BP brings in the mercenaries...

[walldude]

http://crooksandliars.com/susie-madrak/private-security-bars-access-gulf-oil

In their latest eyebrow-raising PR move, multinational oil giant BP has enlisted private security contractors to keep onlookers away from oil cleanup sites. While the firm they hired apparently isn't Blackwater (the private security firm Blackwater changed their name to Xe Services after a spate of killings in Baghdad, and has now put itself up for sale), they certainly seem to have 'black water' in their sights.


So now they are bringing in mercenaries to "keep the beaches safe". What are you fucking kidding me? Keep the PUBLIC beaches safe, BY FORCE, USING ARMED MERCENARIES AGAINST AMERICAN CITIZENS.

You know what? We could stop fucking around with BP any time now. Call me crazy but arming people on American soil to stand against American citizens sounds like a fucking ACT OF WAR to me.

[TexasObserver]

1. Blackwater is the perfect NAME for BP's security forces.

[IcyPeas]

7. irony

:fistbump:

[starroute]

18. Kind of like this?

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

The Pirates of Dark Water is a fantasy animated series produced by Hanna-Barbera and Turner Entertainment in the early 1990s. The series followed a group of adventurers on a quest to collect the Thirteen Treasures of Rule, which possessed the combined power to stop an evil substance known as "Dark Water" from consuming the alien world of Mer.

[jp11]

2. So now BP is opening themselves to tourists who want to file a lawsuit for being harassed or

otherwise manhandled/assaulted by their security contractors, seems awfully thoughtful of them.

[dorkulon]

3. Who the hell is running this country?

I suppose it's too much to expect Obama (or Jindal for that matter) to tell BP to cut that shit out.

[babylonsister]

4. Has ANYONE else besides blogs reported on this? I couldn't find it. nt

[walldude]

5. Yeah.. Wired has it.. I think they broke the story..

http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2010/06/bp-hires-mercs-to-block-oily-beaches/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter#ixzz0qvQN3iIg

I imagine it will pick up steam shortly. It was just posted last night..

[babylonsister]

6. Yes, I saw wired had it, that's when I went looking for

anyone else carrying the story. Nada. Makes me wonder if Talon are really mercs, or what the real story is. I'll keep checking.

[walldude]

9. Google is your friend...

Talon Security.. it comes up at the top of a search. Run by ex Secret Service. They are very popular with Fox News, you'll see if you go to their site.

[babylonsister]

10. Thanks but

google bp talon mercenaries in google news. All you get is rawstory and wired. That's suspicious to me. rawstory doesn't surprise me, but wired does.

The fact no one else is reporting this is also surprising. You'd think 'the media' would be all over this.

[walldude]

13. Yeah.. there is a link below to a LA TV station carrying the story..

It was ominous. This is creeping me out. I wish it wasn't true but it looks like it really is. This can't be legal.

[Ruby the Liberal]

8. WDSU Louisiana Did. Video:

http://www.wdsu.com/news/23876961/detail.html

[walldude]

12. Wow thanks... this was telling:

"Jefferson Parish sheriff's deputies eventually intervened and Walker asked a group of workers if they wanted to talk. The guards followed Walker to a tent where the workers had gathered and told them they didn't have to speak if they didn't want to.
The workers declined to discuss their efforts"

So the cops had to intervene, and then the guard made sure he was there to see who was going to talk and who wasn't. The disaster is bad enough... now this? When is enough enough?

[CrispyQ]

14. You need to post this as it's own thread.

This is stunning.

on edit: watch the video

[Ruby the Liberal]

15. Done. I found a copy on YouTube with better audio

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=385x476258

[flyarm]

11. And Obama never once addressed what we are putting up with in the Gulf.

and yet people who don't live down here are telling us Obama did such a smashing great speech..I call bullshit and i will continue to call bullshit until each and every one of BP's thugs is out of our lives and our government does it's responsibility instead of passing the buck to the fuckers at BP!

Get the MTF'ers out of the Gulf ..now!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[walldude]

16. kick

[Hubert Flottz]

17. PR experts and gangs of hired thugs and murderers...

Nothing has changed in the way energy companies operate since Ludlow and Matewan.

[elehhhhna]

19. I'll not be surprised if/when the crazy self-named "militias"

open up on these mercs.