On November 20th, the Center for Corporate Policy, a Washington, DC, good-government group, issued a revealing study, “ Spooky Business: A New Report on Corporate Espionage Against Non-profits.” Written by Gary Ruskin, it confirms one’s worst suspicions about the ever-expanding two-headed U.S. security state
One “head” of this apparatus consists of the formal law-enforcement,
security juggernaut. It includes the vast network of federal, state and
local entities that are duly, “legally,” constituted to maintain law
and order. It maintains state power.
The second “head” consists of a parallel “police” force, local and
national corporate entities that use legal — and often questionable —
practices to undermine democracy, most notably a citizen’s right to
object to what s/he perceives as an unjust business practice. It
maintains corporate power.
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