Blackwater hypocritical as it seeks to evade accountability

Here we have what has gone hopelessly wrong in America: corporations that exist (and thrive) by leaching off the Federal Government (and the Federal Government happy to do so in exchange for VIP privileges). We have so many corporations that have bestowed mammoth amounts of wealth upon so many individuals that it almost seems like government exists to insure the profitability of corporations. Consider the mortgage industry and Joe Biden’s Countrywide sleaze. Consider Bush’s bailout of the airlines after 9/11. Consider The bazillions of dollars flushed down the drain in New Orleans after Katrina. Consider the military contracting establishment. So, the government has the wealthy depending on it as well as the poor people depending on it. All that remains productive in the USA is the dwindling number of people in the middle.

Blackwater is much the same. They landed hundreds of millions of dollars in contracts from the USA… that’s you (if you pay taxes) and me (I pay taxes). They lured thousands of soldiers out of the military and ex-soldiers out of retirement by offering them the big bucks associated with a corporation given complete immunity from responsibility for their operations.

Now this thing has gone to court over a botched flight in Afghanistan. The same company that demanded to be free of Iraqi law now claims that it is subject to Afghanistan’s sharia law and therefore cannot be held responsible for their negligence.

First, let me make clear: The people who have died in Iraq and Afghanistan as mercenaries are selfish, greedy hucksters… NOT heros. They took the risk… they were (over)compensated for that risk… and if they die, it’s tough stuff all over. But still, the shady, greedy, corporate monolith known as Blackwater should be held accountable for their incompetence whenever and wherever it is manifested.

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