Comments on: Colombian Paramilitaries defend Multinational Corporations from “bureaucrats”

By: Josiah Garber

Josiah Garber — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 12:22:15 +0000

I was not aware of that. I’ll check it out! :-)

By: mountainguy

mountainguy — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 14:10:15 +0000

Well, after all Colombia is somewhat a “para-democracy”, and Uribe pretends that paramilitarism is not there anymore.

Robert: just a correction, it is ColOmbia, not ColUmbia.

Saludos desde Colombia

By: TimN

TimN — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 00:10:58 +0000

Robert, I have never actually listened or watched Glen Beck at all, just read things about him, so I can’t really comment on him specifically.

However, its quite possible for people who are themselves not violent to advocate ideologies that are very destructive. The neo-liberal pro-corporate agenda has a symbiotic relationship with paramilitary and military violence in Colombia, even though the commentators and the business executives never have to raise a finger.

Josiah, thanks for the recommendation. I’ve read Confessions of an Economic Hitman and found it very good. Did you know that Kathy Kern (who I posted an email from here on YAR) wrote a chapter in the sequel, A Game as Old as Empire?

By: Robert Martin

Robert Martin — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 20:16:38 +0000

I would not go so far as to compare the paramilitary organizations in Columbia with Glenn Beck. Glenn advocates peaceful demonstration within the constitutional rights of the people. He speaks harsh truth at times that can be construed as advocating violence, but in fact they are truths that give warning that there are people who MAY turn to violence. He urges, vehemently and often, to NOT resort to violence, but to live in truth.

As for Glenn being “right” or “left”, I would be willing to bet that, if asked, he is neither. He is neither liberal nor conservative, neither right nor left, but instead stands for the founding principles of the US and their basis in Judeo-Christian ideals. No, we are not a Christian country per se, but that does not negate that the ideals by which our country was founded did not have, at their basis, a strong grounding in Christendom.

By: Josiah Garber

Josiah Garber — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 19:13:50 +0000

I think you would be interested in reading ‘Confessions of an Economic Hitman’ by John Perkins