No joke! Dick Corp completes $16.5 million GTMO Operations Facility

I was looking through The Center for Public Integrity's report "Outsourcing the Pentagon" <http://www.publicintegrity.org/pns/> when I saw in the list Dick Corp. :spray:<http://www.publicintegrity.org/pns/list.aspx?act=dir&filter=D>

When I clicked on the link to the Dick Corp. website (located in, I kid you NOT Large, Pennsylvania) <http://www.publicintegrity.org/pns/db.aspx?act=cinfo&coid=037937786>,

I found this News Release: <http://www.dickcorp.com/dickcorp/dickbuilds/default.asp?vol=25&num=1&art=188>

Looks like a fairly permanent building to me!

A few other odd or notable contractors on the 1998-2004 Top 100 Pentagon contractors (other than the usual suspects like Halliburton Co #14, Carlyle Group #9) <http://www.publicintegrity.org/pns/list.aspx?act=top>

there is #12 "CLASSIFIED DEFENSE CONTRACTOR", FedEx #29, the Defense Department's number one supplier of air charter services for passengers, Government of Canada #42, North American Airlines #56 <http://www.northamericanair.com/index_flash.asp> (Check out where they fly to), and my pick for most outrageous, Federal Prison Industries #72. <http://www.publicintegrity.org/pns/db.aspx?act=cinfo&coid=626627459>

Federal Prison Industries, also known as UNICOR, uses federal prisoners to manufacture a wide variety of products including furniture, clothes and electronic equipment. It also provides administrative services such as data entry and bulk mailing. A government-owned corporation, it operates as a part of the Federal Bureau of Prisons and is the Defense Department's number one supplier of clothing, furniture, and household furnishings. <http://www.unicor.gov/index.cfm>

Even though the report is about a year and a half old, it still had lots of good and interesting info. The rest of The Center for Public Integrity's website is also very interesting. <http://www.publicintegrity.org/default.aspx>

huge pricks!!! And here I just thought it was DU'ers using thier sentence enhancers! :rofl:

...and from the price tag on that building, I'd say we all got screwed by Dick Corp.

I wonder how much the government pays for a FPI army issue chair? $10? $100? $1000? How much of that money is skimmed by middlemen and crooked officials? All on the back of slave labor.

...that I can find. <http://www.unicor.gov/shopping/ViewCat_m.asp?iStore=FED>

This is the high end. $699 Delivered, but $829.00 "Installed":



Pricing Options
Item Description In Stock
Executive Leather High Back, Black Leather ZZUST9000BLK7540 Executive Leather High Back, Black Leather Y $699.00 $829.00

I don't know how or why that company can operate legally. It's a scam from top to bottom and they're stealing our tax dollars at least twice in the manufacture and sale of their severely overpriced products. This is exactly why the drug war will never end, it generates ultra-cheap slave labor so a bunch of white collar criminals can freely steal tax payer money.

Unicor is the Military industrial complex.

...of potential Democratic voters at the same time, because of state laws, like the ones in Florida that don't let former felons vote.

The man said he has such a good deal with them that he was not going to deal with our side people. What could I do? I left. One good thing is businesses have started out the ex-crooks into some nice credit card businesses. Good old Willie Sutton knew people and the way things work.

I think they pay the prisoners something like $0.25 to $0.50 hour, and most people think all they do is stamp out License plates.

This is more than a racket, it scandalous.

It was sold very cheap I do not know how they set the price. I just know I was out an outlet for sales and I still had to pay my tax. So be it.

...or priced low. For as little as they pay in labor costs, it should be closer to wholesale prices.

<http://www.unicor.gov/industrial_products/>

<http://www.unicor.gov/office_furniture/>

<http://www.unicor.gov/clothing_textiles/>

http://www.november.org/

The people at this website can tell you stories that will make your hair curl. Prisoners are big business in this country....

<http://www.govexec.com/dailyfed/0404/041204nj1.htm>

Not their money, so why should they give a shit?


http://bellaciao.org/en/article.php3?id_article=12286

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At a press conference after Wednesday’s meetings, Bush acknowledged differences between his administration and Europe, particularly over Iraq. “But what’s past is past,” the president said. Acknowledging the concerns he’d heard about Guantánamo, Bush spoke of his “deep desire” to close the prison, telling reporters, “I’d like it to be over with.” Yet Bush gave no hint of an agreement on the issue, saying he wasn’t ready to release “cold-blooded killers.” “They will murder somebody if they are let out on the street,” he insisted. “ not going to let out people on the street who will do you harm.”

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And about releasing the GTMO prisoners, I can see his point. I bet all of the guy's there NOW want to kill Americans, they probably didn't feel that way 4 years ago.

If they had been let out after 3-6 months, maybe they wouldn't have been to angry at us, but 4 years in those cages down there, without outside contact, lawyers or a court hearing... I bet they're all extremely pissed off now.

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