[PEN-L:32445] Re: Re: Re: Re: Privatization of information

["Ian Murray" <seamus2001@xxxxxxxxx>]

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From: "joanna bujes" <joanna.bujes@xxxxxxxxxxxx>



> At 12:08 PM 11/21/2002 -0800, you wrote:
> >The fly in the ointment is this:  the government is now controlled by the
> >very forces that want to end government, period, and exchange it
> >for  total control by themselves, the elite wealthy corporatistas.
>
> Right, though you'll notice nobody wants to privatize the army. The
> taxpayers can go right ahead and keep paying for that.
>
> The other sticky thing about privatizing everything is that it makes it
> harder to play the nationalist card.
>
> Joanna

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Few things in life are funnier than arguing with members of the US military
that they work in a socialist system. As it stands now, significant chunks
of military affairs are being outsourced. Witness the corp. contractors
working in Colombia.

Also, some activists have begun speaking of corporatization rather than
privatization because to concede to the corps. vocabulary is to hobble
ourselves.

Ian