The Other Police State -- The Private Intel Industry Grows

[xchrom]

http://www.alternet.org/civil-liberties/other-police-state-private-intel-industry-grows



On November 20th, the Center for Corporate Policy, a Washington, DC, good-government group, issued a revealing study, “ Spooky Business: A New Report on Corporate Espionage Against Non-profits.” Written by Gary Ruskin, it confirms one’s worst suspicions about the ever-expanding two-headed U.S. security state.

One “head” of this apparatus consists of the formal law-enforcement, security juggernaut. It includes the vast network of federal, state and local entities that are duly, “legally,” constituted to maintain law and order. It maintains state power.

The second “head” consists of a parallel “police” force, local and national corporate entities that use legal — and often questionable — practices to undermine democracy, most notably a citizen’s right to object to what s/he perceives as an unjust business practice. It maintains corporate power.

Together, the public-state and private-corporate security system is gaining ever-greater control over the lives of ordinary Americans. They constitute the postmodern, 21st century policing apparatus.

[cantbeserious]

1. Big Brother Thy Name Is Corporation

eom

[malaise]

2. That's the corporate police

Too many folks haven't read Hayek and haven't seen the link between Friedman and Hayek - steal everything from the state - weaken the state and strengthen the corporations. It's a frightening scenario but the people of the planet are fighting back. Forward ever!!!

[Enthusiast]

3. I like Alternet.....nt

[WinkyDink]

4. Blackwater during Katrina made this all too clear.

[Berlum]

5. "All your data are belong to us." - Mega Corp Entities, Inc. (R)

Now that degenerate "Republicon Values" have infest the Corporate State, human beings are in some deep shit.

[countryjake]

6. K&R!