Thanks for posting the link, I found the following excerpt interesting: I hope justice is served, but I'm skeptical.
You don't really believe that do you? Police shoot and murder innocent people on an almost normal basis now (primarily ethnic minorities, but not exclusively) here in the U.S. and almost (read: 99.7% or thereabouts) each time the guilty police party is acquitted of all charges. Please wake up to reality, as time IS running out. As for Blackwater, once they are given authoritative power here on domestic American soil, they will probably serve (at first, at least) as an adjunct entity to local and state police and other law enforcement agencies throughout the country, and gradually (or rapidly?) overtime they would begin to embody and acquire both domestic law-enforcement authority as well as military capability, until the point where both would be indistinguishable from the other. Blackwater, in my opinion, will be the new military and police force within the continental U.S. By 2010, perhaps. Neither major political party will attempt to avert this outcome. Ms. Cindy Sheehan herself understands this. Posse Comatatus, in a defacto sense, is essentially dead. Only now the veil has yet to be lifted.
Blackwater has done just that on US soil in New Orleans after Katrina. As far as I know none of their agents were ever tried for shooting innocent citizens or pets. http://www.counterpunch.org/maass06022006.html
I like to think we have a system of checks and balances, but you may be right, we just don't hear about it from our sorry excuse for the media, and when we do it's 'cause someone was able to get the word out and enough folks got together and made a stink about it. A few months before the Blackwater scandal made the news, a buddy of mine was suggesting the same theory that Blackwater would eventually take over the role of our military, but the idea that they could also take over the roll of our domestic police force is really frightening. They would have no government oversight, they would effectively serve the roll of judge and jury, and they would defend the best interests of those that paid them the most. "Justice" would then go to the highest bidder.
Well it seems more and more our tax dollars are going for just that. http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/viewArticle.asp?articleID=40485
Anybody but me and few others remember the shootings in Louisiana. http://www.rense.com/general69/whore.htm http://911review.org/Hurricane_Katrina/Danziger_Bridge.html
I wonder why there was such a governmental effort to shut down local militias in the 80s and 90s (those militias were locally based required no federal expense), but Blackwater, a mercenary company is seen as a necessity. It's scary really scary. I am tired of my tax dollars going to them in secret nonbid contracts like Haliburton receives. If you don't agree with paying for stem cell research or planned parenthood, why should you support the expenditure of US funds on mercenaries?
Might I suugest sending several dozen pissy e-mails to blackwater each day, just to clog their server////
I think more needs to be done than emails. Hillary and all presidential candidates need to be ask where they stand on Blackwater. http://www.inteldaily.com/?c=144&a=3898 I for one am not prepared to goosestep to a mercenary force.
And Canadians you've bought into it as well: http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/news/story.html?id=414820f7-998a-496f-b41d-c033e5d6d168
Just makes me feel all warm and fuzzy. We know what they did with Rodney King. Now they have formal training and automatic weapons. Not to mention permission from our fantastic "Homeland Security Department"! I feel safer don't you?
9/11 was the catalyst toward all of these developments. Think about it... then watch: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3979568779414136481
Well Iraq is not backing down which is good, and now the Security Chief for the State Department has resigned. Maybe something will actually happen to stop this travesty called Blackwater. http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/headline/world/5243308.html
