Comments on: Nader: Big Oil’s Profit and Plunder http://priceofoil.org/2007/12/24/nader-big-oils-profit-and-plunder/ Oil Change International campaigns to expose the true costs of oil and facilitate the coming transition towards clean energy. We are dedicated to identifying and overcoming political barriers to that transition. Wed, 20 Aug 2008 09:36:11 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: So Sue Me http://priceofoil.org/2007/12/24/nader-big-oils-profit-and-plunder/#comment-202963 So Sue Me Sat, 29 Dec 2007 21:22:49 +0000 http://priceofoil.org/2007/12/24/nader-big-oils-profit-and-plunder/#comment-202963 Ralph, it's really nice to hear from you. I'm glad we still have you in our corner, in spite of how we've allowed the DMC to treat you. As if YOU were the threat to the people! The Dems have given the evil corporate dictatorship everything they've asked for, and are scared to stand up even to the Xtian Right when they feel we non-Xtians are discriminating against them. Even Earl Blumen-freakin'-auer was too coward to stand up to that one. Non-Xtian Representatives were scared to vote against it! Sorry, off-subject. You are one of my few heroes. If you were a bigger threat to the evil corporate dictatorship, if people weren't too afraid to listen to you and get rid of the two-party choke-hold on our government, you would probably get assassinated too. Danny Pearl got too close to the funding of terrorism (hmm, let's see... US) so they took him out; Benazir Bhutto was calling for the an investigation into the funding of terrorism before and after a previous attempt on her life where 153 or 158 innocents were killed (guess our corporate media missed that one), and mentioned the name of the man who killed Osama bin Laden (so clearly he isn't behind this), and she's dead. JFK, MLK Jr... anyone who is a serious threat to the corporate (including big oil) dictatorship gets killed. Oil companies kill or fund the killing of hundreds, even thousands of people for standing up against them to protect their land and environment. Al Gore made lots of money on Occidental Oil, a corporation that threatened an entire indigenous civilsation, which promised to commit mass suicide if Occidental drilled in their land (rainforest, in Columbia). Almost everyone in Congress is oily, and the few who aren't... not much of an obstacle to big oil. Not enough of the people are brave enough to stand up with people like you against those who control their lives in every way possible: what to buy, how to look, how much to buy, where to buy it, from whom to buy it, how to be as irresponsible as possible with what we have, what to drive, how much to drive it, what to power it with... True lovers of peace, people who speak up and aren't willing to kill to get their point across, are the exception, not the rule. Until the people pull their heads out of the sand and say "no" we will only see it get worse. If the minds of living beings are impure, their land is also impure, but if their minds are pure, so is their land. There are not two lands, pure or impure in themselves. The difference lies solely in the good or evil of our minds. —Nichiren Daishonin (1222–1282) Our only hope is to become truly happy—then they will have no power over us. True happiness doesn't fade in the face of obstacles or walls, discrimination, persecution... the feeling you get with that shiny new necklace or car is fleeting—it's called "rapture." Someone takes your car away, you're in hell. True happiness is better than the gratitude you feel when your house burned down and you don't care because your whole family (including animals) made it out safe and sound. I love you, Ralph. You will always have my support. Ralph, it’s really nice to hear from you. I’m glad we still have you in our corner, in spite of how we’ve allowed the DMC to treat you. As if YOU were the threat to the people! The Dems have given the evil corporate dictatorship everything they’ve asked for, and are scared to stand up even to the Xtian Right when they feel we non-Xtians are discriminating against them. Even Earl Blumen-freakin’-auer was too coward to stand up to that one. Non-Xtian Representatives were scared to vote against it! Sorry, off-subject.

You are one of my few heroes. If you were a bigger threat to the evil corporate dictatorship, if people weren’t too afraid to listen to you and get rid of the two-party choke-hold on our government, you would probably get assassinated too.

Danny Pearl got too close to the funding of terrorism (hmm, let’s see… US) so they took him out; Benazir Bhutto was calling for the an investigation into the funding of terrorism before and after a previous attempt on her life where 153 or 158 innocents were killed (guess our corporate media missed that one), and mentioned the name of the man who killed Osama bin Laden (so clearly he isn’t behind this), and she’s dead. JFK, MLK Jr… anyone who is a serious threat to the corporate (including big oil) dictatorship gets killed. Oil companies kill or fund the killing of hundreds, even thousands of people for standing up against them to protect their land and environment. Al Gore made lots of money on Occidental Oil, a corporation that threatened an entire indigenous civilsation, which promised to commit mass suicide if Occidental drilled in their land (rainforest, in Columbia). Almost everyone in Congress is oily, and the few who aren’t… not much of an obstacle to big oil.

Not enough of the people are brave enough to stand up with people like you against those who control their lives in every way possible: what to buy, how to look, how much to buy, where to buy it, from whom to buy it, how to be as irresponsible as possible with what we have, what to drive, how much to drive it, what to power it with… True lovers of peace, people who speak up and aren’t willing to kill to get their point across, are the exception, not the rule. Until the people pull their heads out of the sand and say “no” we will only see it get worse.

If the minds of living beings are impure, their land is also impure, but if their minds are pure, so is their land. There are not two lands, pure or impure in themselves. The difference lies solely in the good or evil of our minds. —Nichiren Daishonin (1222–1282)

Our only hope is to become truly happy—then they will have no power over us. True happiness doesn’t fade in the face of obstacles or walls, discrimination, persecution… the feeling you get with that shiny new necklace or car is fleeting—it’s called “rapture.” Someone takes your car away, you’re in hell. True happiness is better than the gratitude you feel when your house burned down and you don’t care because your whole family (including animals) made it out safe and sound.

I love you, Ralph. You will always have my support.

]]> By: Barbara Williams (DareToDreamNetwork.net) http://priceofoil.org/2007/12/24/nader-big-oils-profit-and-plunder/#comment-202946 Barbara Williams (DareToDreamNetwork.net) Sat, 29 Dec 2007 20:53:36 +0000 http://priceofoil.org/2007/12/24/nader-big-oils-profit-and-plunder/#comment-202946 I realize that you have stuck your neck out over the years to give America a hand up! Your efforts brought enlightenment to the American people on many important issues, products, etc! The urgency of your earlier messages was sidetracked by ignorance, media spin & American complacency! But in today's America consciousness or the unconscious state, which has been the norm in the people of America, is awakening, becoming wide eyed and bushy tailed, to the in your face Corporate abuse realities hitting us upside our American heads! The abuse of power, no doubt, is out of control! Mr. Nader, I wish you were running for President today. That said, who do you believe, of the candidates running, have the courage, integrity & desire to get it right? I realize that you have stuck your neck out over the years to give America a hand up! Your efforts brought enlightenment to the American people on many important issues, products, etc! The urgency of your earlier messages was sidetracked by ignorance, media spin & American complacency! But in today’s America consciousness or the unconscious state, which has been the norm in the people of America, is awakening, becoming wide eyed and bushy tailed, to the in your face Corporate abuse realities hitting us upside our American heads! The abuse of power, no doubt, is out of control! Mr. Nader, I wish you were running for President today.

That said, who do you believe, of the candidates running, have the courage, integrity & desire to get it right?

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