You raise heavy questions, Jim. Anybody ever tell you you should write a book?
I have. But I am not allowed to publish it.
Hold on. What about freedom of speech? Who won't let you publish?
Sorry, I can't comment.
What about reports that a member of your group was poisoned with arsenic?
Poisoning with arsenic is about the most painful torture imaginable. But I can't comment more than that.
So the risks are real.
Jeff Wigand had to be protected with armed guards. Karen Silkwood paid the ultimate price. Serpico was hung out to dry during a drug bust, apparently his partners abandoning him to be killed. Many members of our group have gotten death threats. Around the world, the situation is much worse. Whistleblowers outside the country are often killed.
Yikes! Why in the world would people voluntarily stick their necks out?
Soldiers die defending our country. My father fought in World War II. Not every heel was in Germany during that war. There are dangers within as dangerous as the armies our fathers fought. Imagine- if Coleen Rowley's report on security lapses leading to 9/11 had been listened to, our country would be immensely safer.
This is part of defending our freedom, and it is a privilege to do it. Though, I also agree with Patton- it is more patriotic to make the other sons-of-bitches die defending their fraud. Pardon my French- but Patton had that way about him.
I'm sure Patton would have been just as mad if fraudsters ripped his army off and he didn't have the material he needed to fight. If someone blundered and had him invade the wrong country he'd have torn the politicians a new one.
How can we learn more, Jim?
Tom Devine has just finished a new book on corporate whistleblowing, with a forward by Jeff Wigand. The Corporate Whistleblower's Survival Guide: A Handbook for Committing the Truth (BK Currents) It's going to be a blockbuster!
I bet! And how do we get the word out?
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