LAST
YEAR:
Starbucks
shareholders meeting
made the news
(online, of course,
with no mainstream
media coverage) when
Schultz arrogantly
told Christians
they should take
their money
elsewhere
if they don't like
his company's strong
stand for "gay
rights." Turns out
"gay rights" (aka
gay marriage) is
literally part of
the company's
platform!
EXAMINE
THIS POLICY
1. Since when
is it the business
of a corporation to
stand on a platform
of a political
agenda?!
2. Then,
there's this: While
Schultz was
flagrantly insulting
in that
stockholder's
meeting, how many
actual Starbuck's
customer know about
that company
platform? Is it
posted on their
site? NO. Is it
posted in their
stores either? Of
course not.
3. So the
message is we'll
gladly take your
money and this is
what we will use it
for. But we'll
generally be as
covert as possible
about this agenda.
After that
snaffu, Starbucks
made a very big
public deal of their
assistance in the
Louisiana disaster -
thus reinstating
their image as a
corporate "good
guy."
STARBUCKS
GOT AWAY WITH THAT,
HELD PROFITS, SO
HERE'S WHAT CAME
NEXT:
This year
Starbucks has
decided that smoking
is prohibited, not
only in its stores,
but on its
patios - and
taking it further
NO SMOKING is
allowed within 25
feet of any of its
establishments.
If you think,
on the surface,
that's a valid
policy, think again:
SCRUTINIZE
THE MOTIVE AND
LEGALITY OF THIS
PROHIBITION
1. What right
does Starbucks have
to control the
conduct of people
on public or other
property
that may adjoin or
interface with its
stores? (Probably
NONE legally - but
they're getting away
with it anyway.)
2. Review the
far-higher-profit,
broadly advertised
big-pharma high risk
drugs to quit
smoking. Those are
higher-profit than
tobacco ever was.
So, is this a
big-business move
rather than for the
public interest?
3. Consider,
by contrast, the
number of small
businesses being
systematically
targeted and sued
if they refuse
services
for gay weddings
(cake bakers, photo
studios, etc.)
Another example of
leftist distortions
of rights - you're
"right" if you agree
with our use of
political clout and
force tactics and
you're wrong (and
will be sued or
ostracized if you
don't. Apparently,
it's OK for
Starbucks to make
any policies it
chooses but it's NOT
alright for other
businesses to chose
who they serve.
4. Most
insidious is the way
Starbucks is
enforcing this
policy. Staff
intimidation of
smokers - and its
in-store Non Smoking
signs intentionally
imply this policy
"may relate to
public ordinances."
THE REAL FACTS:
WISCONSIN (for
instance) has a
carefully worded
state law
PROHIBITING any
localities
from modifying the
legislation of NO
INDOOR SMOKING ONLY.
Yet, Starbucks in
deciding to overrule
this state law has
staff telling
customers it's sorry
but the STATE or
CITY to be a factor
in its policy. This
DOUBLETALK is NO
coincidence. It's a
way to artificially
shift the blame for
its own (right of
refusal) policy.
LAST
MONTH STARBUCKS
PILED ON MORE
CORPORATE CONTROL
OF ITS CUSTOMERS:
Most recently
Starbucks decided to
inform its
nationwide customers
that guns
are not to be
brought on their
premises.
No matter - again-
if the state or
local laws permit
open carry. You
exercise free choice
to carry a gun? Too
bad - STARBUCKS
PRONOUNCES - leave
it home or don't
come here!
ONCE
AGAIN, a
low-level of
public backlash
(despite
dominant polling
against its new
policy) gave
Starbucks the
feedback it can
do, say, enforce
whatever it
wants - Bill of
Rights, current
laws and
customer
preferences be
hanged!
WHY
PUBLIC ACCEPTS AND
CONFORMS TO
STARBUCKS GESTAPO
APPROACH:
That's simple.
Early on, the
company made
pretense of its
local-support image.
Some stores were
even remodeled (and
much publicized) for
their use of local
materials and
designers. The image
presented was, look
at how we care about
your community. In
the meantime, they
were busy putting
small, local owned
coffee shops out of
business - thus
shrewdly eliminating
the competition.
RESULTS?
MOVE TO CONTROL
PUBLIC OPINION AND
SUPPORT OBAMA:
AS OF THIS
WEEK, ALL
their coffee
houses now have
special in-store
DISPLAYS of
PETITIONS to force
the GOP into a
budget-deal
compromise.
Stop in to see
this for yourself.
Signs proudly state:
ALL
OUR STORES
NATIONWIDE have
THIS PETITION for
our CUSTOMERS TO
SIGN - and we,
Starbucks, will
see that all these
Petitions reach
Washington!
Starbucks,
with NO resistance
to its
ever-expanding
customer controls is
now an overt arm of
the Obama
administration -
using its nationwide
positioning, "public
image" and influence
on low-information
voters to organize,
distribute and
collect these
petitions to SWAY
PUBLIC OPINION for
a 'bi-partisan'
Budget
"Compromise!"
AND WE ALL
KNOW WHAT
BI-PARTISAN means
these days: Shut up
you dissenters and
give the White House
what it wants!
THIS IS
OUTRAGEOUS! A few
years ago, in
2008, most
businesses banned
public volunteers
from even standing
outside their
doors with
political
petitions. Look
how far we have
sunk since
then.This is a
dangerous trend of
bullying corporate
rights over civil
rights. What do
you suppose would
happen if you
asked Starbucks to
post a petition
opposing ObamaCare
and Federal
over-spending?!
HELP EXPOSE
STARBUCKS expanding
agenda of POLICING
THE PUBLIC &
POLITICAL PROPAGANDA
When a private
corporation uses the
guise of its popular
image for purposes
of PUBLIC OPINION
CONTROL AND
POLITICAL CLOUT it's
time to STOP
putting our
dollars in their
pocket.
NEED
ONE MORE EXAMPLE
OF STARBUCK's LEFT
WING COLLUSION -
Here's a Shocker!
As of this
week, the Arizona
Republic, described
by some as a
"left-wing" rag, has
notified its
reporters they will
no longer have
offices or desks.
Instead, they've
been given portable
computers and told
their "new" work
space is to hang out
at STARBUCKS AND
MCDONALDS!
So, unless you
agree with OVERT
CORPORATE FUNDING of
public control in
place of personal
rights - and the use
of their profits TO
FUND LEFT-WING
CAUSES - find a
different place to
hang out - and a
different brand of
coffee to
purchase.
This company
has betrayed its
public trust - on
many levels - by
deciding to be a
proponent and
enforcer of
political causes.
When it
reaches the point
that a corporate
chain makes itself
an overt vehicle of
INFLUENCE &
CONTROL on behalf of
"politically
correct" causes,
people NEED TO be
ALERT to where the
money for their $4
cups of coffee is
going!
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