Talk about ambivalence.
Blackwater has sued the families of the mercenaries (I try to keep this a no-euphemism zone) killed in Fallujah in what may be the ultimate SLAPP suit :
Blackwater has now lifted this atrocity to a whole new level by going on the offensive and suing the families for $10 million. The families now find themselves looking down the barrel of a gun as Blackwater, armed with a war chest and politically-connected attorneys, is aggressively litigating against them. Blackwater has also threatened to hold the administrator of the estates personally liable to scare him into abandoning his position, and has threatened the families’ attorneys as well.
I have no sympathy for the “victims” of Blackwater’s criminality, since there is perhaps no profession more revolting than that of the mercenary. However, as is often the case, sometimes the cause of justice is advanced unwittingly by those on the dark side of the force. The families have a defense fund, and are accepting contributions here .
It’s a battle between the heirs to the flunkies of evil and the uber-evil. It’s not easy to decide whether it is better to support the families, or leave them all to their own devices. I’m still mulling it over.
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