top US political consultant, dubbed “Dr. Evil”, has been caught on tape at an industry conference, advising oil and gas execs to regard public policy as endless war and to play on peoples fear and greed to lobby their interests. Richard Bermans speech, which he gave in June in Colorado Springs, was leaked to The New York Times by one of the participants at the conference who said: It just left a bad taste in my mouth. The whistleblower asked for their identity not to be revealed. If you think about it these groups: the Sierra Club - who is the natural enemy of the Sierra Club? Who is the enemy of Greenpeace? You know at the surface, you would love to be a group like that because everyone should be in favor of you, who could be against you? That’s very difficult to overcome, and they play on that, and they trade on that, and thats our opportunity and also our challenge. So, it is an endless war. To win the war, the veteran lobbyist told the crowd to marginalize their opponents: You can either win ugly or lose pretty, the founder and chief executive of the Washington-based Berman & Company consulting firm declared, noting that wherever possible, I like to use humor to minimize or marginalize the people on the other side. I get up every morning and I try and figure out how to screw with the labor unions - that’s my offense. I am just trying to figure out how I am going to reduce their brand. According to Berman, who has waged campaigns against labor unions, animal rights activists and environmentalists, the battle is usually worth millions. I think $2 to $3 million would be a game changer, he said. We’ve had six-figure contributions to date from a few companies in this room to help us get to where we are, he said, adding that anonymity is key to success. ......... he said, adding that anonymity is key to success. This is where Anonymous would be more effective but for some reason Anonymous isnt doing half of what it could be doing to stop a piece of shit like this.
Posted on: Sun, 02 Nov 2014 13:07:39 +0000
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