When I see a corporation deploying a mercenary army against a country instead of using the US as a proxy, I'll begin to worry.

Then again, the outsourcing of US Army combat functions to Blackwater by people with connections with Halliburton is scarily close to that.

It's entirely possible we'll devolve into a cyberpunk dystopia before 2020.

A society committed to the notion that government is always bad will have bad government. And it doesn't have to be that way. — Paul Krugman