On August 21st, 2014, Mayor Jere Wood of Roswell, Georgia, sent a letter to the Federal Communications Commission expressing emphatic support for Comcast’s (CMCSA) controversial effort to merge with Time Warner Cable (TWC). Not only did the mayor’s letter express personal excitement for the gargantuan deal — which critics say will create a monopoly that will harm millions of consumers — but it also claimed that the entire town of Roswell adored Comcast. “When Comcast makes a promise to act, it is comforting to know that they will always follow through,” Wood’s letter explained. “This is the type of attitude that makes Roswell proud to be involved with such a company,” the letter asserts, “our residents are happy with the services it has provided and continues to provide each day.”

Yet Wood’s letter made one key omission: Neither Wood nor anyone representing Roswell’s residents wrote his letter to the FCC. Instead, a vice president of external affairs at Comcast authored the missive word for word in Mayor Wood’s voice. According to email correspondence obtained through a public records request, the Republican mayor’s office apparently added one sign-off sentence and his signature to the corporate PR document, then sent it to federal regulators on the official letterhead of Roswell, Georgia.

– From The Verge article: Exclusive: Politicians are Supporting Comcast’s TWC Merger with Letters Ghostwritten by Comcast

So what does a mega corporation do when there’s no grassroots support for a mega merger? Invent grassroots support, naturally.

It’s one thing for cutthroat corporate executives to think this way. It’s quite another for shameless, unethical, incompetent politicians to so eagerly play along. Readers of Liberty Blitzkrieg know that I have very little respect for America’s cadre of professional authoritarians and thieves, i.e., politicians. Due to a combination of apathy, ignorance and huge sums of bribe money from large corporations, our elected politicians are about as useless as you can get. Greedy, self-interested and immoral. The following article describes what is likely happening every single day, on pretty much every single issue of importance.

As a groundbreaking academic study proved last year, average Americans have essentially zero influence when it comes to public policy (see: New Report from Princeton and Northwestern Proves It: The U.S. is an Oligarchy). Kind of a peculiar outcome for the so-called “land of the free.”

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