Wednesday, April 20, 2005
Federal Contracts & Homeland Security
This letter was written in responce to a military contract I recently received where a buyer, hoping to secure her purchase at premium speed (to cut in line you might say) had stamped "URGENT! HOMELAND SECURITY" all over the face of the contract. Well, obviously all military aircraft parts are urgent these days...does she think we military contractors are oblivious? The buyers are all under pressure as the war machine bogs down and the supply chain becomes unmanageabley huge. Anyway, her juvenile effort for special attention was met with this earnest reply:
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Sheryl,
Thanks for the contract. I appreciate it. There's something I want to share with you. Feel free to pass it on.
Stamping "Homeland Security" on my contracts is not necessary. For the record, those bastards marched into my fathers business 2 years ago with weapons drawn accusing him of supporting terrorism. He is a 72 yr old Korean War Disabled Veteran who has served as a private contractor for the military for 45-some odd years, and because he sells one oil pan cap to one British company that, incidently was listed as legitimate in the (the government's own) Central Contractor Registration (data base), turned out to be a front for the Iranian government; all for something that probably could have been backwards engineered by a kindergarten class.
Well, it damn near killed him. You have heard of post traumatic stress haven't you? They spend 1 day scewing up my dads life and he spends the rest of it trying to put it all back together. He was on the evening news, he was on FOX News, the internet, all because "Homeland Security", that bunch of posers, made sure that the press got there just as they "made their important bust".
My bewildered father was never charged with a crime, but he was ruined emotionally, socially, and nearly financially. He left the country club, where he used to spend most of his days, after being jeered off the course. My brother, who actually billed and shipped that $12 part and caused the whole problem will enter a mental health facility next month. You see, he didn't handle the stress well either, seeing his name on the internet and all over the news alongside my father's kinda bumped him over the edge too.
Senator Lana Oleen offered to work on my father's behalf to secure an apology from "Homeland Security". My father declined the offer, afraid of retribution. As a family, we are 100% behind the troops. We are still military contractors and we will continue to serve in that capacity, but I just wanted you to know that "Homeland Security" is a fascist bunch of unsupervised thugs who have been given too much unbridled power and seeing their name on my contracts is a slap in my face.
Sincerely,
(me, yeah me...)
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Sheryl,
Thanks for the contract. I appreciate it. There's something I want to share with you. Feel free to pass it on.
Stamping "Homeland Security" on my contracts is not necessary. For the record, those bastards marched into my fathers business 2 years ago with weapons drawn accusing him of supporting terrorism. He is a 72 yr old Korean War Disabled Veteran who has served as a private contractor for the military for 45-some odd years, and because he sells one oil pan cap to one British company that, incidently was listed as legitimate in the (the government's own) Central Contractor Registration (data base), turned out to be a front for the Iranian government; all for something that probably could have been backwards engineered by a kindergarten class.
Well, it damn near killed him. You have heard of post traumatic stress haven't you? They spend 1 day scewing up my dads life and he spends the rest of it trying to put it all back together. He was on the evening news, he was on FOX News, the internet, all because "Homeland Security", that bunch of posers, made sure that the press got there just as they "made their important bust".
My bewildered father was never charged with a crime, but he was ruined emotionally, socially, and nearly financially. He left the country club, where he used to spend most of his days, after being jeered off the course. My brother, who actually billed and shipped that $12 part and caused the whole problem will enter a mental health facility next month. You see, he didn't handle the stress well either, seeing his name on the internet and all over the news alongside my father's kinda bumped him over the edge too.
Senator Lana Oleen offered to work on my father's behalf to secure an apology from "Homeland Security". My father declined the offer, afraid of retribution. As a family, we are 100% behind the troops. We are still military contractors and we will continue to serve in that capacity, but I just wanted you to know that "Homeland Security" is a fascist bunch of unsupervised thugs who have been given too much unbridled power and seeing their name on my contracts is a slap in my face.
Sincerely,
(me, yeah me...)
