Comments on: We ARE the Small People

By: tim

tim — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 02:38:04 +0000

wow april , you wrote that !!!!!!!light a fire under our lazy asses…
corporate greed is maddening - campaign finance reform ?thought the supreme court just buryed that ..
the human element is beigh taken out of everything - were all “fucking peasants as far as i can see”

By: Todd

Todd — Sat, 26 Jun 2010 16:09:22 +0000

hi:

i like your explanation of the difference in responsibility between a corporate “right” and a human “right”.

some time ago, supreme court justice sotomeyer (correct spelling? i don’t know), in her first case as a justice, said that the corporate “right” was created by us and it’s responsibilities can be changed by us … and, i think, should at least be on the same level as ours.

so…my analogy may be off, but rather than spend a week trying to get it right: if the oil rig explodes and 10 people die as a result and 10,000 livelihoods lost, it’s is far worse than if one individual tries to rob a store and perhaps kills one person. the person responsible for that rig (the corporate ceo or his vice-in-charge) should be on trial and the corporate board directly responsible for every dime those who submit claims, lost…

a little wordy, but didn’t wanna spend a week getting it into 2 sentences…

By: Joan Brundage

Joan Brundage — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 21:39:32 +0000

Excellent, well written article, April. Absolutely right on! I wish you would submit this as an editorial letter to a big newspaper like the New York Times. Your article needs to be read by a very wide audience and could perhaps, galvanize some social action. Please do submit it to several newspapers!!

By: Judy Muller

Judy Muller — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 20:00:46 +0000

Very well stated. Thank you, April.

By: Tony Dorrell

Tony Dorrell — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 18:16:00 +0000

April,

Right on!

Tony

By: Diane

Diane — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 17:27:39 +0000

Thanks, April. Sad, but true.