The Attack on Corporate America Continues

First it was the tobacco industry, then the pharmaceutical industry, now the unhinged left is going after individual corporations.

Recently, an organized campaign was waged against America's largest employer, WalMart. I discussed that issue here and here.

Now they are going after Coke and they are being led by America's institutes of higher learning:

NEW YORK -- Coca-Cola, a once-ubiquitous part of student life, is now being faced with expulsion at many levels of academia.

As watchdog groups mount a challenge against Coke and other soft drink marketers at high-, middle- and elementary schools, it is now becoming hip to boot the brand from college campuses. More than 130 colleges and universities (mostly in the U.S.) have anti-Coke programs in place. At least 20 either have banned Coke products or axed exclusive contracts, per Campaign to Stop Killer Coke, New York.

The country's largest private school, New York University, banned Coke products last week. More are preparing to follow suit, including the University of Michigan on Dec. 31. Student activists want Coke to agree to an independent third-party probe of labor violations at its Colombian bottling plants. There have been at least eight killings in Colombia involving seven union officials and one plant manager since 1989, per CSKC.

Emphasis mine.

While the killings are tragic, it is not like Colombia has the reputation of...say Tibet.

The left hates capitalism as much as they hate anything. In their warped view, any corporation, just by making money is a tumor on society. Do they ever take into account how this boycott will effect those who work for Coke? What of the drivers who deliver Coke by the case or the guy who mops the floor at the Coca Cola bottling facility in Atlanta? If they are successful in their boycott, those guys will be the first to be laid off.

As for the hypocritical universities, I've yet to hear of any of them who have sanctioned Colombia because of another product that kills hundreds or thousands in Colombia and more than that in the US--the real Coke, as in cocaine.

One last thing, how pathetic that it is now "hip" to ban Coca Cola. I guarantee that my hard-earned money will not go to one of these "hip" colleges when it comes time for my kids to attend them.