REX-84 Revisited

[jporter]

On Sep 16, 2005, at 3:06 PM, rich wrote:

> hi ya Jody--glad you're back
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> notice mr bush wants to increase the power of the military in future 
> disasters in his speech last night
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> rich
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Hey Rich-

Yea, but it's not just the military, it's the whole neocon 
disaster/catastrophe
capitalist program, already honed to a privatized club in Iraq and 
Afghanistan.

The same companies, the same no bid contracting, the same national
emergency excuses to sidestep civil rights and due process, the same
bullshit- We're about one mainland terrorist strike away from marshal
law. Oddly, it may be the unmitigated corporate greed that still offers 
a
glimmer of hope. They're still chasin bucks. They still think money has
some value. Unlike O'Brien, et. al., simple greed is still their raison 
d'etre,
and not yet just power for power's sake. They're still vulnerable.

The disaster business is a very lucrative enterprise, especially when
combined with cleansing of whole regions of undesirable elements,
now scattered hither and yon- homeless and destitute (good recruits
to resupply the army for foreign adventures?)- whole sectors swept
clean for development and gentrification.

The world is a palimpsest and New Orleans, it seems, just the latest
example. And what's history but just a map of the past- always at risk
for erasure and re-inscription by those with the power.

So, yes, Bush wants to increase the power of the military for future
domestic as well as foreign police actions. But the new New Army may
be difficult to recognize- given the plethora of privatized, outsourced
and subcontracted muscle:

http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=05/09/16/1222257


jody