Cop out is an idiom meaning to avoid taking responsibility for an action or to avoid fulfilling a duty.
I propose we take responsibility to search out the truth inside and out about us and them, put it out it in the center of the world, Expose lies and secrecy and then see who is who. Who will look at the truth and who will not, who runs to the shadows and who runs to the light.
If I say Halliburton chrarges the troops 100$ to do a 15lb load of laundry.
It is to see what the people will do in the land of the brave and the home of the free.
Most of the time they call me a whinning communist or that I am complaining because deep down inside they know they are not willing to fight the true enemy, that they feel powerless to acknowledge the atrocities and hipocracy of the hand that feeds them, a denial or cop out.
Capitalism and communism are used for the same thing.
"The Man" is a symbol of the nature in ourselves to exploit other people and to be exploited. When we get to the curtain that the man is behind and pull it back we will find a mirror of our own failure. The duty that calls is to not except what "is" and know and speak the truth and when enough people know it a new reality will be spontaneous.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/02/05/national/main598135.shtml
Allegations of a kickback scheme by two former workers in Kuwait that prompted Halliburton to reimburse the Pentagon $6.3 million.
Faulty cost estimates on the $2.7 billion contract to serve troops in Iraq, including failing to tell the Pentagon that KBR fired two subcontractors. KBR admitted those mistakes in a letter to the Defense Contract Audit Agency.
A separate DCAA audit that accused KBR of overcharging by $61 million for gasoline delivered to serve the civilian market in Iraq last year. Halliburton has said the charges were proper.
http://groups.google.com/group/Mormons-Only-Speak-Out/msg/6a0fda651aaf3e65
*Documents obtained by CBS News show an auditor repeatedly flagged
improper fees for soldiers' laundry. At one site, taxpayers reportedly paid
$100 for each 15-pound load of wash - $1 million a month in overcharges.
*Halliburton insists it doesn't waste money, it saves it. But overcharging
is the subject of one federal investigation and there are separate probes
for alleged bribery and kickbacks.