Ex covert ops experience, access to a few idiotic arms dealer, corporate or "loaded" customers, a little bit of adapted EW tech . . . .
Abuse of position is easy, playing people off against each other is also all too easy. So is setting up a bunch of stooges to think they are, say, a bunch of secret "fight club" type diabolic "elite" who do nasty jobs cheaper then take the entire rap later . . . .
Its about time people seriously stopped these scams. 1950s throwbacks - but in a more easy-to-destroy world. "House of cards" understates it.
Abuse of position is easy, playing people off against each other is also all too easy. So is setting up a bunch of stooges to think they are, say, a bunch of secret "fight club" type diabolic "elite" who do nasty jobs cheaper then take the entire rap later . . . .
Its about time people seriously stopped these scams. 1950s throwbacks - but in a more easy-to-destroy world. "House of cards" understates it.
Criminal censorship, with most censorship of the criminal stupidity.
Face it, quite a few people are aware of how "possible" this is. People need to comprehend how much it has happened in all its clumsy, calamitous stupidity.
Each nation has had a group of people that were told they werent quite up to the "spy" grade, so were allowed little jobs on the "home front" such as second reserve guard to the bus stop. As time went on, people discover ways to informally "increase their roles" - a bung from a dodgy local developer here - to inform about "opposition", a little retainer from the local arms factory to hassle the protestors, a bit of support in the privatisation of the buses . . . . Then, of course, the local arms factory might let them have access to the newest little gizmos, a friend who did a bit of foreign work for the oil corporation says therre are a few tactics that seemed to work in South America that time, etc.
Yes it IS a political factor.
In fact, it affects A LOT of the other "political factors", to the extent that some of its newest "cut-out" stooges might get told its some sort of weirdly "luminous" conspiracy - but after a bit, see such a lot of the disastrous failures that eventually somebody has to say " errm - actually, we're DIABOLICAL, all that was ON PURPOSE"
You see, the problem with a shoddy criminal "hierarchy" on this basis - of frauds, cheats, etc, that deliberately tries to kerep its subordinates screwed up, dumb, in the dark ( in the "Dark"ness, too, often ) etc - sort of ADDS TO THE PROBLEM.
Face it, quite a few people are aware of how "possible" this is. People need to comprehend how much it has happened in all its clumsy, calamitous stupidity.
Each nation has had a group of people that were told they werent quite up to the "spy" grade, so were allowed little jobs on the "home front" such as second reserve guard to the bus stop. As time went on, people discover ways to informally "increase their roles" - a bung from a dodgy local developer here - to inform about "opposition", a little retainer from the local arms factory to hassle the protestors, a bit of support in the privatisation of the buses . . . . Then, of course, the local arms factory might let them have access to the newest little gizmos, a friend who did a bit of foreign work for the oil corporation says therre are a few tactics that seemed to work in South America that time, etc.
Yes it IS a political factor.
In fact, it affects A LOT of the other "political factors", to the extent that some of its newest "cut-out" stooges might get told its some sort of weirdly "luminous" conspiracy - but after a bit, see such a lot of the disastrous failures that eventually somebody has to say " errm - actually, we're DIABOLICAL, all that was ON PURPOSE"
You see, the problem with a shoddy criminal "hierarchy" on this basis - of frauds, cheats, etc, that deliberately tries to kerep its subordinates screwed up, dumb, in the dark ( in the "Dark"ness, too, often ) etc - sort of ADDS TO THE PROBLEM.