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NC Judge Allows Blackwater Suit to Go Forward

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Posted by badanov 2006-11-29 04:15|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 "I feel nothing. Screw them."

Posted by gromky 2006-11-29 05:49|| 2006-11-29 05:49|| Front Page Top

#2 If you are in this business then you better be prepared for it and everything better be on the up and up. Just saying.

Posted by Sock Puppet of Doom 2006-11-29 06:28|| www.sockpuppetofdoom.com]">[www.sockpuppetofdoom.com] 2006-11-29 06:28|| Front Page Top

#3 Should have named the company Whitewater. Then the left wouldn't get within 1000 miles of an investigation.

Posted by ed 2006-11-29 07:51|| 2006-11-29 07:51|| Front Page Top

#4 This is new legal ground for the US, aboveground private mercenary companies. Trouble is, they lack legal precedent except peripherally. The importance of this case is that it will determine if there is a future for them, or if, as a business, it has full exposure and thus cannot operate.

Several businesses in the US could not exist today unless they had liberal exemptions from troublesome litigators: mining, timber, railroads, bounty hunting; all have 19th Century federal law to protect them.

The companies *should* have gotten such exemption first, before committing to war. Back right after 9-11 was their opportunity, and they didn't take it. They may now pay the price for missing that opportunity.

And they *are* a target of the left. Mercenaries have never been loved in the US; but now they are associated with the right, so the left is more than inclined to try and suppress them.

Posted by Anonymoose 2006-11-29 09:30|| 2006-11-29 09:30|| Front Page Top

#5 Will kill Islamic scum for food.

Posted by DarthVader">DarthVader 2006-11-29 09:43|| 2006-11-29 09:43|| Front Page Top

#6 LOLOLOLOLOLOL!

Posted by .com 2006-11-29 09:46|| 2006-11-29 09:46|| Front Page Top

#7 I worked for folks like this, this is jsut a buncha vultures trying to screw contracting companies.

Disclaimer: EODT is better IMHO for Basic FP and Security/Ops, plus they tend to hire more SF qual guys and train them. But I have a personal bias given the work I have done.

Posted by OldSpook 2006-11-29 11:09|| 2006-11-29 11:09|| Front Page Top

#8 Will kill Islamic scum for food.

Don't forget to take digestive pills.

Posted by gromgoru 2006-11-29 13:21|| 2006-11-29 13:21|| Front Page Top

#9 Not to mention botulism antitoxin.

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2006-11-29 14:59|| 2006-11-29 14:59|| Front Page Top

#10 #8 "Will kill Islamic scum for food."

I couldn't stomach the taste myself.

Posted by Johnnie Bartlett 2006-11-29 15:52|| 2006-11-29 15:52|| Front Page Top

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