Federal Agents Raid Blackwater N.C. Armory in Firearms Probe

[babylonsister]

http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/06/feds_raid_blackwater_compound.php

Feds Raid Blackwater Compound
By Andrew Tilghman - June 26, 2008, 2:26PM

From the AP:

Federal agents raided Blackwater Worldwide this week as part of an investigation into a deal that allowed a local sheriff's office to store high-powered assault rifles at the company's armory in Moyock.

Blackwater spokeswoman Anne Tyrrell said Thursday that investigators with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives searched Blackwater's armory Tuesday as part of the investigation. She said she did not know whether the weapons in question were seized.

[davepc]

1. Earlier article on this subject here on DU in the gungeon...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=118x176750

[EFerrari]

2. Prince forgot to bribe somebody? He's slipping. n/t

[Maat]

3. My thoughts exactly (n/t)!

[hootinholler]

12. Clearly someone didn't get the memo!

:rofl:

-Hoot

[ColbertWatcher]

4. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! n/t

[Richard Steele]

5. Smells to me like there's something BIGGER going on there. K&R

[Disturbed]

6. When Sen. Obama is Pres, he should cancel all contracts

with this Ultra RWing Merc outfit.

[Frustratedlady]

7. Amen! But first, someone needs to investigate to see how much we spent

in setting up their operation and reclaiming "our" equipment and properties.

[Disturbed]

8. I bet that Rep. Waxman has a whole lot of info on these Mercs.

Chairman Waxman Calls for Blackwater Investigations :: Committee ...
Mar 10, 2008 ... Chairman Waxman sent letters to the Internal Revenue Service, the Small Business Administration, and the Department of Labor to request ...

http://www.oversight.house.gov/story.asp?ID=1791

[Frustratedlady]

13. But will anything come of it? Has he received them?

These people are as arrogant as this administration and they'll laugh in Waxman's face.

I am so sick of seeing this attitude bleeding down thru the Bush cabal, as well as these no-bid contractors. They will do what they want, answer to no one and laugh at the rest of us for being so stupid as to let them get by with it.

Sometimes, I feel like I'm raising a group of 2-year-old brats.

[ReadTomPaine]

9. Why local and regional LE puts up with these people is beyond me.

They should make life a living hell for these outfits.. they represent everything the police unions fear the most. These guys should be target #1 for police harassment even if from a purely self-serving law enforcement point of view.

[RamboLiberal]

10. They put up with them cause Blackwater provides freebie training

to them. Also their mindset is closer to Blackwater than to liberals.

[ReadTomPaine]

11. I guess there's nothing nicer than a handout...

Even when the guys handing out the goodies are aiming to take your jobs and destroy your way of life eventually. The police I grew up around in east coast urban metro areas would have never have rolled over for these freaks.

[Richard Steele]

14. Because, all too often, they look at these mercenary thugs as IDOLS.

It's a fact.

While I have known a lot of career LEOs who are really just
the BEST members of society, it's a sad fact that the career path
tends to attract a disproportionate number of slow-witted thugs
who harbor vigilante fantasies.

For every cop who does the job because he's willing to put his safety
on the line to make our society a better place, there's another who
puts on the uniform because he likes hurting and bullying people.

And those bullying thug types consider the murdering Blackwater employees
as heros and demigods. Their penises get stiff when they fantasize
about killing random strangers without fear of repercussion the way
Blackwater does in Iraq.