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Private Security Contractors


I like the show, watching Season 2 now. But morally I can not ignore that fact that it depicts exactly what is going wrong with America. The intermingle of private and public interests. The Lightman group is a for-profit corporation, sucking up huge amounts of tax payer money in probably secret no-bid contracts, acting as a private security/surveillance contractor and captures state and government functions. The kind of power and influence the Lightman people get on a regular basis is just scary. Imagine they are called Halliburton Group and would do all what they do. Sure the Lightmans are 'good' people, but the system that is depicted in this show and how they operate is just so wrong, it stinks of corruption and dismantlement of the constitution and feels like the beginning of corporate fascism.

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Being a 20 year old who is ignorant to the public/private relationships of security companies i had a problem believing that Lightman an Immigrant with a criminal record and possible ties to terrorists would be hired for security. That seems risky you know.

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I imagine he has American citizenship, having been there for so long so the "immigrant" part is largely irrelevant.

"When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace." - Jimi Hendrix

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Well i had never heard him say he was an American so i assumed he wasn't just because Lightman still seemee to love tge UK so much.

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This is true, it's never actually addressed but it's only a TV show and his Britishness is a gimmick as it's an American show. If it were real life, government agencies wouldn't trust a foreign national with the confidential information that Lightman is privy to.

"When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace." - Jimi Hendrix

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Might fall under the '5 eyes' agreement of cooperation.

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