{"id":1790,"date":"2008-12-10T21:30:21","date_gmt":"2008-12-11T02:30:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/?p=1790"},"modified":"2008-12-10T21:30:24","modified_gmt":"2008-12-11T02:30:24","slug":"mercenaries-ahoy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/?p=1790","title":{"rendered":"Mercenaries Ahoy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"clear: both\">Blackwater, the mercenary army made rich by George Bush, is now <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB122826117332273945.html\" title=\"Wall Street Journal\">planning to go into the pirate fighting business<\/a>. Via <a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2008\/12\/03\/blackwater-pirates\/\" title=\"Thinkprogress\">Thinkprogress<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"clear: both\">\n<p>Private security firm Blackwater Worldwide began holding meetings in London on Tuesday with potential clients for a new business venture &#8212; protection from pirates. <\/p>\n<p>The Moyock, N.C., firm, which has grown rapidly through State Department security work in Iraq, has been courting shippers and insurance firms about protecting ships in pirate-infested waters. It&#8217;s meeting with more than a dozen firms this week and hopes to drum up its first contract. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"clear: both\">It is remarkable that the rise of private armies has raised so few hackles around the world. I remember, in those naive days of my youth, being taught that governments had a monopoly on the use of force. That&#8217;s the civilized way, or as civilized as it gets. We now treat private armies as just another business. <\/p>\n<p style=\"clear: both\">This will come to no good. That&#8217;s obvious. I suppose when we reap the whirlwind on this one we&#8217;ll hear a chorus telling us that no one could have seen it coming. <\/p>\n<p style=\"clear: both\">\n<p><br class=\"final-break\" style=\"clear: both\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blackwater, the mercenary army made rich by George Bush, is now planning to go into the pirate fighting business. Via Thinkprogress: Private security firm Blackwater Worldwide began holding meetings in London on Tuesday with potential clients for a new business venture &#8212; protection from pirates. The Moyock, N.C., firm, which has grown rapidly through State [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corporate-crime"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1790"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1790\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1791,"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1790\/revisions\/1791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}