by Jessica Contreras
October 9, 2011
Bringing the End The Fed message to OccupyLA
By Jason Mahakian
October 8, 2011
No more than 15 people along with myself from the EndTheFed Group of Los Angeles held a Protest at the Federal Reserve Branch in Los Angeles On Saturday, October 8. I’m happy to report that there were two members of Oathkeepers with us as well. We held our picket signs there for about an hour and a half, under the watch of private security guards, no LAPD here. What I first noticed was that there was no signage on the building save an engraved brass door handle, obviously wanting to draw little attention to itself. On the sidewalk, the organizer with a bullhorn led the rest of us with raised voices proclaiming various facts pertaining to The Fed, receiving support from cars that honked as they passed by.
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June 30, 2011
What Is Walmart's Crime?
What is Walmart's Crime?
by William L. Anderson
originally posted on Mises.org
The Supreme Court’s recent Walmart decision has stirred a hornet’s nest at the New York Times. Indeed, what else can one expect from that paper but the belief that it would be a very good thing for lawyers and the government to loot one of the country’s most successful businesses?
Yet, as I read an attack op-ed written by Nelson Lichtenstein, a professor of history at the University of California, Santa Barbara, I have to ask myself just what crime the NYT believes Walmart committed in the first place?
The charge was discrimination against women, and when feminists, racialists, and environmentalists make any charge against an American business, the NYT never fails to take their side in knee-jerk fashion. In fact, as the newspaper’s editorial laments, the alleged actual damages to individuals were pretty small (maybe about $1,000), but claiming that all women who worked (or had worked) at Walmart after a certain year were victims of discrimination turned this whole thing into a multi-billion-dollar payout.
(Not surprisingly, the NYT‘s favorite class of lawyers, the plaintiffs’ bar, would have had a small group of individuals receive hundreds of millions of dollars apiece while the women they represented wouldn’t have got much at all. This is the NYT‘s version of “justice.”)
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