Friday, February 07, 2003

Tactics Makers of Money

Why can't the anti-war movement borrow a tactic from the anti-abortion whackos? Identify individuals who are making money off of death and misery and publicly shame them. So far, Cheney is only one who receives this kind of attention, but the attacks are brushed off as partisan politics. There must be 100’s of guys (thousands really) who are "pillars of their community" whose wealth is built off selling arms for profit. A campaign like that would be very effective at demonstrating the connection between war advocacy and profit, which I believe is a huge untold story about the upcoming war.
There is an old marketing adage that you don’t make money by selling razors, you make it by selling razor blades. An unused bomb is a lost business opportunity for the company that makes them. People – god fearing Americans – run many of these companies. I think their neighbors would be very interested to know how they support their lavish lifestyles. If it can work for the anti-abortion movement, it should work for an issues as basic(and legitimate)as war and peace.

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