Have You Checked Out Blackwater's Website?

[spanone]

you should check out their applications and such....

check out their 'products' and 'services'

THIS IS FOR REAL


Innovation Begins with Experience

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Blackwater Worldwide efficiently and effectively integrates a wide range of resources and core competencies to provide unique and timely solutions that exceed our customer’s stated need and expectations.

We are guided by integrity, innovation, and a desire for a safer world. Blackwater Worldwide professionals leverage state-of-the-art training facilities, professional program management teams, and innovative manufacturing and production capabilities to deliver world class customer driven solutions.

Our leadership and dedicated family of exceptional employees adhere to an essential system of core corporate values chief among them are integrity, innovation, excellence, respect, accountability, and teamwork.

http://www.blackwaterusa.com/

[Bluebear]

1. VISION: To support security, peace, freedom, and democracy everywhere.

:puke:

Yeah, profit has NOTHING to do with it.

[spanone]

3. in their statement they say 'to exceed our customers stated need' WTF?

[Bluerthanblue]

8. yeah- "exceed" the need- interesting

choice of words eh?

[NC_Nurse]

2. Do they do children's parties?

:evilgrin:

[Bluebear]

5. No, but they sell baby Onesies & youth hoodies with the Blackwater logo

http://proshop.blackwaterusa.com/listItems.asp?displayType=Across&Cat=APP&CatDesc=Apparel&SubCat=YOUTH&SubCatDesc=Youth&Search=Link

[NC_Nurse]

12. OMFG!

That is so wrong! :o

[XemaSab]

21. Wow!

Just WOW! :o

[PDJane]

4. A person simply can't make this shit up............eom

[spanone]

6. i'm subscribing to the 'BLACKWATER TACTICAL WEEKLY' can't make that up

[Bluebear]

9. The 101st Chairborne will all be sitting in their Blackwater tees, chomping Skoal...

..and saying "There are many ways to serve our Country!"

[Bluerthanblue]

7. not to mention "shop"ing experience- the t-shirt with the hk-

no need for 'double tap' is particularly heartwarming.


:sarcasm:


geez- :shrug:


"america where everything can be turned into big business"-

shame

[valerief]

13. I'm glad their getting so many billions of our tax dollars. We need more parachuting.

Geezus Key Riced!

[spanone]

10. check out their airships.

swear to God

[MichaelHarris]

11. how long

do I have to be there before I get a gun and be able to shoot shit? Is there an apprenticeship program?

[thereismore]

14. From these words you'd never know that they are KILLERS. nt

[jody]

15. I have a close friend, veteran of Vietnam and other conflicts, who says he likes being a merc

because he really likes to kill people.

My guess is some of Blackwater's mercs are just like my friend. :cry:

[spanone]

16. really likes to kill people....does not compute

[jody]

18. "does not compute"! What is there to compute? n/t

[Coexist]

17. you might want to read this article - about how they don't even follow

their own safety procedures (to save money)

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=1960710&mesg_id=1960710

[Atman]

19. It's a bunch of meaningless corporate-speak double talk.

"...efficiently and effectively integrates a wide range of resources and core competencies..."

"...provide unique and timely solutions that exceed our customer’s stated need and expectations."

"...We are guided by integrity, innovation, and a desire for (fill in product/service here)..."

"Our leadership and dedicated family of exceptional employees adhere to an essential system of core corporate values chief among them are integrity, innovation, excellence, respect, accountability, and teamwork."

===

Isn't all this shit straight out of a "Mission Statement" template from MS Word or "Biz Plan Builder?" It's Cliche 101. There isn't one word of substance in those three paragraphs. Read any corporate annual report...they all say the exact same thing. This isn't really a mission statement, it's simply there to provide cover and a sense of legitimately to an otherwise entirely illegitimate organization.

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[spanone]

20. guess they can't advertise that they kill people for profit

[Atman]

23. The Blackwater Mission Statement, interpreted.

"...efficiently and effectively integrates a wide range of resources and core competencies..."

We take a bunch of disgruntled, PTSD'd-out ex-military men and give them high-powered weapons and immunity from prosecution.

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"...provide unique and timely solutions that exceed our customer’s stated need and expectations."

We use extra-legal BushCo-era quasi-military terror tactics to gun down anything that moves."

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"...We are guided by integrity, innovation, and a desire for (fill in product/service here)..."

We are guided by money, cash money, contract money, and a desire to make more money by killing people for fun and profit.

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"Our leadership and dedicated family of exceptional employees adhere to an essential system of core corporate values chief among them are integrity, innovation, excellence, respect, accountability, and teamwork."

Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain! We're here to protect Dick Cheney's oil interests. Fuck anyone who gets in our way.

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[Bitwit1234]

22. "Corporate" values....

Integrity, excellence, respect and accoutability. What world are they living in, and which corportations are they talking about. SOME we have never seen yet.

[spanone]

24. in 'DOWNLOADS' check out 'Grizzly'

unbelievable

[mwdem]

28. I need one of those to drive here in the Dallas/Ft. Worth area..

god god!!!

[leftchick]

25. I have many times. Check out their Airships!

:scared:

[spanone]

26. C'mon Down....We've Got Blimps!!! Buy Now While They Last

it's too freakin' weird :shrug:

[Riktor]

27. Conflict of Interest

We are guided by integrity, innovation, and a desire for a safer world.

If the world was indeed safer, then there'd be no need for Blackwater. War is good for business, and I doubt these guys want it to end any time soon.

[ozone_man]

29. "America's Holy Warriors"

Erik Prince<31> is "the secretive, mega-millionaire, right-wing Christian founder of Blackwater, the private security firm that has built a formidable mercenary force in Iraq," Chris Hedges wrote December 31, 2006, in Truthdig.<32>

Prince "champions his company as a patriotic extension of the U.S. military. His employees, in an act as cynical as it is deceitful, take an oath of loyalty to the Constitution.<33> These mercenary units in Iraq, including Blackwater, contain some 20,000 fighters. They unleash indiscriminate and wanton violence against unarmed Iraqis, have no accountability and are beyond the reach of legitimate authority. The appearance of these paramilitary fighters, heavily armed and wearing their trademark black uniforms, patrolling the streets of New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, gave us a grim taste of the future. It was a stark reminder that the tyranny we impose on others we will one day impose on ourselves," Hedges wrote.<32>

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Blackwater_USA

Is there any doubt that it is another Crusade? Same as a thousand years ago. Economic (oil) and religious reasons.

[Rex]

30. Yet, the don't actually TELL you what they do.

You need a 'solution'? BW has the 'cure'.

[formercia]

31. The Snake calling itself a Frog...

Capitalism calling itself democracy...

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/08/31/3521/

--snip--

Capitalism with its obsessive and necessary appetite for consumption, expanding markets, resource depletion, and increasing profits has consumed democracy. Have you ever watched a small snake swallow a large frog? The snake’s hinged jaw stretches wider and wider, squeezing the frog millimeter by millimeter into its gullet until finally the snake looks like the Holland Tunnel might if it had devoured the Titanic. Then the acids and enzymes do their corrosive work. The frog becomes the snake. And the snake claims it is the frog. Capitalism has gulped down democracy and claimed it is democracy. When, immediately after 9/11, President Bush advised Americans to demonstrate their love of freedom and their resistance to terrorism by courageously, selflessly, hurrying to the mall to buy something, he was speaking as the snake that identifies itself as a frog. He was asking us to play a little game with our brains’ synapses, replace the snake icon with the frog’s. Sadly, he may also have been speaking about democracy in the only way that he can understand or recognize it. And, for him, Christianity has been another tidy meal for the snake.

--snip--

[kurth]

32. Also check out Blackwater's Wikipedia entries for their leaders