We are a land run by groups with
unlimited reach, and
limited visibility. Yet, if you lift up rocks you'll find the
Koch Brothers.
Billionaires who are attacking our
social security and voting
rights. Kochs are behind many of the most dangerous attacks on what few
freedoms and rights we still have.
What can be done? Boycotting is nice, but it is time to be focusing on Koch assets and tax free IRS status. Their assets can be seized by our government for destroying our world. That's not enough. Lets nationalize their companies. Gandhi found a way to make workers stop working. Why can't we? Targeting their bottom line is a great way to fight the ultra wealthy. Block their gates. Organize a strike. Pick a target, make sure their products never even get to market. Shaking your fist at someone does nothing. It isn't hard to make a company unprofitable. There are so many legal things that people can do today. Go to your local store, and demand they stop carrying Koch products. Local protests scare retailers. Chick-fil-A owns their distribution venue. Koch doesn't. Everyone needs something, right? Companies are no different. Every Billionaire has a supply chain. Teflon requires chemicals, paper requires trees, and oil requires contracts and trucks. They want to take away what we need, time for the Koch to suffer hardship just like the rest of the citizens they've given cancer to.
Every company is concerned with a thing called 'Market Penetration'. As an activist, why aren't you? You have a brand, it is in competition with the Kochs for the soul of the country. Ask not what you can do for your country, but what you can do against the Koch brothers. They are dependent on you and 88 million in government subsidies. Yet, they want to take food out of my mouth. As a food stamp recipient, a college graduate, and son of a union worker, it's us vs. the Kochs. How much influence do the Koch brothers have in the running of your local government?
Politicians fear one thing. Losing their office. On a local level, do your representatives have Koch connections? Call them. Ask. Ask them what they think of ALEC. Ask them what they are doing to stop Citizens United. Theodore Olson, the Koch's general Council was the lead attorney of Citizens United. It's the Koch's baby, so is the XL Pipeline. The Kochs are responsible for destroying and North Carolina and Virginia's water supply. Why should they a transcontinental pipeline ? They are behind the chaos in Wisconsin and own Gov. Walker, who admitted to trying to crush unions, labor rights and is attempting to sell power plants from the state so the Koch owns them all, in an outright monopoly.
How much effect do the Koch have on
your state? I'm talking about you. The Koch want to hurt you and your family. Chances are they
already have by polluting your
water, air, and body with
toxic chemicals, cancer and disease. This is not a liberal/democrat issue. They intend to take over the Libertarian
CATO Institute, just
because they can. The Kochs are also behind
attacks on the Affordable Care Act, and women's
reproductive rights. The Koch brothers are doing their even best to make sure we
starve and
die. This is a issue of protecting our Democracy and our
world. This is an issue that binds us together as a nation. The Koch family wealth started with
Stalin. Our country started in attacking the East Indian Tea Company. There is nothing more patriotic then
trolling the super rich. Our country is built on it. The first step to a freer country is removing the
cancer that is Koch Industries. Or, we can let them kill wages, jobs,
unions, freedom, and our families and our country can metastasize in a cesspool of greed and pollution, or we can effect change. The time is now. Thomas Paine said, “Where knowledge is a
duty, ignorance is a crime”. This is our world. It is time to take care of it's
cancer. Decades of letting things be have gotten us into the
mess we are in now. It is a time for
active citizenship before we become the United States of Koch.