Blackwater Martial Law 2.0

In a follow-up to my post from a couple of weeks ago, I found this article online a little bit ago. This reads more like some cyberpunk dystopian fantasy than anything I ever should be seeing on the ground in my own lifetime. This, by the way, is exactly the kind of thing that feeds into my notion that (sometimes unwittingly) the Libertarian party and its adherents are truly fascists. In the fantasy world that many of them conjure up, these heavily armed corporate thugs would be a common sight, enforcing private property rights in a more efficient and cost-effective way than public police ever could.

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One Response to “Blackwater Martial Law 2.0”

  1. lotsamark Says:

    Hey Dave,
    That link didn’t work. This one will:
    http://www.thenation.com/doc/20051010/scahill

    This situation definitely calls to mind books like Snow Crash and Virtual Light. It also reminds me of what the paranoid crazies have been saying for years on the fringes of the web. Israeli mercenaries carrying guns on US soil? Wackenhut involved in civil security? A president attacking Posse Comitatus?

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