Wall St banks secretly build private army

[Ian62]

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http://blog.alexanderhiggins.com/2012/05/16/guess-buying-americas-firearms-bullet-manufacturers-133981/

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2010/11/26/923395/-Private-Equity-Firms-Own-War-Contractors-DynCorp

Wall Street banks have secretly taken over US firearms and ammunition manufacturers and the world’s largest mercenary firms in a stealth build up private military force.

A Daily KOs article reveals that Wall Street banks have used private equity firms to acquire and launch a massive stealth takeover of private security firms, US ammo and gun manufacturers, uniforms, silencers and an army of mercenaries to build what amounts to the world’s largest private army.

At the same time the private mercenary companies they now control, which include the likes of Dynacorp and the notorious name changing Blackwater/Xe Services/Academi, have been authorized under Department of Defense DIRECTIVE NUMBER 3025.18 to actually conduct policing operations inside the United States.

The article reveals Citi Bank, Bank of America, Barclays, and Deutsche Bank have provide huge amounts of funding to two private Wall Street equity firms, Cerebus and Veritas Equity, which in turn have used umbrella companies such as Freedom Corp., to engage in stealth takeovers and weapons stockpiling which has consumed the likes of several gun manufacturers and ammunition manufacturers including Remington, Cobbs, H&R, Marlin, Dakota, and Bushmaker.

[ananda]

1. This is some scary shit.

And I'm sure they hate Occupy too.

[dixiegrrrrl]

3. Very well planned out scary shit, at that.

I honestly do not understand how people cannot see the handwriting on the wall.
Private banks, private armies, private regulators, private corporations...and NO accountability to the public.

[nadinbrzezinski]

2. Cyberpunk, no longer fiction

[4th law of robotics]

4. This smacks of paronoia

also you don't have to buy an entire firm if you want guns. You can just buy the guns.

[Ruby the Liberal]

5. Ooga booga!

Guess I need to go load up on more 100# bags of rice.

[scarletwoman]

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