Corporatism In America And Crony Capitalism's Paid Guns

This article shines some light on another lobbyist group funded by corporate interests to write the laws that increase their control over society. The lobbyist group is called ALEC and at the top of the list of its sponsors are the usual suspects: the Koch brothers and Exxon Mobile. One its goals is to siphon off tax dollars to private industry. The privatization of prisons and public education are high on its list and the beneficiaries are among its funders. ALEC wrote the law that makes it legal for an officer to shoot a suspect if he perceives a threat. That law is behind the scene in the highly publicized case in Florida in which an officer shot and killed an unarmed teen.

ALEC has been most active at the state level. The prison system and the public schools are primarily a state responsibility. It has been particularly active in Virginia where the Koch brothers have an academic resource at the Mercatus Center, which is housed at George Mason University. This is ostensibly a libertarian think tank but it is really a vehicle that supports an anti-democratic agenda. Government capture is the primary goal of the conservative movement.