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| NC Judge Allows Blackwater Suit to Go Forward |
| 2006-11-29 |
| IANAL, but the port side of the internet is crowing happily about this lawsuit, especially in view of the fact that this favorable ruling coincides with the release of the anti military contractor "documentary" Iraq for Sale. Edited for the lead...  RALEIGH - A Wake County judge gave the go-ahead Monday for a wrongful death lawsuit filed by the families of four men who were killed, and whose bodies were publicly burned and hung, in Fallujah, Iraq, in 2004.Superior Court Judge Donald Stephens' decision means the families of the murdered contractors can start pressing Blackwater Security Services for documents and testimony about what led to the massacre shown on televisions and in newspapers around the world. |
| Posted by:badanov |
| #10 #8 "Will kill Islamic scum for food." I couldn't stomach the taste myself. |
| Posted by: Johnnie Bartlett 2006-11-29 15:52 |
| #9 Not to mention botulism antitoxin. |
| Posted by: Zenster 2006-11-29 14:59 |
| #8 Will kill Islamic scum for food. Don't forget to take digestive pills. |
| Posted by: gromgoru 2006-11-29 13:21 |
| #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 |
| #6 LOLOLOLOLOLOL! |
| Posted by: .com 2006-11-29 09:46 |
| #5 Will kill Islamic scum for food. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2006-11-29 09:43 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #1 "I feel nothing. Screw them." |
| Posted by: gromky 2006-11-29 05:49 |