Really disturbing headline, courtesy of MSNBC: "New Orleans: Evacuate, or Face Gustav Alone."
Really disturbing announcement, courtesy of Blackwater’s newsletter, the Blackwater Tactical Weekly. Looks like Blackwater is on its way back to Blackwater NOLA. Emailed to me by my very alert friend Nick.
Security for Hurricane Gustav
Blackwater is compiling a list of qualified security personnel for possible deployment into areas affected by Hurricane Gustav.
Applicants must meet all items listed under the respective Officer posting and be US citizens. Contract length is TBD.
Full text of the Blackwater hiring note after the jump.
Security for Hurricane Gustav
Blackwater is compiling a list of qualified security personnel for possible deployment into areas affected by Hurricane Gustav.
Applicants must meet all items listed under the respective Officer posting and be US citizens. Contract length is TBD.
Law Enforcement Officers (all criteria must apply)
1. Current sworn [may be full time, part time or reserve]
2. With arrest powers
3. Armed status (must indicate Armed and/or Semi Auto. Revolver only not accepted)
expiration must be greater than 60 days out4. Departmental credentials (not just a badge)
Armed Security Officers (all criteria must apply)
Only from the following states: OR, WA, CA, NV, NM, AZ, TX, FL, GA, SC, NC, VA, MD, IL, OK1. Current/active/licensed/registered armed security officer
2. All training verification [unarmed and armed certificates of completion]
3. Current state issued face card indicting armed status [expiration must be greater than 60 days out]
Applicants will be required to provide an electronic copy of the above required credentials/documents, recent photo within
the last six months with response to this AD prior to consideration for deployment.Personnel who meet the above qualifications and are interested, please send resumes and files to: 25505@blackwaterusa2.hrmdirect.com
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Well hell- is it a surprise that Clusterfuck would use Blackwater in the event of an excuse to throw money at em? Is this NEWS?
Dear God. Not again.
Who could have anticipated…
January is a long ways down the road folks. It might just be a bumpy winter!
Well, at least the Blackwater boys oughta have some targets:
Police and firefighters were set to go street-to-street with bullhorns over the weekend to help direct people where to go. Unlike Hurricane Katrina, there will be no shelter of last resort in the Superdome. The doors there will be locked.
Those among New Orleans’ estimated 310,000 to 340,000 residents who ignore orders to leave accept “all responsibility for themselves and their loved ones,” the city’s emergency preparedness director, Jerry Sneed, has warned.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/200…..gulf_coast
Jesus Christ On A Crutch.
If the Department of Jack Booted Thugs can’t handle their responsibility, AGAIN, then someone needs to be fucking fired.
There is no excuse for a paramilitary force to be roaming the streets of an American city, PERIOD.
Probably not enough National Guard availabe. Besides it is putting money in the rethuglican’s army’s pockets.
umm, why is my comment being moderated?
Do we know who is hiring Blackwater? FEMA ? Homeland Security ? [it’s scary just to type those words] Property owners?
We should not be funding these mercenaries with our tax dollars. Ugh. More for Fatherland Homeland Security and less for health care and retirement. GD jackbooted thugs.
s’okay.
happens to me every coupla weeks, either just before or just after the site goes wonga-wonga which it did yesterday early afternoon
We need to keep a close watch on Dickie’s private army. If BW starts gathering in Washington around election time, watch out for America’s third coup.
Monster Gustav hits Category 4
by NHC
Saturday August 30, 2008, 12:26 PM
HURRICANE GUSTAV TROPICAL CYCLONE UPDATE
NWS TPC/NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER MIAMI FL AL072008
120 PM EDT SAT AUG 30 2008
DATA FROM AN AIR FORCE RECONNAISSANCE AIRCRAFT INDICATE THAT
GUSTAV HAS CONTINUED TO STRENGTHEN AND NOW HAS MAXIMUM WINDS
NEAR 145 MPH…230 KM/HR WITH HIGHER GUSTS. THIS MAKES GUSTAV AN
EXTREMELY DANGEROUS CATEGORY FOUR HURRICANE ON THE SAFFIR-SIMPSON
HURRICANE SCALE. A SPECIAL ADVISORY WILL BE ISSUED AT ABOUT 200 PM
EDT TO MODIFY THE INITIAL AND FORECAST INTENSITIES. THE SPECIAL
PUBLIC ADVISORY WILL TAKE THE PLACE OF THE INTERMEDIATE PUBLIC
ADVISORY PREVIOUSLY SCHEDULED FOR THAT TIME.
Hey Spencer -
you’re a smart guy and a media savvy guy – what would you propose we do to get this news out there ???
CHIT! why can’t we get this administration SHUT THE HELL DOWN!???
I am just LIVID about a complicit congress that allows this to go on and on and on.
More Blackwater, on American soil!
We are acting and looking like China in the human rights arena! And no one in power seems to give a rat’s ass.
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Gustav still has two days before landfall.
HOLEEE SHEEPSHIT!
we have been using this one at chez cbl
eerily reminiscent of the get-the-hell-outta-there! message some poor NHC wonk read on national teevee the Saturday before Katrina hit
Jane’s covering the RNC at Campaign Silo
What’s the deal about only accepting applicants from designated states? I don’t know what they are sayin about “have gun will travel”.
wondered about that as well, wondering if the states not mentioned refuse to license and/or certify
Well, the GOP might get *their* chance to pack a football stadium with screaming people now.
The nightmare for NO and for Clusterfuck is that the storm comes and the damned levees break again because no one bothered to upgrade them….
Hey Big Easy, unless you trust Lucy Clusterfuck not to take the football away again- get the hell out of there…..I mean it….this fucker won’t save you.
This is not my Go******d MF’n COUNTRY!
Shock Doctrine thugs with a government contract to shoot American citizens for sport!
Everyone has to read today’s Glennzilla. Jane is with him in Minneapolis. Also, please Digg Glenn’s post:
http://digg.com/politics/Massi…..inneapolis
So what’s going on here apparently is that BlackHeart is recruiting cops from other areas to come in and work a disaster if it happens….Clusterfuck will pay BlackHeart $500 per hour and Blackheart will pay the cops $35 per hour- pocketing the balance as a reward for patriotism…STINKS!
This is not a good place to announce one’s intention to overthrow the govt. of the US by force—think of this as a helpful hint!
how will we know?
Can the moderator please approve my last post(#23)? I don’t know why it is being held up. It just contains a link to the Digg of Glennzilla’s latest.
Remember The Last Time The Republicans Packed A Stadium
This is awful
You might not like this, think I am very cold hearted, but here goes. I firmly believe that anyone who stays behind in a hurricane area is an idiot(I was in the AF, TDY(temp. duty) at Keesler AFB, Biloxi Ms when the hurricane came onshore in 1969-I am drawing a total blank on the name(it was almost 40 years ago) other than it started with a C-(this is a real senior moment and is embarrassing), but I do remember the search for bodies during the aftermath-it cut into my leave time before I went to Vietnam)and should be made to pay not only a fine for being there, but should also bear the entire cost of rescue. I am not talking about those in NO who had no way out, but those who stayed because they wanted to protect their property or because they never paid attention to the local news or weather. That is just plain stupid. Where I live now we are subject to flash floods -the roads are barricaded-when cars go around the barricades and get stuck, the driver of the car must pay a fine for being stupid-$500 or more AND pay the cost of a high water rescue(and most likely having his car ruined and his insurance claim rejected due to uncommon stupidity) Yet every time we have these conditions-and they are heavily mentioned on TV and radio-there are still some people who will drive right into the water. Some drown before they can be rescued. That is why I believe that anyone who stays-like those who go to the beach for a hurricane party-fully deserves what happens to them. Why should they put the lives of first responders at risk because of their selfishness and stupidity. On the Blackwater deal. There are some in NO, businesses, factories etc who well remember what happened last time when they were not only looted, but some of the cops joined in. I think that they will be hired to keep the same thing from happening again. On their requirements list. Having official law enforcement documens-lic. by the state or locality-or being armed security-those states mentioned have training requirements and they also licence armed security.
Because no one in power right now does give a rat’s ass
Many people didn’t have a choice three years ago. This time around, I might tend to agree with you. Although, even stupid people don’t deserve to die because of it.
Last time it was rich uptown folks that brought the blackwater folks in … the marines and the washington state national guard were in my neigbhorhood
1969 — was that camille?
3. Current state issued face card indicting armed status [expiration must be greater than 60 days out]
“indicting” instead of “indicating”. Freudian Slip?
And this is the answer to why FEMA is still broken after 3 years, thanks to Liebermann (see Julie’s “With Gustav Comming, FEMA Still Broken”).
No need to fix it when they have plan A: privatized emergency response. When are the little people going to get asked whether they’d prefer the response to come via agents employed directly by their government, or via Blackwater contractors?
Maybe I’m naive, but I still think the former could more easily be held accountable. Do we even know what this contract looks like, the one under which Mr. Prince gets to police his fellow citizens with semi-automatic weapons?
Blackwater commissioned for War on Drugs, Immigration Situation, etc. AND they are going INTERNATIONAL. Can we wrap our minds around this? Sounds like an arch movie plot.
Once again sharing Lee Camp cartoon from Crooks & Liars re Leiberman:
http://static.crooksandliars.c…..iginal.jpg
Here is the URL for the item:
http://www.legitgov.org/blackw…..ustav.html
Blackwater Issues Mercenary Call For Hurricane Gustav –Blackwater Worldwide: Security for Hurricane Gustav 29 Aug 2008
Cheers,
Lori R. Price
Mgr., Citizens For Legitimate Government
http://www.legitgov.org/
Is that supposed to be funny ?
A day or two out from a major storm hitting N.O, Blackwater is looking for qualified security personnel to fill their contract to provide the same service they did during Katrina. 3 years ago.
Well WTF did you say during the past 3 years ?
Who have you complained to that this same guaranteed-to-occur event had the same outcome you didn’t like the first time, which wouldn’t exist if those security personnel were hired to be in N.O by someone other than Blackwater ?
There’s a lot of nutbags who like dreaming up conspiracy theories about Blackwater, but even these somehow manage to acknowledge that they’re a corporation who’s in it for the money. They don’t just travel somewhere for the hell of it, they go where they are paid to go. They are paid to go to places which have a need for security personnel where that need is not met by local forces. Something which hasn’t changed in the past 3 years.
That suggests an obvious target for your complaint if you had one. Or instead you could complain about Blackwater this time, just like you did last time and just like you’ll need to every time after this when they again need to be contracted to fill the exact same gap.
Anyone who thinks that Blackwater is recruiting cops and security guards
to be bandolier wearing, blood thirsty mercenaries is severely misinformed.
Read their sought after requirements and do something unusual: Think.