{"id":4721,"date":"2009-09-24T09:10:13","date_gmt":"2009-09-24T16:10:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=4721"},"modified":"2009-09-24T09:10:13","modified_gmt":"2009-09-24T16:10:13","slug":"yes-i-too-saw-the-one-about-the-military-contractors-defunded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2009\/09\/24\/yes-i-too-saw-the-one-about-the-military-contractors-defunded\/","title":{"rendered":"Yes, I too saw the one about the Military Contractors Defunded"},"content":{"rendered":"

Military Industrial Complex has been defunded thanks to that\u00c2\u00a0enterprising ACORN busting shoody pimp and ho duo<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I wish.\u00c2\u00a0 Then the Pimp and Ho team would be Good Lefties in disguise.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 But we know what’s about to happen with the legislation.\u00c2\u00a0 It will be spliced back to fit the one political target.<\/p>\n

But if you thought ACORN was bad, meet ArmorGroup North America<\/a>. It’s the private U.S. government security contractor whose employees at the American embassy in Kabul were photographed in drunken revels that included urinating on and sexually molesting each other. It also has been alleged by whistle-blowing employees that ArmorGroup cut corners on security hiring, leaving our embassy personnel vulnerable.<\/p>\n

As in the ACORN case, nothing gets the public’s attention like lurid video. One or more whistleblowers released images of the deviant, Lord of the Flies<\/em> rituals to the Project on Government Oversight, a nonpartisan watchdog group, which recently made them public.<\/p>\n

It’s startling that these tapes have made far less of a political splash than the ACORN undercover videos. ArmorGroup is two years into a $189 million contract to provide embassy security \u00e2\u20ac\u201c a sum that dwarfs ACORN’s haul. And the stakes are far higher. Not only have former employees alleged that ArmorGroup’s alleged fraudulent practices and refusal to reform itself puts the safety of the embassy at risk, but the revolting images of the sex revels, now widely available on the Internet, also serve as recruiting tools for the Taliban. […]<\/p>\n

<\/span><\/span>Take a look at POGO’s contractormisconduct.org site for a list of the corporations that could be out of government work under this legislation. It’s a veritable Who’s Who of defense contracting, including Houston-based KBR. <\/span><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

It does the interesting problem with “The Problem With Acorn”, which is to assume the worst — we’re still dealing with piddling crap amongst a sea of bigger concerns.<\/p>\n

Incidentally, back to Acorn — the piddling little controversy:
\nAnd now we know that the evil ACORN<\/span> worker who played along with them later spoke to the police about the incident.\u00c2\u00a0 ALA<\/a>
\n<\/em>One out of four videos accounted for.\u00c2\u00a0 The other three?\u00c2\u00a0 Rule of thumb in reading through this account :<\/a> (and I’d have to go over and watch the video to watch for body clues to see if this is credible) when you’re a political target, don’t play the “Amused Game”.<\/p>\n

And, yes, it appears that The Pimp is politically dishonest in falsely claimed that he was never turned away from ACORN offices.\u00c2\u00a0 I think that puts the organization down to 3 out of 8.
\nBut next stop for them, I’m sure, is to expose the corruption of Military Contractors.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s what his agenda is, right?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Military Industrial Complex has been defunded thanks to that\u00c2\u00a0enterprising ACORN busting shoody pimp and ho duo. I wish.\u00c2\u00a0 Then the Pimp and Ho team would be Good Lefties in disguise.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 But we know what’s about to happen with the legislation.\u00c2\u00a0 It will be spliced back to fit the one political target. But if you thought […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4721"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4721\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4724,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4721\/revisions\/4724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}