Oorlog tegen de democratie?
NIEUWS - De grote bedrijven werken samen met privéveiligheidsdiensten en geheime diensten om non-gouvernementele en activistische organisaties te bespioneren en te infiltreren. Het rapport van het Center for Corporate Policy (CCP) in Washington laat een scala aan bewijs zien en concludeert o.a. dat deze ontwikkeling een aantasting is van de werking van de democratie:
“In effect, corporations are now able to replicate in miniature the services of a private CIA, employing active-duty and retired officers from intelligence and/or law enforcement. Lawlessness committed by this private intelligence and law enforcement capacity, which appears to enjoy near impunity, is a threat to democracy and the rule of law. In essence, corporations are now able to hire a private law enforcement capacity – which is barely constrained by legal and ethical norms – and use it to subvert or destroy civic groups. This greatly erodes the capacity of the civic sector to countervail the tremendous power of corporate and wealthy elites.”