Larry Simpson wrote:
> The supreme court has already ruled that corporations have the right to free speech, will they next have the right to bear arms and raise a militia? 
>   

L2,
I think the corporations already have militias and they use them all 
over the world. 2/3 of the personnel serving in Iraq/Afghanistan are not 
US military, but employees of Halliburton and its subcontractors,  for 
instance. Also, look at the forces used by Shell Oil in the delta in 
Nigeria. They are mercenaries. I have a big list of companies offering 
"large scale private security" services. These companies' personnel are 
often better equipped, and are certainly paid more than their US 
Military counterparts. Conflict is very profitable.

And they certainly have a right to do this- it's part of our capitalist 
system. They don't have to go to the Supreme Court to get that. This 
last opinion was just the capstone to their achievements over the last 
40 years. Eisenhower nailed it when he talked about being wary of the 
military industrial complex in the 50's.
~deb

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