Blackwater; The Evil Continues

Found this over at Humid City and had to share.

Before the City of New Orleans reopened it’s streets to the citizens thereof, Blackwater was here.

Blackwater USA is a private military company and security firm founded in 1997 by Erik Prince and Al Clark. It is based in the U.S. state of North Carolina, where it operates a tactical training facility that it claims is the world’s largest. The company trains more than 40,000 people a year, from all the military services and a variety of other agencies. The company markets itself as being “The most comprehensive professional military, law enforcement, security, peacekeeping, and stability operations company in the world”. At least 90% of its revenue comes from government contracts, two-thirds of which are no-bid contracts.The lucrative contract to police New Orleans and provide protection during the Post- Katrina “Battle of New Orleans” was awarded without a bid, as well. They are still here. For two years, many of us have questioned the wisdom of an American based private army, answering, under contract, to the Executive Branch of the United States Government. George W’s private army. I know, I know, it smacks of 1984, V for Vendetta, as well as the Iran/Contra scandal, and owner Erik Prince’s right-wing politics and Christian Right afiliations don’t make it any easier to swallow. Not that it ever was. With military budgets bursting at the seams, why do we need a Government funded private army as well, you may ask? It’s simpler than you think;

Read the rest HERE. And watch this video. It's worth it.

More later.
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