"I think as the episodes keep coming, is it becoming obvious that the Allied States of America is not a nation in the classic sense. It would appear that the ASA is nothing more than a corporate state, owned and operated by J&R.. Everybody knows that corporations aren't democracies. They are businesses and nothing else. The attacks were setup by J&R to create a takeover of America. I tend to also think that not only Valente and Tormachio are invloved, there are people at the very top of J&R who are the ones who are calling the shots. Valente is just the man who organized the whole plot. Tormachio is only there for window dressing. A figurehead. What better way to control a country and it's masses by engineering a terrorist attack.

Maybe I am conveying the obvious here but anybody who is convinced that the ASA is nothing but a corporate state?"

"First off, i just want you to know i'm not an ASA supporter.

But the idea of running a country as a buisness is an intresting theory. Afterall all buisnesses want to be sucessful and in the end #1 in thier respected industry. Most the important decisions are made from a board of directors instead of being endlessly debated in seperate branches of goverment like in our current democracy. And with the goal of sucess being the main objective, it COULD be a novel way to run a country.

That being said however, one of the main prolbems that I see J&R having is keeping thier 'emploies' happy. I'm sure that Jericho is not the only town in the ASA that is having prolbems with the parent company. And when the workers "strike" (or strike back) that's just bad buisness that contributes to bring the company down. For every Microsoft, there's an Enron. And J&R is looking like an Enron to me. "