Dunc: Wasn’t it Blackwater who got caught running a sex-slavery operation in Serbia? Or was it some other merc outfit? That was DynCorp.

Wasn’t it Blackwater who got caught running a sex-slavery operation in Serbia? Or was it some other merc outfit?

I can think of a million reasons why Blackwater sucks, but c’mon…what would you folks be saying if the employees who–let’s see here–misused weapons, abused drugs and alcohol, acted inappropriately or insubordinately or were hyperaggressive, or were caught lying were not fired? “ZOMG they’re above the law!!one”

This company shouldn’t have been hired–anyone with half a brain saw where the direction they were going to go. But this is kind of a weak argument, IMO.

Back in the 2000 Allison storm we had a limited National Guard presence. Mostly just the black (olive drab, but they look black against low clouds) heliocopters in Hermann Park airlifting out patients from flooded hospitals. The Guard never patrolled the streets and we were back to normal in a month.

Blackwater is a prototype occupation army. If they come tour home resist to whatever exten your conscience allows. But be careful. You’ve seen what they have done in Iraq.

First Iraq, then detention centers on the Mexican border.

I got some of that to my second Blackwater post at Majiksthise.

A Charles van Someren, who has some affilitation with the Institute for World Politics (lots of Scaife-like support, but no actual Scaife money, Tierney is paid by them, and they just did/are doing a seminar on PMCs… they are good, dontcha know) did some classic, “corrective” writing; linking to the site Josh Marshall mentioned this afternoon.

When I said one wonders at someone who feels the need to fluff Blackwater I was told it was, “someone who wants to counter the liberal spin some bloggers are spouting.

He’s not, so far, come back to answer my reply. Big surprise. You’d think he’d cover his tracks better.

I got some of that to my second Blackwater post at Majiksthise.

A Charles van Someren, who has some affilitation with the Institute for World Politics (lots of Scaife-like support, but no actual Scaife money, Tierney is paid by them, and they just did/are doing a seminar on PMCs… they are good, dontcha know) did some classic, “corrective” writing; linking to the site Josh Marshall mentioned this afternoon.

When I said one wonders at someone who feels the need to fluff Blackwater I was told it was, “someone who wants to counter the liberal spin some bloggers are spouting.

He’s not, so far, come back to answer my reply. Big surprise. You’d think he’d cover his tracks better.