Oh Great! Blackwater Appears to be Building a Navy

[mod mom]

Does anyone have any additional information on this? I found under comments @ TPM Muck (picture at the link):

Blackwater appears to be building a Navy.

One of their subsidiaries, Pelagian Maratime LLC, has registered an ex-NOAA 1966 vessel called the McArthur.

Blackwater recently had a guest-only event showing off the ship.

http://content.hamptonroads.com/story.cfm?story=132785&ran=12900

[EnviroBat]

1. This shit has got to stop. I'm calling every goverment office I can.

and demand these assholes are shut down.

[global1]

2. Blackwater - *Co's Private Military.......

so when the U.S. military finally gets smart and becomes mutinous with *Co - Blackwater will take over and protect them.

[mod mom]

3. This is my fear as well. Why can't congress stop funding them? They have a vested

interest in escalating the war!

[Avalux]

4. *Christian* private military.

The owner is co-founder of "Focus on the Family" with Dobson. He's a nutcase and I have no doubt there a crusader mentality wrapped up in all of this.

[tekisui]

6. Maybe BW got the *missing nuke*.

They have guns, armored vehicles, fighter heliocopters, and now are getting a battleship?

Why should anyone think that they are going to slow or ease thier arms build-up. They just landed a $92 million contract.

Maybe they'll buy NKorea's nukes.

[DavidDvorkin]

5. All they need now is a mysteriously shaped island headquarters

From which they can set in motion their evil plan to rule the world!

Where's Our Man Flint when you need him?

[global1]

8. I Was Just Going To Say - We're Living In A Bad James Bond Movie.....nt

[no_hypocrisy]

7. What's next? Will Blackwater be able to possess and use its own nuclear warheads?