such as this piece of crap must be held to account in the full light of day. Blackwater, Erik Prince and all in charge must also be held to account and severly punished. BushCo and their Brownshirts are as bad as the Nazis - their fate must be the same.

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...it is of course the "Get out of Jail Free" card implied in all the dealings this bunch. Led by a Born again Fundy who has brown nosed the Bushies from day one it's clear that even if charges result the ordinary grunts like this kid are the only ones likely to do time the senior management will get the Scooter Libby treatment on Bush's last day in office...

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Finally! A name and a face!

That's exactly what we need: names and faces and criminal trials for all the world to see. And, as with impeachment and prosecution of Bush, Cheney and the whole administration, to write their heinous, indifferent, inhuman crimes FOR PROFIT into the 'official congressional history' of this nation! IF IT ISN'T WRITTEN, IT DIDN'T HAPPEN!

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Did no one notice this turd from the very first sentence of the NYT article: "soldiers who served with him were stunned to hear he had been accused of acting like one". It appears that reporter Ginger Thompson thinks that shooting up an intersection full of civilian traffic constitutes "acting like a soldier". That's messed up.

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Corporatism (the Mussolini definition, a subset of fascism; see wikipedia) is the replacement for democracy in the USA. This socio-political change ostensibly began with the Nixon and Reagan administrations, but actually is a rebirth of the Royalist King GeorgeIII loyalists of the Revolutionary war. The Bush family can be traced back to the defeated Royalists?

Privatization of the public sector, of what is the normal and usual business of government, is a conversion of public government to government by corporate board rooms. Pre-war Germany called this system "National Socialism" and took the acronym NAZI. So what we have called 'privatization' is really Corporate Socialism or National Socialism in spite of the propaganda to the contrary.

The private sector 'privatization' of our US military into mercenary armies like Blackwater is not real privatization because the contracts are publicly funded and granted without even open or competitive process. This conversion of the US military is simply not capitalism nor democratic public military. Only a national, citizens, public military can be held accountable to the electorate.

We must act to get Democratic candidates to publicly repudiate mercenary armies and construction contracts, and all other private corporate contracts associated with military action including food service.

War must be a public activity in order to eliminate or minimize it . Eisenhower, in his 1960 farewell address to the Nation, coined the phrase, 'Military Industrial Complex'. He warned against what was on its way to become an uninterrrupted military economy since 1941. WWII was the first time in modern world history that the victor of a major war has not disarmed. In this way, we find our economy to be dependent on perpetual war for an elusive and mythical 'perpetual peace'. Privatization of prisons are an analogy of what has happened to war. As with hotels, management must endeavor to maximize occupancy. Similarly, war manufacturers, and 'services' like Blackwater, are free to lobby both parties in Congress to keep their businesses booming into perpetuity. See Gore Vidal's book, Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace for partial insight into why we have heinous criminal acts of murder by American civilians that can be trivialized by elected Administrations.

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As far as recriminations go, see Desmond Tutu interviews, like in Moyers or Oprah mag. about South African reconciliation tribunals. What is required is not retribution , but a fundamental change in the system. We need to cleanse our country of apartheidism in all forms.

This begins with a spiritual realignment from the fundamentalist Christian Zionism and prosperity theology that grew out of the Puritan Ethic. This growing apostacy needs to be confronted with the Sermon on the Mount, Matt. Ch. 5-8 that includes the famous language of 'live by the sword, die by the sword', 'no resistance to injury', 'love your enemy' and the golden rule.

Whup them crackers upside the haid with the Word of the Bible that they endearingly but limply embrace and they pervert the meaning.

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