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To: elmatador who wrote (21939)	9/3/2007 1:27:00 PM
From: Moominoid	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217941

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To: elmatador who wrote (21939)	9/3/2007 2:40:32 PM
From: Slagle	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 217941

Elmat, Good! From that it seems that you agree with me about the calculus behind the Haliburton move. Wonderful, now lets make it clear about what we agree and below are listed two important reasons for the move: 1. Located there HAL can freely hire assassins to use to advance their agenda worldwide. 2. Also, politicians and others can be hired to act as HAL agents without fear of disclosure. Now, here is where we part company: In my part of the world, going back hundreds of years, we have mostly risen above that sort of thing. That is not to say that assassinations and political payoffs have never happened, they have of course, but not routinely. The rule of law is one reason we have advanced beyond the more primitive state, but more important is our moral code which is likewise more evolved. We are not perfect now, but say fifty years ago, we were well along the road to perfection. Here is something that many Americans do not understand: In the typical third world megalopolis, the little guy, say the small businessman who owns two or three little hardware stores, must live in a fortress and employ his own armed security detail to protect himself and his family. The reason for these extreme security measures IS NOT to protect his homestead from burglars BUT INSTEAD is a necessary measure to protect himself and his family from competitors in the hardware business, operators associated with rival clans and connected to other hardware syndicates. In all our history here, we have never had such practices, until very recently. People, even well off people could live freely wherever they liked with little worry about personal safety. And, this wasn't a result of rigorous policing, in fact until very recently we have had a minimal level of police protection. Without US support, globalism would collapse and quickly. With the oceans full of privateers and hostile submarines container ships are likely to be a rarity. Slagle