http://www.declineandfall.net/2007/08/coming-to-state-near-you-blackwater-air.html
Tuesday, August 28, 2007
Coming To A State Near You: Blackwater Air Force
As if having them run around Iraq like loose cannons wasn't bad
enough, Blackwater is building an Air Force.
http://www.strategypage.com/htmw/htairfo/articles/20070827.aspx
Via Scholars & Rogues:
http://scholarsandrogues.wordpress.com/2007/08/27/blackwater-flies/
Security company Blackwater U.S.A. is buying Super Tucano light combat
aircraft from the Brazilian manufacturer Embraer.
These five ton, single engine, single seat aircraft are built for
pilot training, but also perform quite well for counter-insurgency
work.... The bubble canopy provides excellent visibility.
This, coupled with its slow speed (versus jets), makes it an excellent
ground attack aircraft.
Now why would the good patriots at Blackwater need airplanes that "can
carry up to 1.5 tons of weapons, including 12.7mm machine-guns, bombs
and missiles"?
For their missions in Iraq, of course.
Because, you know, the world's largest military merely owning
everything that flies over a third-world country isn't enough in the
way of air superiority.
My first thought was that this had to do with the Administration's
almost promised plans to invade Iran.
How else are we supposed to keep Iraq's friendly skies safe while
we're shocking and aweing the mullahs?
But there's an even more awful prospect for these "excellent ground
attack aircrafts."
Here's Jeremy Scahill, Blackwater expert and biographer:
http://scholarsandrogues.wordpress.com/2007/08/27/blackwater-flies/
Blackwater's been in negotiations with several state governments in
the United States. Blackwater met recently with California Governor
Arnold Schwarzenegger about doing disaster response in California.
They're opening up a new private military base in San Diego.
Another one is in Mount Carroll, Illinois.
They have applied for operating licenses in every coastal U.S. state.
That's right, folks:
the U.S. military whose expenditures are almost half of the total
military spending worldwide needs private military bases in the United
States for some reason.
What might that reason be?
Perhaps it has something to do with National Security Presidential
Directive NSPD-51, which lays out exactly how the Executive Branch
would run the entire government in the event of a "Catastrophic
Emergency," which could be anything from a terrorist attack to the
next Katrina, as far as the ambiguous wording of the directive is
concerned: http://www.fas.org/irp/offdocs/nspd/nspd-51.htm
"Catastrophic Emergency" means any incident, regardless of location,
that results in extraordinary levels of mass casualties, damage, or
disruption severely affecting the U.S. population, infrastructure,
environment, economy, or government functions
Meanwhile, the clergy is being enlisted to keep citizens in line in
the event of a declaration of martial law,
http://scholarsandrogues.wordpress.com/2007/08/21/st-paul-to-citizens/
and Is it really a coincidence that a private company with close ties
to the GOP http://www.nndb.com/people/926/000117575/ is arming itself
with attack planes just at the moment when the President is laying the
groundwork for extraordinary wartime powers?
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Conspiracy theory? Perhaps.
Harry
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