A More Heinous Kind of Glitch

I just need to prop this article because I think Monseigneur Tutu is Spot On.

The U.S. ain't at all likely to start taking Global Arms Sales as the serious threat to our entire species that it is. Not unless there's a groundswell from the folks electing Representatives. We absolutely need the lower house of the Congress to move on this, because the Senate and the Executive branch are all about money-flow.

Arms Sales are Bigger Money than even Oil.

The Modern Successor to the Slave Trade
No longer should the peace business be undermined by the arms business
by Desmond Tutu

For many years, I've been involved in the peace business, doing what I can to help people overcome their differences. In doing so, I've also learnt a lot about the business of war: the arms trade. In my opinion it is the modern slave trade. It is an industry out of control: every day more than 1,000 people are killed by conventional weapons. The vast majority of those people are innocent men, women and children.
There have been international treaties to control the spread of nuclear, chemical and biological weapons for decades. Yet, despite the mounting death toll, there is still no treaty governing sales of all conventional weapons from handguns to attack helicopters. As a result, weapons fall into the wrong hands all too easily, fuelling human rights abuses, prolonging wars and digging countries deeper into poverty.