Back last year, 2 April 2014 to be exact, Charlie Koch, because of his billions of dollars, got to run a big long editorial in the Wall Street Journal, which also launched Koch Industries never-ending ad campaign to pretty up their nasty reputation:
OPINION
Charles Koch: I'm Fighting to Restore a Free Society
Instead of welcoming free debate, collectivists engage in character assassination.
Updated April 2, 2014 7:47 p.m. ET
I have devoted most of my life to understanding the principles that enable people to improve their lives. It is those principles—the principles of a free society—that have shaped my life, my family, our company and America itself.
Unfortunately, the fundamental concepts of dignity, respect, equality before the law and personal freedom are under attack by the nation's own government. That's why, if we want to restore a free society and create greater well-being and opportunity for all Americans, we have no choice but to fight for those principles. I have been doing so for more than 50 years, primarily through educational efforts. It was only in the past decade that I realized the need to also engage in the political process.
The dire implications of that campaign below:
Now the Koch Industries meme
WE ARE KOCH
is everywhere via Internet, television, YouTube, every imaginable media outlet.
Because of their billions and the U.S. Supreme Court and Citizens United and McCutcheon v. Federal Election Commission, they can't be stopped.
I know, damned good and well, that one morning I'll wake up and find:
Koch Industries
branded on my ass in the dead of night and --
I will have no recourse. Koch Industries owns everything. They own the courts, they own most of the state legislatures, they own Congress -- and I'm not even sure about Barack Obama anymore.
I don't want to be Koch. I don't want to be part of the Koch Industries "brand".
Don't the hallowed values of a "free society" include the right not to be Koch?