When I think whistle-blower, I don't think corporate or government, I think citizen. People such as Upton Sinclair, Rachel Carson and, of course, the premier whistle-blower of our times, Ralph (Unsafe at any speed) Nader. While it seems that he's made a fairly comfortable sets of arrangements for himself, flitting as he does around the nation, this office was not able to protect him from his whistle-blower status enough to assure his presence in the room no less up on the stage in a debate that by all rights should have included him.

Now he's working on a campaign to counter not Capitalism but Corporatism, an animal of a far more insidious nature. Go to CSRL.org to learn more.

In some neighborhoods the admonition, "don't snitch," is intended to defy the law. How odd that the government tacitly supports the same concept.