How Blackwater built morale: Strippers, prostitutes and murder

[bobthedrummer]

by Missy Beattie (2-15-10 Online Journal)

"Surely, the allegation from two former Blackwater employees that the company fraudulently billed the US government for travel expenses, prostitutes, and strippers elicits little more than a sigh. After all, we are aware of the company's reputation, and we've seen the visuals-videos of Team Mercenary drinking alcohol from each other's butt cracks."

http://www.onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_5578.shtml

[bobthedrummer]

1. Xe/Blackwater page (Source Watch)

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Xe

[blm]

2. Hate to say this, but, many huge companies have this as Standard Operating Procedure.

You think Ken Lay was bringing in expensive call girls from LA to Houston just for himself?

[bobthedrummer]

6. Wetwork and human trafficking are not common practices in the "free market" though-not yet...

Erik Prince profile (RightWeb)
http://www.rightweb.irc-online.org/profile/Prince_Erik

:hi:

[Blue Owl]

3. Let's give no-bid contracts

To more of these fine, upstanding, crony corporations led by Muslim exterminators who like to do Dick Cheney's dark bidding.

[LeftHander]

16. No-Bid contracts and No-Bid lap dance...nt

[Echo In Light]

4. I'd expect nothing less from a RW mercenary outfit headed up by Family Value$ Xians

[rusty quoin]

5. I heard the strippers were good Christian girls.

[patrice]

7. Yeah, don't worry 'bout it, daddy-God has your back and Jesus saves.

[G_j]

8. blame it on ACORN

:shrug:

[blm]

9. heheh.....don't worry...they'll FIND a way to do exactly that. Frank Luntz is on speed-dial.

..

[bobthedrummer]

10. That reminds me of someone else blm-where's Karl Rove today???

And where's his former superb techie Susan Bonzon Ralston???

[1776Forever]

11. And this from a family that was one of the biggest Christian Coalition members!

Chris Hedges: America’s Holy Warriors

http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20061231_chris_hedges_americas_holy_warriors/

Posted on Dec 31, 2006

From Salon.com
A bodyguard from Blackwater USA protects former Coalition Provisional Authority head Paul Bremer in Iraq in 2004. Blackwater’s founder is a right-wing Christian whose paramilitary contractors may be operating outside constitutional restrictions imposed on the police and military.

By Chris Hedges

Editor’s note: The former New York Times Mideast Bureau chief warns that the radical Christian right is coming dangerously close to its goal of co-opting the country’s military and law enforcement.

The drive by the Christian right to take control of military chaplaincies, which now sees radical Christians holding roughly 50 percent of chaplaincy appointments in the armed services and service academies, is part of a much larger effort to politicize the military and law enforcement. This effort signals the final and perhaps most deadly stage in the long campaign by the radical Christian right to dismantle America’s open society and build a theocratic state. A successful politicization of the military would signal the end of our democracy.

[bobthedrummer]

12. Yep. MediaMouse.org was a progressive Grand Rapids based website that stopped publishing in 2009

They do have many informative archived articles about the Prince/DeVos RW dynasty. I learned quite a bit from Media Mouse about the Xe/Blackwater belief systems, check out the Media Mouse Erik Prince link below.

http://www.mediamouse.org/resources/right/people/erik-prince

[1776Forever]

18. That link led me to look at this: Freiheit Foundation

Tuesday, Oct 2, 2007

The Bush administration's ties to Blackwater

Blamed in the deaths of Iraqi civilians, the private security firm has long ties to the White House and prominent Republicans, including Ken Starr.

By Ben Van Heuvelen

http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2007/10/02/blackwater_bush/

"The company was recently one of five awarded a Department of Defense counter-narcoterrorism contract that could reportedly be worth as much as $15 billion. Blackwater also became involved in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, and profited handsomely. According to Jeremy Scahill, author of "Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army," Blackwater had made roughly $73 million for Katrina-related government work by June 2006, less than a year after the hurricane hit."

..........

Makes one ill:puke:

[Initech]

13. Who'd want to drink butt crack vodka?

:puke:

[Nikki Stone1]

14. Sounds eerily similar to Mohammed Atta going to strip clubs before his 9/11 act

I guess they figure you're gonna die or get injured, so let's use women like toilet paper to make you feel better.

[Ed76638]

15. I can only imagine the lulz if O'keefe and Hannah walked into Xe Blackwater headquarters.

[blm]

19. The 'pimps' used by Blackwater would be wearing suits and reporting to the promotions dept.

.

[SoCalDem]

17. boyzz will be boyzzz

Mercenaries are a "different" kind of "soldier", aren't they:eyes:

but then politicians like their carnal pleasures too, don't they?

[bobthedrummer]

20. Blackwater Worldwide/Xe profile (RightWeb)

http://www.rightweb.irc-online.org/profile/Blackwater_Worldwide

[bobthedrummer]

21. Here are just a few "reasons" why Blackwater/Xe employees need "morale" boosts

US Govt Probes Blackwater for Corruption: Report (2-1-10 AFP via Common Dreams)

http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/02/01-2

When things go boom in the night Pakistanis blame Blackwater (2-19-10 Christian Science Monitor)

http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Asia-South-Central/2010/0219/When-things-go-boom-in-the-night-Pakistanis-blame-Blackwater


Disaster Capitalism in Action: Xe (Naomi Klein)

http://www.naomiklein.org/shock-doctrine/resources/disaster-capitalism-in-action/tags/xe

[bobthedrummer]

22. Blackwater managed CIA Predator drone assassination program

(archived Octafish thread started 8-20-09)

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x6359835

And after the day's "work" is done, it's off for a cool one from a colleague's butt crack and some US tax paid "sex workers" therapy in what used to be called the global war on terrorism

[KonaKane]

23. But I thought their Fuhrer was some zealot Catholic??

Is this true or false?

[bobthedrummer]

24. There are several profiles about the Prince and DeVos families upthread that fully explore

their religious belief systems and the interconnection with the far RW.

You might want to read them.

[Initech]

25. Oh yeah? I'll start my own military with blackjack and hookers!

[tanyev]

26. Has Erik Prince become a high school teacher yet?

He must have all kinds of ideas for maintaining classroom discipline.

[bobthedrummer]

27. Hissyspit's got a thread going about a DEATH THREAT against a CODE PINK activist from a BLACKWATER

Xe criminal, so this old thread gets a kick today...

[Mithreal]

28. .

[robertpaulsen]

29. Sorry I'm too late to recommend.

But thanks for continuing to publicize their crime and hypocrisy.

:patriot: