Blackwater anti-drug task force in US?

Can we start a private army of our own?

Does anyone think these private armies are a good thing?

Vierotchka, They report to Condi, Now doesn't that calm any fears, make you feel like things will run smoothly and we will all be safe? Me too. Sometimes I feel like those of us that are paying attention are screaming into the wind.

The use of mercenaries by the United States is appalling and depraved. Such use is associated with the decline of many "empires" in the past. As we saw with Katrina, Bush and others in the Federal government now want to use them on us here at home. It was only a matter of time. They must be stopped. Thanks very much for bringing this article to our attention.

Why can't we just beef up our military by treating them better and paying them more? Blackwater makes ten times what our military does? I heard a woman at Fort Lewis Washington this morning on Air America saying the base is guarded by private forces. She said that Bush showed up there recently for a photo op and they couldn't get anyone to stand behind him for the scenery shot. They must be tired of being used up with no benefits or results because of him.

This is indeed a frightening thought - should they get it, they would certainly commit as many excesses and mistakes as they do in Iraq, and probably have impunity in the bargain. They would be answerable to whom, exactly?

Excellent linkage, critter!

The Bush Neo Cons are busy trying to privatize everything. The military, the national guard, intelligence, etc. Did you hear that they not only took the public housing in New Orleans and handed it over to be developed privately, but privatized all but four schools? We need to make congress stop them now, yesterday.

Outsourcing the War on Drugs. Scary reality. Blackwater wouldn't be bidding if their wasn't an offer to bid. Mercenaries in America on American soil. Plus it's been said recently, we have to rethink privacy? I think we need to rethink everything in America. Private Army on American soil. All they have to do is start using the term Drug Czar again. Private Army and Drug Czar seem to go hand in hand. War Profiteers making their money from taking away our privacy and civil liberties. The original draft of the Constitution was written on hemp. We will have a private army to destroy the Consitution which was written on hemp? It's an 'Assault on Reason'.

It scares the Hell out of me. These companies need to be outlawed. Bush is like Hitler and he's putting the jack boots in place. While we worry about Britney Spears.