People I Don't Like

Last updated 2004-06-28 by Roedy Green ©2000-2004 Canadian Mind Products.
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Introduction

There are some truly evil people living on the planet. The real problem is some of them are also powerful. Ken Keyes said "Love everyone unconditionally, including yourself", however you don't have to approve of their actions. Perhaps if these people were to realise how low they are generally held in esteem they might mend their ways. They may be doing their evil deeds because they mistakenly think it will make others respect them.

Corporations

Corporations are synthetic persons with psychopathic personalities. By American law they are required to act without conscience, considering only the interests of the shareholders, not the stakeholders such as the employees, the customers or the people where the company does business.

So all corporations are to some extent evil, but a few have gone well beyond the call to Satanic duty:

Monsanto	Greedy exploiter of the third world. Inventor of the terminator gene to make seeds die after one generation. Sued a Canadian farmer for theft when some pollen from their plants drifted into his canola field. Blocks labelling of genetically altered food.
Nestlé	Sold baby formula to the third world knowing it was causing infant deaths. Whittled down the price paid to the cocoa farmers to two cents per chocolate bar.
Philip Morris/Kraft	Sold cigarettes to children in the third world as medicine. Lied repeatedly about tobacco safety in the USA. Bribed politicians.
Halliburton	Gave payments to Vice President Cheney in return for sweetheart no-bid contracts in Iraq. Provided disgusting, unsanitary, overpriced meals to the troops.

Bill Gates

Face it - Bill Gates is a about a white Persian cat and a monocle away from being a Bond villain.
-- Dennis Miller

Bill Gates is the owner of Microsoft. He used both illegal and unethical techniques to demolish the competition, forcing the public to use his technically inept, slovenly, buggy Windows operating system. By deliberately dropping Java support in the Internet Explorer Web browser, he has almost succeeded in derailing one of the best ideas in computer science of the last decade, thick client Java -- motivated by outrageous greed. Mr. Gates is enough of a nerd to fully understand how his actions have set back the evolution of computers. What does this lunatic need with yet more money? He is already the richest man on the planet. What has he done with his money other than accumulate it -- build himself a techno mansion. He is a miser, someone who collects money simply because he is addicted to money, not for what can be done with it. He reminds me of a bag lady who collects old plastic bags for no purpose.

If Mr. Gates wished to escape my disdain he would have to tackle a major planetary problem, one worthy of his talents, such as ending the global AIDS epidemic or ensuring everyone on the planet has clean water. He would need to use just as much cleverness and efficiency spending the money as he did making it.

Things are looking up. On 2000 July 10 Gates announced a donation of $50 million to help with AIDS in Botswana. This is still pocket change, but it is an encouraging trend.

I have a fantasy of going to one of his public speeches, waiting for a quiet moment, then in my loud, ringing voice annoucing to everyone present, "You may be immune to ordinary justice, Bill, but you are still a shithead."

Hard Drive: Bill Gates and the Making Of The Microsoft Empire

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James Wallace & Jim Erickson

Discusses Bill Gates' abuses of power prior to 1992.

Overdrive: Bill Gates and the Race to Control Cyberspace

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James Wallace

Discusses Bill Gates' abuses of power after 1992.

Adnan Khashoggi

Here is a man whose greed knows no bounds. He is already so rich he could not possibly spend all the money he has. He foments wars and insurrections so he can sell arms to both sides. Why? To make more money. What an idiot! He is the moral equivalent of Monty Python's Monsieur Creosote the glutton.

Karol Wojtyla, Pope Jean Paul II

Here is a man with immense personal charm yet who has almost single handedly ensured that overpopulation is destroying the planet's ecology, causing famines and disease. Not only does he prohibit the use of birth control for his followers, he sent people to the UN conference on population control to disrupt it.

If Pope Jean Paul wished to escape my disdain, he would have to reverse his position on birth control. I don't require him to change his mind on abortion, just birth control. It is more important to protect the planet from overpopulation than to spread Catholocism.

Fred Phelps

Mr. Phelps in a Baptist minister who utterly hates homosexuals. He maintains a website called GodHatesFags.com. He went so far as to picket the private funeral of Matthew Shepard, a young gay man, who was crucified to death on a fence by gay bashers. This man is the epitomy of what I find disgusting about modern Christianity. He has a raspy hissing voice that drips evil. He could audition for the part of the snake if ever Hollywood makes a movie about Genesis.

If Fred Phelps wished to escape my disdain, he would have to admit that he has done battle with his own internal homosexual urges, and that is why he is so tough with those who give into them.

Charlton Heston

On the second amendment:
Pooing on your lawn is probably protected by the constitution, but that does not necessarily mean you should do it.

anonymous

Charton Heston, the actor who played Moses in The Ten Commandments, is the president of the National Rifle Association. He works tirelessly to feed American paranoia about the federal government.

The NRA builds a fantasy that it would be a good thing if tiny groups of patriots armed with rifles overthrew the democratically elected US federal government. It would not be a good thing. Further, such an insurrection would be pathetic. An armed populace is not what keeps the government honest! It is a population that participates in democracy.

The NRA fosters the illusion that guns are primarily used to shoot intruders. In reality they primarily shoot other family members, sometimes accidentally, sometimes in the heat of anger. Only rarely are they used to shoot intruders.

Heston uses his moral authority as Moses to put up a smoke screen so that Americans won't find out they are an anomaly. No other country in the world has even a tenth the problem with gun violence. He even opposes measures to keep guns out of the hands of children. As a result of his actions, children and wives needlessly die in gun accidents and domestic disputes.

If Charlton Heston wished to escape my disdain, he would have to resign as head of the NRA and publicly reveal his internal conflicts on the issue.

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