Wackenhut gets a pass on "Wacky" behavior - The Full Monty Prevails

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OK, so Blackwater is accused of murderous behavior at home and abroad in a civil case in Federal
court and much, much more ... and they get new contracts.

Now Wackenhut contractors, the Mr. Joy Boy's of South Asia, are getting a pass from the U.S.
Department of State. Check it out. State says "We don't believe that security has been compromised.

What next - the "Dirty Dozen Serial Killers Dispatched to Afghanistan" - Oh, did I mention that Carlyle's
Frank Carlucci is on the Wackenhut board?

Whose government is it now?

Whose war is it now?

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NY Daily News
September 2, 2009 6:31 PM By Richard Sisk

Party-Hearty Contractor Could Slide
http://www.nydailynews.com/blogs/dc/2009/09/party-hearty-contractor-could.html

The $189 million contract for the company employing the bawdy and boozy private guards at the U.S. Embassy in Kabul appears safe for the moment.

Canceling the contract with ArmorGroup of North America, now owned by Wackenhut Services, Inc., is "an option we have available to us,” State Department spokesman Ian Kelly said today.

But Kelly added, "We don’t believe that security has been compromised" by the drunken bashes thrown at the Camp Sullivan compound living quarters for the guards a few miles from the Embassy.

The State Department has given ArmorGroup at least eight written notices of sloppy security work at the Embassy over the past two years, but was clueless on the lewd behavior at Camp Sullivan.

Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/blogs/dc/2009/09/party-hearty-contractor-could.html#ixzz0Q1w7Xs6d

[RandomThoughts]

1. Private sector mercenaries should be given the option to join the US Military.

Currently tax payer dollars go to the government then to a private company then to pay higher salaries to mercenaries.

That same money could be used to give higher pay and benefits to US military personal and support troops.

Also if you have a private military and there was not a war to fight in, what might you do, start one? The profit motive would dictate that as the most profitable coarse of action.

Some sectors should not be governed by the profit motive.

Disband private mercenary armies and where the soldiers are of a high enough caliber for national service they should be given an opportunity to enlist in the US Military.


The myth of private sector efficiency in some sectors has been shown to be untrue by the lack of structure, organization, and attention to long term effects of actions. A dollar chain of command does not think about what is best for a society.

[HillbillyBob]

2. I m with you on this. They may have party time in off time

Still I got thrown out of the Navy for what amounts to an hearsay accusation, then I was hounded until I 'volunteered' to leave unless I "wanted to spend years and years in military prison" as the investigators told me.

What the hell are we doing paying mercenaries for when that amt of money could go to pay our troops , who traditionally guarded embassies etc?

Yes the myth that pirate contractors are more efficient has driven me insane since runnyraygun.
"A dollar chain of command does not think about what is best for society" this is truth they only think about the bottom line, profits uber alle.

It is a exorbitant expense for what? scandal, random murders, illicit sex?

[Lasher]

3. Privatization begets more wealthy CEOs.

Most of whom can be counted on to support the GOP.

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6. That's the ticket

They'd take a big pay cut but so what.

Beyond that, corporations currently with private armies should be immediately barred from any lobbying period, not just for the subsidiary army but for the entire corporation. This is really beyond the pale.

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4. corporate-owned country and controlled by corporate ass-eating mercanaries

our country, that is

that xe or Wackenhut continues to get contracts renewed says it all

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5. This about sums it up

There is no accountability no matter how heinous or obnoxious the act.

These corporations are the true welfare queens.