Government fails at the basics, too

Posted Wed, Oct 22 2008 10:59 PM by HeroicLife

 

The private military contractor Blackwater “has sent a private sector warship equipped with helicopters to the Gulf of Aden, and is offering its services to shipowners concerned with Somali piracy. “

Blackwater Worldwide executive vice-president Bill Matthews said: “We have been contacted by shipowners who say they need our help in making sure goods get to their destination. The McArthur can help us accomplish that.”

I have no comment, other than to ask this:

Why is it that I hand over 50% of my income to the government and submit to humiliating violations of my privacy on a regular basis, and it can’t even perform the one role it is constitutionally authorized to do?  Why is a private company with a single ship able to do what the worlds superpowers, with their massive budgets and huge stockpiles of nuclear weapons cannot?  Are they even pretending to “defend our freedoms” or is mindless repetition of that phrase enough to fool the masses into surrendering theirs?

 

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# re: Government fails at the basics too

Thursday, October 23, 2008 2:55 AM by Rubén

Perhaps this story is the dawn of a new era of specific military issues that will begin to be solved case by case privately, unless the big world war III screws everything up first

# re: Government fails at the basics, too

Wednesday, November 05, 2008 11:44 PM by Rad Schneider

I know the President of Blackwater (Erik Prince). His family's home is right down the street from mine. I served him at the Restaurant I worked at. Nice fellow. He loved the service I gave him and his wife. I didn't bother letting him know that I knew who he was. I wanted him to enjoy his meal. He had an older man who is a Marine that was talking to him and buying him drinks.