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Blackwater: The Crusade

By Citizen Correspondent JF William

Date Posted: 07/07/08

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If the Republicans lose in 2008, they will leave office armed and dangerous. Bush's Praetorian Guard could presage the final stage in the collapse of American democracy.

GUNNING FOR JESUS & BANKING ON WAR: On top of "remote control warfare", "proxy wars" and "pre-emptive war", we now have "privatised war", or war fought or supported by forces and personnel subcontracted from private military firms and who are not subordinate to the official military hierarchy.

As long as people believe that our so-called leaders are well-intentioned, they can, and do, get away with murder. Literally.

"A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side" - Aristotle