Dorie Rae's account of Northwest Airlines, the airport, and the MAC's broken promise is a powerful, concrete, local example of how corporations act as "aggressive sociopaths" (according to the FBI's top personality profiler) in relation to human people and to the earth as well.
Corporations feel no remorse for the harm dome to others, calculate penalties for criminal or civil code violations as business expenses, and must -- by law -- make every decision only on the basis of the effect on short term financial profits. If you believe the spin corporations put on with so-called "charitable" or "foundation" or "pro-bono" work, go listen to the CEO's themselves tell it like it is in "The Corporation." Better yet, read the book. The MAC is shaped according to the wishes of corporations acting without regard for impact on people or environment, only with regard to short-term profit. The people serving on the MAC may be useful in providing cover to pacify the public, but the goal is to man age opposition to corporate agendas, not to ensure corporate responsiblity in relation to people or environmnet. Go see the movie documentery "The Corporation" -- now showing at The Lagoon Cinema in Uptown, Minneapolis. It is totally engaging, and is the best lesson in local politics you will get in one sitting in your entire life. -- pedaling for peace and justice, still from Kingfield -- Gary Hoover REMINDERS: 1. Think a member has violated the rules? Email the list manager at [EMAIL PROTECTED] before continuing it on the list. 2. Don't feed the troll! Ignore obvious flame-bait. For state and national discussions see: http://e-democracy.org/discuss.html For external forums, see: http://e-democracy.org/mninteract ________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A City-focused Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Un-subscribe, etc. at: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
