Cyrus Dugger
An Unreasonable Man
Watch the new film “An Unreasonable Man,” a documentary about Ralph Nader and his life’s work. Above is the preview, and here’s the website for the film.
Ralph Nader originally coined the term “tort deform.”
That’s just one of many reasons he’s worth learning more about if access to justice is important to you.
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quote from Ralph Nader that I hope will inspire
you.
"Until we stop growing up corporate and looking at the world and
at the language through corporate perception and assumption;
we're never going to raise the banner that people must have
legal supremacy when their rights collide against artifical
legal entities of global corporations who no longer have any
allegiance to our communities and our country."
God I love this guy !!!!
Posted by: Richard Sitowski | March 1, 2007 01:37 PM
Generally, when people think of a fight between The Little Guy and The Big, Bad Corporation, they assume they fit into the Little
Guy category. Possibly it makes sense: most people don't run large corporations. most people don't have stock in large
Corporations either. This, however, is a rather faulty and short-sighted examination of the entire debate.
Without getting too deep into Econ 101, its important that we shed the standard populist vs. capitalist trap that tends to place
everyone into a single category, presumably isolated from the drawbacks, risks, and benefits of the other.
Simply put, we're all The Little Guy and we're all The Big, Bad Corporation. To assume otherwise- to believe one's economic
status, political beliefs, career, or other characteristics place them on a single de facto side in such a debate- ignores the irrefutable
interconnectedness of basic economics.
We all buy products, we all want them to be safe, and we all want them to be inexpensive. We all have jobs at companies.
Irregularities and imbalances in the distribution of wealth aside, the bulk of everyone's income is a result of capitalism working
correctly and efficiently.
Now coming to Nader people are always the victims of ruthless corporations (read capitalism) and need to be protected. This view led him to even attack the National Safety Council for associating driving (at least bad driving) with accidents. His so-called reasoning leaves people to conclude that when a drunken driver wipes out a family it's the automobile manufacturer who should be imprisoned . Clearly, Nader believes that capitalism thrives by exploiting people both as workers and as consumers. Nader's aid was so taken with this idiocy that he asserted that corporations were cheating consumers out of $400 billion dollars a year, a sum that exceeded all corporate manufacturing profits by a factor of 10. This is the joker who actually claimed that insanity was caused by "the institutional pathologies of the corporation". (No wonder Hollywood loves him)
Finally St Ralph makes paltry $300,000 a year from speeches and has acquired a $4 million dollar or so portfolio by investing in rapacious corporations whose evil activities he has dedicated himself to combating
In 1975 columnist Ralph de Toledano reported "250 devastating columns of the Congressional Record to demonstrate that Nader had falsified and distorted evidence to make his case against the automobile industry. Nader sued for libel but the judge threw his case out of court. Burning with vengeance he carried out a vindictive campaign of legal harassment against Toledano who could not match Nader's income and other resources ,even spending all his life-savings . ( The nonagenarian died last month, didn’t know his name before that)
Gotta love St. Ralph.
Posted by: Anirban | March 2, 2007 11:42 AM
Nader's organization solicited a contribution. I replied, I was good for $10,000, if he opened an institute to investigate and litigate lawyer misconduct, and misuse of the legal system. I still await a reply, after more than 10 years.
Nader is biased in favor of lawyers. He cannot understand the damage lawyers do.
Also, is Ralph too good to come on this Nader groupie site? I bet he could not even handle Ted, despite what lawyer education did to Ted's intellect.
Ralph, stop hiding. Show us lawyer, rent seeking, redistributionist, flat earth, left wing ideologue stuff.
My conditional offer still stands for the contribution.
Posted by: Supremacy Claus | March 2, 2007 02:23 PM