On Sat, Jul 21, 2012 at 8:38 AM, ZeroState.net <info@zerostate.net> wrote:

...does anybody else think it's really really bad for governments to outsource police and army work to companies like G4S?

They're out of the chain of command. PMCs have already made the US notorious overseas because of their antics. They're able to negotiate their way around many of the laws and regulations that apply to us ("Laws for thee but not for me.") They aren't held to codes of conduct or oversight that police forces are. No accountability, either.

These guys are there to make a profit, *not* to look out for the public interest. The moment those motivations diverge, matters of public interest immediately go in the trash.

That makes them too big a risk and untrustworthy to mine eyes.

Seriously, why do we allow this? Who does it serve, other than the Billionaires who sit both on the company boards and in government? Uh... looks like I might have just answered my own question.

We don't allow it. Entities that are incredibly rich and well connected made it so, and there isn't anything anybody else can do about it. I hate to frob the pessimist bit this morning, but that's pretty much what it boils down to. Those who have the gold made the rules. -- The Doctor [412/724/301/703] [ZS] https://drwho.virtadpt.net/ "I am everywhere." -- -- Zero State mailing list: http://groups.google.com/group/DoctrineZero ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE