The following Press Release came across our desk this afternoon:
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
PRO-WAR, PRO-TORTURE RALLY – Feb 9th, 2007
by Malcolm Bosman, Patriots for Corporate Rights
The temperature was around ten degrees fahrenheit at four o’clock in the afternoon as three members of Patriots for Corporate Rights gathered in front of the Walker Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library at 2880 Hennepin Avenue on the corner of Lagoon Street in Uptown, grabbed their signs, and waved American flags to passing traffic. As we became increasingly comfortable, we began speaking aloud about the importance of building the economy using our best tools: torture and war.
Immediately one person skeptical of our position approached and criticized our advocacy of these things. The gentleman was soon persuaded to join us when it became clear how sincere we were in our advocacy of this radical yet important agenda.
WCCO-TV Channel 4 News was there to capture us on film almost immediately, but unfortunately, things didn’t really get going until after they left. More people showed up with signs in a short time, and things started to get very entertaining as everyone started to shout slogans such as “Support all war, always!”, “Spend more, think less!”, “Cut funding for mass transit and use it to fund the war!”, “Get a job!”, “Shopping is patriotic!”, “Corporate rights are human rights!”, “There is no country so small that it doesn’t have some resource we can use!”, “Dissent is unpatriotic!” and “Abolish the Supreme Court, abolish Congress, the Unitary Executive is all we need! Trust Bush!, Trust Bush!, Trust Bush!” Many more slogans and chants were shouted as well. A bullhorn allowed us to get our message to people down the street. There was energy and excitement in the air.
All told, maybe twenty people joined us over the course of the next two hours, with perhaps eight to twelve people hanging around holding signs at any given time. Watching the reaction of passersby and cars was extremely interesting. Many people honked and gave enthusiastic thumbs up; others (undoubtedly people who did not understand the subtlety of our position) frowned and flipped us off. A couple of tin foil hat-wearing, hippy, moon bat, Commie pinkos even showed the Peace Sign!
Many people reacted with apparent bafflement, although this confusion sometimes melted away as they read more of our signs. It was unclear to us why many people seemed to find our rally amusing. One gentleman, however, was extremely upset that we were out in force; he approached and criticized us sharply and somewhat angrily. Two young women approached and asked us to explain our position on black people. Another person rolled down his window and, in an incredulous voice asked, “What are you doing!?” In a passing Taxi, for reasons we never understood, a naked woman was lying in the back seat.
The rally was peppered with many interesting experiences such as these.
For some reason, numerous people approached to ask whether PCR was being satirical, to which members merely explained that we were for all war and all torture that aids corporate profits, and against public protesting of any kind. This seemed to convince them that PCR intends to be taken seriously.
The temperature kept dropping and it was downright freezing by the time we packed it up around six o’ clock, but we were thoroughly satisfied that we had gotten our message out while having an extremely good time.
Read this online book….
http://www.padrak.com/alt/BUSHBOOK_INDEX.html
http://www.kmf.org/williams/bushbook.html
George Bush: The Unauthorized Biography
by Webster Griffin Tarpley and Anton Chaitkin
A Complete Index File shows all of the Chapter and Section Headings!
http://www.padrak.com/alt/BUSHBOOK.html#BOOKPARTS
The eight book parts are (of course):
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Part 4
Part 5
Part 6
Part 7
Part 8
and each (except the last) contains a link to the next.
hope we can try this in warmer weather
DO YOU THINK I MAKE THIS UP?
Bush & Hitler: The Chilling Parallels
Revolution #64, October 8, 2006
“People look at all this and think of Hitler—and they are right to do so. The Bush regime is setting out to radically remake society very quickly, in a fascist way, and for generations to come. We must act now; the future is in the balance.â€
from the Call to form World Can’t Wait-Drive Out the Bush Regime!
Comparing Bush to Hitler? Just hyperbole or exaggeration? Some people think that the “pendulum†will “swing,†and after the next election some politician will “rescue†us. I think they are hiding their heads in the sand.
Hitler and Nazi Germany are not just words in history books to me, they are within the living memory of my family. I had one parent who lived in Nazi Germany, and another who lived in Poland during the time of the Nazi occupation. I had four grandparents, one great-grandparent, numerous aunts and uncles, many cousins, and one older sibling (9 years old) who, merely because they were Jewish, were executed in concentration camps. My parent in Germany went through Kristallnacht, when Nazi stormtroopers came, armed with axes, and smashed the windows of businesses owned by Jews, and, as they relate, threatened to come back later to chop up the people. Having escaped to England, some members of my family experienced the bombing of London by Nazi rockets, which landed on civilian homes or military targets indifferently. Learning all this, I became a serious student of the history of Hitler and Nazi Germany.
What the Bush regime has done, which even Hitler, in his early years, did not dare to try, is to openly justify the worst of its actions.
The Bush regime, before the Iraq war, announced a doctrine of “pre-emptive†war, arrogating to the U.S. the right to begin wars with first strikes against other nations whenever the U.S. leadership cannot bend them to its will.
Hitler waged war against many countries—but began with the pretense that every action was either simply the recovery of territory that the other nations had won from Germany in World War I, was necessary to “protect†German national minorities against persecution, or was justified by actions constituting an attack of on Germany. (Even the march into Poland required, for Hitler, a justification of a supposed attack on a German radio station near the Polish border. This “attack†was actually staged by the Germans, using prisoners dressed in Polish uniforms, and shot dead. The German people were told that the invasion of Poland, long planned, was actually “self defense.â€) Hitler launched a war of aggression against the world, but did not openly proclaim, at the beginning, his right to do so, or the theory of pre-emptive war.
Hitler did not openly advocate that torture was justified, or that secret prisons, secret evidence, endless detention without charges, secret courts, etc. were just fine. Instead, he and his regime denied that they were going on. They were actually occurring, but from my many conversations with people who lived in Germany during those times, many people may actually not have understood the depth and scope of what was occurring.
That cannot be said of people in the U.S. today—or of people in the world today-concerning the open justification for torture, secret prisons, secret courts, secret evidence, endless detention without justification, evidence or charges, prisoners being held without the ability to communicate with the world, sent to other countries to be tortured by other governments on the vague possibility that they will “confess†to something that will “help†in the theoretically endless “war on terrorism.†The Bush regime openly espouses, unashamedly, that this is not only justifiable, but necessary and laudatory.
The Bush regime, in a rupture with the history of the last several centuries, is codifying into law torture practices as legitimate. The just passed pro-torture bill essentially allows the President to simply designate a person an “enemy combatant,†a “terrorist,†etc. and that person can be detained endlessly, without access to challenge their detention in court, and be subjected to torture interrogation.
For the open, legal sanctioning of torture, you have to look back to either the Spanish Inquisition or the days when kings and queens stated, “I am the law.†The just passed torture bill, besides denying access to the court for “terrorists†to challenge their detentions, states that when applying the federal War Crimes Act, “No foreign or international sources of law shall supply a basis for a rule of decision in the courts of the United States in interpreting the prohibitions enumerated…†This throws out the international law of war from U.S. courts. The principles that the U.S. helped to establish after World War 2, under which some of the Nazi leaders were punished, are openly declared not to apply to the U.S.!
The Nazis maintained a pretense, almost to the end, of having a formal legal process. At the beginning, when the Nazi regime carried out its “Reichstag Fire,†which was the excuse for its “Enabling Act,†the equivalent of the Patriot Act, it followed up with a trial in which one leading Communist figure accused of being involved had to be released because of public opinion and the insufficiency of evidence.
The Bush regime has announced the doctrine of the “unitary president,†in which the individual holding executive office as President has seemingly unlimited power to do just about anything in the name of “national security,†or, as their new favorite phrase would have it, “Homeland (read: Fatherland) Security.â€
In hundreds of cases, Congress passed laws which Bush, rather than vetoing if he disagreed with them, has “signed†into “law,†while attaching interpretative statements that say that he retains the right to ignore them based on his supposed powers.
Racial profiling is rampant. Thousands of Arab, Muslim, Palestinian, Southeast Asian, and other minorities have been detained, questioned, and held without access to lawyers, family, or friends on the basis of racial and religious background. Arab and Muslim scholars are denied entry into the country to attend conferences or make speeches, or are prevented from coming to teach at universities. To be a tourist from another country taking a photo of a bridge, dam, national monument, or subway station is to risk detention.
Another reason that the Bush regime is frightening and evokes a comparison with the Nazis is the type of weaponry they have access to—at least 10,000 to 12,000 nuclear weapons, enough to blow up the entire world. The V1 and V2 rockets fired at London by the Nazis, while they were terrible weapons, on average killed approximately one person each. They were, truly, weapons of “terror,†but the weapons used by the U.S. against the people of Iraq, and even more so, the threatened use of nuclear weapons against the people of Iran, makes the V1 and V2 rockets of the Nazis pale by comparison.
Muslim charities are summarily shut down, on mere “suspicion†that they “could†be involved in “supporting terrorism.†Attorneys are spied on when they go to prison to try to communicate with their clients, and are prosecuted for allowing their clients to communicate with the world.
The USA-Patriot Act, and other legislation that followed, allows the outlawing of organizations, individuals, and dissent not even vaguely connected with international events as “domestic terrorists.†To shut down protest organizations; to seize bank accounts, businesses, homes, assets; to make it a crime to give “material assistance†to such accused people. And the initial denial of all permits for the October 5th demonstration in San Francisco was announced as based on undefined “Homeland Security†reasons.
Cities have video cameras on street corners, and one city recently discussed requiring such cameras in businesses. For “security†and “crime prevention†purposes, of course. But it also means that people putting a political sticker on a lamp post may find themselves detained by the police, or that the private conversation in a small restaurant between “suspect†individuals is videotaped.
Is this paranoia? No, it is happening. The “anti-terrorist†hysteria that the Bush regime finds helpful to whip up increasingly relies on the use of technology that was considered outlandish science fiction when George Orwell wrote 1984.
There are “no-fly†lists—lists of people that are simply not allowed to travel. People in N.Y. subways can be subjected to random searches, including of their backpacks. During the 2005 World Series, those going to the Chicago neighborhood where some games were played found that all cars entering the area were subject to search, and that you could not drive there unless you had a ticket, or you lived there. Going to visit Grandma did not entitle you to go there!
Wireless interception of phone calls. Tracing of emails. Attorney General Gonzales wants Internet providers to keep and store for years records of everything you do on the Internet, so that it can be examined later if you become “suspect.â€
This will end with all dissent being outlawed. “You are either with us or against us.†Go along, or be destroyed, Bush says.
Don’t minimize the brutality and horror of the world events Hitler and the Nazis unleashed, but let us learn the lessons of that history so that it does not happen again.
Because this time, if it does, if we do not succeed in building a truly massive movement to bring this to a HALT, and to drive out the Bush regime, the prospect of a fascist superpower armed with nuclear weapons and advanced technology will make your worst nightmares seem mild.
CROOKS – CROOKS – CROOKS
How the Bush Family Makes a Killing from George’s Presidency
By Heather Wokusch
10/25/06 “Information Clearing House” — — Halliburton scored almost $1.2 billion in revenue from contracts related to Iraq in the third quarter of 2006, leading one analyst to comment: “Iraq was better than expected… Overall, there is nothing really to question or be skeptical about. I think the results are very good.”
Very good indeed. An estimated 655,000 dead Iraqis, over 3,000 dead coalition troops, billions stolen from Iraq’s coffers, a country battered by civil war – but Halliburton turned a profit, so the results are very good.
Very good certainly for Vice President Dick Cheney, who resigned from Halliburton in 2000 with a $33.7 million retirement package (not bad for roughly four years of work). In a stunning conflict of interest, Cheney still holds more than 400,000 stock options in the company. Why pursue diplomacy when you can rake in a personal fortune from war?
Yet Cheney isn’t the only one who has benefited from the Bush administration’s destructive policies. The Bush family has done quite nicely too. Just a few examples:
Bush Sr.
Bush’s dad has strong connections to the Carlyle Group, a massive private equity investment firm whose Chairman Emeritus is Frank Carlucci, a former college roommate of Donald Rumsfeld’s and former Defense Secretary under Ronald Reagan. Imagine the pull Carlucci has with today’s White House…
But Carlucci has another secret weapon – Bush Sr. Amid conflict-of-interest allegations, the elder Bush resigned from the Carlyle Group in 2003, but reportedly remains on retainer, opening doors to lucrative profits in the Middle East and elsewhere. Bush Sr.’s specialty is Saudi Arabia; in fact, he was at a Carlyle investment conference with Osama bin Laden’s estranged brother, Shafiq bin Laden, when the 9/11 attacks took place.
Carlyle specializes in military and security investments, and with Bush Jr. in office, the company’s profits have soared; it received $677 million in contracts in 2002, then a whopping $2.1 billion in 2003. Carlyle’s investors currently enjoy an equity capital pool of over 44 billion dollars.
In January 2006, Bush Sr. wrote China’s Foreign Affairs Ministry that it would be “beneficial to the comprehensive development of Sino-US relations” if Beijing approved the sale of a Chinese bank to a consortium which included Carlyle. Bluntly put, Bush Sr. asked China to grant Carlyle a lucrative business deal or risk his son’s wrath.
William H. T. “Bucky” Bush
George’s “Uncle Bucky” joined the board of military contractor Engineered Support Systems Inc. (ESSI) in 2000 and perhaps not surprisingly, the value of the company’s governmental contracts has strongly increased with Bush Jr. in office. Uncle Bucky earns monthly consulting fees as well as options to buy stock at favorable prices, and considering that ESSI’s stock tripled two weeks after 9/11 then settled into comfy territory, it’s safe to say that George’s uncle is doing quite well. In fact, Bucky cashed out on 8,438 stock options in January 2005, earning himself a cool $450,000 in the process. As of 2005, he still owned options on 45,000 more shares of the company’s stock and accrues more each year.
War is profitable for ESSI, or as an executive explained: “The increasing likelihood for a prolonged military involvement in Southwest Asia by U.S. forces well into 2006 has created a fertile environment for the type of support … products and services that we offer.”
But lest anyone conclude that Bucky has opened doors for the company, ESSI’s vice-president of investor relations explained in 2005, “The fact his nephew is in the White House has absolutely nothing to do with Mr Bush being on our board or with our stock having gone up 1000 per cent in the past five years.” Absolutely nothing at all.
Neil Mallon Bush
Neil rose to infamy in the 1980s as director of the Colorado-based Silverado Savings and Loan; after Silverado collapsed due to mismanagement and corruption, US taxpayers were stuck with the billion-dollar bailout, yet Neil managed to escape the crisis with a small fine and no jail time. It helps to have a dad as Vice President.
In 1993, Neil joined Bush Sr. in Kuwait to drum up business in the Middle East, and today, he makes a profit by helping companies cash in on the occupation of Iraq. For example, in late 2003, The Financial Times reported that Neil earned $60,000 per year through the Crest Investment Company, a private firm generating contracts in Iraq. Crest was headed by Jamal Daniel, a longtime Bush family contact, who was also on the advisory board of New Bridge Strategies, a company specifically set up “with the aim of assisting clients to evaluate and take advantage of business opportunities in the Middle East following the conclusion of the U.S.-led war in Iraq.”
In 2003, Neil’s messy divorce proceedings revealed that he was to get $2 million in stock options from a Chinese semiconductor firm despite having limited education or business experience in that area; critics complained that the Chinese company was buying access to his brother, the president. Neil later testified that on repeated business trips to Asia, he’d had sex with women who showed up at his hotel rooms, presumably prostitutes hired by companies trying to curry favor with the White House.
Neil has also profited from George’s disastrous No Child Left Behind educational policy. His company, Ignite! (partially owned by Bush Sr. and funded by Crest Investment) has been awarded with lucrative federal contracts to place its educational products in school districts across the country.
Marvin Pierce Bush
Marvin joined Bush Sr. and Neil on their Middle Eastern sales trip in 1993 and then made a mint in the investment banking business. He is a co-founder of Winston Partners, a private investment firm whose investments in military and security firms profit from Bush’s “war on terror.”
Having a sibling as president has helped Marvin in other ways, too. He is on the board of HCC Insurance Holdings, Inc., which had insured parts of the World Trade Center; HCC benefited from the 9/11 insurance bailout legislation pushed through by brother George.
Marvin was also on the board of Securacom, a company which provided electronic security for both Dulles International Airport and the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. Marvin stepped down in 2000, but how intriguing that Bush’s brother was so well connected to the security of two critical locations on that fateful day.
In short, the “results are very good” for the Bush dynasty, perhaps even “better than expected,” thanks to George’s stint in the Oval Office. Dad’s still setting up international deals. Uncle Bucky’s cashing in his stock options. Brothers Neil and Marvin are laughing all the way to the bank.
It’s just the American people who have paid the ultimate price.
Action Ideas:
1. For more on war profiteering, head over to Halliburton Watch (www.halliburtonwatch.org) and Corp Watch (www.corpwatch.org). Catch a screening of the new Robert Greenwald film titled: Iraq for Sale: The War Profiteers.
2. If you’re searching for information on contemporary foreign policy issues, coupled with an opportunity to take positive action, check out Women’s Action for New Directions (www.wand.org). The site offers in-depth coverage of Hot Topics, such as war and nuclear weapons, as well as fact sheets and other resources. Visit WAND’s Take Action! center for petitions to sign and opportunities to contact Congress, the White House and the media about the peace and security issues you care about most.
Heather Wokusch is the author of The Progressives’ Handbook: Get the Facts and Make a Difference Now and can be reached at http://www.heatherwokusch.com.
©Heather Wokusch 2002-2006
FAMILY OF CROOKS:
Bush’s uncle tangled in options probe: SEC
Wed Feb 7, 2007 5:32 PM ET
By Tim McLaughlin
NEW YORK (Reuters) – President George W. Bush’s uncle, William H.T. “Bucky” Bush, was part of a group of outside directors at a defense contractor who realized about $6 million in unauthorized pay from an options backdating scheme, according to U.S. securities investigators.
Bush and other non-employee directors who served on the board of Engineered Support Systems Inc., now owned by DRS Technologies Inc., are not accused of any wrongdoing in a civil complaint filed on Tuesday by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
The SEC complaint, however, says the non-employee directors benefited from stock options not approved by shareholders.
“As a result, the company provided significant additional compensation to its outside directors beyond what shareholders had approved,” the SEC complaint said. “These same directors later realized approximately $6 million from the exercise of their addtional stock options.”
The complaint did not break out how much Bush and the other outside directors received from a total of 132,000 shares of unauthorized shares.
Bush, whose brother is former President George H.W. Bush, was unavailable for comment. He served on St. Louis-based ESSI’s board from 2000 until the St. Louis defense contractor was acquired last year for nearly $2 billion by DRS, which sells engineering services to the U.S. military.
Bush served on ESSI’s audit committee and received $2,500 a month in consulting fees, an arrangement that later was ended for him and other outside directors. Bush also received a fixed amount of ESSI shares each year for his work on the board.
Before the DRS deal was approved in January 2006, Bush held ESSI shares worth $3.8 million, SEC filings show.
Between 1995 and early 2005, ESSI’s stock climbed nearly 900 percent as the company sold cargo loaders, generators and trailers to the Pentagon. ESSI’s board was politically connected and included several retired generals.
The SEC on Tuesday accused ESSI’s former chief financial officer, Gary C. Gerhardt, and former controller, Steven J. Landmann, of orchestrating a backdating scheme that spanned six years. In all, executives and directors netted $20 million in unauthorized pay, according to the complaint filed in U.S. District Court in St. Louis.
Outside directors received backdated options issued in 1996, 1998, 1999 and 2001, the SEC complaint alleges.
Landmann has agreed to give back about $519,000 in option-related compensation while paying $367,585 in penalties and interest. He did not admit or deny the SEC allegations, and will be permanently barred from serving as an officer of publicly-traded company.
Records unsealed in federal court in St. Louis late last year show that the SEC is investigating Michael F. Shanahan Sr., who co-founded ESSI; his son, who served on the board’s compensation committee; and Shanahan Sr.’s son-in-law, David Mattern, who was general counsel.
The SEC wants the Shanahans and Mattern to produce e-mails, meeting notes, telephone logs and board meeting minutes related to the pricing of Engineered Support stock options, court papers show.
The SEC’s complaint against Gerhardt said nearly half of the unauthorized and undisclosed gains from options backdating, or about $8.6 million, went to Shanahan Sr. He has not been charged by the SEC.
Court records also show there is an ongoing criminal investigation that mirrors, in part, the SEC’s probe.
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LIES – LIES – LIES – LIES
BUSH Family is composed of crooks!
Look at their history…
I have sent out thousands of emails and have only had 10 requests to remove the ones who trust BUSHY! How many presidents will we have to suffer thru before the WAR ends? How many of the BEST IN THE USA have to die in a SLAUGHTER in IRAQ? These young guys have NO idea what will happen when they sign up for the ARMY! My grandson did it and almost found himself in Bagdad on the fix up team for the HUMVEES………….
THIS IS THE BUSH FOR OIL WAR – REMEMBER!!!
This was the most hilarious pro-war, anti-protest I’ve ever been to! Trust Bush – Trust Bush – Trust Bush! Looking forward to the next one.
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I believe the intention of this is about the same sort of satire as the HILARIOUS “YesMen” http://theyesmen.org/hijinks/bush/blog.shtml#pledge
My only objection to that was that people are dumb enough NOT to ‘get it’, so it may have been seen as a legitimate bush bus… rather than the very funny ‘saturday night live style joke. PROOF of that is that EVEN WITH THE SMOKING ROCKET AND THE OIL DERRICK ON TOP OF THE BUS, and the madman eyes on the Bush Portrait painted on the bus, ~ the “YesMen” were welcomed BY REPUBLICANS at many rallies… until they finally – s-l-o-w-l-y caught on and ran them off!
Go to the site and look at the pictures… it’s gonna make you laugh til your sides ache… :-)))
We’re back where we started:
TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION
First read the Plan
http://pledgetoimpeach.org/ThePlan.html
Then sign the Pledge to Impeach:
http://pledgetoimpeach.org/PrintablePledge.html
It has the feel of an author who’s been on the street with a sign or two these last 3 years. S/he has put in some hard and thoughtful work at satire here—which any progressive activist will pick up. The WCCO touch ain’t Max Shulman, but made me laugh. Next piece, I hope: those Dem leaders in Congress who are unaware we won on Nov. 7 and still too petrified to stand up and sling a bill of impeachment straight into Rayburn, demanding from House Judiciary chair John Conyers’ “what’s the hold-up? They’re going to nuke Iran in late March, early April!!”
As for the setting’s veracity, you brought back childhood days of patronizing that Walker branch library on Hennepin. Getting lady fingers at Thompson’s bakery next door—resulting in numerous trips to upstairs dentist Dr. Hedburg a block away. And seeing 2d-run movies at the Uptown, and shopping Hove’s grocery store and take-out dinners from that great Chinese restaurant hard by.
BUT..unfortunately, satire is wasted on non-thinkers and the terrified. Too many Americans are like the “good Germans” of the 1930s who do hold the views of the piece’s pickets (including most Dems in Congress). Only gas rationing, a war tax, and the draft will get them on our side. But it’s a fresh approach, and I’m proud it’s being posted on the website based in my hometown.
Before Lake Calhoun unfreezes, guys, how about putting on the skates, hold impeachment banners every tenth skater and work back and forth across the old Calhoun beach club where all the vehicles on Lake Street can see you. Or unfurl impeach banners atop iceboats and raise the consciousness of the ice fisherfolk as you skim from St. Thomas beach. For real fun, go under the bridge and annoy the hell out of all those tax-breakers fronting Lake of the Isles.
Barbara Ellis, formerly of 3233 Xenwood Ave., St. Louis Park, but now of “Little Beirut” (Portland OR).
Thanks guys! My campaign manager will be in touch with you. I need you on the 2008 campaign trail with me!
The suckers, I mean public, doesn’t realize that the family friends at Diebold still control the vote. Even the scanners for paper ballots are sold by Rumsy’s old college roomate. 2008 is in the bag!
I’m starting to see the light. As the world is slowly destroyed by these endless wars, we will have to fight harder to make sure we get our unfair share, so we need to start new wars. Maybe Bush was smarter than we thought when he lied us into the war with Iraq. My Halliburton stock has tripled since the war started. Yeehaw!
We need more wars so I can have cheap gas for my SUV. My SUV gets 3 soldiers per gallon…
How many of those who support so called corporate rights would be willing ot fight and die for those corporate rights? “…if you divide the war profits earned in Iraq by the number of dead soldiers and compare that to Vietnam, we’re getting a much better return on our investment now.” This is nothing short of madness. These people are screaming for a transfer to the Red Zone.
Effective way to make a point. Perhaps we could call it “reality satire”.