Slog - Comments on Backs Against The Wall When the Revolution Comes Dept. http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/backs_against_the_wall_when_the_revoluti This is an actual, real headline from the news today: CEO murdered by mob of sacked Indian workers Here are the first two paragraphs: Corporate India is in shock after a mob of sacked workers bludgeoned to death the chief executive who had dismissed them from a factory in a suburb of Delhi. Lalit Kishore Choudhary, 47, the head of the Indian operations of Graziano Transmissioni, an Italian-headquartered manufacturer of car parts, died of severe head wounds on Monday afternoon after being attacked by scores of laid-off employees, police said. Things are getting bad.... Copyright 2008 Tue, 23 Sep 2008 12:00:00 -0800 Wed, 24 Sep 2008 00:10:56 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by Banna Finally, a populist solution.

]]> Banna http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/backs_against_the_wall_when_the_revoluti#c1148388 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/backs_against_the_wall_when_the_revoluti#c1148388 Money Tue, 23 Sep 2008 12:05:43 -0800 Comment by Bernacke let's take this concept to Wall Street/Lehman Bros. etc

]]> Bernacke http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/backs_against_the_wall_when_the_revoluti#c1148389 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/backs_against_the_wall_when_the_revoluti#c1148389 Money Tue, 23 Sep 2008 12:06:11 -0800 Comment by Nic No one said populism was pretty. History certainly bares that.

]]> Nic http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/backs_against_the_wall_when_the_revoluti#c1148396 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/backs_against_the_wall_when_the_revoluti#c1148396 Money Tue, 23 Sep 2008 12:12:50 -0800 Comment by inkweary He forgot to use his golden parachute to get the hell outta there.

]]> inkweary http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/backs_against_the_wall_when_the_revoluti#c1148397 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/backs_against_the_wall_when_the_revoluti#c1148397 Money Tue, 23 Sep 2008 12:13:04 -0800 Comment by Greetings From Delhi Hi:

Ex Seattlite living in Delhi..

I have first hand experience with the lack of competent security here in India, so it is no surprise they were able to get in and do what they did. They had been camped out for 2 months.

So, as for things "getting bad", mob justice is common here in India, and has been for decades--this is nothing new. For most Indians this is still a poor developing country, with the majority of its citizens not benefiting from the supposed high tech boom or seeing their standard of living, such as it is, go down.

]]> Greetings From Delhi http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/backs_against_the_wall_when_the_revoluti#c1148402 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/backs_against_the_wall_when_the_revoluti#c1148402 Money Tue, 23 Sep 2008 12:17:32 -0800 Comment by Greg They got a little lost on the way to "Angry mob drags CEO to court, puts him in prison."

]]> Greg http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/backs_against_the_wall_when_the_revoluti#c1148404 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/backs_against_the_wall_when_the_revoluti#c1148404 Money Tue, 23 Sep 2008 12:18:00 -0800 Comment by Rotten666 "Things are getting bad".

Par for the course in India, if you ask me.

Indians don't need much of an excuse to riot. Living in India is like living in Springfield.

]]> Rotten666 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/backs_against_the_wall_when_the_revoluti#c1148407 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/backs_against_the_wall_when_the_revoluti#c1148407 Money Tue, 23 Sep 2008 12:19:08 -0800 Comment by The Artist Formerly Known As Sigourney Beaver Hello Delhi!

I hate to tell you this, but the US has also become a poor developing country, with the majority of its citizens not benefiting from the supposed high tech boom or seeing their standard of living, such as it is, go down.

The only difference is the Indian restaurants here aren't as good.

]]> The Artist Formerly Known As Sigourney Beaver http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/backs_against_the_wall_when_the_revoluti#c1148410 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/backs_against_the_wall_when_the_revoluti#c1148410 Money Tue, 23 Sep 2008 12:21:20 -0800 Comment by PC Wow, mobs, cool. I will be sure to send my next $1000 investment to India. Maybe we can have mobs here. Who needs all this voting and shit. Look how great the mobs were in Weimar Germany, too.
Those factory owners, say they were losing money and stuff? And they couldn't keep that factory going and stuff? Well for that they deserve to fucking die. Well not the owners, they're probably sitting in Mumbai somewhere, or perhaps they are the Sloggers via 401Ks and stuff. Sloggers with stock in Indian companies don't deserve to die, they're so kul!!

Only tohe poor slob on the scene running the factory, he deserves to die. In fact he should be lynched!

Mobs r soooooo cool.

Another faux populist sitting in capitalist heaven with a belly full of food, a roof over his head, a college education and neato computers and internet that costs more than those poor Indian workers make in a month. I'm on their side, woo hoo!!!!!

Oh yeah also let's stop trade with India it's so unfair. Trade is sooooo bad. Those nasty Indian workers are exploiting us by working for so cheap. They should lose their jobs. When we put up trade barriers. We hate them. And we love them. Whatever we say, we r soooo cooooool.

]]> PC http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/backs_against_the_wall_when_the_revoluti#c1148415 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/backs_against_the_wall_when_the_revoluti#c1148415 Money Tue, 23 Sep 2008 12:23:17 -0800 Comment by Revolution FOREVER!!!! FINALLY!!! Someone is standing up to those rich fucking bastards!! And stop whining about "class-warfare"! That is what the rich want you NOT to say!! Why? Because the last thing the rich in this country want is a class war. The rich don't want that....

Think about that and come join me in beating the shit out of some rich men and women in downtown Seattle !!!!!

]]> Revolution FOREVER!!!! http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/backs_against_the_wall_when_the_revoluti#c1148425 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/backs_against_the_wall_when_the_revoluti#c1148425 Money Tue, 23 Sep 2008 12:27:55 -0800 Comment by Bellevue Ave So when can I form a mob to kill government officials for wasting my money?

]]> Bellevue Ave http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/backs_against_the_wall_when_the_revoluti#c1148429 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/backs_against_the_wall_when_the_revoluti#c1148429 Money Tue, 23 Sep 2008 12:30:17 -0800 Comment by Bellevue Ave @10, The rich would be able to buy off enough people to prevent the uprising. Lord knows I'd rather defend a rich person who is only guilty of having more of what you value than attacking them.

]]> Bellevue Ave http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/backs_against_the_wall_when_the_revoluti#c1148438 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/backs_against_the_wall_when_the_revoluti#c1148438 Money Tue, 23 Sep 2008 12:34:20 -0800 Comment by tsm I'd just like American CEOs to have at least a little fear that their corpse might swing from a lamppost someday when they contemplate ruining the lives of thousands - or millions - of people.

]]> tsm http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/backs_against_the_wall_when_the_revoluti#c1148442 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/backs_against_the_wall_when_the_revoluti#c1148442 Money Tue, 23 Sep 2008 12:36:21 -0800 Comment by jrrrl i really really really want to hear charles' take on this.

]]> jrrrl http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/backs_against_the_wall_when_the_revoluti#c1148453 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/backs_against_the_wall_when_the_revoluti#c1148453 Money Tue, 23 Sep 2008 12:49:08 -0800 Comment by UnoriginalAndrew New rule: until you've actually killed a cop, or someone in government, or someone with money, or a Catholic, or a Protestant, or a Jew, or a gay dude, or a black dude, or whoever's responsible for everyone's problems today, shut the fuck up about how great it is some dude got beaten to death.

Note: having a bunch of agitprop docs in your Netflix queue doesn't count.

]]> UnoriginalAndrew http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/backs_against_the_wall_when_the_revoluti#c1148462 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/backs_against_the_wall_when_the_revoluti#c1148462 Money Tue, 23 Sep 2008 12:57:16 -0800 Comment by I Wuv My Cutie-Wootie Doggie Are we sure this wasn't really a pack of pit bulls that did this?

]]> I Wuv My Cutie-Wootie Doggie http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/backs_against_the_wall_when_the_revoluti#c1148483 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/backs_against_the_wall_when_the_revoluti#c1148483 Money Tue, 23 Sep 2008 13:22:33 -0800 Comment by michael strangeways Keck and Savage immediately ran out to hire some bodyguards...

]]> michael strangeways http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/backs_against_the_wall_when_the_revoluti#c1148497 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/backs_against_the_wall_when_the_revoluti#c1148497 Money Tue, 23 Sep 2008 13:28:41 -0800 Comment by daniel oh my gawd...


If I wasn't a neo-fight on the (waebon)web,

{hey, do I get credit for being innovative with a new term... DAEMON = WAEBON ?}

I'd check to see WHEN this happened...

as it is I am afraid...

[be very very afraid... the wabbit is very close ...shhhhh....] to check mutiple sources,

as "they" (those psychotic web checkers filtering out full time tort law fisa court block sweeps)might tap into and change the date or time....

The TIMES reports it is the 23rd on their web page, and The Stranger has the 23rd on it's web page.. "yet neither text in the story says what day the mob killed the CEO!!!"

Long LIVE luddites.

]]> daniel http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/backs_against_the_wall_when_the_revoluti#c1148505 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/backs_against_the_wall_when_the_revoluti#c1148505 Money Tue, 23 Sep 2008 13:33:30 -0800 Comment by Vince Let's outsource the revolution!

]]> Vince http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/backs_against_the_wall_when_the_revoluti#c1148696 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/backs_against_the_wall_when_the_revoluti#c1148696 Money Tue, 23 Sep 2008 15:10:18 -0800 Comment by Jay 5 million ways to kill a CEO...

]]> Jay http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/backs_against_the_wall_when_the_revoluti#c1148759 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/backs_against_the_wall_when_the_revoluti#c1148759 Money Tue, 23 Sep 2008 15:51:51 -0800 Comment by LMSW @10 sounds like a troll. Except the part about class warfare. Really, the rich have been engaged in class warfare for a long time. What no one wants to admit is that when people get laid off en masse and savings and pensions disappear, some of those people or their families die as a result. No big surprise when its the other way around.

]]> LMSW http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/backs_against_the_wall_when_the_revoluti#c1148920 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/backs_against_the_wall_when_the_revoluti#c1148920 Money Tue, 23 Sep 2008 19:24:14 -0800 Comment by Greetings From Delhi @8. The US is still a long way from being a poor developing country (a visit to an Indian slum would quickly erase that perception), although I agree it is on the way to becoming one if it doesn't change course rapidly.

And, on average the Indian restaurants are just as good in the US than in India. Just more variety here.

]]> Greetings From Delhi http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/backs_against_the_wall_when_the_revoluti#c1148931 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/backs_against_the_wall_when_the_revoluti#c1148931 Money Tue, 23 Sep 2008 19:39:42 -0800 Comment by Will in Seattle We should make the CEO's families pay $1 for the bullets we use.

]]> Will in Seattle http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/backs_against_the_wall_when_the_revoluti#c1149008 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/backs_against_the_wall_when_the_revoluti#c1149008 Money Wed, 24 Sep 2008 00:10:56 -0800