The Yes Men Get Strangled in Bhopal

The Yes Men, Andy and Mike, in 2004, made a statement to 300,000,000 people on BBC that Dow Chemical, owners of Union Carbide, were going to liquidate Union Carbide and use the 12 billion in assets to help the people of India where Warren Anderson, CEO of Union Carbide, got away with one of the biggest mass murders in history.

When it was found out that this was a hoax, the BBC chastised the boys for hurting all those Indians in Bhopal by getting their hopes up only to dash them on the rocks. Oddly, however, the media prostitutes did not say anything about mass murderer Warren Anderson, his killer corporation Union Carbide, nor the killer corporation that owns it now Dow Chemical, and the GREAT SUFFERING they have caused the people since the mass murder on December 3, 1984 (3,000 initial deaths with 15,000 more added on in the passing years). But hey, what do you expect from a bunch of corporate loving whores anyway.

So, Andy and Mike went to Bhopal India to meet the survivors. As they sat innocently before a large crowd of Bhopal Survivors chants of "STRANGLE THEM! STRANGLE THEM!" were screamed by the crowd. The boys apparently didn't understand as they did not speak the language, and they were promptly strangled by the people.

Actually, Shusli and I went to see "The Yes Men Fix the World" yesterday which is playing at Cinema 21.

These two hoaxsters manage to get themselves invited to some heavy hitting places where they put themselves off as corporate execs then say things that corporations should be saying. Their hoaxes are ways of bringing attention to things that folk don't really pay attention to using humor. Folk no longer care about the survivors of Bhopal, Katrina, nor global warming. These fellas have pulled off some elaborate hoaxes that brought the focus back on to folk still suffering by the actions of the like of mass murderer Warren Anderson.

It is a must see film. Shusli and I had a wonderful time, but since we were foolish to eat at Laughing Planet just down the street prior to seeing the film, we barely had enough room for the popcorn and soda.

Hoaxters don't harm people, CORPORATIONS HARM PEOPLE!