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About UsThe purpose of Small's Clone Industries's Division of Nonviolent Technology is to provide security solutions for a world worth securing. We seek contracts with a number of private and governmental clients, especially the United States military. By bringing the world's most advanced research methods to bear on nonviolent technology, our goal is to underbid and outperform competitors offering conventional violent solutions. For security challenges like counter-terrorism, counter-insurgency, regime change, narcotics, law enforcement, and WMDs, our technologies make powerful, nonviolent options available to clients at a fraction of the cost of violent conflict. DoNT (rhymes with "font") was founded by Small's Clone Industries in 2007 in an attempt to provide meaningful, marketable answers to the seemingly intransigent violence of the United States's War on Terror.
The term "military industrial complex" gained currency after it was used by President Dwight Eisenhower in his farewell address in 1961. MIC refers to the vast, expensive triangle of the defense industry, the Pentagon, and the United States Congress. Some have argued that this system, more than any logic of foreign policy, has ensured the country's unending military escalation and participation in foreign conflicts since the Second World War. The military budget is now almost half a trillion dollars, larger than that of all other countries in the world combined. It supports hundreds of bases in 36 countries and is a critical source of funding for innovation in science and engineering. In order to survive such over-extension, the argument goes, powerful defense contractors and the Pentagon will always pressure Congress to buy weapons, and then justify the purchases by using them to kill people. Our approach, rather than to try to dismantle this dangerous feedback system, is one of honest infiltration. As a for-profit defense contractor offering nonviolent solutions, DoNT uses the existing channels of the military industrial complex to enact a change of approach. Violence, the United States has found in conflict after conflict, only breeds more violence. But if anything like the amount of money spent on weapons could be directed toward nonviolent alternatives, we believe that lasting peace becomes possible. Our organization is made up of a network of partners: researchers, investors, policy makers, true believers, and strategists. We are always seeking more partners, people of imagination and enterprise who want to work toward marketable, transformative nonviolent technologies. Unlike many nonviolent innovators of the past, DoNT does not insist on a comprehensive ideology of nonviolence for its partners or its clients. Our inspiration is not spiritual so much as practical. We believe that nonviolent technologies can provide better solutions to a range of problems than violent ones. Finding Us
As the intention of DoNT is to create an international network of nonviolence partners, this website is our primary location. Correspondence may be directed to clone [@] smallsclone.com. Like a number of other companies and organizations connected with the military industrial complex, DoNT has its offices in Arlington, Virginia, with Washington, D.C. just across the Potomac River. Arlington is also home to the Pentagon, the world's largest office building and headquarters of the United States armed services. A different Small's Clone subsidiary, Arlington Is Awesome, sells t-shirts and other merchandise celebrating Arlington County. Our LogoThe painting used on the DoNT logo is Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (oil on canvas, 66" x 72", 2006) by Carrie Elston, an artist who lives in New York City. In addition to a number of physical gallery spaces and private collections, her work is on display at Small's Clone Industries's Decoy Museum. The piece was chosen because of the conversation it holds between effulgent color and attempted order. In this we see reflected DoNT's striving for an orderly technology directed at the effulgence of nonviolent human flourishing. |
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