Civil disobedience: Against the big boys |
2016 |
Against the big boys |
Cynthia McKinney: Fiscal year 1999, 2.3 trillion missing. Fiscal year 2001, 1.1 trillion missing. The Pentagon has claimed year after year that the reason they can’t account for the money is because its computers don’t communicate with each other.
Narrator: 1 trillion one-dollar bills stacked high would reach nearly 68 thousand miles into space, one third of the way to the moon.
C.M.: I got a phone call from the FBI saying that I was a target of a death threat. And that’s what happens when you go against the big boys.
C.M.: Who has the contract today to make those systems communicate with each other and how much have the taxpayers paid for them?
Donald Rumsfeld: There are times that corporations do things they should not do in which case they tend to be suspended for some period. There are times then that corporations can get out of the penalty box if you will…
C.M.: This company, um, was never in the penalty box. If you can proceed to my second question, please.
D.R.: The, um, the second question, um… I forgot what the second question was.
C.M.: Individuals operating in the shadows and never having their names called, are able to leverage the power of the military and the foreign policy apparatus for their own personal, pecuniary ends.