Private Corporate Armies operating within United States
A highly placed official in one of the private armies operated by a major U.S. corporation, speaking on condition of anonymity, has revealed that his company's military force has conducted operations within the United States as well as outside U.S. territory. "My troops have been conducting operations offshore for 15 years," the official stated. "We are highly successful at what we do. Our assault groups are small, well-trained, and well-equiped. The U.S. corporations that run these armies are the same corporations that supply the military. In most cases, we have better equipment than the military." The official stated that the private armies can pursue objectives that benefit their corporate owners without being hampered by government bureaucracies. "We are independent of the State Department and the Department of Defense. We answer only to our corporation's Board of Directors, and often to only a limited number of people on that Board." The official hinted at several operations that showed the footprint of private corporate military action. "Most of our stuff you don't hear about. It doesn't make the news. Say there's a group in Columbia planning action against our corporate owner's pipeline project. We enter the country. No one knows we're there. Not the country. Not the U.S. government. Only our corporate. We identify the target. Often we have better satellite tracking than the U.S. military, because our corporate owns the satellites or manufactured them. We neutralize the target. That may mean taking out a village if we suspect the village is harboring the guerillas. Who reports a massacre in some stinking Coumbian village? No one! The big companies that have private armies are energy companies like Halliburton and construction like Bechtel. We've operated clandestinely wherever these companies have assets or interests, which is pretty much globally. Afghanistan, Uzbekistan, Columbia, Indonesia, Iraq, Iran, Turkey."
Bringing his focus back to the U.S, the official stated, "People should not be surprised to learn that we've operated within the U.S. Say a legislator threatens our corporate objectives, and say that legislator cannot be bought, then we can easily arrange to have his plane malfunction and crash. This is just part of doing business. If our corporate owners can do it in Afghanistan -- take out some warlord who's blocking the company's pipeline -- why wouldn't they do it in the U.S.? We operate at many levels. There will never be a peaceful demonstration against NAFTA, say, or the WTO in America ever again. Why? Because it's in the interest of our corporate owners to have citizens believe demonstrators are terrorists, so some of our operatives are always in action, breaking store windows, throwing smoke bombs." The operative stated that in the future, private corporate forces will probably operate in the open and may well control the country. "In 10-20 years, Halliburton may be supplying assets to many U.S. cities. Under the Patriot Act, these assets will be freer to operate with impunity. The police will handle traffic and the run-of-the-mill crime. Halliburton's private forces will take care of resistance, malcontents, protestors. It's the future. Get used to it."
