It is so shameful.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=764850

As big funders of the Tea Party, billionaire brothers Charles and David Koch have underwritten a populist movement against oversized government and 'excessive' regulation.

Now a new report suggests that in their own corporation, they've taken a different approach to government regulation: They've simply ignored it.

An extensive investigation in Bloomberg Markets magazine finds that Koch Industries has made multiple 'improper payments' (read: bribes) to win business in Africa, India and the Middle East; rigged prices with competitors; and used foreign subsidiaries to sell equipment to Iran

A Grim Vision of America’s and the World’s Future
Published on Sat, 2012-06-02 16:45

http://www.counterpunch.org/2012/06/01/a-grim-vision-of-americas-and-the-worlds-future/

Summary: "The catch was, the FBI, which was clearly after Montes, a retired Xerox salesman, for political reasons, conveniently told local police that he was not allowed to register firearms because of a (get this!) 1969 felony conviction for allegedly throwing a coke can at a cop (Montes says he never threw such a can)."

Note that the police knew all about that conviction when Montes first registered his guns. He has not been in trouble with the law since then. Clearly he could have simply been informed that his gun registrations were invalid, and the guns had to be turned in. Why Montes, who has remained politically active and a critic of the government, was really arrested in this Gestapo-like manner became clear when an FBI agent hopped in the car with him right after he was picked up, and said, “I am from the FBI and I want to talk to you about the Freedom Road Socialist Organisation.” Montes is now facing a possible 22 years in jail for possessing legally registered guns that the LAPD has known for years that he had in his home, and that nobody ever cared about before. (I had to learn about this from the British newspaper the Guardian. The corporate media in America have covered up this outrageous political bust.)

It really does have an impact