Maybe a bit of tinfoil, but given the merc situation at the proposed Wisconsin mining site...

[tk2kewl]

(read here if you don't know what I'm talking about http://www.democraticunderground.com/101668089)

...it has occurred to me that the fascist right's courting of gun nuts and gutting of gun controls may be more about enabling private and corporate armies to protect the 0.1%ers from the social collapse that they know is the eventuality of their policies if the rapture doesn't save them in time.

[GeorgeGist]

1. Wouldn't surprise me at all.

Of course they'll never be in any real danger; they have REAL Americans to protect them.

[EC]

2. Yep

It's beginning to remind me of South America and Africa and Asia where the corporations need mercs to protect them because there is no local law.

[KittyWampus]

3. Pinkertons… ugh. We really have gone backwards