six twenty-one US ports being bought by a company out of Dubai amounts to race-baiting for votes, period. It’s an election year, & “security” has been redefined to mean random hypocritical anti-arab barking, those people could care less about anything but scaring people into a vote. The whole fuss is transparent, & meaningless since control of security will not switch hands.
Having said that, there is something to bark about on this: Bush threatening to finally pull out his veto pen & ram this through isn’t being “soft on security”, it’s Corporate Socialism. You see in the media P&O (the British seller) and DP World (the United Arab Emirates-based buyer), but there are some other names not mentioned:
-”Baker Botts”, of which James Baker is senior partner
-Halliburton
-Carlyle Group
-CSX, formerly headed by John Snow
As broken down on Kos (though you can find this from other sites simply by a Google search with “DP World” & “Carlyle” as the search terms), this is the end-point of a series of deals obtained via political power that all coincidentally benefit Bush’s father & his friends. Surprised? Hell no.
The fact is, this type of corporate circle-jerk will continue until there is an ownership change. THIS kind of ownership change:
…In reality, the rightful owners are the residents of each of the port cities, the workers who work there and the companies who do business there
