Idea: Criminal-Processing Corporate Micro-States
Here‘s a 2007 post brought back to life on how to solve Gitmo (making it cheaper, more useful, and ideally less ‘politiked’).
Note, this was put together back when I was briefing academic audiences and private military corporations on the future of the private military market. Needs some fleshing out and touch up, but too busy right now, so this will have to do. It’s fun thinking if nothing else.
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Sparked by the smart folks over at Coming Anarchy:
While a dangerously stupid policy of rewards led many to
turn in tribal enemies to the Americans as “terrorists,” the
controversy masks a more important reality, what to do with those from
country A, caught fighting in country B and detained by country C.
Until this issue is discussed in earnest by Europe and the United
States minus the protests, holier-than-thou attitudes and other
silliness, Guantanamo will continue to fill a “market gap.” Perhaps
the real way forward is maintaining US control but with foreign liasons
on site and using Guantanmo as a processing center through which
terrorists are sent back home to face trial.
Or let the “processing center” be the service provided by a private
firm. Think about the potential of a corporate terrorist processing
micro-state in the context of distributed small teams of bounty hunters
paying for intel from private firms to hunt down and take out/down bad
guys for a “keystoning” market-state that provides bounty-incentives.
-Shlok
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