and make it appear to consumers that they need not
|
|
worry about the solid waste problems posed by disposable diapers because
|
|
they will somehow turn into environmentally benign dirt in a matter of
|
|
months.
|
|
"To make an environmentally informed choice, consumers need truthful and
|
|
accurate information not slogans aimed at making them feel good," Abrams
|
|
said. "By promoting their disposable diapers as compostable, when
|
|
facilities that accept diapers for composting are virtually unavailable,
|
|
Procter & Gamble is deceiving consumers who are concerned about the
|
|
trade-offs between using disposable diapers and limiting solid waste."
|
|
One last thing--Neighbor to Neighbor is into the third year of its
|
|
boycott of P&G's Folgers coffee because the company buys its coffee beans
|
|
from El Salvador, where a small group of elite families controls coffee
|
|
production (and the rest of the economy) and where death squads and the
|
|
military have murdered tens of thousands of civilians over the last decade.
|
|
Earlier this year, P&G announced that it is developing a new blend of
|
|
coffee that does not contain coffee beans from El Salvador. But for now P&G
|
|
is still using El Salvador beans in Folgers, so the boycott is still on.
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The following information was written by the members of the Santa Rosa, CA.
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band Engage.
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"Nothing Happens, Until You Make it Happen"
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|
|
Every year one hundred and seventy billion animals are slaughtered
|
|
for food in this world. The stifling amount of information shows that this
|
|
slaughter is destroying our health, our environment, and our ability to
|
|
show compassion. With this overwhelming amount of bloodshed, how can we as
|
|
human beings justify the consumption of animal products.
|
|
|
|
A heart attack occurs every 25 seconds in the U.S., and a fatal
|
|
heart attack occurs every 45 seconds. The average American meat eating man
|
|
has a 50% chance of dying from a heart attack, while a pure vegetarian man
|
|
(vegan) has only a 4% chance. You can reduce the risk of a heart attack by
|
|
90%, by abolishing animal products from your diet. Consuming one egg per
|
|
day rises one's blood cholesterol by 12%. The pesticide residues in U.S.
|
|
diet supplied meat is 55%, and dairy is 23%. Percentage of chlorinated
|
|
hydrocarbon pesticide residues in U.S. diet attributable to meat, dairy
|
|
products, fish, and eggs is 94%. While the beef industry continues to tout,
|
|
"beef, real food for real people" remember what beef gave their spokes
|
|
person James Garner: quintuple coronary artery bypass surgery... Dr. Mark
|
|
Hegsted of Harvard School of Public Health said, " I wish to stress that
|
|
there is a great deal of evidence and it continues to accumulate, which
|
|
strongly implicates and, in some instances, proves that the major cause of
|
|
death and disability in the U.S. are related to the diet we eat."
|
|
|
|
Of the 75% of U.S. top soil lost, 85% can be directly related to
|
|
livestock production. The primary cause of greenhouse effect is carbon
|
|
dioxide emissions from fossil fuels. The fossil fuels needed to produce a
|
|
meat centered diet vs. a meat free diet is 50 times more. The number of
|
|
acres of U.S. forest cleared for crop land to produce a meat centered diet
|
|
is 260 million. The area of tropical rain forest consumed in every quarter
|
|
pound of hamburger is 55 sq. feet. The current rate of species extinction
|
|
due to destruction of tropical rain forest for meat grazing and other uses
|
|
is 1,000 per year. Half of all water used in the U.S. is used for livestock
|
|
production. The cost of a pound of hamburger would be $35, if this water
|
|
usage was not subsidized by U.S. tax payers. A factory farm that houses
|
|
60,000 chickens produces about 82 tons of manure every week. A factory farm
|
|
which contains 2,000 pigs produces 27 tons of manure and 32 tons of urine a
|
|
week. In all, factory farm animals produce about two billion tons of manure
|
|
each year, (about 10 times the amount of human waste) a veritable
|
|
environmental nightmare. When animal wastes reach ground or surface waters,
|
|
they take up oxygen as they decompose. Water over loaded with waste becomes
|
|
stagnate and then incapable of supporting fish and other animal life.
|
|
|
|
The majority of animals raised in this country for food are raised
|
|
in factory farms. In factory farming, the purpose is economic efficiency;
|
|
this means simply, to put as many animals in the least amount of space as
|
|
possible. Confinement is the name of the game, vast "warehouses" of animals
|
|
are kept in dim lights in order to keep them calm in a neurotic
|
|
environment, for the duration of their short lives. Five to seven chickens
|
|
are kept in cages 12" by 12", stacked upon each other, row after row. They
|
|
are debeaked (literally) at about seven weeks. And all animals raised in
|
|
factory farms and shot up with thousands of growth stimulants, antibiotics,
|
|
disease controlling agents, not to mention injections of drugs to produce
|
|
an appealing color of meat, or taste. This obviously leads to drastic
|
|
health and sanitary problems for the animals such as salmonella poisoning
|
|
in fowl as well as coliforn, "shipping fever", and cronic diareah in cows,
|
|
and cholera in pigs. Calf losses are 15-20% on the average dairy farm.
|
|
Factory farmed pigs are primarily slaughtered by means of electric shock to
|
|
the temples and then their throats are slit. Chickens are hung on conveyer
|
|
belts to be systematically have their throats slit by an electric knife,
|
|
and then put in through boiling water (many times still alive), and cows
|
|
are killed with an electric spike bolt gun to the brain. The number of
|
|
animals killed for meat per hour in the U.S. is 500,000.
|
|
|
|
The amount of meat the U.S. imports annually from Costa Rica,
|
|
Honduras, El Salvador, Guatemala, and Panama is 200,000,000 pounds. The
|
|
average per capita meat consumption in these countries is less than what is
|
|
eaten by the average U.S. house cat. The number of people who will die of
|
|
starvation this year is 60 million. The number of people who could be
|
|
adequately fed with the grains saved if the U.S. reduced it's meat
|
|
consumption by just 10% would be 60 million. The number of people that
|
|
could be fed with grain and soybeans now eaten by livestock is 1.3 billion.
|
|
The percentage of corn grown in the U.S. eaten by people is 20%. The
|
|
percentage of corn grown in the U.S. eaten by livestock is 80%. The
|
|
percentage of oats grown in the U.S. and eaten by livestock is 95%. The
|
|
percentage of protein wasted by cycling grain through livestock is 99%. The
|
|
pounds of potatoes that can be grown on one acre of land is 20,000 pounds.
|
|
The pounds of beef produced on an acre of land is 165. It takes 16 pounds
|
|
of grain and soybeans to produce one pound of feedlot beef.
|
|
|
|
These facts speak for themselves. Ending the consumption of animal
|
|
products will not only save innocent animal lives, it will save ourselves
|
|
from needless suffering and starvation, and it will help preserve our
|
|
planet.
|
|
|
|
"It is an obligation, given the abilities we are gifted with, and in
|
|
accordance to the abolition of all prejudices, to choose a lifestyle that
|
|
reflects our capabilities to understand right and wrong..." - Engage
|
|
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|
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|
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|
|
"A Poor Excuse For Science, A Poor Excuse For Humanity..."
|
|
|
|
This picture {not included for obvious reasons} of a monkey
|
|
infected with a human disease (syphilis) is just a mere sample of the
|
|
millions of brutal and unnecessary experimentation conducted each year on
|
|
innocent animals. In the U.S. 90 million animals are killed annually through
|
|
"research". This means that 3 animals die every second. When only 3.5% of
|
|
this research has been attributed to raise the average life span, how can
|
|
we allow this type of crime to be commited in the name of science
|
|
|
|
Our reliance on vivisection (animal experimentation) has benefited
|
|
nothing more than lining the pocketbooks of the very vivisectors who
|
|
torture animals, and those who are a part of this 6 billion dollar a year
|
|
business. We can no longer foolishly attempt to rely results obtained from
|
|
animals in laboratory conditions to human beings. The entire biological
|
|
system of non-human animals are completely different. Diseases and other
|
|
conditions must be artificially injected or created in healthy animals
|
|
through violent means. It is obvious that a spontaneous disease cannot be
|
|
recreated in a healthy animal, but only some of its symptoms. Animals
|
|
reactions to diseases, drugs or psychological conditions and environments
|
|
are completely different than that of human beings. Results obtained from
|
|
non-human animals cannot be extrapolated to humans simply because the
|
|
premise on which it is based is false.
|
|
|
|
Animals are sentient, they have the capabilities to feel pain and
|
|
pleasure as we do. Their use in laboratory experiments not only gives
|
|
inevitable false results, we have no right whatsoever to use them in any
|
|
way for our purported benefit or curiosity. It is our duty as thinking
|
|
moral beings to use our capabilities justly, to protect and live equally
|
|
with all life, instead of exploiting ourselves and the animals.
|
|
|
|
If we are ever to be truly commited to helping human health, we
|
|
must abandon experiments on animals that are unethical and produce only
|
|
erroneous results, and focus our energy and financial resources upon
|
|
prevention. This is the only effective way of saving human and non-human
|
|
lives. We need to adjust our lives accordingly, as the Center for Disease
|
|
Control has continually told us that 97.5% of the leading causes for death
|
|
is lifestyle. We need to stop eating foods that are killing us. Only then
|
|
will we be protecting the welfare of human and non-human health, and living
|
|
up to our responsibilities and true capabilities to live in peace with all
|
|
life..
|
|
|
|
We cannot explain fully the overwhelming evidence involved in
|
|
depicting the true crimes of vivisection in this space. We encourage you to
|
|
please write to us, or the groups aforementioned {actually, down below} for
|
|
more, much needed information.
|
|
|
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ADDRESSES FOR ORGANIZATIONS 'ENGAGE' THINK ARE IMPORTANT FOR EDUCATION:
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Animal Rights Mobilization:
|
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P.O. Box 1553, Williamsport, PA. 17703
|
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|
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American Anti-Vivisection Society:
|
|
|
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Suite 204 Noble Plaza, 801, old York Rd. Jenkintown PA 19046-1685
|
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|
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Animal Liberation Front Support Group:
|
|
P.O. Box 3623, San Bernadino, CA 92413
|
|
|
|
Earth First!:
|
|
P.O. Box 235, Ely NV. 89301
|
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|
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Amnesty International:
|
|
322 Eighth Ave., New York, NY 10001
|
|
|
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Queer Nation:
|
|
Box 34, 3543 18th St. San Francisco, CA. 94110
|
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|
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RECCOMENDED READINGS (available through ENGAGE or your local library):
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|
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Animal Factories:
|
|
Jim Mason and Peter Singer
|
|
|
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Diet For a New America:
|
|
John Robbins
|
|
|
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Animal Liberation:
|
|
Peter Singer
|
|
|
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Slaughter Of The Innocent:
|
|
Hans Ruesch
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``````````````````: {Engage is a hardcore-ish band from CA. They can be
|
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.E N G A G E:: reached at this address for information pertaining to
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.P.O. Box 4842::::: this article or information on their music. Engage is:
|
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.Santa Rosa, CA:::: Jason-Guitars/Vocals Kevin-Vocals Eric-Drums/Percussion
|
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.9 5 4 0 2::::::::: Brian-Vocals K.C.-Bass. The information in this file
|
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..................: was taken from the "It's In Your Hands" 7" from '92.}
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Excerpt from: CENSORED: The News that Didn't Make The News--and Why
|
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By Carl Jensen
|
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|
|
We are Winning the War on Drugs was a Lie
|
|
|
|
Synopsis: When President George Bush went before the nation on September 6,
|
|
1989, to give a special address about the seriousness of the drug problem
|
|
in the United States, the media and the public responded with alarm. By the
|
|
end of that month, 64 percent of the public believed that drugs posed a
|
|
greater threat than nuclear war, environmental degradation, toxic waste,
|
|
AIDS, poverty or the national debt. The New York Times alone published 238
|
|
articles on drugs--more than seven articles a day--that month.
|
|
Fast-forward to 1992: The federal anti-drug budget has mushroomed to
|
|
over $10 billion dollars; and the president proclaims, "We are winning the
|
|
war on drugs." The problem with this proclamation is that it is a lie.
|
|
The sobering fact is that Americans are in greater danger from drugs
|
|
today than they ever were before. In fact, despite "winning the war on
|
|
drugs," drug deaths in the U.S. are skyrocketing at a much higher rate than
|
|
drug arrests.
|
|
Before the Reagan/Bush administrations began their war on drugs, deaths
|
|
from drug abuse and drug-related murders had declined from a peak of 8,500
|
|
per year in the early 1970s to 7,700 in 1982. Since 1982 the numbers have
|
|
steadily climbed. Drug abuse deaths have risen by 50 percent and
|
|
drug-related murders have tripled--to more than 13,000 in 1990. This is the
|
|
steepest increase and highest level in history.
|
|
Today's drug statistics are startling:
|
|
- During a single week of the present day drug war (as opposed to the
|
|
"pre-drug war era"), there are 15,000 more arrests, 5,000 more pounds of
|
|
cocaine seized, 10,000 more people sent to drug treatment and 100 more
|
|
drug-related deaths.
|
|
- Street drugs (marijuana, LSD, cocaine, heroin) are not the main
|
|
killers, as they are portrayed. Rather, prescription drugs (barbiturates,
|
|
stimulants) are most lethal, accounting for more than 8,000 deaths
|
|
annually, while street drugs account for 3,000 deaths. (also overlooked is
|
|
the "legal-drug" death toll: 400,000 annually from tobacco, 100,000 from
|
|
alcohol.)
|
|
- Teenagers are often portrayed as the most at-risk group for drug
|
|
abuse. However, of the 13,000 plus drug-abuse deaths in 1990, adults aged
|
|
20 to 59 accounted for 11,000 of those fatalities.
|
|
- Marijuana, LSD and other hallucinogens account for fewer than five
|
|
deaths a year but make up more than half of all drug arrests.
|
|
- Prescription drugs cause more than half of all drug deaths but
|
|
comprise only 10 percent of all drug arrests.
|
|
- White adults over the age of 25 account for two-thirds of all drug
|
|
related deaths but account for only one-third of all drug arrests.
|
|
It is more than ironic that the mainstream media that helped Reagan/Bush
|
|
create a drug war hysteria remain silent or ignorant of the real problems
|
|
that exist today.
|
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Sources:
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In These Times
|
|
2040 N. Milwaukee Avenue, 2nd Fl.
|
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Chicago, IL 60647-4002
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|
Date: 5/20/92
|
|
Title: "Drug Deaths Rise as the War Continues"
|
|
Author: Mike Males
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EXTRA!
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130 W. 25th Street
|
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New York, NY 10001
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Date: September 1992
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Title: "Don't Forget the Hype: Media, Drugs and Public Opinion"
|
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Author: Micah Fink
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Excerpt from: Diet for a New America
|
|
By John Robbins
|
|
(Again, taken without permission and probably violating some copyright law
|
|
of some sort... Damn, eh?)
|
|
|
|
How Now Brown Cow?
|
|
|
|
For centuries, these animals have pulled our plows, sweetened our soils,
|
|
and given their milk to our children. Today, however, these peaceful
|
|
patient creatures have been rewarded for their centuries of service by
|
|
being treated in much the same way as today's chickens and pigs. You might
|
|
think there are laws requiring them to be treated humanely. But harkening
|
|
back to darker times, the Animal Welfare Act specifically excludes creatures
|
|
intended for use as food from its regulations governing the "humane"
|
|
treatment of animals. And though this law places some restrictions on how
|
|
cruelly animals can be treated, cows, pigs, and chickens, however are
|
|
evidently not considered animals within the meaning of the Act. The current
|
|
philosophy is that you can be as cruel as you like, as long as the animal
|
|
is later going to be eaten.
|
|
The result isn't very pretty.
|
|
You may wonder, as I have, how the people who actually handle the
|
|
animals rationalize what they do. I asked a livestock auction worker named
|
|
George Kennedy if he were ever uncomfortable with the way the animals were
|
|
handled. He replied:
|
|
|
|
"Look, if you want beef, this is the only way you can have it. There's
|
|
no room in this business for a 'be nice to animals' attitude. There's work
|
|
to be done, and that's all there is to it."
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Later, I talked with the owner of the auction, a man named Henry F.
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Pace. I asked him how he felt about the charges from animal rights groups
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that the auctions were cruel to the cattle. He sized me up for a moment,
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then answered:
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"It doesn't bother me. We're no different from any other business. These
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animal rights people like to accuse us of mistreating our stock, but we
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believe we can be most efficent by not being emotional. We are a business,
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not a humane society, and our job is to sell merchandise for a profit. It's
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no different from selling paper-clips, or refirgerators."
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In the eyes of the law, Henry Pace is right. There are almost no legal
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limits on what can be done to the animals destined for our dinner tables.
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A federal law, passed in 1906, does put certain basic restraints on the
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way cattle can be shipped by railroad. This law was passed to curb the
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cruelty that most of us would like to think belonged to a less-enlightened
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time. But this law puts no restraints on the way animals can be shipped by
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truck, because trucks did not yet exist at the time this act was passed,
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and apparently the cattle industry has managed through the years to block
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the passage of any legislation which might extend the cow's protection to
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include modern transportation.
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With a sharp eye for this kind of loophole, the meat industry today
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almost always ships cattle by truck. The journey, as you could probably
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guess by now, is a horror from start to finish.
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If you were to step inside one of these trucks you'd be immediately
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struck by the smell. It wouldn't take you long to know that the ventilation
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is terrible. And you'd soon find out that the temperatures are scorching
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hot in the summer, and bitterly cold in the winter. You'd see that these
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animals--ruminants whose stomachs only function properly with a more or
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less continuous supply of food--may spend as much as three days and nights
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without being fed or watered. One authority wrote:
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"It is difficult for us to imagine what this combination of fear, travel
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sickness, thirst, near starvations, exhaustion, and (in winter)... severe
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chill feels like to the cattle. In the case of young calves, which may have
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gone through the stress of weaning and castration only a few days earlier,
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the effect is still worse."
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Today's cattlemen regard it as a normal part of the business that some
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of the animals will die in transit. It's a calculated loss. They find it
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more profitable to absorb the loss due to deaths and injuries than to
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handle the animals differently. They fully expect to find some of the
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animals dead on arrival, and they calculate the loss simply as one of the
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costs of transporting the animals, along with the price of gasoline.
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Most of the deaths are caused by a form of pneumonia known quite
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appropriately as "shipping fever." More than one animal dies of this
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disease for every hundred cattle that reach market. The Livestock
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Conservation Institute has called it the most costly animal disease in the
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United States today. Accordingly, livestock producers today routinely use a
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dangerous antibiotic called chloramphenicol to treat shipping fever. It
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helps keep deaths down and profits up.
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The Food and Drug Administration, however is not very happy about the
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use of chloramphenicol in the beef industry, and frankly, I don't blame
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them. The Book of Lists #2 has a remarkable listing titled "Nine Travesties
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of Modern Medical Science," which ranks chloramphenicol right along with
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thalidomide tragedies and other horrors. The reason is that in a small but
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significant percentage of people even minute quantities of chloramphenicol
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cause a fatal blood disorder call aplastic anemia. Chloramphenicol has
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legitimate medical uses in extreme cases where human lives are at stake and
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no other antibiotic will work. But it is an extremely dangerous drug. Even
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infinitesimal amounts will kill susceptible human beings by preventing
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their blood marrow from producing red blood cells. And there is no way to
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know who is susceptible! Dr. Joseph A. Settepani, a veterinarian who works
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for the FDA in the area of human food safety, says amounts as low as 32
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milligrams of chloramphenicol have killed human beings. This is an amount
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you would ingest from consuming a quarter pound of meat with a residue
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count of 8 parts-per-million. Commercial beef from animals treated with
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chloramphenicol for shipping fever has been found to have residue counts
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100 times that high.
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If you were to watch today's cattle being shipped, you'd see that
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shipping fever is only one cause of death for cattle in transit. There are
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other causes too and none of them leads to a particularly easy death for
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these gentle animals. You'd see cattle freeze to death in the winter. You'd
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see them collapse and die from heat prostration and severe dehydration in
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summer. You'd see them suffocate when other animals pile on top of them as
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the overcrowded trucks go around curves.
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If you were on hand when the animals arrive at their destination you'd
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see that those who survive the journey are not in the best of shape either.
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Not only may they have contracted shipping fever, but they have suffered a
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great deal of bruising and may be crippled from the pounding they have
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taken. Incidentally, the trade definition of a "cripple" is:
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"... an animal that must be carried or dragged from the vehicle."
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In other words, an animal that can manage to limp along even though its
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legs are mangled and broken is not a "cripple." By the same token, an
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animal is not considered officially "bruised" unless its injuries are so
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bad its flesh must be condemned as unsuitable for human consumption.
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Apparently bruising counts only when it affects the pocketbook.
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Just Stuff
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There has been horrible things happening in Rwanda for some time now,
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even longer than there were horrible things happeing in Kuwait. However,
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the UN has seemingly not involved itself in helping out as they
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'helped-out' in Kuwait. Perhaps because there is no oil at stake?
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I was reading the paper the other day (sin #1), when I came across a
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story that mentioned the horrible things that happen to food in fast food
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restaraunts. Such as, food falling on the floor, etc.. It struck me as
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somewhat ironic that this person (and undoubtedly countless others) were
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disgusted by the idea of their food getting a bit of dirt on it, but had no
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qualms about eating the insides of a creature that was formerly alive and
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well.
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"[Time Warner] is definately into it for the music. It's more of a
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family label..." - Tre Cool of Green Day on signing to Reprise Records
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(Taken from King's Mob Returns Vol. 2)
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Apparently the police department in Athens, Texas made home movies with
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good soundtracks of a couple of its white officers beating a black man,
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then shooting him twice in the backside as he tried to run away, recording
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all the action with a video camera mounted on the police car (2-12 San
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Francisco Chronicle). The video tape was recently subpeonaed. Kind of like
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shooting yourself in the foot. (Taken from Maximum Rock N Roll issue 132,
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which I still haven't finished reading.)
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And of course, nothing would be complete without some Embrace lyrics. I
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was reading these the other night, and decided to include them for y'all to
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think about.
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The song is entitled 'Do Not Consider Yourself Free' and its on Embrace's
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self titled (and also one and only (I think)) album.
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i didn't want to see people
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hurting people
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but i refuse to close my eyes
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so in front of me
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i see ugly people
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seething and believing ugly lies
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and yes, of course, i'm scared of being hurt
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and yes, of course, i'm scared of being wrong
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but at the same time my silence
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will convict me
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and the evil will carry on
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if i can do some good
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i want to do it
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if i have a choice
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i want to make it
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it's my human responsibility
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that life lives
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selfishness gives
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and death becomes natural
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so you can stay cool behind
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your window
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and choose the view
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you want to see
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but as long as there are
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others held captive
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do not consider
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yourself free
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End Issue 1, Volume 1, No. 1, ONE! |