Greystone Reincarnation

Faced with limits in Iraq, and the political slap its stalking horse Mitt Romney got, the evil of the world's largest private military organization attempts to take a new shape and grow again with even greater ambitions.

Jim Booth in a link rich post you should read in its original form:

...After the debacle of last September’s murder of Iraqi civilians, many Americans held out hope that Blackwater, former Navy Seal and right wing evangelical Erik Prince’s guns-for-hire to the Busheviks operation located in the Great Dismal Swamp of eastern North Carolina had been exposed and might be forced into decline and eventual disenfranchisement.

A new article in Mother Jones warns us not to be sanguine - or naive about such a happy possibility occurring. Like Phillip Morris, Blackwater has simply devised another name and plans to continue business - and, like Altria (not to be confused with nutria, although such plagues abound all around us, it seems), that business will be same as it ever was.

Blackwater has now set up a new front er, subsidiary, headquartered in the Barbados (that haven for businesses seeking to evade taxes because, after all, we wouldn’t want Blackwater to pay taxes on the money it gets from American taxpayers through sole source contracts with DOD, State, and OHS) called Greystone. This new company has taken over many of the operations that old Blackwater did - but in a more corporate, low profile manner...

While all of Prince’s and Greystone’s machinations are too complex to recount here (I strongly recommend the MJ article to you), we should note two important elements of Blackwater’s Greystone’s new corporate strategy. The first is finding new revenue streams for his companies...

Erik Prince has aspirations to privatize the military operations of the United Nations. He’s not content to be the private army security service of record for the US government - he wants to rule serve governments around the world...

Given that Prince sees an important role for Blackwater in the US in times of “national disaster” (as evinced by Blackwater’s role in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina), we may well see foreign mercenaries in our streets at some point in the future. If so, it may be that Americans will finally recall their ancestors’ response to Hessians brought in by the British in Revolutionary times - and respond appropriately...

Yes, and while our revolutionary elves are hiding behind the trees shooting at the Hessians, they'll be microwaving the trees- and the revolutionaries- into charcoal.



Why do think the $upreme Court doesn't care if we're armed to the teeth with all the firearms we want?



Or how about facing a line of robotic "riot police" with orders to leave no one standing, with extreme prejudice?




Or a UAV with orders to take out a specific holder of a specific phone number, which it locates using the GPS chip in the phone. Nothing personal, of course.

The sad news is taking up arms is outdated. All we can do is shoot each other. They won't touch a merc's body armor.

The crackers have delusions of being bad-asses when in reality they're just a bunch of saltines for the real thing.

Fighting this evil won't be done by arms. It will have to be done by brains. Which means we're in real trouble.