Bobby Kennedy Salon Interview

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GREAT Read! He hits everything, Bush, environment, media and corporate fascism! The one-day pass is just a quick Oklahoma! ad. Just too good for words!

"When Bobby Kennedy Jr. talks about the corporate polluters he has been fighting for nearly 20 years as an environmental lawyer -- and their accomplices in the Bush administration -- he gets the same steely look in his blue eyes that his father did when he was confronting the moguls of organized crime. "I am angry," he says, with a Kennedyesque hand chop of the air. "Three of my sons have asthma and I watch them struggle to breathe on bad air days. And it's just scandalous to me that these polluters can give millions to Bush and suddenly all these environmental regulations are thrown out the window. These guys in Washington are selling huge chunks of America's natural resources, they have our government up for sale to the highest bidder, and they're getting away with it scot-free."

http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2003/11/19/bobbykennedyjr/

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1. "Welfare cowboys"

Oh my god, I am loving this article.

"You look at all the Western resource issues, like grazing and lumber and mining and agriculture, and it's all about subsidies -- for some of the richest people in America, these welfare cowboys in the Western states who are getting $35 billion a year in federal subsidies that are destroying our ecosystems out there. And these are the same people who financed this right-wing revolution on Capitol Hill and helped put Bush in the White House, and now they have their indentured servants in Washington all demanding that we have capitalism for the poor and socialism for the rich."

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2. Kick

Just in case it's too early for people to have paid attention. This is one of the most important articles written in years and I am not exaggerating. READ IT!

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3. Gossip or substance?

Maybe it's true. Maybe the reason the media reports Jacko/Malvo/Kobe/Lace IS because people don't take the time to pay attention to real issues. There's 2 threads up on this very important article, no response. It's a tragedy.