Betcha no one does one day in jail for this crime.

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If you aren't worried by the very idea of Blackwater, you really ought to be. They have been hired by your president to enforce his law. They have been used in lieu of the National Guard and the US military to "keep order" not only in Iraq but in your country as well. Ominous any way you slice it or dice it.

Blackwater is a company that is so at odds with the Constitution, it should be put out of business immediately. There is not a single piece of paper from our Founding Fathers (and Mothers - Hello Mrs. Adams!) to be found in the National Archives (whether in documents of public policy or in private correspondence) that would have tolerated - or even hinted at - the idea that a private citizen could have the means at his disposal where by he could, in the case of a "national emergency", make war on other Americans at the behest of a murderous, half-witted and unbalanced chief executive....ummm....sort of like the one we've got now.

I'm telling you, one doesn't have to be a constitutional scholar to figure this stuff out, folks. This ain't rocket science, kiddies; this is CIVICS 101.

Blackwater is not an organization that is bound by any strict code of military conduct. Their behavior on the streets of Baghdad during the last five and a half years is proof of that. Of this you may be absolutely certain: When the day arrives that the disgusting little thug in the Oval Office hires these clowns to "maintain order" in the next American city to undergo a major crisis, they won't be bound by the sham "compassionate conservatism" that so many people are still stupid enough to believe is the hallmark of this hideous administration's agenda. These homicidal bastards are gonna shoot to kill - COUNT ON IT.

The only way WEEDA PEEPLE can be spared the threat that a semi-fascist organization like Blackwater poses to our democracy is by challenging its very existence in the courts. Unfortunately, that may have to wait until there is a Democrat in the White House who is able to appoint one - or more - justices of a more reasonable judicial temperament. To expect some of the reactionary fools currently sitting on the Supreme Court to act in accordance with the US Constitution is wishful thinking, to be sure.

Again, if you aren't alarmed by the very exisitence of Blackwater in a free society, you ought to be. And you will be - very, very soon

Tom Degan
Goshen, NY
"The Rant" by Tom Degan

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So how can they be charged. Apparently no one made any rules and so none have been broken. Same old, same old. Nothing is clearly defined. All the effort goes into making it impossible to islolate a single fact. John Yoo is working overtime muddying up the waters. I guess the Iraqi courts have nothing to say in the matter. I should know better. ANNA

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It ain't happening. These guys will never be prosecuted.

Folks, get used to the idea: McCain is our next president. All the news media are conspiring to maintain a front of plausibility so that when we wake up on that Wednesday morning after the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November and find that Barak was not able to pull it off, there will be a shred of a fig leaf for the whores to cover themselves with.

We thought we had a democracy, but in fact it fell ill under Ike and the CIA put the knife in when they got JFK.

Carter was like some post-mortem twitch, the corpse of our democracy sitting up in its coffin.

Clinton? You're joking, right?

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Only in the beginning did I read anything about the origins of Blackwater. How many of you remember the press telling us these were 'advisers' from Israel?

How many of you remember [back before all the flack] that this was the 'best of the best' from Israel? Nobody talks about that anymore.

I'm sure some of the operatives are American military 'elites' - that means you can kill a puppy with your bare hands in front of its 8 year old owner -

but the facts remain the same... this murderous bunch came to us from Tel Aviv - I don't care if they do business in Virginia or some such...

This is more Israeli extremism toward an enemy that THEY created for America.

I"m sick of the occupation - here and in Palestine.

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If Cheney's A J flunky Mukasey and the corrupted DOJ cannot find a series of excuses to weasel out of this charade, they will delay the announced "preparations" until well after the current Iraq "situation" is history - - say in 2030 - - and then DOJ will finally dump the file with an "Oh, never mind."

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If a show trial can help the republican agenda they will indict them , but they will not pay any consequences. The whole Bush regime is all about no accountability or consequences--the problem. With out logical consequences for our actions, we learn nothing .We don't shift our behavior and change;what then happens is that the backwater types continue to do actions that are violent and spiral down to full inhuman degradation and murder.This all engenders from Washington.If Nader is elected , he promises to indict the present dictatorship on war crimes among other crimes.

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