[mgirdley]

Imagine the mafia started a country and then a hundred years later tried to clean up their image a little.

That's how I think of business and government there.

[sneak]

An organized, self-interested group, establishing their own sets of laws and customs?

What, exactly, do you think nations are?

[fnordfnordfnord]

What do you think of Rockefeller and other early US industrialists?

[narrator]

...and Smedley Butler's "War is a Racket" testimony.