Thom Hartmann (July 19, 2012) Bain Capital and El Salvador death squads

[alp227]

From hour 2 of the July 19, 2012 show. Thom Hartmann describes how Mitt Romney founded Bain Capital with the help of wealthy families from El Salvador tied with the right-wing, Reagan administration-backed death squads.

Sources: "The roots of Bain Capital in El Salvador's civil war" (http://www.salon.com/2012/01/20/the_roots_of_bain_capital_in_el_salvador/singleton/) by Justin Elliott, Salon.com

"Bain Capital started with help of offshore investors" (LA Times, 7/19/12) (http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-bain-creation-20120719,0,5698366,full.story)

El Salvador video narrated by Tom Brokaw is from the Oct. 10, 1983 "NBC Nightly News" (http://tvnews.vanderbilt.edu/diglib-fulldisplay.pl?SID=20120722169525146&code=tvn&RC=526809)

[cantbeserious]

1. Rmoney = Blood

eom

[Berlum]

2. wow - right wing totalitarianism

Soooo republican. So ugly. So opposite of all America's ideals.

You should post this in GD where more people can see...

[alp227]

4. GD has posts about this issue already.

[burrowowl]

3. Good links to articles, thanks!

[alp227]

5. BTTT due to related article in LBN today

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1014187901

[WhoIsNumberNone]

6. Mitt Romney: Model Republican

[Bucky]

7. No one acquires large sums of capital without picking up blood money.

This is an important story, so we can safely assume it won't get much, if any, play in mainstream news outlets.