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Fire Walk With Me Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-31-06 08:50 PM
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They are attempting to create conditions of total unaccountability and irresponsibility
Slowly, yet surely.

They are creating businesses and systems that function outside of the normal checks and balances that restrict abuses and provide for addressing grievances. This ranges from laws that protect corporations through taking actions and not processing them through existing legal channels (illegal wiretapping, election theft, etc.)

Privatization is one way they create systems of their own that function outside of regular checks and balances. There are several private organizations operating in Iraq, and they are outside the law. This may have been foreshadowed in the National Emergencies Bush declared into law regarding Iraqi oil.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2005/05/20050519-8.html

Look into the Texas housing lemon laws and note that the home builders association and their friends in the lawmaking process have removed responsibility from the builders in the event of creating a “lemon”. Where once one could take a builder to court, now one must accept arbitration provided by those they are trying to sue. Caveat: Research that for yourself, I’m working from memory and an incomplete understanding, but it certainly appears that those who screw up are placing themselves as judge and jury in deciding whether they screwed up or not.
http://www.hobb.org/hobbv1/lemon/index.shtml

This is an exceedingly dangerous trend.

We must, with great focus and determination, seize and negate all laws and reverse all actions taken along these lines. Point by point by point. We are allowing them to slowly legalize total irresponsibility and it must be stopped at the core, at each actual instance, or it will reach a critical size and become self-sustaining and extremely difficult to respond to. Our response is far behind the curve of their actual actions and is thus far ineffective. We must unite in loudly demanding peaceful resolutions to the Iraq invasion just as we stared them down regarding the proposed theft of Social Security. The Texas homeowners have taken the sort of action that we must all take, for each aspect of the laws they pass: uniting as loudly as possible.

How nice if we could head off such anti-citizenry lawmaking as it happens instead.
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cspanlovr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-31-06 08:54 PM
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1. They've been dismantling government since day one.
We've got our work cut out for us after we win.
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Fire Walk With Me Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-31-06 09:27 PM
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2. Yep, all part of the plan. Note the failure of gov agencies as opportunity
to privatize. "Brownie, you're doing a heck of a job." Hey, Halliburton should take over for FEMA! Not that Cheney makes any money from such things. Captain Obvious to the rescue! You're welcome.

A book called "The Storm" mentions that when US government aid was sent to assist victims of a hurricane, that most of the money went to start-up US businesses on the scene. Even if the money went to local non-government organisations, it would still be better than if our opportunists always got a hold of it. We know how they waste and don't do the entire job once they get the contract (worst-possible case).
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grasswire Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-31-06 10:58 PM
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3. chaos = profit
more chaos = more opportunity for profit

That's really the fullest explanation for Bush's seeming ineptitude. They aren't inept. Their goals are just shielded by the fog of chaos they throw up.

Examples are abundant.
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