Blackwater Needs You!
meme warfare, propaganda, subvertising, war
Blackwater USA is a private military company founded in 1997 by Erik Prince and Al Clark. It has alternatively been referred to as a security contractor or a mercenary organization by numerous reports in the international media. Blackwater is based in the U.S. state of North Carolina, where it operates a tactical training facility that it claims is the world’s largest. The company trains more than 40,000 people a year, from all the military services and a variety of other agencies. The company markets itself as being “the most responsive, cost-effective means of affecting the strategic balance in support of security and peace, and freedom and democracy everywhere.”
Last week I subscribed myself to the Blackwater Newsletter, just to see what do they talk about and what do this kind of global private police thinks.
On september 16th Iraqi officials said 17 people, including women and children, were killed and 27 were wounded when Blackwater guards fired on motorists around Nusoor Square. The Iraqi investigation has concluded the shootings were an act of “premeditated murder” and recommended that Blackwater pay $8 million to families of each of the people killed.
Then Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki asked the U.S. State Department to “pull Blackwater out of Iraq”.
So these are not good times fot Balckwater, although they received more than 700 millions dollars in contracts from the governement, they decided to ask help to every american citizen, just yesterday arrived to me a really funny message that invites subscribers to make pression to the congress:
“While we can’t ask that each supporter do everything, Blackwater asks that everyone does something. Contact your lawmakers and tell them to stand by the truth. Correspondence should be polite and professional. We don’t support generating negative messages. Tell the Blackwater story and encourage your representatives to seek the truth instead of reading negative propaganda (?? 17 deads are negative propaganda??) and drawing the wrong conclusions.
Suggested themes:
- Cost efficiency of Blackwater – saving the US taxpayer millions of dollars so that the US Government doesn’t have to take troops from their missions or send more into harms way
- Professional population of service veterans and mature law enforcement personnel
- Sacrifice in lives lost by Blackwater saving US diplomats without one single protectee harmed
Expanding our communications effort starts with you. Pass the word – pass the truth.”…….
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Luca @ October 25, 2007