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Blackwater gunboats will protect ships
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Kim Sengupta
The Independent
November 19, 2008
The American security company Blackwater is planning to cash in on the rising threat of piracy on the high seas by launching a flotilla of gunboats for hire by the shipping companies.
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The firm, which gained international notoriety when its staff killed civilians in Iraq, has already equipped one vessel, called The McArthur, which will carry up to 40 armed guards and have a landing pad for an attack helicopter.
The McArthur, a former survey ship, arrives in the Gulf of Aden, the scene of the recent high-profile hijackings and shootouts with Somali pirates, at the end of the year. It is to be joined by three or four similar vessels over next year to form the company’s private navy.
Blackwater, which has strong ties with the Republican administration in Washington, was the subject of investigations by the US Congress and the Iraqi government after its guards shot dead 17 people in Baghdad’s Nisoor Square last year, a massacre which led directly to changes in law regarding security contractors in Iraq.
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November 19th, 2008 at 1:59 pm
http://www.expansions.com
November 19th, 2008 at 2:02 pm
More likely take part in false flag OPS.
November 19th, 2008 at 2:06 pm
John made no comment but directs us to a site as a commercial? How did the admin. let this go through? Blackwater probably has more cash than most small countries.
November 19th, 2008 at 2:37 pm
THESE GUYS BLEED RED JUST LIKE YOU OR I >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
November 19th, 2008 at 2:41 pm
Traitor scum
November 19th, 2008 at 2:45 pm
Right mercenaries belong right out there with the pirates. If they’re not gonna salute any country’s flag, at least they can be hunting the damn Jolly Rogers.
November 19th, 2008 at 3:00 pm
I hope teh Jolly Roger gives ‘em hell!
November 19th, 2008 at 4:02 pm
LOL,
Another multi-billion dollar war on piracy funded by people who pay taxes.
As long as you write the check and know what you are getting. It’s not really a crime.
November 19th, 2008 at 4:15 pm
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November 19th, 2008 at 4:36 pm
Sounds like a good racket.
Hijack ships and offer protection against ‘hijacking’
November 19th, 2008 at 7:04 pm
The McArthur
http://hamptonroads.com/node/329441
November 19th, 2008 at 7:14 pm
This should be positive step in the right direction, since privateers were very effective against Pirates of an earlier time. Austrian economics at work.
November 19th, 2008 at 7:39 pm
ROGUE
November 19th, 2008 at 8:04 pm
Nothing Austrian economical about this. This is not the age of sail with pirates plaguing the 7 seas. This is a single entity in a single nation targeting ships right under the nose of the US navy.
All this sets the precedents for is a larger more powerful private army operating with complete impunity from any sort of law. Privateers were usually an ad hoc fleet or a single ship that were temporary in nature and usually ended up being just as involved in piracy and lawlessness as the pirates they were sent after. Many times they were looking for ships flagged by enemy nations.
So anyway, the point is, Blackwater being allowed to build a flight along with its bustling airforce and stormtroopers doesn’t bode well for anyone – and just like the Iraq and Afghanistan they are only going to be part of a much bigger problem – not a solution.
November 19th, 2008 at 8:06 pm
****Build a fleet – I meant***** sorry
November 19th, 2008 at 8:33 pm
Well, all I can say is if the pirates win the war and kill off all the Blackwater mercenaries it wouldn’t bother most Americans. We have never approved, nor will we ever approve of a private company that takes on the role of armed services. It’s wrong, it always has been wrong, it’s not Constitutional and the only reason they even have a job is because our government won’t find the Americans interested in illegal pre-emtive wars of aggression. That is the bottom line.
How we can come to a nation of privatized mercenary force is beyond the scope of reality and generations of Americans who don’t agree with it in large scale.
What is amazing is how many other countries people understand that the Americans have not supported any of the atrocities that our nation’s leaders have embraced. And they certainly know about the issues with our vote fraud.
November 19th, 2008 at 8:46 pm
haha Blackwater blood mercs, the f---s, these guys are the reson why they are trying to disarm us(long story)
anyway, they used them in Iraq, so the same people,(oil style types) are useing them to defend it, big deal.
but, wouldnt it be cheaper to have big guns installed on the oil ships, like a semi battle ship, like in WW1 and WW2, most cargo ships and oil ships had some type of guns…. but no, not in these times, we got to spread employment to our war pigs, in various fashions, hahaha
really, who gives a f---, than these puppets shouldnt rape those areas, i woulndt even ask for ransom, just sink the bastards.
HW Spartan
November 19th, 2008 at 9:38 pm
saw this one from a mile away. i am researching how to be my own security from the wave of greed that has manipulated its way into our lives.
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http://www.aniboom.com/video/2.....ll-speech/
November 19th, 2008 at 10:49 pm
who’s going to protect us all from blackwater? the people in the following video, thats who
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxQ1inTARU4
November 20th, 2008 at 2:14 am
Yesterday I was wondering what the demonic NWO vermin were pushing this pirate nonsense for in their controlled media. Today I know the answer: privatized navies appearing to protect our shores. Just imagine when they take over patrolling for drug runners and the like. Must be bloody annoying for the criminals when Royal Navy and US Coastguard ships impound twenty tons of their heroin. Blackwater will be much more amenable.
November 20th, 2008 at 3:38 am
On the upside you can sue a private firm if they violate your rights.
It’s not like the telco industries could be protected from……
oh crap.
November 20th, 2008 at 5:26 am
Blackwater would be operating under the principles of letter of marque, as per its clients who are bound by international legislation, as it pertains to engagement with the enemy. It’s not a matter of Blackwater roaming the high seas in search of conflicts to thwart, and then presenting the bill.
And there’s nothing preventing others from competing for Blackwater’s business, or investing in Blackwater, if this is such a good opportunity.
November 20th, 2008 at 9:09 am
send the crimenals after the crimenals…..all for the money those guys love to kill, those blackwaterpsycos are just some murderers on the payroll of the tax payers of the usa you guys are paying them tru contracts whit the goverment probebly the 700 billion wher already half of it is gone in the pokkets of the bankers
November 20th, 2008 at 11:07 am
I hope they take out all the blackwater people.
November 20th, 2008 at 11:41 am
Looks like a third part rogue, or independent, appears that some one in American politics is building a private army, just like Hitler . . .
November 20th, 2008 at 12:11 pm
“Letter of marque” merely translates to “rent a thug contract.”
November 20th, 2008 at 12:32 pm
WTF, why do sovereign countries of the world pay for hugely expensive navies? Using Blackwater shakedown scum to protect merchant shipping is a criminal act.
November 20th, 2008 at 4:56 pm
Legally Blackwater could operate under a Letter of Marque, but a national government would have to issue it, making that government Blackwater’s employer. This creates a problem since most counties stopped the practice of issuing Letters of Mrque in 1856 with the signing of the Declaration of Paris. Gee, the USA never signed the Declaration…
December 11th, 2008 at 5:24 pm
Hey. The Wednesday show (December 10th 2008) has Captain Kelly Sweeney talking about modern day piracy and how merchant ships could not enter port if they were armed.
I think have a solution. Allow the merchant ships to be armed. When they enter a some countries national waters, they place covers on their guns as a promise not to fire. The Samuri did something like this – They would tie a ribbon on their swords as a pledge not to draw their swords. If they drew, they would break the ribbon. Something similar in spirit could be applied to ocean going cargo vessels. The ships would be armed, but the guns covered with highly visible yellow canvas covers as a show that they pledge not to fire and if they did fire the covers would be blown off. Or a higher tech seal that alerts the port authorities if broken. I defer to those in the industry to come up with the best system.
This would allow the fishing vessels, passenger ships, yachts, cargo ships and so on could all be armed and defend themselves in open sea and then defer to port security (obviously the port would have to have armed ships patrolling their own waters).