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Liberal in Ohio Donating Member (57 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-17-04 03:36 PM
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CEOs with Cayman Island offices demand US military protection
to defend their offices against looters

IRONY

http://nftunderground.blogspot.com/2004/09/irony-and-biting-hand-that-feeds-you.html

The military costs money -- we pay the bill with taxes
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Blue_Tires Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-17-04 03:43 PM
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1. fuck 'em n/t
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w4rma Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-17-04 10:53 PM
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16. ditto. (nt)
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hatrack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-17-04 03:44 PM
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2. Oh, the humanity!
Edited on Fri Sep-17-04 03:46 PM by hatrack
Funny thing, if they had their "headquarters" in the US, the odds are that police and security services would be available, even in the wake of a disaster.

Shame, though, that on a small tax-free island nation, there's no one there to protect their assets. But we wouldn't want any government interference with the market-driven course of events (i.e. mobs of looters), now would we?

After all, those looters are just pursuing their rational self- interest for food, clothing, shelter and money.

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ComerPerro Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-17-04 04:11 PM
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5. Really! These looters are just expressing the will of the free market
This is the "invisible hand" in action, people!
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TahitiNut Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-17-04 04:24 PM
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8. Yup. It's "trickle down" in action.
The mailbox CEO's can go Cheney themselves.
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skypilot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-17-04 03:46 PM
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3. I'm sure we can spare a few people
...to guard their mailboxes. Fuck that.
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Vickers Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-17-04 03:51 PM
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4. Wow, do they SEE how wrong that is?
But you know what? I wouldn't be surprised if troops are sent down there.
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seemslikeadream Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-17-04 04:17 PM
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6. Tell them our children are busy
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hatrack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-17-04 04:27 PM
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9. Thank you, SLAD . . . .
This is all that these whiny tax-dodging assholes need to know.
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BiggJawn Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-17-04 04:21 PM
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7. Wait a minute......
They want the US to send TROOPS to guard the "Mailboxes 'R' Us" in the Caymans?

Whoo is going to want to loot a Post Office Box or a Mail Drop...

That's taking the charade just a little too far, IMO..
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George W. Dunce Donating Member (389 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-17-04 04:32 PM
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10. Let me see
You run away so you don't have to pay taxes to support things like the military, but now you need help and you call on...... the military? Just another republican without a brain. You just can't make shit up that is that stupid.
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BiggJawn Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-17-04 10:40 PM
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15. Really...Why don't they call KBR?
That's what these Fascists are always hollering, that the Private Sector is so much more cost-effective...
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blindpig Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-17-04 04:42 PM
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11. more proof that irony is the organizing principle of the universe. n/t
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AntiFascist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-17-04 04:50 PM
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12. I have an idea....
This would make a great work program for prisoners at Guantanamo.
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nostamj Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-17-04 04:59 PM
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13. well, they know what their man RUMMY said about LOOTERS...
just expressing their messy FREEDOM...

besides, they're just looting the same POB over and over again anyway....
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Karenina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-17-04 05:06 PM
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14. Corporate interests
Edited on Fri Sep-17-04 05:07 PM by Karenina
have been the American military JOB ONE for quite some time now. :shrug:

Google: Smedley Butler
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mitchum Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-17-04 11:34 PM
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17. Up against the wall!
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enfield collector Donating Member (821 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-17-04 11:38 PM
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18. no sympathy.
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JetJaguar Donating Member (207 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-18-04 12:14 AM
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19. They can go to Hell

Visit Hell


You can go to Hell and then come back with tales of a blackened and jagged rock formation that gives this little district in West Bay its name. Hell's intriguing weathered rock formation is over 1 1/2 million years old and resembles the charred remains of a hell fire. Hell's own post office was opened in 1962 for tourists who wanted to send postcards from Hell.


http://www.caymanvacations.com/indexmenu.htm?general/sightseeing.htm&2


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