Rachel Maddow: Blackwater crime spree in Afghanistan - Jeremy Scahill

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http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2010/02/blackwater-in-kabul-or-eric-cartman-gets-an-ak-47/

http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2010/02/the-blackwater-south-park-hearings-a-postscript/

[earcandle]

1. Is anyone taking this shit seriously? Do we have a government anymore?

Or are we just openly criminal now, while those of us who are
employed pay for it all in our name with out tax dollars?

Give me a fucking break.  When do we refuse to work?  When do
we start a collective to get our needs met?  
Can we dump this shell of a government and rehire those who
know how to make it work?

[Peace Patriot]

2. I think the Blackwater crime spree in Afghanistan may be related to this...

A mass grave containing 2,000 bodies with grave dates (but no names) from 2005 through 2009 in La Macarena, Colombia--an area of Colombia that has been of special interest and activity by the U.S. military.

The La Macarena massacre (includes a description of, and links to docs about, U.S. ops in La Macarena)
http://www.cipcol.org/?p=1303

The UK military connection
http://www.tribunemagazine.co.uk/2010/02/04/silence-on-british-army-link-to-colombian-mass-grave/

Local people say that the bodies are of local 'disappeared' political, union and community activists and peasant farmers, not FARC guerrillas. But even FARC guerillas are Colombians. What business would UK or US soldiers and/or 'contractors' have killing Colombians--civilians or FARC guerillas? And why so many? It could be the work of the Colombian military and its death squads, who are notorious for such killings, but it was part of a "pacification" of the region that appears to have been designed in Washington DC. The program has many resemblances to what the U.S. military is doing right now in Afghanistan--U.S. soldiers and 'contractors' assassinating any local leadership that objects to the corrupt U.S. puppet government, killing lots of non-combatants to terrorize the region, then installing operatives of that corrupt government over local regions with the military propping it up, and moving on to the next "pacification" area.

Is this why getting the new Colombia/U.S. military agreement signed was so important (--it caused a furor in South America and in Colombia because of its secrecy)--that it provides total diplomatic immunity to all U.S. and U.S. 'contractors' in Colombia--and is legally retroactive?

My suspicion is that the La Macarena massacre was "turkey shoot" practice for Afghanistan.

[GreenTea]

3. And Blackwter is trying to get another billion dollar contract from our taxes.