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Title: Blackwater: Are You Scared Yet?
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Democratic Underground
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Published: Sep 28, 2007
Author: "Naomi Wolf"
Post Date: 2007-09-28 15:16:06 by ghostdogtxn
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Comments: 11
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#1. To: ghostdogtxn, *Mercenaries - War Profiteers* (#0)
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In the end, armed thugs for hire are a far greater threat to our security than "terrorism" has ever been or will ever be. What's to stop anybody with money to hire blackwater thugs to go after their personal, business, or political enemies? Once you can buy a private military or a private law enforcement, you've basically bought the law.
Well "security" is a booming industry.
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Neat way to get around the Posse Comitatus Act: privatize the military.
To reason, indeed, he was not in the habit of attending. His mode of arguing, if it is to be so called, was one not uncommon among dull and stubborn persons, who are accustomed to be surrounded by their inferiors. He asserted a proposition; and, as often as wiser people ventured respectfully to show that it was erroneous, he asserted it again, in exactly the same words, and conceived that, by doing so, he at once disposed of all objections. - Macaulay, "History of England," Vol. 1, Chapter 6, on James II.
"It does not take a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brush fires of freedom in the minds of men." -- Samuel Adams (1722-1803)‡
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That did it. I'm buying a gun. A big one.
"It does not take a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brush fires of freedom in the minds of men." -- Samuel Adams (1722-1803)‡
Those who read history should understand what we are more and more likely to see -- now that a paramilitary force answerable to Bush and corporations like Halliburton but not to the people's representatives is in place. my god, we're in big, big trouble. all the pieces being put into place.
You're right. That's exactly the problem. They've opened Pandora's box.
Fine targets.
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#2. To: ghostdogtxn (#0)
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#3. To: Rupert_Pupkin (#2)
#4. To: ghostdogtxn (#0)
#5. To: aristeides, robin, ..., leveller, christine, Lodwick, Paul Revere (#4)
#6. To: ghostdogtxn (#5)
In Iraq, men with guns not answerable to the people's law or government can shoot at will at Iraqi civilians. That is not freedom.
#7. To: ghostdogtxn (#0)
#8. To: Mekons4 (#7)
#9. To: ghostdogtxn (#5)
Blackwater is available to anyone who can write the checks. If there is a need to ‘restore public order’ in the next Presidential election -- a power that the President now can define as he sees fit -- Blackwater can be deployed. If the President declares an emergency, Blackwater can be deployed. And history shows us how very quickly citizen dissent and democratic processes close down when physically intimidating men -- who are armed and not answerable to the people -- are abroad in the land.
#10. To: Rupert_Pupkin (#2)
In the end, armed thugs for hire are a far greater threat to our security than "terrorism" has ever been or will ever be.
#11. To: ghostdogtxn, jethro tull (#0)
What is scarier than scary is that Blackwater’s overall plans are to do more and more of its armed and dangerous ‘security’ operations on U.S. soil.
"There is no 'legitimate' Corporation by virtue of it's very legal definition and purpose."
-- IndieTx
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