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FRANCHISING FASCISM, OUTSOURCING DEATH

Contributed by steeleyes on Tuesday, 16th October 2007 @ 09:37:21 AM in AEST
Topic: war

Government fuels Blackwater's rise
October 15, 2007

There’s no other place quite like Blackwater, at least not in private hands. The complex anchors a training and security operation that is one of the government’s fastest-growing contractors, and a fixture and a flashpoint of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

In a decade, Blackwater’s revenue from federal government contracts has grown exponentially, from less than $100,000 to almost $600 million last year. In August, the company won its biggest deal ever, a five-year counternarcotics training contract worth up to $15 billion shared with four other companies.

Blackwater’s extraordinary rise would not have been possible without a swirl of historic forces, including sharp cuts in military and security staffing in the 1990s, the Bush administration’s drive to outsource government services to the private sector...

Franchising fascism
and outsourcing death
Isn’t this such a pretty business
to take away your breath?

There’s dollars in mayhem
and ruthless acts,
in blackshirted commerce
using twisted facts

Create an army of cold-hearted,
killing machines
And so realise your nightmares
and monetary dreams

It has reached some point
when you outsource slaughter
Meet more of Bush’s friends,
the infamous Blackwater

Copyright Â© steeleyes ... [ 2007-10-16 09:37:21]
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