Standard Government Practices, Nothing to see here
I just read an article from the Associated Press about Bunnatine Greenhouse. (Dated August 7th) This is a woman who stood up to Army Corp of Engineers and blew the whistle, having had enough of the unethical, illegal, and expencive practices of US Government Contract spending, specifically with Halliburton. In checking further than one article I find that ABC News covered the same event(via Associated Press) on October 25th of 2004. She originally drew the line in the sand back in 1993. Halliburton does what it always does, states they have done nothing wrong and then throw up a smokescreen. In the ABC article, they state that this recycled aligation is only comming up again because it is election time. Well, its August 2005 and it isn't election time. I wonder why this is comming up again? Could it be because there is a problem and it won't go away. And which is the problem, Bunnatine Greenhouse or Halliburton?
I guess that depends on who you ask. If you ask me, who as a general rule is suspicious of our government spiraling away from its roots and its growing interest in empire, I say Bunnatine Greenhouse is a hero unmatched since the days of our founding fathers.
I suppose if you were to ask the ruling elite they would tell you that Bunnatine Greenhouse is a busy body who doesn't know what she is talking about, and everything would be fine if we'd just let them get back to the business of trying to rule the world.
I think what I find most offensive about this whole thing is that what Bunnatine Greenhouse was reporting isn't some strange new breaking of protocal, its standard government practice. Its how things get done. Just because that is how it is done doesn't mean it is right. History shows us a whole bunch of standard business practices that just aren't right. Slavery, church marriage being a legal distinction, prohibition, flat earth, earth center of solar system, Pepsi Clear, the list goes on, and I bet everyone reading this can add something to the list. And let us not forget current things we haven't learned are mistakes yet, President Bush, Pimpjuice, Scion, gigayachts, tofu (I'm on the fence on tofu).
Might does not make right. The best it can do is "right now". My point? The government is flushing our tax money into the septic tanks of big business, without restraint, without ethics, and without air freshiner. What are we going to do about it?
