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theroachmantheroachman Posts: 362
edited January 2008 in A Moving Train
If you think Blackwater has been found complicit in human rights violations your living in the old USA that used to have laws against scum like this. The new USA convicts people who protest these anti democratic pro fascist companies.

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Pioneering Blackwater Protesters Given Secret Trial and Criminal Conviction

By Jeremy Scahill, AlterNet. Posted January 29, 2008.

Last week in Currituck County, N.C., Superior Court Judge Russell Duke presided over the final step in securing the first criminal conviction stemming from the deadly actions of Blackwater Worldwide, the Bush administration's favorite mercenary company. Lest you think you missed some earth-shifting, breaking news, hold on a moment. The "criminals" in question were not the armed thugs who gunned down 17 Iraqi civilians and wounded more than 20 others in Baghdad's Nisour Square last September. They were seven nonviolent activists who had the audacity to stage a demonstration at the gates of Blackwater's 7,000-acre private military base in North Carolina to protest the actions of mercenaries acting with impunity -- and apparent immunity -- in their names and those of every American


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  • my2handsmy2hands Posts: 17,117
    "The symbolism was stark: Re-enact a Blackwater massacre, go to jail. Commit a massacre, walk around freely and perhaps never go to jail."
  • my2handsmy2hands Posts: 17,117
    what about "public" hearing dont they understand...
  • g under pg under p Surfing The far side of THE Sombrero Galaxy Posts: 18,210
    The activists appealed their convictions and were back in court last week, on Jan. 24, in front of Superior Court Judge Russell Duke. Unlike Judge Barnes, Duke allowed the defendants some freedom of speech and graciously decided to let the public witness the daylong trial. In his statement before the court, Baggarly recalled the story of one of the Nisour Square victims he and his fellow activists attempted to dramatize in their protest: "Mohammed Hafiz was driving four children when Blackwater mercenaries riddled the car with bullets. His ten-year-old son Ali was shot in the head. Mohammed had to gather up pieces of the child's skull and brains for the burial. During one point in the massacre, Blackwater operatives concentrated fire on a passenger bus. A small boy fled the bus in terror and was shot down as was his mother who ran after him."

    The defendents said that they believed no court would hold Blackwater responsible for these killings and that, by committing civil disobedience on the company's private military base that day, they were guided by higher principles, citing the U.S. Constitution and the Bible. "U.S. law has immunized Blackwater, both in Iraq and at home, allowing it unrestricted license to kill and a five-year reign of terror," said Baggarly. The activists invoked the tradition of Martin Luther King Jr., Gandhi and the conveners of the Boston Tea Party. "'Made in the U.S.A.' is written all over those bullets that are flying all over Baghdad," one of the activists, Bill Streit, told the judge. "We're sick at heart about that."

    You know what this trial tells me....it tells me that Blackwater USA can do whatever it wants outside the US. Then don't ever dare show our citizens how dangerous we can be in another country. We will be protected it appears by this administration in our most deadly instances.

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  • theroachmantheroachman Posts: 362
    Little left off fact about Katrina is the use of Blackwater in the rich neighborhoods of New Orleans.

    Thus they already have worked State side
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  • g under pg under p Surfing The far side of THE Sombrero Galaxy Posts: 18,210
    theroachman wrote:
    Little left off fact about Katrina is the use of Blackwater in the rich neighborhoods of New Orleans.

    Thus they already have worked State side

    Yes, I knew about this but did they kill anyone stateside. I doubt it cause they would be on trial in a heartbeat, that amunity that they've in Iraq just doesn't cut it here.

    Peace
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    *MUSIC IS the expression of EMOTION.....and that POLITICS IS merely the DECOY of PERCEPTION*
    .....song_Music & Politics....Michael Franti

    *The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite INSANE*....Nikola Tesla(a man who shaped our world of electricity with his futuristic inventions)


  • theroachmantheroachman Posts: 362
    Maybe they did not kill anybody but they were here. That is somewhat of a planted seed. There are a few people here who would read even more into this. But the constitution does not allow for the Military to patrol the states but it says nothing about a private army. Just saying.
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  • g under pg under p Surfing The far side of THE Sombrero Galaxy Posts: 18,210
    theroachman wrote:
    Maybe they did not kill anybody but they were here. That is somewhat of a planted seed. There are a few people here who would read even more into this. But the constitution does not allow for the Military to patrol the states but it says nothing about a private army. Just saying.

    Yeah a private army paid my this administration and with our tax dollars. Nice gig if you can get it, that's all I'm saying.

    Peace
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    *MUSIC IS the expression of EMOTION.....and that POLITICS IS merely the DECOY of PERCEPTION*
    .....song_Music & Politics....Michael Franti

    *The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite INSANE*....Nikola Tesla(a man who shaped our world of electricity with his futuristic inventions)


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