Courage Campaign: Blackwater, Potrero and Carl Meyer

So seals and cops can train in San Diego. But when a training center opens to facilitate the Naval and lawenforcement training, it becomes a "Mercenary training camp" It's amazing how hype flys. What a joke.

Don't do anything stupid. Once you become a mercenary your life is worth less than nothing.

If captured, a soldier has a chance due to international standards of treatment of combatants. A soldier understands and respects a soldier, even if he is an enemy.
Mercenaries are the dogs of war. They are nothing more than hit men.

If you want to serve, join the military. They have a code of honor, and the force of law behind them.

Mercs are only loyal to the dollar. They are contracted for specific tasks.

Their "skill trade" is a wide range of skills from protecting government officials that can't trust their own people, protecting and transporting commodities, building fortifications, interrogation and incarceration, and eliminating rivals.

I was exposed to their world years ago, was friends with a merc recruiter. I lived in a part of the world that was infested with merc armies.

Impeach Bush/Cheney and all their Republican henchmen for war crimes committed against the American people and against humanity! Our gentle sister Canada has OUR country on a "Torture List;" "We the People" of America, do not condone torture! This administration has destroyed America's reputation in the eyes of the world; if we lose our allies we will be sitting ducks! Demand impeachment hearings NOW!

They didn't put their names on the petition because you didn't make any points with them. Move towards reality not against it.

Once murder was a crime. Now its a job.

Ima sending in a resume for blackwater.....any you assholes say S**t about Blackwater I will....do something

These 7 voted to kill Kucinich's bill on 11/6 to impeach Cheney, so they need to CHANGE their positions and fulfill their oath of office to defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign AND domestic: Howard Berman (CA-28), Artur Davis (AL-07), William Delahunt (MA-10), Zoe Lofgren (CA-16), Jerrold Nadler (NY-08), Linda Sanchez (CA-39), and Debbie Wasserman Schultz (FL-20).
Find them online and send emails, make phone calls; Put the pressure on for IMPEACHMENT!

besides the 5.56 round black water uses is not that loud.
just cause your doing this im joing black water to help this project happen!!
so GET THE F**k OUTTA HERE WITH THE SAD MUSIC AND BULLSHIT!!!
and do you think that you can sign a patition and have THE PRESIDENTS PRIVATE ARMY just walk away i dont F**king think so...

okay first off blackwater is not mercs there contractors.
mecs sell loyalty contractors sell skill trade.
and second if you dont want them to build then u F**king buy the land...
blackwater has done more for this country than any of you bitching hippy pussies.

Waist of space...

Jeremy Scahill is a mike meyers wanna bee.

Blackwater was in New Orleans because the NOPD ran away and the feds were a now show.
BW was called in by the business owners because the city was being looted all day.
NOBODY ELSE was showing up to stop the rampant crime, R**e and riot. The Feds failed and BW came to help business owners.
He is so full of S**t .

private army? im sure they would just get up and leave bush in the dust provided someone outbid him for a dif. operation. like always money talks. provided we didnt have blackwater and other military contractors im positive a draft would be required to satisfy the necessity of troops required. i agree with you we shouldent have to hire mercenaries. but are you willing to join the military then? if not then blackwater shall continue to prosper. as for me once 18, im joining.

More than any terrorist does? ;)

So as long as you want to make money, anything you do is OK, so long as you have a company?

The answer to people not wanting to fight Bushes illegal wars isn't to let him pay for a private army with taxpayer's money!

theirs nothing wrong with blackwater at all. its a company that wants to make money just like any other company. maybe if you guys stopped being P***ys then maybe we would not have to rely on them as much, ya their is a great shortage of recruits, once im 18, joining the military, only reason government pays them is cause they do something hardly anyone else does. so if your against them so much join the military.

Us Californians have to stick together. We can't have this base in our state. I'm not very politically active but this issue is making me get really worked up. I've donated to Courage Campaign and I'll do more to expose this issue.

I wish that we could just tell the Federal Government to go F**k themselves. California is my Country and the states are my friends but those A-holes in D.C. need a swift kick in the end.

Who even said Blackwater employees are American? They may incorporate here, but that does not mean they are American. Blackwater does not represent the community, and thus should be kicked out by the community.

BLACKWATER = GESTAPO

Thank you Meyer, you and others like you do more to promote democracy than bush in iraq

I now fear my government more than any terrorist.

Maybe the people need to have there own army group to balance things?-call it red white and blue fire-or better yet have them have to answer to the US military.

Private armies are unamerican and a possible threat to the people of the USA.

It saddens me to agree with you. Wonder how totalitarianism will manifest itself here... not Fascism, not in the guise of Communism, those were both tried.
Be on the lookout for corporate intrusions into daily life, and be careful about private armies such as Blackwater, there's a reason why the constitution banns them...

Today, I'm happy to be a Californian.