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Originally Posted by Rob Instigator
to quote Kaiser Soze "The biggest trick the devil pulled is convincing us that he does not exist."
any freedom that impinges on the fascist state will be cut down. anything else is fine and dandy, as long as we spend spend spend.
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Well, we know about the nine billion that mysteriously disappeared in Iraq. And we know about the skyrocketing deficit which is now over eight trillion dollars due to the Homeland Security Act and the Iraq War.
And some of us may even remember the Reagan-era Cold War abuse of military contracts and sub-contracts, the $640 toilet seats and $435 hammers.
here's a new one:
Bookkeepers Wanted: Pentagon investigators discovered in August that a small South Carolina company fraudulently collected $20.5 million in shipping costs, including one invoice of $999,798 for sending two washers (cost: 19 cents each) to a base in Texas. According to Bloomberg News, the Defense Department was said to have a policy of automatically and unquestioningly paying shipping bills labeled "priority." [Bloomberg News, 8-16-07]
http://www.newsoftheweird.com/archive/nw070930.html
How much do you wanna bet me that the Giuliani campaign manager in South Carolina, State Treasurer Thomas Ravenel, the same one indicted for running a crack cocaine distribution ring, was somehow involved with the dummy company?
http://wonkette.com/politics/dept'-of-conspiracy-brother-was-right/giuliani-campaign-chairman-caught-running-crack-distribution-ring-270372.php