A Look Inside Blackwater's Global Ambitions

Hey Beretta, read this and tell us what you think---

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dan-dewalt/vermont-vets-put-themselv_b_92852.html

And these atrocities were, and are, being committed by regular military. You think Blackwater is out kissing babies and winning hearts and minds?

Until and unless we have a government that heeds and adheres to the foundational priniciples of the nation that emphasises small, transparent and effective government, it doesn't matte whether we block these right wing powermad security apparatus. Let's say a "more progressive" government that likes teachers unions and signs onto the Kyoto agreement is in office and they wish to have a "make the world a safer place" organization of white knights who use our wealth and influence to "right wrongs" and "standup for the weak"...sounds like a lot of folk who are adamantly opposed to Blackwater because the operators are a bunch or right wing christo-fascist greed heads out to guarantee their job security by acting cruelly and brutally against enemies who have a legitimate gripe against our big international concerns and kill a lot of innocents. Sure..I can see why...but what happens when our own White Knights begin to succumb to the dark side. How does one prevent that? Do we believe in fairy tales? If so, I suggest we really understand the idea presented by Tolkein in Lord of the Rings in which Galadriel, the living paragon of virtue and love and compassion, gives Frodo a foretaste of what power can do to even her.
If we wish to do good. organize oneself according to ones principles. The fact that a bigger and more powerful organization can do more good work also should suggest that it can do more of what you'd call evil. The best of both worlds...effectiveness and beneficence work best in smaller, dynamic, adaptive and responsive run by groups who are direct contact with their missions...and these would be easier to create and engage if people weren't taxed to the gills by a government who says they are commissioned by us to do so...and don't dare get in their way, little man. Sometimes we must organize ourselves to fight a real war but one should be carefull before the power seduces and we think we can apply that to our other worries..which is really how Blackwater thinks of themselves, no doubt, with Jesus on their side, his flaming sword...and tucked under those glowing robes...I think I see a little barbed tail.

Until and unless we have a government that heeds and adheres to the foundational priniciples of the nation that emphasises small, transparent and effective government, it doesn't matte whether we block these right wing powermad security apparatus. Let's say a "more progressive" government that likes teachers unions and signs onto the Kyoto agreement is in office and they wish to have a "make the world a safer place" organization of white knights who use our wealth and influence to "right wrongs" and "standup for the weak"...sounds like a lot of folk who are adamantly opposed to Blackwater because the operators are a bunch or right wing christo-fascist greed heads out to guarantee their job security by acting cruelly and brutally against enemies who have a legitimate gripe against our big international concerns and kill a lot of innocents. Sure..I can see why...but what happens when our own White Knights begin to succumb to the dark side. How does one prevent that? Do we believe in fairy tales? If so, I suggest we really understand the idea presented by Tolkein in Lord of the Rings in which Galadriel, the living paragon of virtue and love and compassion, gives Frodo a foretaste of what power can do to even her.
If we wish to do good. organize oneself according to ones principles. The fact that a bigger and more powerful organization can do more good work also should suggest that it can do more of what you'd call evil. The best of both worlds...effectiveness and beneficence work best in smaller, dynamic, adaptive and responsive run by groups who are direct contact with their missions...and these would be easier to create and engage if people weren't taxed to the gills by a government who says they are commissioned by us to do so...and don't dare get in their way, little man. Sometimes we must organize ourselves to fight a real war but one should be carefull before the power seduces and we think we can apply that to our other worries..which is really how Blackwater thinks of themselves, no doubt, with Jesus on their side, his flaming sword...and tucked under those glowing robes...I think I see a little barbed tail.

No need to ask his political affiliation! Wonder how many dinners he's had at the White House, how many times he's slept in the Lincoln bedroom, and -- well,I'd better stop there or I will sound like the Republicans!

Our war is against religious fundamentalism in this country period. They are brainwashing children in Taliban style mind camps and are completely organized.
Any liberal that still wants guns to be banned ought to think it through. YOUR government is corrupt and armed. So gear up. Shit is going down. Will you throw?
It's too bad¦this used to be a pretty cool country. Now were no better than a third world banana republic.

Erik Prince believes his religion is under persecution and is training his own private, international army. Sound familiar?

The Neocons have been positioning a Blackwater-like force for years, as a replacement for the regular armed forces. There are now more Blackwater troops in Iraq than there are regular US troops, according to McClatchy News.

I believe their main purpose will be to put down civilian disturbances around the globe -- and here at home -- especially when Cheney launches his coup d'etat around election time. He'll use the invasion of Iran as an excuse to send in the US troops in Iraq to do the dangerous work, while using Blackwater thugs to control the civilian population at home and abroad.

Blackwater is nothing more than the enforcement arm of Big Business -- much like the old Pinkerton Detective Agency goons were used back in the 19th century to put down labor strikes and unionization attempts.

This is scary stuff that gets waaayyyyyy too little coverage in the MSM.

I'm betting that their base of operations in South America will be on the 100,000 acre spread in Paraguay, recently purchased by the Bush-Cheney cabal.

Well the well to do and all those chickenhawks are greatful for firms like blackwater because without them Bush would have had to bring back the draft. Now everyone should be very affraid when people like Bush/Cheney have private armies paid for by tax dollars.

Look at the actions of Bush and Cheney. Rights have been taken away more and more power given to the govenrnent and now those actions could be supported by outfits like Blackwater. Hired guns are loyal only to the money they get. Bush has used these guys already on US soil at least once. Are firms like this becoming the new secret police?

History shown us what a madman with secret police and private armies can do to the world. Do we really want to repeat that?

Private mercenary armies are scary, certainly.

But they aren't anything compared to the race to develop remotely-controlled and even autonomous war-fighting capabilities.

One of the realities that tempers the ambitions - and cruelty - of even the most megalomaniacal of leaders is the thought of facing the public outrage and grieving mothers that result from repeated announcements of "We suffered X casualties today.".

Remove the human factor from that equation, and then imagine a personality like Cheney with his hand on the joystick of a massive mechanized military machine.

Let's hope more civilized countries are willing to lock these monsters out of their countries permanently.

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Modern day version of Pinkerton Agency thugs.

Just a little background on Prince and his supporters:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Prince
http://www.nndb.com/people/926/000117575/
http://youtube.com/watch?v=nqM4tKPDlR8
http://youtube.com/watch?v=yJUEULWEP9c&feature=related

Murderer,

criminal,

enemy of democracy,

thief and scoundrel in the highest halsl of OUR Governement

THIS shit is what I want Obama and Clinton addressing

"In March of 2004, it was reported that Blackwater had flown a group of about 60
former Chilean commandos, many of who had trained under the military
government of Augusto Pinochet, from Santiago to its training camp in North
Carolina. From there they were taken to Iraq."

http://www.iraqfact.com/zPic_blackwater.html

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Hired killers. That's what they are. We should be ashamed of using hired goons who kill and torture Iraqis.

Is this really our America? Hiring Pinochet's goons to go kill and torture people? Is there a limit to depravity?

Sickening.

Question for Clinton and Obama:
If we pull all our troops out of Iraq, will you replace them with a privatized army like Blackwater and others? What are your real plans for Iraq, its oil, and rebuilding if any?
Don't we, essentially, have an equal number of private mercenary's there right now, in additon to the number of our troops?
Isn't that what Haliburton and others are all about and is that not what the past 25 years of presidents been trying to achieve? Privatization of all branchs of our government?

Eric Prince is little more than a pig and anything awful that could possibly befall this man wouldn't be enough to repay him for his greed and fascism.

the free market at work. soon, the entire military industrial complex will be privately funded. the best jobs will be in the killing business ultimately culling the world of excess people for the enjoyment of the deserving. not you.

The end result of the Chicago School of Economics is Blackwater.

They need to be outlawed and secured. There is no place in America for them, we have a Marine Corps.

Prince is a member of the Amway family of Devos and Van Andel. Amway has for years been a huge supporter of right wing Christian and neo-con Republican agendas

From Wikipedia--Commentators have identified Amway as supporting the U.S. Republican Party,[24] and its founders contributed $4,000,000 to a conservative 527 in the 2004 election cycle.[25] Amway states that its business opportunity is open to people regardless of their religious and political beliefs [4]. Former Amway CEO Richard DeVos has been connected with the dominionist political movement in the U.S.[26]

"Dominionism describes, in several distinct ways, a tendency among some conservative politically-active Christians to seek influence or control over secular civil government through political action " aiming either at a nation governed by Christians or a nation governed by a conservative Christian understanding of biblical law."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amway#Politics_and_culture

In other words, people, an American Taliban Movement! And who would be the "soldiers" of such a movement, but the private army of one of their own relatives.

Mercenary Armies anywhere

are a threat to freedom everywhere.

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

Not much activity here given tht when martial law is declared that these guys will be the shock troops; Bush's SS storm troopers to round up the radicals--anyone who posts here!

So keep this in mind: For those of you who want to boycott Chinese goods to protest Tibet, or boycott the Olympics, or stop buying EXXon for a year to make them feel our pain--Eric Prince is a part of the Amway Corporate Family.

"Prince's father founded the Family Research Council with Gary Bauer.[12] Prince is the brother of Betsy DeVos, a former chairman of the Michigan Republican Party and wife of former Alticor (Amway) president and Gubernatorial candidate Dick DeVos[10], son of Richard DeVos, Sr. (listed by Forbes in 2007 as one of the world's richest men, with a net worth of $2.4 billion).[13]

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

"A major Republican campaign contributor, he interned in the White House of President George H.W. Bush and campaigned for Pat Buchanan in 1992, finding time to intern for conservative congressman Dana Rohrabacher as well. Prince founded the security and mercenary firm Blackwater Worldwide in 1997 with Gary Jackson, another former Navy SEAL."

http://www.nndb.com/people/926/000117575/

http://youtube.com/watch?v=nqM4tKPDlR8

http://youtube.com/watch?v=yJUEULWEP9c&feature=related

BOYCOTT AMWAY!

Bravo to Erik Prince, and kudos to Blackwater, for filling a job that the government can't fill, but needs, and for providing an excellent security service, done by experts and patriots.
Semper fi

Next stop on the privatization tr