Corporate Article Proves Why ALEC Must Be Destroyed.

First let start with the author of this whiny article in Forbes:

Tiger Joyce is president of the American Tort Reform Association, based in Washington, D.C.

The American Tort Reform Association (ATRA) – an ALEC member – is behind the ALEC legislation that intentionally takes consumer rights away from you in litigation – because they think you are lying and you are milking the system if you sue an ALEC corporation for cheating, maiming or killing you.

The American Tort Reform Association is a major component behind ALEC tort reform legislation that protects corporate revenues/profits - malicious ALEC legislation that takes away the rights of citizens to recourse when ALEC corporations screw them.

That being said I want to pull a couple of sentences from the Forbes whiny article - ALEC members still incessantly whining - six weeks after the Durbin letter was written.

When CORPORATIONS are stepping forward to defend ALEC for SIX WEEKS and legislators ARE NOT - there is a HUGE problem in our system.

An Ominous Letter From Sen. Dick Durbin Raises Threats To The First Amendment

There they go again in the title – defending ALEC’s free speech rights while ALEC intentionally and maliciously tries to strip those 1^st amendment rights from activists – through ALEC ag-gag laws and the current expanded iterations of Ag-Gag law.

The American Tort Reform Association  has NO qualms about introducing or supporting ALEC legislation distributed that takes away YOUR rights - but BY GOD, their rights are sacred and the rights of ALEC are sacred.

Then, next in the article
you have two photos
– one of Durbin
– one of Joe McCarthy.

Side by side - how incredibly intolerant and disgusting!

Maybe it’s time to start putting a picture of Mussolini or Pinochet in every article we write about ALEC.
Famous fascist and famous free-market dictator  - as symbols of ALEC.

LIMITED SNIPS 

Though ALEC dropped from its lengthy list of model state legislation more than a year ago a controversial stand-your-ground bill, Durbin’s August 6 letter nonetheless demanded to know whether recipients “support ‘stand your ground’ legislation” and if they “served as a member of ALEC or provided any funding to ALEC in 2013.” 

Her reasoning, that because ALEC can now backed away from the fact that ALEC proliferated Stand Your Ground across the US – using ALEC legislators –
THAT NOW – they can claim, no harm,no foul is spurious at best.

The death of Trayvon Martin, AND OTHERS due to Stand Your Ground (SYG) – makes the proliferation of Stand Your Ground bills – by ALEC legislators -Harmful and Foul!

ALEC CAN NEVER back away from their responsibility in this issue - ALEC educated ALEC legislators  - how to carry it back to their state and introduce it - on how to sell SYG on the floor of the statehouse - and repeatedly tells their legislators, the ALEC office staff will help you with ALEC legislation.

The organizations who finance ALEC and were there at the ALEC meetings - listening to the NRA - hearing people talk about Stand Your Ground - can not now put their fingers in their ears, now and go la-la-la-la-la-la-lal.  

ALEC corporations that were at ALEC meetings where this horrific , murderous bill allowing people to randomly kill other people based on perceived threat – ARE EQUALLY TO BLAME – they paid for this legislation to happen, by funding ALEC.

As a letter recipient, I’m hard-pressed to disagree with these editorial characterizations of Durbin’s motives, especially since a cursory review of ATRA’s website makes clear that our agenda exclusively comprises issues of civil, not criminal law. 

CIVIL LAW - ATRA is behind the ALEC legislation that intentionally takes consumer rights away from you in litigation – because they think you are lying and you are milking the system if you sue an ALEC corporation for cheating, maiming or killing you.

Durbin summons not-so-faint echoes of the late Senator Joseph McCarthy,

And ALEC summons not so faint echoes of the late Benito Amilcare Andrea Mussolini champion of fascism, as dictator and Augusto José Ramón Pinochet Ugarte, champion of imposing the free-market concept onto Chile, as dictator.

Meanwhile, ATRA will continue to work with ALEC and countless additional allies to advance our civil justice reform agenda in the states. 

CIVIL JUSTICE REFORM – ATRA is behind the ALEC legislation that intentionally takes consumer rights away from you in litigation – because they think you are lying and you are milking the system if you sue an ALEC corporation for cheating, maiming or killing you

In any case, rather than trying to undermine and silence with implicit threats those advocating policies he disagrees with, Mr. Durbin should welcome robust debate on the important issues of the day. 

WHY?
You hypocrite!
ALEC DOESN’T.

I'm assuming you want Drubin to do this publicly
- OR
 do you want Durbin to come within the secret confines of a private ALEC meeting for this robust debate - behind closed doors?

There is NOTHING public about what ALEC does in relation to policy.
Hypocrite!

There's no robust public debate when it comes to lobbyists meeting behind closed doors with ALEC legislators.
In fact - ALEC intentionally eliminates robust debate by limiting the reporting that is done on ALEC meetings.

ALEC (and its members) want openness, transparency and robust debate from others - but ALEC does not have to apply the same standards to its behavior and neither do their members.
Hypocrites!

There is no robust public debate when ALEC legislation is introduced - cause the public does not KNOW it is ALEC legislation.

Everything ALEC does, in relation to advocating policies, is done behind closed doors, in secret. 

Not only that – ALEC legislators do NOT acknowledge when they are sponsoring or introducing ALEC legislation in part or in whole – because they KNOW ALEC LEGISLATION IS THE WRONG thing to do to their constituents.!

Almost every ALEC member hides their membership – because of shame or guilt felt through their association with ALEC.

Tiger Joyce – don’t talk about open dialogue, when your precious ALEC undermines the democracy of the United States through secrecy and implicit threats against the citizens of the United States through the pro-corporate, anti-citizen legislation manufactured at ALEC.

Tiger Joyce – don’t talk about the threat to ALECs 1st Amendment rights - when the organization that you support is trying to take those same 1st amendment rights away from citizens.

Another corporate example of why 

ALEC needs to be DESTROYED!

Because the corporations come to ALECs defense

because the corporations can not even imagine 

how they would further their agendas 

without ALEC's help.

When corporations repeatedly come to the defense of the pro-corporate, extremist right wing American Legislative Exchange Council - this is a warning to citizens that what happens at ALEC is NOT in the best interests of the United States or it human citizenry.