madmonq’s joint

Or: Of Grift and Graft

I am no fan of Amway. They’re the multi-million dollar company with a reputation for being an elaborate pyramid scheme. Having been subjected to their pitch, they’re about as desperate and annoying as a drunk at closing time.

The enabler of the desperate and owner of Amway helped create and fund the deceptively warm and smart sounding “Family Research Council.” Their mission?

… (FRC) champions marriage and family as the foundation of civilization, the seedbed of virtue, and the wellspring of society.

When someone has to tell you they are champions you know they’re not. That’s why they make big, tacky football rings. As proof. Seedbed of virtue? Swinging Asgardian pick up line or some crazy Christian pillow talk? It wouldn’t be the first time Christianity has stolen from another religion. It’s their desperation that’s distinct. FRC is a PAC (political action committee). They’re like the teamsters only instead of intimidation through strike, they judge and gossip about you after church. Their mission, despite what they say, is to influence the Republican party through legal bribes called donations (not that the Democrats are immune to it) and threats of outing their latest affair. They want your tax dollars to go toward Christian causes. Pot luck suppers and polyester production. Also a Christian-only government and a sharia type legal system (copying again). It is important for them to rule the world.

The newest family venture is the war profiteer/disaster vulture called Blackwater. Owned and operated by the Son of Amway. They are in no way as annoying as Amway but combine the scam of posing as patriots with the crazy of the FRC. The average soldier earns about $30,000 a year. The average Blackwater mercenary earns about $300,000 a year. Patriots do it cheaper. Last year the company earned about $832 million dollars. The company doesn’t believe its subject to international law, Iraqi law, US Military Law and are free from prosecution. It is, however, an asshole cooperation no matter what. People with no armament or money don’t act responsibly. Rich, power hungry, military trained opportunists with a God complex? It’s Christian owner uses your tax money for causes like an extra-legal armed force that may or may not kill the right people, then obfuscate. Did I mention with your tax money?

If you’ll forgive the phrasing, association with any one of these groups should earn you a punch in the balls. Money, an army and all the crazy to make it all happen.

Read the definition of a pyramid scheme. Read the family history. Then reread this posting.

http://www.christianfreedom.com/about-cfi/40-Who-we-are/59-mission.html

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3944/is_200011/ai_n8915209

http://www.thenation.com/doc/20071015/truthdig

http://www.thenation.com/doc/20060828/scahill

http://www.thenation.com/doc/20071224/scahill