Dslacker
location: Denmark - EU - Earth
listening to: Elbow - The Seldom Seen Kid
registered: 1999.10.21
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(I dont know who this guy is, but he makes a lot of sense)"According to senior officials, Trump is showing renewed interest in privatizing the war in Afghanistan.Erik Prince, brother to Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, a hardcore Trump supporter, founder of Blackwater Security, and notorious mercenary, has proposed exactly that. And in recent weeks has been pushing the idea directly to Trump in earnest. Prince wants to replace US Troops with his own private mercenaries. The idea is this private army will then answer to a special U.S. Envoy for War (Gee, I wonder who Prince has in mind for THAT job) who would then report directly to the President -- no congressional oversight, no interference from the Joint Chiefs or Secretary of Defense, no answering to the American people.A Special Envoy for War, personally appointed by Trump, not subject to congressional approval, unconstrained by oversight or law.Trump would have his own private army of killers, run by his own personal mercenary, answerable to him and him alone.This is the Republican Holy Grail.War for profit. You get to kill brown people in a foreign land and make a shitload of money doing it, and everything is funded via unlimited black money, hidden from Congress and the American public -- bypassing any review and oversight.The ultimate in capitalism, stripped of any pretense.The US Military Industrial Complex reduced to its very essence and unfettered by even the illusion of democracy.Death for profit.NOW, this is where I remind you that Trump has repeatedly proposed pillaging foreign countries in violation of both American and international law. Taking their oil, metals, minerals, and resources for American profit at the muzzle of gun.This is the point where I remind you that Trump is right now attacking the Press for being critical of his administration.This is where I remind you that Trump is right now revoking the security clearances of those in government who question him.This is where I remind you that Trump is right now openly attempting to silence and shutdown any investigation into his actions or those of the people who work him.And this is the point where I remind you that Trump is right now attempting to convict his political adversaries in the court of public opinion and has even threatened to jail his former political opponents. Only a few days ago, Trump's own comment directly implied his desire for a single party political system in America. HIS party.Now, imagine Trump with a private army of killers who answer only to a fanatical Trump loyalist.Imagine it. Because this is the point where I remind you that Posse Comitatus doesn't apply to mercenaries.You better show up this November and you'd better vote for the opposition whether you like the choices or not. You don't need any more inspiration than this. You don't need a unicorn.You need to show up.You need to show the fuck up.Because you very well might not get another chance. "Jim Wright
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Have you got the will to be weird ? - Flatus Rotorum Cerebri
Have you got the will to be weird ? - Flatus Rotorum Cerebri
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(I dont know who this guy is, but he makes a lot of sense)"According to senior officials, Trump is showing renewed interest in privatizing the war in Afghanistan.Erik Prince, brother to Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, a hardcore Trump supporter, founder of Blackwater Security, and notorious mercenary, has proposed exactly that. And in recent weeks has been pushing the idea directly to Trump in earnest. Prince wants to replace US Troops with his own private mercenaries. The idea is this private army will then answer to a special U.S. Envoy for War (Gee, I wonder who Prince has in mind for THAT job) who would then report directly to the President -- no congressional oversight, no interference from the Joint Chiefs or Secretary of Defense, no answering to the American people.A Special Envoy for War, personally appointed by Trump, not subject to congressional approval, unconstrained by oversight or law.Trump would have his own private army of killers, run by his own personal mercenary, answerable to him and him alone.This is the Republican Holy Grail.War for profit. You get to kill brown people in a foreign land and make a shitload of money doing it, and everything is funded via unlimited black money, hidden from Congress and the American public -- bypassing any review and oversight.The ultimate in capitalism, stripped of any pretense.The US Military Industrial Complex reduced to its very essence and unfettered by even the illusion of democracy.Death for profit.NOW, this is where I remind you that Trump has repeatedly proposed pillaging foreign countries in violation of both American and international law. Taking their oil, metals, minerals, and resources for American profit at the muzzle of gun.This is the point where I remind you that Trump is right now attacking the Press for being critical of his administration.This is where I remind you that Trump is right now revoking the security clearances of those in government who question him.This is where I remind you that Trump is right now openly attempting to silence and shutdown any investigation into his actions or those of the people who work him.And this is the point where I remind you that Trump is right now attempting to convict his political adversaries in the court of public opinion and has even threatened to jail his former political opponents. Only a few days ago, Trump's own comment directly implied his desire for a single party political system in America. HIS party.Now, imagine Trump with a private army of killers who answer only to a fanatical Trump loyalist.Imagine it. Because this is the point where I remind you that Posse Comitatus doesn't apply to mercenaries.You better show up this November and you'd better vote for the opposition whether you like the choices or not. You don't need any more inspiration than this. You don't need a unicorn.You need to show up.You need to show the fuck up.Because you very well might not get another chance. "Jim Wright
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Have you got the will to be weird ? - Flatus Rotorum Cerebri
Have you got the will to be weird ? - Flatus Rotorum Cerebri
