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Joe Shlabotnik

(5,604 posts)
3. I'm a 'little' uneasy with this group.
Thu Mar 29, 2012, 02:56 PM
Mar 2012

They have the money and big names to potentially co-opt the message:

http://the99spring.com/who-we-are/

And as freshwest said above, the is no mention of the MIC, or for that matter the erosion of civil liberties, militarization and conduct of the police, criminal investigation of banks and multinational corporations, the escalating influence of money in politics, or the failed war on drugs. (I'm very pro-union), an I'm not in any way knocking the support of the big unions, but they are also highly political, purchase influence and unlikely to center out bad actors like the police unions who enable the PTB, or criminal enterprises that happen to employ unionized workers. I hope my concerns are proven wrong, but we should watch carefully where this goes.

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