

Bill originally added protection for e-mail




Source: CNET

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By superstition on 11/22/2012 1:22:01 AM , Rating: 2
This has always been the case. The government poisoned alcohol by adding methanol to it. It injected people in hospitals with polonium. It fed school kids radioactive oatmeal. It gave people syphilis and then studied their deterioration for decades, while lying to them about their symptoms. It warehoused poor kids (Fernald/Eugenics), with the pretense that they were retarded, and sterilized them. It made buildings for the American natives it displaced with radioactive bricks and hired them to dig uranium ore without any protection. It wrecked destruction by throwing American citizens into concentration camps and nuking the people of the Marshall islands. It conducted secret chemical weapons testing on live human subjects. It dragged people into a ridiculous war with Vietnam and destroyed acres and acres of jungle with toxic chemicals so its pals at Monsanto could make a few bucks.

And, guess what else private corporations did? They did things like shooting striking workers. Back when we had a press that wasn't completely the lapdogs of industry, though, that was enough of a scandal to break up Standard Oil.

About 11,000 miners in southern Colorado went on strike against the powerful Colorado Fuel & Iron Corporation (CF&I) to protest low pay, dangerous working conditions, and the company's autocratic dominance over the workers' lives. The CF&I, which was owned by the Rockefeller family and Standard Oil, responded to the strike by immediately evicting the miners and their families from company-owned shacks.

When the evictions failed to end the strike, the Rockefeller interests hired private detectives that attacked the tent colonies with rifles and Gatling guns.

When the tenacity of the strikers became apparent, the Rockefellers approached the governor of Colorado, who authorized the use of the National Guard. The Rockefellers agreed to pay their wages.

At first, the strikers believed that the government had sent the National Guard to protect them. The militiamen instead attacked a tent colony of strikers to break the strike, killing dozens of men, women, and children.

