The Ultimate Scavenger Hunt

I was looking at Scott Adams' (of Dilbert fame) blog this morning as I do every morning he has a new post, and he was talking about the tantalizing idea of having Bill Gates as the President of the United States. This post is a follow-up for a previous post where he mentioned this idea. In this post he shares a web address for a group that wants to have Bill Gates as our Commander in Chief.

Now, without going into all the impossibilities of this idea or exploring the virtues Gates might bring to the Presidency or the Unites States' economy, etc, I wanted to focus on one particular thing that Adams mentioned that got me thinking…

Adams joked that Gates, in the first week of his hypothetical Presidency, would probably "link Microsoft Earth to the government's spy satellites so you can look for Osama yourself" and commented that "terrorism is a technology problem disguised as a political problem."

This got me thinking: Why not privatize the hunt for international terrorist henchmen and Boogeymen Elites like Osama Bin Laden? There was already a $10million bounty on the head of Bin Laden, so the idea that the U.S. government and, indeed, the international community as a whole, doesn't want to turn loose the world's vigilantes is already invalid as an ethical dilemma. The bounty might have even gone up to $33 million and at one time folks were considering a $50 million award. I've lost track of what the purse is, at this point, but even Hollywood A-Lister, Bruce Willis offered a cool million to the pot.

We've/They've basically already decided to give the green light to every bounty hunter on earth to see if they can nab the ultimate skel.

There already are private, para-military groups for hire and they were extensively used in all the recent modern wars; both by our government and by private citizens or businesses like contractors who are hired to rebuild infrastructure in war-torn nations. It wouldn't be much of a stretch to offer these and other groups cash money – in large sums – for seeking out and capturing Osama and his kind.

I can see it now: Jack Walsh has Al-Nasser in a head lock while Marv tries to steal the bounty from him. That would be one heck of a scavenger hunt. :-)