Republican Mercenaries, Blackwater, Looking to Expand in U.S. - Take Over Border Patrol?

[kpete]

Mercenary's On the March: Republican Mercenaries, Blackwater, Looking to Expand in U.S. - Take Over Border Patrol?

US security firm runs into new trouble - and this time it's closer to home
Rural community opposes expansion by company at centre of Iraq allegations

Dan Glaister in Potrero, California
Friday November 30, 2007
The Guardian

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A mile away, around a bend in the mountain road that runs past Parks's property, his new neighbours spread a map out on the ground to discuss plans for the 325-hectare (800-acre) site they are in the process of buying. "There will be eight 100-yd carbine ranges here, and three 50-yd pistol ranges here. And we'll have a 10,000-sq ft armoury and a bunkhouse for 360 students over here."

Welcome to Blackwater West, the latest expansion from the company that dominates private security operations in Iraq. Last month Blackwater's chief executive, Erik Prince, appeared before Congress to defend the company's role in the alleged shootings of unarmed civilians. This week, reports alleged that it had turned a blind eye to the use of steroids among its employees.

Now the company is looking to expand domestically. So it has come to the border hamlet of Potrero, population 850. Eight miles from Mexico and 40 miles inland from San Diego, Potrero has found itself at the centre of a controversy.

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The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army, journalist Jeremy Scahill recounts company president Gary Jackson's May 2005 appearance before the House homeland security committee. "Just as the private sector has responded in moving mail and packages around the world more efficiently," Jackson told the committee, "so too can Blackwater respond to the customs' and Border Patrol's emerging and compelling training needs."

more at:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,,2219612,00.html
via:
http://www.progressivedailybeacon.com/morenews.php?id=3563

[Hubert Flottz]

1. "Where are your papers you filthy swinehoundt?"

Always grabbing for more power and more government titty!

Edit...skuse my English...

[tom_paine]

2. That's schweinhunt, you schweinhunt!

Not to worry. I know exactly what to do when I see a blackshirt on my streets. I pray millions of other Loyal Americans do, too.

[Hubert Flottz]

3. "I know exactly what to do when I see a blackshirt on my streets"

I'll kiss another chunk of my freedom and liberty goodbye, when I see that.

Give the Bushies another inch and they'll grab another mile.

I'll bet the Germans have wished a billion times over the years, that they would have removed Hitler from office(impeached him)before he accumulated his hellish brand of "absolute power."

[tom_paine]

4. You do realize I was speaking of giving them a hearty hug and thanks

for their much-needed protection of my neighborhood after a Bushie False Flag "terrorist" attack or a disaster in which a good number of Enemies of the State are in harm's way thus making it politically savvy for Bushies to withold aid because of the Bushies' legendary "incompetence".

Because a hearty hug and thanks is the only proper response a Loyal American could give to a Blackwater Blackshirt.

[Hubert Flottz]

5. The Bushies want to use their private soldiers to circumvent the

the posse commutates act of 1878 and to get away with that politically. Even their crumbling base sees through some of the uberGOPer's bolder moves, to try and grab still more power and to wring still more cash out of the taxpayers.

The corporate controlled wingers have used paid hit men for the same purposes before...like in Ludlow Colorado and Matewan West Virginia. The corporate barons have been out to harness the workforce by force since Lincoln abolished slavery IMHO. The to the manor born American feels he is entitled to own and dominate the working class American and everything that he or she depends on to survive. They want you to owe your soul to the company store like people did before the formation of the unions and the "middle class." There has ALWAYS been a Class System in America and the barons liked it a lot better when there was only the rich and the poor. The "old Money" ruling class, could afford private soldiers...now we are paying for their private goons for them.

[tanyev]

6. They'll say they're doing it to keep people out.

How long before the actual job becomes keeping people in?