Friends of the Earth Go Naked to Protest Fraud
Taking a page out of the PETA Playbook, relatively radical environmental group Friends of the Earth staged a pants-free protest last Friday. TGIF indeed!
What prompted this display of angry, pasty, activist skin? Nothing less than fraud and forgery by D.C. lobbying firm Bonner & Associates. In an effort to prevent the Waxman-Markey energy and climate bill from passing, an employee of the firm reportedly sent forged letters (arguing against the bill) from two Virgina grassroots organizations, the NAACP and Cresciendo Juntos to Rep. Tom Perriello (D-Va).
Bonner & Associates, which is in the pay of the fossil fuel industry, swears that they fired the employee responsible for the fake letters. But seriously, you know they have half a dozen (at least!) amateur Photoshop whizzes on the payroll, probably already working on an forged epistolary novella detailing Ralph Nader's love for dirty coal power and strip mining.
Friends of the Earth lacks some of PETA's naked protest polish -- not one of the ladies was wearing body paint or a bikini made of cabbage leaves, and in fact many of them were wearing clothes. Which really takes the event back into the territory of regular, boring protest. Fortunately a bunch of the guys were willing to bare their nipples for the cause. And to be fair, their chant did include the word "naked."
So full points to FOE for effort, and they definitely picked the right thing to protest.
And a note to Bonner & Associates. You need to reconsider your recruiting and employment screening practices. Seriously, forging letters of support was the best idea this person had? Like that's not going to be discovered? Don't your stupid lobbyist staffers watch TV? Or read the Babysitters Club Mysteries? If that's the best and brightest you can hire to do the dirty work of your evil clients during a time of record high unemployment, well, maybe the environment has a fighting chance after all.
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