Blackwater Founder Implicated in Murder

[Peter Lemkin]

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I believe they have yet a third [official] name; in fact according to Scahill they have about 10-20 names, one for each of their projects.....how this is possible I don't know..but it seem to be.

They really are quite the shape shifters. They mutate and grow--like a virus.

According to new statistics released by the Pentagon, with Barack Obama as commander in chief, there has been a 23% increase in the number of “Private Security Contractors” working for the Department of Defense in Iraq in the and a 29% increase in Afghanistan. These numbers relate explicitly to DoD security contractors. Companies like Blackwater and its successor Triple Canopy work on State Department contracts and it is unclear if these contractors are included in the over-all statistics. This means, the number of individual “security” contractors could be quite higher, as could the scope of their expansion.

There really are quite a few of them now and the one that was Blackwater [forget its new iteration, of the month] is not even the largest, but does I think, get the largest contracts, thus far. Several are almost as large and not even talked about. It is both part of the general move to privitize everything [military included] and adds layers of deniability that whatever was done [murder/kidnap/etc.] were done by the US Government. In fact, when Blackwater had one of its employees caught in a really ugly death, they said he was not even doing so on Blackwater's 'time', but cast him to the wind to fight it legally on his own. I look at it as a kind of formation of an SS within the New Reich. Shameful that Obama has rather than condemn them, used them more and more of them for more things. One has to conclude he doesn't just have bad advisors and somehow surrounded himself with Bushees in other clothing [of the Emperor's New Clothes variety], but is himself just another, if more intelligent and articulate, one of the puppets for the Oligarchy. Have we had change? Patriot Act repealed? Homeland Security scaled-down? Banksters thrown in jail and crooked Finance controlled? Etc. Some rhetorical flourishes and some new icing on the 'let them eat cake'.