And so begins the end of the US as we no it. No more freedom, no more liberty, no more rights to be had.

We keep privatizing national security and this private club of defense contractors will become more powerful than Caesar.

phenomenal. i love it.

Christ, I'm sure these mercenaries will be much more level headed and controlled then those in Iraq,
this is going to go very badly.

At least the ensuing collapse of our civil society will get the Libertarians to finally shut up about how "government just needs to get off our backs and everything will be fine." Try to look on the bright side, comrades.

Am I the only one messed up enough to applaud shit like this because it just hastens the apocalypse? It makes the world more like Snow Crash, where everything is privatized and built-for-profit and COOL. I pray for a cyberpunk dystopia.

Fascism, by any other name would smell as sweet!

This is what happens when you put people who loudly talk about how much they hate government in charge of government.

Wait so your saying you have a problem with the US creating a pool of indentured servents? I mean thats what NAFTA was all about anyhow. /sarcasm

Actually I can't wait till a rancher or two gets silenced for witnessing too much IE immigrants being smuggled in by our corporate protectors to work in sweatshops elsewhere.

hate it all you want, but haliburton is more capable of protecting our borders than our own government is. they can do it more effectivly, cheaper, and with better trained personel than our government could.

I don't understand you people. You bitch that the government isn't doing enough on the border, then when they do something you don't like it because they find a way of doing it "too well." I know you want marines standing shoulder to shoulder across the entire border, the the fact of the matter is it just can't happen. Instead the government can hire capable companies with years of experience in defending everything from oil rigs to factories and has the resources and personell to do the job RIGHT. Blackwater Inc is an AMAZING company that has done some astounding things in Iraq and Afganistan as well as countless other places around the world. Hiring them to train border patrol is nothing short of brilliant. Most of their operators are ex special forces troops with years of training and combat experience. They can provide a level of training to border patrol agents that the government could never provide unless they pulled similar troops out of their own ranks to do the job.

I really can't see WHAT you are bitching about. And from reading the response I don't think most of you can either.

"bla bla fascism bla bla no freedom bla bla" same old crap for a different story. Shut up and color.

Wow. That was funny. Do it again.

I've read the article a couple times in order to try and pick out the little bits of fact from the overwhelming amount of biased opinion and the more I read it the more I absolutely LOVE this idea and think that I'm damn glad the government is doing it.

"I would like to have the largest, most professional private army in the world."
-Gary Jackson, president of Blackwater USA

"Private military corporations become a way [for government officials] to distance themselves and create what we used to call `plausible deniability.'"
-Daniel Nelson, former professor at the Defense Department's Marshall European Center for Security Studies

These people and their methods are unregulated and often comprised of "war junkies" do we really want to be putting political decisions in the hands of these people and privately owned corporations? FUCK NO. Yeah, just what we need at our borders.

Considering our government has allowed between 11 and 20 million illegal aliens (yes - I use the term illegal since they are breaking the law) into the country, can a private firm do any worse? Is it really such a bad thing? Or shall we have the government run everything, kinda like communism? And do you think its going to be cheaper to have the government do it, with endless committees and studies and fact-finding missions to the French Riviera?

I beg to differ. Just how do you equate this kind of corporate-government cronyism with Libertarian ideas about smaller, less intrusive government, the importance of which I would think should have become abundantly clear these last 6 years?