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h2ebits

(645 posts)
Sat Jun 29, 2013, 01:43 PM Jun 2013

Chris Pyle has important information to give us.

I recommend reading the transcript and listening to the attached interview with Christopher Pyle. The truly "AH HA" moment for me was the following statement. It explains the big move to privatization that is being pushed--it allows for our Constitution and Bill of Rights to be pulled right out from under our feet:


CHRISTOPHER PYLE: Well, yes. The Fourth Amendment of the Constitution, which protects us from unreasonable searches and seizures, only binds the government, doesn’t bind corporations. That’s a serious problem. The reason we have privatization of prisons, in some ways, is for governments to escape liability. They put the liability on the private corporations that run the prisons, and they just charge their liabilities as an operating cost.






[link:http://www.democracynow.org/2013/6/13/chris_pyle_whistleblower_on_cia_domestic|
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Chris Pyle has important information to give us. (Original Post) h2ebits Jun 2013 OP
Childish sophistry. I'm not saying he's wrong about what the govt's intention is kenny blankenship Jun 2013 #1
I think ... 1StrongBlackMan Jun 2013 #2

kenny blankenship

(15,689 posts)
1. Childish sophistry. I'm not saying he's wrong about what the govt's intention is
Sat Jun 29, 2013, 01:56 PM
Jun 2013

but such a transparent attempt to evade the restraint of law through sophistic deflections would NEVER be accepted in court from any private defendant. Oh, I didn't do it, I just paid so-and-so to do it for me, thus it's all legally hunky-dory! is not a valid line of defense. Suborning others into a conspiracy to violate the Constitution -or even to break a minor regulation- doesn't make anything legal just because MONEY changes hands and the action is delegated to another party. The criminal intent is identical. Defense counsel would be told to stop and to start over with something better.

 

1StrongBlackMan

(31,849 posts)
2. I think ...
Sat Jun 29, 2013, 02:18 PM
Jun 2013

you do not know the law, or its actual application in court. Privativization is used all the time ... and one reason for doing so is to escape liability.

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