Subject: Re: [drugwar] US's 'private army' grows
Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2003 10:28:13 -0400
To:        <drugwar@mindvox.com>
From:     Bob Armstrong <bob@cosy.com>
On Thu, 04 Sep 2003 07:54:55 -0500, Jules Siegel wrote:
>=A0Didn't we have a thread claiming that only the state has the=
 right to kill
>=A0-- and that's one of the reason states are bad? These=
 corporations, of
>=A0course, are blameless and wonderful in every way. They've just=
 been
>=A0deputized.

On Thu, 4 Sep 2003 08:17:03 -0400, Preston Peet wrote:
>>=A0Most are retired military personnel=A0or former special forces.

 Yes they are deputized - like privateers of old. It is the=
 State
 which Takes the money to pay them and sanctions their=
 activities.
 It is the State that defines the morality.

 I'm sure many are small businesses to which the "epithet"
 corporation connotes little. I fail to see how the morality of
 their actions change whether they are paid with a W2 or a 1099=
 .
  
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