Fuck me running....I see everyone is still at it this morning huh?
It sure as hell feels that way man.
Ok fellas, i'm going to try and elaborate on all this because it doesn't look like too many people read through the entire 2 pages of fist fighting going on here
This whole shit storm started because I first decided to defend Blackwater as a company in the fact that many people are quick to judge them but do not truly know what they actually do in any situation. It then turned to me defending myself as the flame war started for things that went on down there that we were not really a part of.
Now Armaheavy, everything you said here is good but it's above my pay grade, or dare I say my education level.
If you were to take my particular group that was in NO under normal circumstances and say to them......"there is a crack house in this neighborhood so we are going to go into every house and take all there guns as a precuastion" Well......A little light would pop on in most of our heads and we'd say something along the lines of "fuck you" BUT....during those circumstances, when there was this national catastrophe and all this chaos. Murders, rapes, beatings on an hourly bases.....and they came and told us that if we come across armed people to take their guns, to prevent further crimes......well I guess during all that we (or I) didn't stop to think if it was unconstitutional.
Here is the timeline for me with BW in Katrina, here is how it all breaks down.
Katrina happens.....disaster. Bell South Hires BW to work Security for their workers in their facilities while they work to get communications restored. We patrol the streets outside facilties and escort workers between plants and facilities. We start getting shot at by gang bangers, thugs, and bad guys. We show up in a bigger force. Things were more chaotic than originally thought so they send more PMC's down. Local law enforcement finds out we've had some run in's with some gangs and they can't keep up with it fast enough, nor the National Guard so they ask for help evacuating people. First thing we all thought was.....we're not fucking police and we don't really want to get involved. Someone higher up the company food chained sent it down that we were to help the national guard evacuate 1 suburban neighborhood so we were put in the shit. Again, we didn't go in guns up screaming at people to "get the fuck out" we were polite and said to them that everyone was evacuating the area. We didn't ask them for guns, we didn't give a shit as long as they were not fireing them at us or innocent people. nobody we encountered bitched at us or acted like they were intimidated by us, they did what everyone else did and vacated.
As for the guns we took, well when you patrol a 2 block radius at night around your facility and have numerous run ins with fuckheads trying to shoot at you and the you see some people who look like they're strait out of "New Jack City" with a few guns on a corner.......we rolled up and took them from them. Told them that the Army and Police didn't want people with guns on the street, and we left. Now I may be guilty of profiling..sure. but I looked at it as preventing another asshole from shooting at us down there....or someone else.
Now I don't know what the rest of BW guys did down there, but people are making it sound like we were just a bunch of rent-a-cops running around and throwing people into the street and taking their guns while we're at it.....and that couldn't be farther from the truth.
With that I would like to say Happy Thanksgiving to all. Let the verbal fist-a-cuffs commence, I'm about to go eat some warm apple pie with some cinnamon ice cream. 'Merica!
