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• flashbender

  http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/04/17…

  The U.S. government paid more than $1.7 million in defense contracts over the last decade to companies owned by leaders of Warren Jeffs' polygamous sect -- with tens of thousands allegedly winding its way back to Jeffs and his church.

  In fact, some of the deals were made after Jeffs was named to the FBI's "Most-Wanted List" and remained in place while he was on the run.

  Apr 18, 08, 1:35 p.m. – Permalink

• SteveJobs

  love it or leave it, hyuk, hyuk, hyuk.

  • I pick leave it– flashbender

  

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  Dog-earApr 18, 08, 1:37 p.m. – Permalink

• TResudek

  What percentage of the defense budget do you suppose that is?

  • .0000001 ?– bliznutty

  

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  Dog-earApr 18, 08, 1:38 p.m. – Permalink

• tasty

  only god knows.

  • From what i can find in a quick search the budget is about 500 Billion for 2008. Factor that over tens years and that'd be 1/3 of 1%– TResudek

  

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  Dog-earApr 18, 08, 1:40 p.m. – Permalink

• ornj

  . <- this much

  

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  Dog-earApr 18, 08, 1:40 p.m. – Permalink

• flashbender

  factor out the fact that he's a polygamist cult leader and you still have the US government giving 1.7 million to someone on the FBI's most wanted list.

  And I still have to take my fucking shoes off at the airport.

  Genius.

  • +10
    brilliant way of breaking it down dude.– madirish1/2

    Are you providing any service to the US Dept of Defense?– TResudek2/2

  

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  Dog-earApr 18, 08, 1:43 p.m. – Permalink

• mrdobolina

  the shoes off at the airport is for the illusion of security. that's all.

  • I fully realize that. As are the $7/hr asshats waving wands around. That doesn't decrease my annoyance though.– flashbender1/3

    if you can convince people it's nessesary to scan shoes they'll be that much more willing to give up other things, a slippery slope.– oozie2/3

    slope.– TheBlueOne3/3

  

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  Dog-earApr 18, 08, 1:45 p.m. – Permalink

• epete22

  does anyone want to start a revolution with me and overthrow these clowns?

  • I'll consider it.– flashbender1/4

    Count me in.– mandomafioso2/4

    i'll bring the doritos– kona3/4

    As long as there are no French involved, I'm in. They screw up revolutions all the time.– TheBlueOne4/4

  

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  Dog-earApr 18, 08, 1:46 p.m. – Permalink

• boobs

  No, it's because those people want to sniff my feet.

  

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  Dog-earApr 18, 08, 1:46 p.m. – Permalink

• kona

  It's all just an elaborate user study by Gucci to see what types of people are actually wearing their shoes. Nothing more.

  • hahaha! That was clever and it made me laugh. I appreciate your humor.– flashbender1/2

    *bows– kona2/2

  

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  Dog-earApr 18, 08, 1:55 p.m. – Permalink

• oozie

  quite honestly it's not a coindidence that he was getting defense contracts (no matter how large) and now all of sudden his polyigamy sect is busted and shouted all over the media. nothing in the media happens by accident and all of it, especially when it's so inbred and twisted a story, serves some sort of purpose. if you look at practically all of the cult busts in the last two decades in the usa they're always tied in someway to the cia or fbi combined with some media circus.

  • Yeah, but keep in mind this is polygamist sect Round 2 - the first was the rape trial of Jeffs and others.– flashbender1/3

    +1 for the complete and total paranoia, that thanks to the Bush administration, sounds plausible.– TheBlueOne2/3

    this stuff was being talked about before bush but 911 has sparked a bunch of interest in conspiracy– oozie3/3

  

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  Dog-earApr 18, 08, 2:32 p.m. – Permalink

• voiceof

  These contracts are awarded by some 40+ CO who has a checklist of criteria price, classification etc... that bidding companies have to meet. If they meet enough of them then they are usually awarded the contract. They don't know who's associated with who when awarding these projects.

  • why ruin the conspiracy fun with logic?– kerraaang

  

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  Dog-earApr 18, 08, 2:45 p.m. – Permalink

• oozie

  i'm perfectly aware of their bidding on contracts etc. even they said they don't include religious affiliations in their bids but dude was obviously known to the government and related agencies so it's not that far a leap of logic to conclude he was known to be associated with these companies. someone somewhere along the line saw an opportunity to exploit the mormon sect thing at this opportune time. my point is that if there wasn't a reason to spread it all over the media at this point in time it wouldn't have, the defence contracts are absolutly suspicious in this context but they'll viewed as a 'waste of tax payers money' not an obvious point of connection. i'm not paranoid but these things simply aren't as they appear on the surface. that guy is likley a bonafied shill...but conspiracy is all good entertainment these days anyway.

  

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  Dog-earApr 18, 08, 3:15 p.m. – Permalink

• PonyBoy

  i still say 600k is more than one man's share...

  ... huh?... wait...

  

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  Dog-earApr 18, 08, 3:21 p.m. – Permalink

• voiceof

  I'm just saying these were companies owned by Warren Jeffs he was probably not listed as CEO, president or Point of Contact. The people awarding contracts saw the company and the POC and based their decision on that I doubt they even knew about Warren Jeffs ( the CO that is) and 1.7million over a decade is not much these were probably smaller contracts awarded at the end of the year when they have to spend up to their budget

  • Oh and Fuck him and his ideas in case there was any confusion on whether I supported him.– voiceof

  

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  Dog-earApr 18, 08, 3:24 p.m. – Permalink

• boobs

  How else was Jeffs going pay his attorneys?

  

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  Dog-earApr 18, 08, 4:24 p.m. – Permalink

• TREBIO

  Warren was hired to keep all of those terrorist-based polygamist cults out of the U.S. His crack team also did their best to get all of the ugly girls married off and out of the bars at 2 AM.

  I thought he was doing a good job.

  

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  Dog-earApr 18, 08, 5:08 p.m. – Permalink