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  1. 03-21-2007, 08:45 AM #1
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    Blackwatergate

    Quoted from Music, Books, Movies - NPR - Fresh Air Fans


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    Oh shit, that endeared me to her at that point. She's fucking great. Probably the only interviewer in the murk of media who would call out an asshole like that.

    I'm listening to yesterday's right now about our wonderful private military contractor, Blackwater Inc.. Fascinating stuff.
    Umm, yeah. I listened to that too. I'm buying that book now. Very scary stuff. Its not suprising that Blackwater was founded by a Bush connected right wing christian wacko, but its extremely frightening.

    This sort of things just lights my fire. Private American armies with Christian agenda's being sent to the worlds volatile Muslim regions on no bid contracts. Unbelievable.

    Our president and his friends are crooked whack jobs of the highest order. Funneling my tax money into radical gun toting Christian organizations.

    http://www.blackwaterbook.com/



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    If you ever get the chance, watch the show "Soldiers For Hire" about Executive Outcomes in Angola. Fascinating look at modern mercinaries.

    It is not a good/bad view of them, very grey. Basically for 20M/year about a hundred guys (given basically a free hand to act) did the job that 18,000 UN peacekeepers failed to do after EO was kicked out.
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    Quote Originally Posted by El Kanone View Post
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    Quote Originally Posted by lemon boy View Post
    If you ever get the chance, watch the show "Soldiers For Hire" about Executive Outcomes in Angola. Fascinating look at modern mercinaries.

    It is not a good/bad view of them, very grey. Basically for 20M/year about a hundred guys (given basically a free hand to act) did the job that 18,000 UN peacekeepers failed to do after EO was kicked out.
    Do you have a link to info on this? Or is it more of a special interest rental?
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    http://store.aetv.com/html/product/index.jhtml?id=73156

    best I can do I'm afraid.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Kevo View Post
    Do you have a link to info on this? Or is it more of a special interest rental?
    I only found it at a specialty type store after reading about EO in World's Most Dangerous Places. Kind of sucks that they never got paid but what do you expect?
    You're gonna stand there, owning a fireworks stand, and tell me you don't have no whistling bungholes, no spleen spliters, whisker biscuits, honkey lighters, hoosker doos, hoosker donts, cherry bombs, nipsy daisers, with or without the scooter stick, or one single whistling kitty chaser?
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    This shit is fucking scary.

    On the one hand, private contracters make economic sense, I get that. ON the other hand, thier lack of responsibilty to report to any government directly, the fact that most people have no idea what they're doing, and the whole fundamentalist christian connection just seem like something out of a far fetched movie.
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    2 parts that got me was them basically commanding US troops, and then showing up in unplated black vehicles in full combat mode in New Orleans post-Katrina. Hope the lawsuit goes thru, right now they are apparently both exempt from US law [via a piece of the 'patriot' act] and from the Code of Military Justice. Fuckers...
    Something about the wrinkle in your forehead tells me there's a fit about to get thrown
    And I never hear a single word you say when you tell me not to have my fun
    It's the same old shit that I ain't gonna take off anyone.
    and I never had a shortage of people tryin' to warn me about the dangers I pose to myself.

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