The Terror Con: Booz Allen attempting to substitute terrorist for communist as the enemy of choice.

[kpete]

they are trying to terrify us for profit!!!!


Robert Scheer's Columns
The Terror Con
Posted on Jun 18, 2013


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For defense contractors, the government officials who write them mega checks, and the hawks in the media who cheer them on, the name of the game is threat inflation. And no one has been better at it than the folks at Booz Allen Hamilton, the inventors of the new boondoggle called cyberwarfare.

That’s the company, under contract with the National Security Agency, that employed whistle-blower Edward Snowden, the information security engineer whose revelation of Booz Allen’s enormously profitable and pervasive spying on Americans now threatens the firm’s profitability and that of its parent hedge fund, the Carlyle Group.

Booz Allen, whose top personnel served in key positions at the NSA and vice versa after the inconvenient collapse of the Cold War, has been attempting to substitute terrorist for communist as the enemy of choice. A difficult switch indeed for the military-industrial complex about which Dwight Eisenhower, the general-turned-president, had so eloquently warned us.

But just when the good times for war profiteers seemed to be forever in the past, there came 9/11 and the terrorist enemy, the gift that keeps on giving, for acts of terror always will occur in a less than perfect world, serving as an ideal excuse for squandering resources, as well as our freedoms.

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much more:
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/the_terror_con_20130618/

[Ednahilda]

1. I have a very conservative neighbor

who works for one or another of these defense contractors. He's really proud of the fact that he doesn't work for the gummint. Too bad he doesn't realize he's being paid with taxpayer money laundered through his employer.

He asked us to fill out an FBI (?) form for him, as neighbors, when he was getting clearance. We declined, not because he isn't a nice guy (he is, despite his Fox habit), but because we didn't want to aid any part of the military-industrial complex.
Bad enough our tax money is sucked up by it.

[Vinnie From Indy]

2. These guys make La Cosa Nostra look like 10 yr. olds with

a lemonade stand. The fact is that it is a con game and has been for a long time. 3.3 TRILLION for wars against an idea while American infrastructure crumbles, tens of thousands of Americans die early each year or suffer greatly from lack of health care and tens of thousands of Americans are killed by gun violence each year.

Another glaring example of the 1%'ers con game can clearly be seen in the way our government villifies Cuban communists but does everything possible to grease the skids to send American jobs to Chinese communists. The PTB love Chinese communists because they make oceans of money and hate Cuban communists because the remnant Cuban 1%'ers that fled after Batista hold political sway in South Florida.

Good post!

[graham4anything]

3. Robert Scheer is a MAJOR, MAJOR RAND PAUL supporter. I don't stand with Rand, but Scheer does.

Robert Scheer IS A PAULITE.

and that means I do not care what he says on anything at all.

[kpete]

4. whatever...

[Vinnie From Indy]

6. It seems your specialty is character assassination

It appears that is your singular contribution to DU!

Cheers!

[kpete]

7. sorry Vinnie From Indy

whose character exactly?

I only wanted to point out that our ears, eyes and mouth need NOT be SO careful...

peace,
kp

[Vinnie From Indy]

17. Did not mean to offend Kpete

I might have been a bit too pointed in my response to graham.

Cheers!

[graham4anything]

8. If one checks the TOS, it specifically says NO PAULITES.

I don't need to defend NOT standing with Rand and Ron, when it specifically says in the TOS NO Paulites.

Scheer strongly supported Rand for Senate, and Rand is one of the major obstructionists in the history of the senate, and Rand is working side by side with Jeb Bush, and would instantly take the VP with him if asked.

sorry, I do NOT stand with Rand.
He stands, I sit. He sits, I stand.
Rand Paul is against the advancement of OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY.
On the rare times he might vote the same, he has a totally different reason for doing so.

[kpete]

10. understood

but i still like reading Scheer,
shit, i even read BoBo sometimes...

peace, kp

[Aerows]

16. You are willing to denounce KPETE

Who has been here far longer than you dreamed and is extremely supportive of civil rights?

Good grief.

[madrchsod]

5. this is the real story behind all the bullshit...

the private companies giving bums like snowjob free reign to download whatever they want

as long as people are distracted by snowjob booz allen will keep selling our information to whoever offers the most money.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

9. Erect bogeyman, wave flag, give more money to the Pentagon, send the troops/drones/bombers.

Works every time.

[graham4anything]

11. so, the world is 100% made up of good people who wouldn't harm a fly?

If the USA didn't exist, would life in the world be 100% peachy keen for every single denizen of Planet Earth?

The bogeyman is that there are no bogeymen.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

12. Well, you must consider your icon a major bogeyman.

He didn't harm many flies, but hundreds of thousands of people who posed no threat.

[graham4anything]

13. that presents an interesting point

are you saying NO ONE would have died in Vietnam had there been no war?

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

15. No. Are you saying that fewer people died because of LBJ's war crimes?

[graham4anything]

20. One doesn't know if the number would be more, same, less because of JFK's McNamara.

when the hyperbole stops, the conversation begins.

Hitler proved how many could be killed without the USA involvement.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

23. Just so LBJ shined up his "anti-Communist" creds, who cares about a few hundred thousand dead.

Right?

[Octafish]

14. Carlyle Group

bin Ladens and Bushes together in "Money Trumps Peace" world.

[frylock]

18. here's your agenda, folks..

kickeroo

[MisterP]

19. the question is--what's the *next* super-evil all-infiltrating horror?

it used to be the Cath'liks in the 17th-19th c.

maybe the Doukhobors?

[AzDar]

21. Spot-on.

[Melinda]

22. Information Awareness Office (TIA)

Information Awareness Office

The Information Awareness Office (IAO) was established by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) in January 2002 to bring together several DARPA projects focused on applying surveillance and information technology to track and monitor terrorists and other asymmetric threats to U.S. national security, by achieving Total Information Awareness (TIA).

This would be achieved by creating enormous computer databases to gather and store the personal information of everyone in the United States, including personal e-mails, social networks, credit card records, phone calls, medical records, and numerous other sources, without any requirement for a search warrant.[1] This information would then be analyzed to look for suspicious activities, connections between individuals, and "threats".[2] Additionally, the program included funding for biometric surveillance technologies that could identify and track individuals using surveillance cameras, and other methods.[2]

Following public criticism that the development and deployment of this technology could potentially lead to a mass surveillance system, the IAO was defunded by Congress in 2003. However, several IAO projects continued to be funded, and merely run under different names

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Meet the new boss, same as the old...

Ever feel like just submitting?

K&R