JeffJenk (1,208 posts)
44. I will name one - the U.S. Chamber of Commerce that pushes policies beneficial to business that
cost more lives than all the "violent crime" put together.
And you can add the conservative group ALEC that writes laws that directly hurt people and do great damage to the environment.
Tens of thousands of people die each year from lack of medical care.
Unknown numbers of people die every year from unsafe working conditions (Massey mining, the Gulf oil "accidents", etc.), the direct result of elimination of regulations.
Lack of a benign environment (clean air, water, land) cost untold thousands of lives and immense suffering to those who manage to survive, every ******* year.
Differential and unfair treatment by the legal system and our right-wing government produce immeasurable suffering among the unprivileged.
Add in the for-profit asses who push wars that produce thousands of deaths and tens of thousands of other casualties, including an epidemic of service-member suicides annually.
The profit-over-people philosophy of the right directly kills more people and causes much more damage than all the "legally-defined" crime committed by those whom you would condemn to lives of "austerity" and deprivation so willingly.
So, if cons want to compare actual terrorism with criminal behavior by individuals, you should at least include the right-wing terrorism of which you are so protective - whether individual like church-attacker Roof or group actions like those perpetrated by ALEC, the CoC, and other conservative organizations.
But you won't.
As my professor would say, 'Sources or it didn't happen'.
But you didn't list any sources, DUche. You just put down things that made you 'feel' better, just like all your ilk. It is sad and pathetic that the 'smarterest people on them interwebz' that the DUches claim to be, can't seem to grasp that one, simple fact.
This DUche seems to think he is living in Chicago in the turn of the 19th century to the 20th, and his name is Upton Sinclair. Here's a little newsflash, DUche; OSHA, one of your beloved government bureaucracies, won't let conditions like that stand at ANY workplace. And they haven't for a long, long time. So cut the crap, and sit in the corner and color.
By the way Mr. Mannn, Is it worth it to debate these idiots at DI? or do they just do this all the time?

I'm considering signing up over there.