And now "Smackwater Jack" keeps running thru my brain...'Cause he was in the mood for a little confrontation

Here's hoping the Obama Administration let's whatever contracts with Blackwater that currently exist expire and then never call these Nazis-For-Hire ever again. And let's raid their little compound and sieze whatever Iraqi war machinery they managed to steal over the past 5 years.

Ceu- Are you trying to tell me you can't talk to a man with a shotgun in his hand?

Also, I'll lay 5 bucks down on the idea that eventually some yahoos fitting the description "former blackwater employees" are going to end up hijacking one of those boats. Oh what am I saying it's not like they're just in it for the money and the killin'.

Yes, El Myst, that's exactly what I'm saying :)

And I'm with Nano, except I'd go a step farther. Rather than letting the contracts expire, revoke them! (Ok, so that's a lot harder, but geeezzz!)

The gist of this story ran here in Virginia Beach (BW's Moyock, NC, headquarters is just south of here) a while back. BW bought an old NOAA ship to use as their floating base.

There is no doubt that the group is nothing but an opportunistic bunch of mercenaries, but it's kind of funny (not in a ha-ha way either) that most of the BW grunts are hired as independent contractors so the company doesn't pay taxes on them. This little tidbit came out in another story earlier in the year when the families of some employees sued BW for putting their employees in "unnecessary" danger.

As for raiding their camp, the sheriff in their NC county did confiscate a bunch of illegal weapons they had over the summer. Of course, BW said woops it's an accident and all was essentially forgiven.

The private military company Blackwater has found an unusual way to skirt federal laws that prohibit private parties from buying automatic weapons. Blackwater bought 17 Romanian AK-47s and 17 Bushmasters, gave ownership of the guns to the Camden County sheriff and keeps most of the guns at Blackwater's armory in Moyock.

June 22, 2008, Raleigh News & Observer.