Britian to start privatizing prisons. Says they'll use the Army on citizens who strike against it

[Xicano]

A quick check of the company G4S shows in 2004 it merged with a security company called Group 4 Falck who bought Wackenhut back in 2002.

Just one big happy family.

guardian: 31 March 2011

The justice secretary, Kenneth Clarke, has confirmed that he is willing to call in the army should "serious trouble" erupt over his decision that the private security company, G4S, should run Birmingham prison – making it the first public sector jail to be privatised.

"We have to be prepared should anything go wrong," he told MPs.

The Prison Officers' Association (POA) said it would not rule out industrial action in protest at the decision, despite the fact that such action may be illegal.

Clarke said the military contingency plans, involving up to 3,000 trained regular soldiers, were needed because industrial action involving prisons "can rapidly become far worse than an ordinary strike".



http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2011/mar/31/kenneth-clarke-privatised-birmingham-prison

[louis-t]

1. This is what happens when conservatives rule.

[Ed Suspicious]

2. Seriously, I really fail to see the benefit behind

the drive to privatize. Am I just paranoid and short sighted to see it as nothing other than fascist cronyism?

[FiveGoodMen]

3. The entire point of privatization is to take power and resources

out of the hands of democratically elected governments and put them in the hands of dictatorial corporations and very rich individuals.

It is treason.

[Horse with no Name]

4. Finish the sentence please...

....out of the hands of democratically elected governments and put them in the hands of dictatorial corporations and very rich individuals....so that YOU AND I can pay more for services and get less and at the same time our infrastructure is crumbling away because the profits go into pockets and not back into jobs and new buildings.

[damntexdem]

5. Nazis. Rule by corporations.

But they won't use the military for long -- no, they'll outsource citizen-oppression to Xe.

[EstimatedProphet]

6. Wasn't this a subplot of A Clockwork Orange?

[Rex]

7. True, you got to kick those protesters in the teeth, fuck them up hardcore!

Teach them that all the shit they learned in school was garbage and all their halcyon dreams about society are true.

"We have to be prepared should anything go wrong," - famous last words.

[TheKentuckian]

8. The fascists won't stop until they are stopped DEAD.

Nowhere to run to, no way to hide. They must be confronted and rooted out.

All other solutions are control methods that allow the status quo to continue and leave the robber barons large and in charge after a brief pause for PR and pressure valve purposes.