Forget About Libya: Let's invade the Caymans and Get the Offshore U.S. Corporate Loot Back!
Submitted by BuzzFlash on Fri, 05/20/2011 - 10:29am
JANE STILLWATER FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT
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If the United States is into the pirating game -- and it surely appears to be, after having successfully looted Iraq's oil, Afghanistan's heroin trade, Vietnam's central location and all that prime real estate in Palestine -- then I would like to suggest that it's time for America to GO BIG and loot the Cayman Islands too. Ah, the Caymans -- where all America's oligarchs' vast pirate swag always ends up eventually anyway. So let's eliminate the middleman here and go straight to the end of the booty rainbow itself.
"But America can't invade the Caymans, Jane!" you might say. Why not? "Because that's America's money down there in those vaults." Yep. My point exactly. Libya, Iraq, Afghanistan, etc. aren't the only countries that have been looted by pirates. America has been looted too. And now it's time to go and get it all back.
"Avast there, Mateys!" Hoist up the Jolly Roger. Set sail on the Black Pearl.
American taxpayers' money is no longer stored in our treasury, at our mints, or in Fort Knox. Now it's all down there in the Caymans in private senators' and lobbyists' and corporatists' secret bank accounts. So let's storm down there like Keira Knightly and get it all back. Or maybe we could spare ourselves all the bother of invading yet another sovereign country again -- and just pass a few laws that will make it illegal for corporatist pirates to pillage America and send their loot off to the Caymans. Nah. Where would be all the "Talk like a Pirate Day" fun in that?
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