Blackwater isNOT a private security firm...IT'S A NEO-CON MILITIA!!!!!!!!!

[Ronnie Roach]

In the mainstream media, in the way they portray Blackwater, you'd think they are a sercurity company out to make a buck. No...they are not minimum wage security guards you see at shopping malls! The owner of Blackwater is Erik Prince who is a devoted right wing Christian who comes from a rich WASP Republican family. Blackwater is the military wing of: Project of a new American century. To join Blackwater, you do not submit a application, you must have a right wing background, like being a member of: Free Republic or any other Fascist group. A lot members of Blackwater are ex-skin heads, klansmen, South American Death squads, and other nuts who were kicked out of any branch of the U.S Military. Blackwater absorbed many of former members of the militias of the 90's.
The master plan of the Neo-Cons is to abolish the U.S military by bankrupting them. It would be replaced what was once called Privateers. However, the chumps who join Blackwater are deceived into thinking they are going to be Hollywood type of, "Soldiers of fortune" but end up being paid next to nothing. These Blackwater employees are underpaid mercenaries.
So why hasn't any former members of Blackwater hasn't come out to bad mouth Blackwater? Because most of them take a, "Blood oath" and if they divulge any secrets to the media, they will have a accidental death of die of natural causes.
So how do I know this? Just Goggle Blackwater. There is tons of info about them on the internets. So if you don't beleive me, fine...
but you can't deny Blackwater is bad news. They are the Christian Al Queda!

[hedgehog]

1. Well, duh.

[Ronnie Roach]

2. Many U.S American do not know this.

So how do you educate American citizens?

[hedgehog]

3. that came out too nasty.

I'm in full agreement with you but also very frustrated. The problem is tha twe've seen thios so many times in bad movies it's hard to believe that it's real!

[Demeter]

6. Come Now! Much Less Nasty than Blackwater, Itself!

If you can't stomach it, don't watch sausage making or politics.

[tom_paine]

5. You don't. We Imperial Subjects of Amerika are going to have to hit rock bottom

before freedom and Liberty ever have the chance to rise here again.

The American People, as we are now, are almost completely opposite from those who fought to free this country inthe American Revolution and much more like the frightened Tories who sat the Revolution out...or like the Germans of 1930s Germany.

Can one hope to educate such a people so disconnected from reality and simple human decency? No. One can scream in the wilderness, like many did in 1930s Germany to much more brutal reprisals (we don't do that here so much, anymore), but education of a people, by and large, so ready for intellectual and moral slavery, if not the actual real thing where we walk around with chains on? Can one hope?

Well, sure one can hope. One can try with all their might.

But let's not kid ourselves. The odds are long and they grow longer every day.

Consider this: Another group of people the 21st Century Imperial Subjects of Amerika resemble are the Romans of 60-48 BC. One Rome's Caesar/Bush came along, did Rome's people ever taste freedom again?

No, and it is mostlikely Amerika's fate, as well, though we can always hope and we should never stop trying to defeat Bushie Totalitarianism.

[marmar]

4. Mike Malloy made the point the other night that they are the same as Reagan's death squads....

... Hiding behind the false "legitimacy" of a big corporation.

[onethatcares]

7. but they are "death squads" funded by our government that

will turn on we the people in a heartbeat in order to stay on top of the heap. Something happened to this country when real greet became king. It happened during the union uprisings in the early century and during the dust bowl days. Those in power have been constantly planning ways of keeping what's theirs, while we thought the american dream was being achieved. That was just a sabbatical for the powerful. They knew they couldn't stop our dads from living out what was rightfully thiers. Not after our fathers saw all the bloodshed. Now, that's just a memory. Kids today think Vietnam in the U.S. was just about the hippies cause there really isn't any other history put on their plate.

[Judi Lynn]

8. Thanks for this thread, Ronnie Roach. I absolutely believe you're right.

Hope we're all going to be here long after they are gone. Surely this country won't put up with this too long after people find out what's happening. (Famous last words?)

[meow2u3]

9. Blackwater is a firm of neocon MERCS!

They're a prime example of the Christian fundamentalist pot calling the Islamic fundamentalist kettle black. Personally, I think they ought to be labeled a terrorist organization, but that's just my opinion....I'm sure many DUers share my view.

They make me want to :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke:

[Karenina]

10. Add Dyncorp to that...

can we get some recs here? Wackenhut :puke: anyone care to add to the list?

[Octafish]

13. Private military companies in Iraq: profiting from colonialism

Custer Battles, Control Risks Group, Global Risks Strageies, ArmorGroup, Erinys...

From our friends at WSWS.org:

Private military companies in Iraq: profiting from colonialism

By James Conachy
3 May 2004
WSWS.org

Operating behind a veil of state and corporate secrecy, dozens of private security firms with intimate connections to the American political establishment are playing a crucial role in the US occupation of Iraq. The wholesale contracting of military work to these companies is one of the most outrageous forms of war profiteering taking place under the auspices of the Bush administration. Modern-day mercenaries are amassing vast fortunes assisting the US ruling elite to establish a puppet regime in Iraq, repress the Iraqi people and plunder the country’s resources.

Security contractors, without uniforms or standardised identification, driving through the streets in unmarked vehicles, manning roadblocks or stalking outside buildings with machine-guns, have become a ubiquitous and offensive symbol of the US occupation.

Private military companies (PMCs) are contributing as much as 20 percent of the total US-led occupation force. At least 35 PMCs have contracts in Iraq, employing at least 5,000 heavily-armed foreign mercenaries and over 20,000 Iraqis to carry out explicitly military work in some of the most dangerous areas of the country. At least another 10,000 to 15,000 contractors from every corner of the globe are performing vital military logistical support roles such as driving, maintenance, training, communications and intelligence-gathering.

Among those who were torturing Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib prison near Baghdad were contractors employed as interrogators and translators. One is accused of raping a young man. He has not been charged however. The mercenaries in Iraq have complete immunity from Iraqi law under an edict issued by the US Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA).

The market for these corporate guns-for-hire has been created by the unprecedented military activity undertaken by the US government over the past 13 years, and especially since the September 11, 2001 terror attacks. The American armed forces now have 350,000 personnel deployed overseas, with a presence in at least 130 countries and permanent bases in 63. Iraq accounts for 135,000 of these troops.

With the US military stretched to the limit, PMCs are being used by the Bush administration to provide the needed military and logistical means to conduct colonial interventions and wars of aggression. Without the services of mercenaries, the US government would be compelled to increase the size of the US military or to consider reviving the military draft.

An article on the activities of PMCs in Iraq in the April 19 Washington Post commented: “Far more than in any other conflict in United States history, the Pentagon is relying on private security companies to perform crucial jobs once entrusted to the military. In addition to guarding innumerable reconstruction projects, private companies are being asked to provide security for the chief of the Coalition Provisional Authority, L. Paul Bremer III, and other senior officials; to escort supply convoys through hostile territory; and to defend key locations, including 15 regional authority headquarters and even the Green Zone in downtown Baghdad, the centre of American power in Iraq.”

CONTINUED...

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2004/may2004/pmcs-m03.shtml

Hiya, Amigita!

[Octafish]

14. Private Military Corporations

Some more...

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Private_Military_Corporations

[johan helge]

11. Do you have any links? (nt)

[sarcasmo]

12. Dick Devos, Republican money backing it.

Erik Prince is Devos's brother-in-law