Private Security Forces Roam the Streets of an American City

[rman]

Blackwater Down
The Nation
Jeremy Scahill
September 21, 2005
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20051010/scahill

The men from Blackwater USA arrived in New Orleans right after Katrina hit. The company known for its private security work guarding senior US diplomats in Iraq beat the federal government and most aid organizations to the scene in another devastated Gulf. About 150 heavily armed Blackwater troops dressed in full battle gear spread out into the chaos of New Orleans. Officially, the company boasted of its forces "join the hurricane relief effort." But its men on the ground told a different story.

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Blackwater Down: Fresh From Iraq, Private Security Forces Roam the Streets of an American City With Impunity
Democracy Now
Friday, September 23rd, 2005
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=05/09/23/1338246
(video, audio)

In this week's cover story in The Nation, Democracy Now! correspondent Jeremy Scahill reports on how
mercenaries from private security firms like Blackwater USA and BATS are patrolling the streets in New Orleans.

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[suegeo]

1. We are living in a police state

Foreign mercs from Chile and Israel are free to gun down American citizens in America.

This article and the guy on Democracy Now frightened me.

I am recommending this post, because they admit to gunning down American citizens in America. No questions asked. No one wondered if the citizens were committing a crime. These Mercs. just shot at them and killed them.

[RagAss]

2. Wow...we have lived to see foreign mercenaries killing US

citizens in our own streets. Another Bushworld landmark event.