Re Ralf Nader.
Until you mentioned him, sorry, never heard of him. Just looking at the info your new thread provided....
Nader first clashed with automobile industry in 1959 when he wrote the article "The Safe Car You Can't Buy" in an issue of The Nation.[6] Most famously, in 1965 Nader released Unsafe at Any Speed, a study that purported to demonstrate unsafe engineering of many American automobiles, especially the Chevrolet Corvair and General Motors. GM tried to discredit Nader, hiring private detectives to tap his phones, investigate his past, and hiring prostitutes to trap him in a compromising situation.[7][8] GM failed to turn up any wrongdoing. Upon learning this, Nader successfully sued the company for invasion of privacy, forced it to publicly apologize, and used much of his $284,000 net settlement to expand his consumer rights efforts. Nader's lawsuit against GM was ultimately decided by the New York Court of Appeals, whose opinion in the case expanded tort law to cover "overzealous surveillance".[9]
What exactly is the problem you perceive with this guy???
The cars made during the fifties and sixties were death traps, your point is? |
