Whistleblower Protection Hearing: Jeffrey Wigand Testimony

Dr. Jeffrey Wigand testifies about his experience as a whistleblower at a Workforce Protections subcommittee hearing on whistleblower protections on May 15, 2007.

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[suckerdwsp316]

took a lot, A LOT of balls. props to the man.

[usoposeur]

Stop smoking and kill all tobacco demand.

[akshayzz1]

5 people are addicted to cigarettes!!!!!

And btw, they cut out half of the interview here. See anything suspicious at 9:24 ?? O_O

[santomarakai]

Dear Dr Wigand, I use to smoke from 17 years to on and off till 45 years old. Stopped for a while pregnant two kids, then started again, but I did not felt healthy then, got tired very easy with few steps going up stairs, cigarets were taking over my body. My kids were still small, still long way to go. I wanted to become healthy, for myself, and for my kids. I decided to quit on my 45th birthday, and I did. Then I started walking and trekking. And thank you for what you done for what was right.

[michiyo1986]

I like him he choose moral respondsibility than contractual. LOVE HIM for his courage.

[sonikue23]

@op684 Nope.

[V8Deuce]

Just watched the interview with him and William Shatner. A brave man indeed

[noradosmith]

@op684

fuck off

[pricklyphlox]

@marshalsea My suggestion to call them Patriotic Citizen Reporters was simply due to the fact that people have given a bad connotation to 'whistleblower.' And I don't see anything wrong with the kind of nationalism that simply regards the welfare of the citizenry as a whole as more important than the profit of corporations.

[marshalsea]

@pricklyphlox Patriotic? Such ridiculous notions of national identity, we should be subsiding into a much more general humanist structure by now.

Wigand did what he had to to protect himself and his family, he's the first to admit that.

However, as Suckerdwsp put, this took"A LOT OF BALLS", and someone with more courage than the average person. This particular Whistleblowing is the same level as the Private Bradley Manning, a man now being held on account of being somehow "treasonous".

[MrStockford1]

with a hidey hidey hidey and a hidey lidey hey, we work and make our cigarettes all hidey lidey day. So folks can get a breaky from their hidey lidey lives and relaxey with the cigarettes we make all day and night.

[dbDecibels2010]

What's with the freaks in the background? Seriously WTF?