Wackenhut_What the F@#$!

Issue: Privatization of prisons.

Not a new issue at all but wholly crap, when are we going to wake up? Dozens of these private prisons are all over Texas, Florida, New Mexico, you name the State-they are there. They took over Abu Ghraib, London prisons, Scottish prisons, Guatemalan-that is the photo.

This company that started as a prison food supplier in the sixties (now there is a resume) expanded during the, ok-guess....you are correct-The Reagan Administration!!! Is now making a profit off of people who go to jail. Jail for profit? Seriously does that make sense to anyone who says those three words together, j-a-i-l f-o-r p-r-o-f-i-t. NNNNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO. A society that profits from its prisoners is certainly not civilized, that means we have something to gain by them being there. As a society we benefit from members of our society being productive not in prison. Don't even start arguing that people in prison were not being productive and that is why they are there. Lame argument. The whole idea of jail for profit is pro-capitalism and anti-human. Once in these private prisons they are working to make money for those corporations, making blue jeans, tables, chairs, you name it, and not for a personal profit, meaning slave labor. Nobody wants to believe this but a cursory look at these companys, the stories that have been done by very main stream media will confirm this is the truth.

So, Wackenhut that started out serving sloppy joes and frozen peas to prisoners is now not only in the privatized prison business but as you can see by the photo, they are running around with machine guns in antigua and other places guarding "cash" from restaurants similar to KFC. The reason I keep harping on the presence in Guatemala is because I have seen first hand there what I cannot and have not seen at Abu Ghraib. What I mean is this. Everyone knows or at least has some idea of the United Fruit Company and its generations of exploiting labor in Guatemala, the banana massacre, the near slave conditions and unsafe work environment provided for their employees. They changed the name but what really has changed, the face of Guatemala hasn't. Chiquita Banana is no better than United Fruit. Just like Kentucky Fried Chicken is still just as bad for you as the newly named less "fried" sounding KFC.

A little digging shows that the heads of these companies have ties to the Yale elite, yes-the Bush family. Isn't this all just a bit sickening? Seriously, time to get upset, demand change, speak out!

The Scoopy Begins...

I begin with a question: Why do we accept genocide, anywhere? Seriously. I know it sounds like a foolish question. Pedestrian even. Of course we do not accept genocide, right? Let's start with the First Nation/Native Americans killed because it was good for business. We (all of us who are not Natives) needed the land they occupied for business. Killing the Indians was good for business. We could raise cattle on their lands, mine gold and other natural resources from the Earth they occupied, and when moving them around didn't kill enough of them and it became so laboriously inconvenient, we used small pox as a quick remedy.
All things business as usual, first WWI, (if war is a business and war for war power is big business than WWI qualifies. There was genocide of the Armenians, maybe a million, maybe more- eh! who's counting, right? The US, Britain, and Italy were the only powers of the six to come out ahead and well, all of the elements were there: genocide, slave camps used to build infrastructure, conscription, huge death tolls of civillians, the willing and conscripted, socialists opposing needless killing of the working class and being exploited for no greater purpose than to put money in the pockets of those making war weapons and to build great nations of capitalism while four dynasties and four empires vanished. Ok, so maybe we did not need those dynasties and empires anyway?
Germany started it-the almighty finger was pointed, much like Cuba and US relations today, until Germany signed the Versailles Treaty they were made to suffer, not as like the newly desperate vegetarians of Austria but cut-off. So did capitalism collapse? So they say. Global toes start dipping into communism. Germany with its new found guilt took to solidifying fascism. 1934 and this dude Hitler has taken over Germany and instituted his Nazi principals such as killing people because it was good for business, the killing was not immediate, but by 193_ well underway we (all those living in America enjoying our Automobiles, Rice Krispies and hard twisty candies) accepted this. We (Americans) callously turned a blind and stubborn eye for our creature comforts while 12 million were gassed (Jews, Queers, Mentally Infirm, Disabled, Chinese) Japanese, Germans and Italians were interned. New weapons are exercised- Nuclear, Gas, Kaiser ships and Bombs? Why? To recover our economy, fortify our capitalistic country? After all we had steel , Ford Jeeps and other interests spread throughout the globe. OK - wildly oversimplified, sure. But, the facts then are the same as the facts today, war is good for business. Just ask Haliburton and Bechtel or even the President's "blind trust".
We are still enjoying our automobiles, our air conditioning, our amazing feast of foods, and our pick and choose flood of information in this high-tech world. How can we have so much power as a nation and be giving it up to this system of repetitive and circuitous wars? Why do we need an army of corporations?
So, what are our interests in Africa? We must have business interests, why else would we acknowledge genocide in Darfur and once again turn a blind eye? If anyone has an answer- I 'd like to know.