Gee, if all meat plants could be in business for 79 years without one complaint, the meat inspectors would not have jobs. Therefore we are taking legal action against them. Every day in this country, meat inspectors and other law enforcement officials are cracking down on corporate crime and violence. And every day, they meet resistance, harassment and threats from corporate executives indoctrinated in a radical, reckless, and lawless political ideology. The deaths of the three meat inspectors was senseless - they were killed trying to protect consumers.
Recent surveys indicate that corporate crime and violence is on the upswing.
According to a survey released earlier this year by KPMG's Integrity Management Services unit, employees are observing a high level of serious illegal and unethical conduct on the job, workers perceive management as unable or unwilling to deal with unethical conduct, and employees are discouraged from reporting unethical conduct. And earlier this month, a survey by the National White Collar Crime Center found that one in three American households are now the victim of white collar crime and that there is growing public concern with the seriousness of white collar crime and the criminal justice system's ability to control it. Neither of these surveys was reported in the mainstream corporate media. Nor did they report on a survey conducted by former Washington Post reporter Morton Mintz, published this month in Nieman Reports. Mintz's survey found that corporate newspaper editorial writers rarely condemn corporate crime and other wrongdoing.