WARNING: The Wackenhut Corporation + Armor Group = Big Time Trouble!

[MichiganVote]

From the Wackenhut website...http://www.g4s.com/usw/usw-services-security_related.htm

"Times have changed… and so has the need for professional security services. As the leading provider of security services to the world's best-performing, most security-conscious organizations, Wackenhut has proven time and again that it has the ability to handle both the routine and the extraordinary with performance excellence. From the initial screening and selection of the security officer, to best-in-class training programs and performance enhancing technology tools, Wackenhut is fully prepared to anticipate and meet the most stringent security requirements."

Sounds great? Read on......

ArmorGroup was founded in 1982 as Defence Systems Limited (DSL) to provide protective security services to oil and gas companies. Armor Holdings Inc, a listed company that manufactured armoured vehicles, acquired DSL in 1997. Six years later, a management buyout took place. ArmorGroup was listed on the London Stock Exchange in 2004. The company first entered Iraq in May 2003 to provide protection to foreign power companies. It also helps to protect supply convoys travelling in and out of the country. In addition, the company won a contract, which has since expired, to protect the British Embassy in Baghdad. ArmorGroup currently has 1,000 employees in Iraq, comprising about 750 Iraqis and 250 foreigners. It also has a large presence in Afghanistan, with 1,200 employees of which about 700 are foreign and 500 are Afghans. Last year, G4S, the largest security company in Britain, acquired ArmorGroup, folding most of the firm’s 27 country operations into its own.

Then...why?

09/ 1/09
WASHINGTON — Guards hired by the State Department to protect diplomats and staff at the U.S. Embassy in Afghanistan live and work in a "Lord of the Flies" environment in which they are subjected to hazing and other inappropriate behavior by supervisors, a government oversight group charged Tuesday.....The nonprofit group's findings are based on interviews with ArmorGroup guards, documents, photographs and e-mails that it says depict "Lord of the Flies" conditions....One e-mail from a guard describes lurid conditions at Camp Sullivan, the guards' quarters a few miles from the embassy. The message described scenes of abuse including guards and supervisors urinating on people and "threats and intimidation from those leaders participating in this activity."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/09/01/clinton-told-of-lord-of-t_n_273942.html

Especially after Whackehut employees once did this.......28 years ago

Almost 30 years ago Janet Chandler was a Hope College student working at a local Inn where 4 Whackenhut guards were staying as a part of a security detail in response to a strike by employees in the Holland area. These four Whackenhut employees and their supervisor as well as other personnel, kidnapped Janet, tortured her, beat her, gang raped her and engaged in erotic strangulation of her. When she was dead, she was rolled into a covering, naked, and left on a road in the middle of a heavy winter snow. She was discovered by a snow plow driver who spotted her battered naked body by the side of the road just before her body would have been buried for weeks in a mountain of snow.

http://blog.mlive.com/grpress/janet_chandler_trial/

Apparently times have not changed enough. Taxpayer money pay for these people.

[TreasonousBastard]

1. The News Hour did a segment on this tonight...

hit them pretty hard, it did.

[MichiganVote]

3. Yes I saw it and when I learned that Armor is affiliated with Whackenhut--hence the post

This outfit and Blackwater just sicken me.

[SpiralHawk]

2. Proving once again that Republiconism rots the soul and the mind

These whackjobenhuts have got a wicked bad case of Republiconism.

[MichiganVote]

4. Yup. I cannot understand and never will, why any of this privatization is necessary.