THE SWEET SMELL OF QUID PRO QUO!
Bribe defined: To influence by offering a bribe—money or a favor.
June 7, 2015
Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson (R), the current Arkansas General Assembly, Lockheed-Martin, and perhaps others vs. We the People.
The Bribe—$87.1 Millions of Arkansas taxpayer dollars resulting in what appears to be one or more ensuing Bribes.
Question: Who initiated the alleged act of bribery? Was it Arkansas Governor Hutchinson and his enablers who initiated the act, was it the munitions giant Lockheed-Martin, and possibly two other parties?
May 24, 2015, an email and post on my website arkansasfreedom.net titled Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson Lobbies for More Unconstitutional and undeclared warfare, serves as a backdrop for what has been revealed since, pertaining to the players.
Friday May 29, 2015 the Arkansas General Assembly dispensed $87.1 million to Lockheed, the largest, most influential and profitable munitions corporation in the world. The $87.1 million bribe also signifies that Arkansas legislators, state & national, are charged with lobbying for Lockheed. Pertaining to the bribe, a plant expansion in Camden, AR nebulously states MAY CREATE 600 JOBS. We the people’s taxpayer dollars are collected allegedly to benefit all Arkansans, not a small sector that rests on the word MAY. What are citizen guarantees if any?
The financial relationship just completed in this deal between Gov. Hutchinson, the Ark. General Assembly, the Federal Government & Lockheed is a textbook example of a nexus between governments and corporations which is the definition of Fascism.
Other than bribery, what is terribly wrong, unconstitutionally & illegally with this picture?
1. Subsidizing wars, most particularly undeclared wars, is not a proper function of the Arkansas state government or any other state government—wholly a function of the U.S. Congress, Section 8 of the Constitution.
2. The bribe, $87.1 million taxpayer dollars being funneled, without citizen approval, in what appears to be a self-serving political web. As will be shown shortly.
3. Corporate cronyism—will be described below.
4. Misappropriation of taxpayer money.
5. Ponying up state tax money for undeclared wars resulting in murder & destruction against hapless sovereign countries & has nothing to do with U.S. security and is a crime by any standard. This was not what the $87.1 million taxpayer dollars were collected for.
6. The fact that Gov. Hutchinson and the Ark. Legislature can dispense that much money without a blink represents more factual data that the state’s citizens are being overtaxed and financially abused.
7. The production of 55,000 JLTV’s demonstrates that the criminally corrupt federal government has no intention of curtailing their undeclared murdering wars built on lies and more lies. Particularly since the U.S. military has left thousands of Humvees, hundreds of heavy tanks, tens of thousands of light arms scattered across the Mideast resulting in the creation & arming of dozens of splinter fighting groups e.g. ISIS, the Houthi’s, Al Queda, etc.,, all enemies of the U.S. and why not. The U.S. has invaded & destroyed their homeland, many of their peoples and antiquities.
8. Military lobbying is not a function of the Arkansas state government. 14 years mired in the Mideast and what do we have to show for it? Trillions in debt (a Trillion spent in the Mideast) and huge casualties on both sides. All the while our national borders don’t exist and millions of unchecked 3rd & 4th world invaders enter at will. In the context of national security the federal government never, ever links our open borders with what they call “international terrorism”.
Since my initial offering on May 24th regarding the $87.1 million transfer to Lockheed other personalities have been introduced into the equation.
May 31st came new revelations proving conclusively that the AR-Lockheed deal had numerous tentacles, many of which appear to be unsavory “vote buying” schemes that shower favors on multiple entities.
David Ray, former campaign spokesman for Senator Tom Cotton inexplicably stated recently, “Arkansas taxpayers shouldn’t be fronting for one of the largest & most successful companies in the world”.
Ray continued, “Streamline regulations that will benefit all business, not just one ‘handpicked’ company”.
Turns out that Republican Sen. Tom Cotton has political & financial connections to a senior official at Lockheed and a bevy of warmongering neocons and obviously Cotton has joined their ranks.
Enter Doug Coutts, Cotton’s Chief of Staff and is the son of Robert Coutts, a former executive at Lockheed and now the “OWNER” of the company’s missile and fire-control facility in the Highland Industrial Park near Camden, AR. where the company wants to assemble the JLTV’s.
Robert Coutts and his wife Ingrid contributed THOUSANDS of dollars to Cotton’s Senatorial campaign of 2013-14.
In the article I alluded to at the top of this piece posing the question to Gov. Hutchinson—From his government roles as the titular head of the DEA, the question was asked—“are there any active or lingering relationships between you and Lockheed?”
The spinning of this web of intrigue has criminal implications written all over it and it’s a good bet that most of the Ark. General Assembly have not a clue as to the depth & breadth of the relationship they and others entered into with Lockheed.
The War Party marches on…Hail Caesar.
Lockheed & Coutts fiscal livelihood is determined by perpetual warfare.
Go ahead citizens, continue to trade the lives of your family and friends to increase the political and financial bottom lines of those who lie us into these wars, e.g. most recently, Bush II (Carlyle), Cheney (Halliburton), Wolfowitz, Feith, Perle, Rumsfeld, Kristol, Soros, McCain, McConnell, Boozman, Cotton, Graham, Rubio, Boehner, Cruz, unfortunately another Bush, and on & on & on…..and now Obama. You have been conditioned for eternal war and do not realize it.
In other matters, Gov. Asa Hutchinson and the General Assembly, during the past session, could have driven a stake in Obamacare, in Arkansas known as the Private Option, yet they cowardly chose to ratify the so-called Private Option; thereby creating immediately one-fourth of a million new welfare addicts, and metastasizing and will never be overturned.
Basically, this is the same legislature that cowardly put forth ISSUE 3. ISSUE 3 provided the legislators with term limit increases up to 16 years and gave said legislators the power to create a hand-picked committee that would give said committee the authority to raise legislator’s salaries, which happened immediately. All this took place under the legislative banner of “ETHICS”….so much for legislator ethics and morality.
Additionally, the same group, in the dark of night, created a branch of Arkansas State University— in Mexico. Nothing to my knowledge has been said…why and who paid for the ASU Mexico travesty and what is its present status?
The busy Republicans have been for years doing their best to initiate a Constitutional Convention which would guarantee the demolition of the U.S. Constitution for a myriad of reasons. All the above activity is at the behest of corporate cronies. Paralleling this activity is their likewise forceful efforts to scuttle the 7th Amendment—the right to trial by your peers. These republicans are dedicated to transferring the 7th Amendment to the hands of federal bureaucrats. Corruption abounds in both parties.
Have We the People reached the point that the only satisfactory means of terminating the illicit behavior of incumbent politicians is to vote them out regardless of political parties?
It’s the Republic!
Joe McCutchen
arkansasfreedom.net