Arrogant Kochs

[marmar]

from AlterNet:




In 1st Statement Since "Prank" Call, Defiant Koch Bros Vow to 'Continue the Fight' in Wisconsin


The Madison Capital Times:

In their first published remarks since a prank caller tricked Gov. Scott Walker into thinking he was speaking with big-bucks backer David Koch himself, Koch executives said that that hoax and nearly two weeks of Madison protests have only strengthened the Koch brothers' determination to continue to use their billions to promote a national agenda that includes gutting the power of unions and deregulating industry.

Their statements in a Thursday night story by Robert Costa of the National Review Online, itself a bastion of conservatism, were defiant.

"With the Left trying to intimidate the Koch brothers to back off of their support for freedom and signaling to others that this is what happens if you oppose the administration and its allies, we have no choice but to continue to fight," says Richard Fink, the executive vice president of Koch Industries. "We will not step back at all."

Got that, they're not backing off from their "support for freedom." That would be a good thing, if their definition of that word weren't completely perverse. ............(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.alternet.org/newsandviews/article/486458/in_1st_statement_since_%22prank%22_call%2C_defiant_koch_bros_vow_to_%27continue_the_fight%27_in_wisconsin/

[PA Democrat]

1. An admission that Walker was their puppet from the start.

The mask is off.