Starve The Beast Is the Most Ill Concived Peice of Political Theory

**Kadagar_AV** · 11-02-2012, 06:47

Originally Posted by Gelatinous Cube

Mall security, private investigators, and "bounty Hunters" have no more power than a private citizen. I'm a certified security guard myself, but I don't have anything close to the authority of a cop.

As for that 50% number, i would love to see a source on that. When i was in Iraq we had roughly 200,000 troops there, there aren't enough private military contractors in the states to make up 50% of that

There are demons in our system, but you're looking in the wrong spots.

When were you there? I wrote about this on this forum YEARS ago and shocked many Americans, can't really be bothered to fact search again.

As of March 2010, there were 95,461 DOD contractor personnel in Iraq compared to approximately 95,900 uniformed personnel in-country.

<- Those are the latest figures I could find. Sorry, I really can't be bothered re-doing a job I already did for this board... A quick google search might do you good. If for no other reason than it being an excellent opportunity to whiff me off.

About Mall security, private investigators and so on.... I am perfectly aware that they have no extra authority, I am just saying that they are doing the job the Police do in less corporalistic (SP?) countries.

You know, you COULD have an actual policeman in the mall, with police rights. You COULD have a state investing enough in the police for private detectives to not be needed, as the law should serve everyone, not just those who can pay for extra service.