The Obama administration's legal battle against whistleblowers, federal unions.

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7. It is possible that people are defeating their own good objectives by not working coherent

objectives. The value that they may have to offer could be maximized by a little organization.

Certainly, under adverse political coercion from ALL directions, this administration has proven at least some willingness to expose corruption. It's so very interesting that the value of that is held FALSELY at 0, while we will hear the same old propaganda from the same sources who refuse to engage publicly in anything like the kind of reality testing and self critique that ALL of us NEED.

Regarding whistleblowing: Consider the model established by "industrial espionage", but within an extremely fluid political/financial context.

I'll bet you don't actually do that, because your status here prevents that risk: Maybe nothing ever changes in academe, so organizational sterility obviates certain kinds of perceptions. There are none so blind as those who not only refuse to hypothesize anything authentically new, but also refuse to see anything but the SAME obsolete thing.

Meet the "new" *B*O*S*S* exactly the same as the *O*L*D* obsolete boss.