A factual note

[andrewducker]

poisonduk correctly points out that the Scottish Census is not being carried out by bomb-makers and torture-colluders Lockheed Martin.

It is instead being carried out by torture-facilitators CACI.

So if you live in Scotland and wish to follow the instructions in yesterday's link post, please be aware that you will be costing an entirely different unpleasant company money :->

Comments

[apostle-of-eris.livejournal.com]

As I repeat more often than I like, “This is not the future I bought a ticket to!”

[octopoid-horror.livejournal.com]

The company doesn't matter in some ways since the governments in Scotland and in the UK as a whole both encourage and accept torture, so even if it was a company who didn't profit from torture, you'd be replying to a government that used it and required it of others.

[octopoid-horror.livejournal.com]

Actually, I wouldn't agree that Iraq is the most privatised war in history, as it says in that link. I could be wrong, but I think some of the US's wars-but-not-wars in Latin America were entirely conducted via (admittedly CIA-run) private companies.

[andrewducker]

Plus, of course, the East India Company...

[octopoid-horror.livejournal.com]

Also true.

I mean, Iraq is pretty damn privatised, but quite a few of the troops there are actually nominally part of national armed forces.

[tobyaw]

An interesting response to this controversy from GROS, back in September 2009. It features the rather optimistic words “By 2011, the issue may no longer be prominent.” But it explains what they did to mitigate CACI’s involvement in the data, bearing in mind the controversy, and the high cost of terminating the contract.

http://www.gro-scotland.gov.uk/files2/the-census/preparations/meetings/scsc-paper5-sept-2009.pdf