What is Blackwater? Blackwater USA is the largest private "security firm" but more accurately, it is the world’s largest and most powerful private army. Recently I posted a pair of videos about the company’s activities in Iraq;
videos that clearly show their mercenaries calmly gunning down Iraqis. This is nothing new, but now with the Iraqi government officially banning Blackwater more people are starting to ask questions.
The private “security firm” Blackwater made news yesterday when the Iraqi government announced that it was banning the company from operating in Iraq after several of their men opened fire on a crowd killing at least 8 people. However according to laws put in place by the Americans and their puppets, the Iraqi’s actually don’t have the legal right to expel Blackwater. In fact they don’t have the right to do anything at all to the company or its employees; Blackwater, like many other private security firms is officially immune from all legal consequences while operating in Iraq.
You remember all the talk last year about the ratification of the Iraqi constitution and how supposedly this marked the first steps toward independence for the Iraqi government? Well of course this was all bullshit. Bush never had the slightest intention of handing over control to the Iraqi people, but you would think that they would make a better show of things. I mean come on, Great Britain maintained the world’s largest empire with a vast collection of colonies and puppet governments for centuries, but they understood something about keeping up appearances.
by Adam Porter