I guess they will need one when the anti President takes over.
Everyone is looking for an anti Pope but what will happen is an anti President
seems to be what people want.

Originally posted by roguetechie
. Oh and hey since they got a law passed that ALL iraqi farmers have to use Terminator seeds for all crops... and hey the state department has their enforcers in theatre on retainer through the state department.... it means they can keep watch on the plum they bought at god knows what price during the reconstruction phase in iraq and have us the taxpayer pick up the tab for their monopoly.

Is this true?

If so can you please post the source.

I don't see how they can force a third world country where many of the people have nothing to buy and use their seeds.

i think this foreshadows the future of our world rather nicely.

would be interesting if the people began mobilizing their own private blackwater armies.

Didn't the railway tycoons of old hire mercenaries/the army to protect thier interests too? If I remember correctly, didn't it turn out that the interests in need of protection was the railway's ability to buy the land it wanted at the price it wanted to pay?

Now we're going to have the same with food?

One of the darkest predictions in apocalyptic Sci-Fi is the emergence of corporate armies.

One of the first companies out of the gate is Monsanto?

That's fantastic.

So now what... If you don't comply with Monsanto's rules and use their seeds, they'll send Blackwater in to terrorize you? Burn your crops, destroy your farming equipment?

Comply or be destroyed!

Originally posted by sodakota
So now what... If you don't comply with Monsanto's rules and use their seeds, they'll send Blackwater in to terrorize you? Burn your crops, destroy your farming equipment?

Comply or be destroyed!

sounds just like the old days
when a big goon named gweedo
slammed a big baseball bat down on
your counter and demanded his monthly
payment.

It's the mafia all over again
cept this time, it's legal
according to our gov.
What happened to
monopoly laws?
Were they deleted after
Ma Bell got split up?

Move over William Gibson and Shadowrun... All of us playing R. talsorian's Cyberpunk 2020 knew this was on it's way...

It's quite shocking even having known this was coming since my teenage years... I can't imagine the gut wrenching paralyzing fear this induces in people that haven't known this was coming and wake up one morning and take their first REAL LOOK at what the western world has become... Cognitive dissonance is a psychological coping mechanism to prevent people from having a psychotic break when presented with reality destroying revelations.

But no matter how much Empathy I have for the common man.... people need to WAKE THE HELL UP because if we don't man the battlements soon the fight will be over before it starts.

Even if they only bought into the Intel arm of blackwater that is still a worrisome corporate partnership...

He who controls the guns and food control EVERYTHING....

Also this sheds new light on why when the state of emergency was declared during the mississippi flooding this year (or last year can't remember) why blackwater "volunteered" to help and sent in teams that were seen along with LE personnel and etc breaking into homes.

Opportunistic Recon in Force: With their access to domestic terror info pipelines and etc and recent shifting of focus to so called domestic terrorism my guess is they were taking the opportunity scout out who has what who talks to who and I'd bet MONEY they placed COVERT INFORMATION GATHERING Equipment while they were there....

Would be interesting to ask around and see if anyone who had their house broke into by them found any gifts left behind.

If Monsanto is genetically modifying food then they are modifying humans as well.

Race and gene specific viruses to weed out the undesirables, protecting, perserving, and creating the desirables, while reducing the earths population. This is a better way than just blatantly kill all of us with crude execution..most will all just think it is natural sickness. Now, incase something goes wrong and people were to find out...that would pose a problem. Thats where Xe comes in.

Always remember they usually dont do anything unless they are accomplishing at least 3 combined goals at a time.

(they) = The ones most dont think exist that plot world affairs.

And so the evil, hideous twins sucked the severed neck of the innocent.