sootyj
Wednesday 18th July 2012 6:06am
51,287 posts
Quote: Renegade Carpark @ July 17 2012, 10:46 PM BST
Blackwater is a tricky one for the US Government, because despite all the scandals and innocent people they murdered, they were also used to carry out a number of deniable operations on behalf of the US Military in Pakistan.
The Attorney General even stepped in to stop any Blackwater personnel from being extradited to face charges in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, etc.
The company known as Blackwater hasn't escaped continued press criticism and civilian investigations and have had to change their name three times to disassociate themselves with the PR disaster.
Yes that was the guy in Islamabad who was going to get mugged. I think he shot 2 or 3 of his attackers and killed them. Before being picked up a heavily armed Blackwater unit.
The president of Pakistan demanded he was handed over. And was politely told to go f**k himself.
The victims families got a million dollars a piece compensation. Leading to I think 2 of them being murdered by their own families.
Lovely country Pakistan must go there on holiday, I understand the nan breads are sublime.
Quote: Renegade Carpark @ July 17 2012, 10:36 PM BST
I disagree with your disagreement DaButt, from Haliburton to BP to Exxon to Dow Chemicals to just about every single large corporation in existence. They've all routinely broken the law, put people in danger and have got away with it because of their deep pockets, tricky lawyers and bought and paid for political cronies - many of whom serve on the board.
To champion lawless corporations is a bit like saying terminal cancer is good for freeing up hospital beds.
How many more scandals, environmental disasters, criminal activities and human deaths is it going to take before you break your quasi-religious belief in big corporations?
I know I say this a lot. But working in social care in the UK I think we have the right model. Almost all work is carried out by charities, 3rd sector companies or business's. But the purse strings are held by the government who dole out projects very much at a local level (run this hospital, these homes etc) No one company is too big to fail and infact f**kups tend to fold quite quickly, and there are actually very few f**k ups.
The budget for social care is pretty big maybe 30 billion. But by controlling at the local level it's pretty safe.