US government outsourcing hurricate Gustav security to Blackwater.

[tannybogus]

Contract Opportunities
Security for Hurricane Gustav
Blackwater is compiling a list of qualified security personnel for possible deployment into areas affected by Hurricane Gustav. Applicants must meet all items listed under the respective Officer posting and be US citizens. Contract length is TBD.

http://www.blackwaterusa.com/jobs/default_contract.asp

Gonna email God and everybody...Thinking about what else I can do.....besides puke......Gonna have to make a plan of action.....NOLA can't take much more.....
Neither can the country......
:grr:

[That Is Quite Enough]

1. Wow. Speechless.

[valerief]

2. OF COURSE Bush's private army will do security. Did anyone expect anything different?

:banghead:

[Truth4Justice]

8. Now we will see if the gunowners in NOLA have any guts at all.

I doubt it. All talk, no walk.

[valerief]

9. Wouldn't it be wonderful if the gunowners protected America? Hell, I'd join the NRA!

[glitch]

12. Lol!

Isn't their a liberal gun club we can join? ;)

[Truth4Justice]

22. Thats what gun owners are supposed to be doing according to the 2nd amendment. But they are cowards

who only want to own guns for themselves which is why the NRA disgusts me along with gun nuts.

[aikoaiko]

35. Right, cause shooting security guards is the noble thing to do.

:shrug:

[bertman]

16. Please explain what you mean Truth4Justice. I don't get it. Thanks.

[Truth4Justice]

23. Read your American history first. American Revolutionary period. There you will find the answer.

[bertman]

25. I don't see how that applies here.

How do the citizens of New Orleans, who are having to evacuate their homes and their city, use their guns to do anything right now? What do you mean show us if they have any guts? That's about as ridiculous a remark as I have ever heard on DU.

Are you saying they should overthrow their local or state government if they have guts? Or revolt against the federal government? Or form citizens councils to provide security after the storm?

Your reference to the American Revolutionary period is so broadbrush as to be meaningless. Please elaborate so I and other DU'ers will know exactly what you are suggesting would show us that the citizens of NOLA have any guts.

And, even though I'm not an expert, I have read my American History. The versions taught in American elementary schools, junior high schools and high schools and colleges in the 50's and 60's, as well as the version put forth in Howard Zinn's "A Peoples' History of the United States".

[justiceischeap]

3. Again? (nt)

[billyoc]

4. This happened after Katrina, too. I saw vanload after vanload of Blackwater people at the Airport

in Baton Rouge.

[liberal1973]

5. unreal

They're putting these un-American right wing bastards in there again.

[Truth4Justice]

24. Just wait until they come to a town near you. Real live Merc's on our soil.

BASTARDS!

[cliffordu]

6. Short flight to Minneapple-puss from there.....

I figure that's who's raiding the protester's homes in The twin cities.....

[notadmblnd]

7. ell the black population is no longer there for them to herd

I wonder how those white folks are going to like it?

[avaistheone1]

14. There are stil some there who do not want to and/or unable to leave

Whites will not like Blackwater any better than the blacks.

Blackwater is a bunch of militaristic thugs with no compassion for people or human suffering.

[Truth4Justice]

28. Thats good that the Blackwater Boys hate people. Makes getting rid of them easier.

when the time comes. ;)

[tsuki]

10. Oh yeah, send the Merks in. They are a good group to guard

the flooded area. MERKS - NO DUTY, NO HONOR, NO COUNTRY -- JUST CASH.

[Truth4Justice]

21. Too bad the people in NOLA dont string them up on some tree limbs. Fucking neo-Hessian scumbags!

[tsuki]

26. Send to Iraq-nam, and bring the LA National Guard home. nt

[Truth4Justice]

29. This is where ALL our troops belong, but I agree they need the LNG in NOLA, fast!

[stillcool]

11. I'm speechless..

the terror alert is off the charts.

[glitch]

13. Great! Now we can spend 100s of times the amount that we would have using government agencies.

Maybe 1000s, and not actually save anyone. Just can't drain that treasury fast enough.

Shock and Awe.

[lunatica]

15. What happened to our country?

They're going to protect corporate interests. Big oil has a huge investment in the Neo Orleans area, so do all the big shipping companies.

We are meeting the culmination of Bush's America. This is how they get their footing as a 'viable' Security agency for American Corporations. Who's gonna hire some low paid security people for minimum wage now, or rely on the police?

And who's going to be able to hold them accountable when they kill American civilians?

edited to add the last sentence

[glitch]

18. Fascist Coup in 2000

That's my short answer.

In response to your last question: we the people will, same as it ever was.

[lunatica]

19. Yeah, after years of litigation and fighting corporate lawyers

Meantime they become just another American business and a corporation in their own right. We the people haven't done too well since the 2000 coup.

[glitch]

20. Sure, and it won't be easy.

It may even get pretty ugly. But their fascist dreams will fail just as their predecessors did.

[malaise]

33. Bingo

The Shock Doctrine complete with corporate armies.

[Truth4Justice]

30. They will be held accountable. Of that, I have no doubts whatsoever.

but it wont be held in a courtroom.

[bertman]

17. Every one of us must email, call, write our Senators and Representatives and tell them that we DON'T

want MERCENARIES DOING THE WORK OF OUR NATIONAL GUARD.

This is a huge threat to our republic. This is what's called a private army.

We need to get Obama to put this at the top of his list of evils to get rid of.

[Truth4Justice]

31. Too late for that now. Put a fork in it, because its done. n/t

[bertman]

32. If you're right, Truth4Justice, then we're gonna have to start UNDOING it. But we should

NOT GIVE UP. EVER.

[Pastiche423]

27. NO!

Just fucking NO!

[judasdisney]

34. wikipedia: Praetorian Guard

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Praetorian_Guard