Comments on: Blackwater didn’t file the proper forms http://www.murdoconline.net/archives/6582.html Just another WordPress weblog Sat, 21 Nov 2009 22:14:01 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Flanker http://www.murdoconline.net/archives/6582.html/comment-page-1#comment-338044 Flanker Fri, 14 Nov 2008 13:46:38 +0000 http://www.murdoconline.net/?p=6582#comment-338044 We're (contracters) all subject to the UCMJ now. We've been bluntly told if you screw up and commit any felony grade activity; expect to get appropriate unwanted attention! DDOOHH!! Can't speak for BW, but I recently received training/prep on current import/export/tech transfer regs too. Good points by you folks too, there's a big diff between willful violation and making an honest mistake, that should be differentiated between before corrective action or legal sanction is applied. Unless of course you're into the mob lynching thing. :) We’re (contracters) all subject to the UCMJ now. We’ve been bluntly told if you screw up and commit any felony grade activity; expect to get appropriate unwanted attention! DDOOHH!! Can’t speak for BW, but I recently received training/prep on current import/export/tech transfer regs too.

Good points by you folks too, there’s a big diff between willful violation and making an honest mistake, that should be differentiated between before corrective action or legal sanction is applied. Unless of course you’re into the mob lynching thing. :)

]]> By: Drew http://www.murdoconline.net/archives/6582.html/comment-page-1#comment-338020 Drew Thu, 13 Nov 2008 16:30:41 +0000 http://www.murdoconline.net/?p=6582#comment-338020 You've also got an overeager reporting mixing apples and oranges to sell a dramatic story: The McClatchy rag you quote says "Pentagon probes have found that DEFENSE DEPARTMENT-SUPPLIED WEAPONS intended for Iraq’s security forces were diverted" and then reads the sloppy reader to believe that it was Blackwater intentionally selling guns to the black market. I'm sure that--just like the military itself and most every other security contractor--Blackwater has screwed up plenty of things in the fog of Iraq. But this is typical agenda-driven schlock journalism hype and hysteria. You’ve also got an overeager reporting mixing apples and oranges to sell a dramatic story: The McClatchy rag you quote says “Pentagon probes have found that DEFENSE DEPARTMENT-SUPPLIED WEAPONS intended for Iraq’s security forces were diverted” and then reads the sloppy reader to believe that it was Blackwater intentionally selling guns to the black market. I’m sure that–just like the military itself and most every other security contractor–Blackwater has screwed up plenty of things in the fog of Iraq. But this is typical agenda-driven schlock journalism hype and hysteria.

]]> By: AW1 Tim http://www.murdoconline.net/archives/6582.html/comment-page-1#comment-338017 AW1 Tim Thu, 13 Nov 2008 14:35:14 +0000 http://www.murdoconline.net/?p=6582#comment-338017 Murdoc, One thing that always is a major gripe for me is how the media handle things like this. They harp on and on like an ink-based jock itch about the "excesses" of Blackwater, or our militarym, or whomever, but they never tell the part about how we take those folks to task and prosecute them if they DO break the law. Like Abu Ghreib, our own military had taken action on the folks involved and had already started courts-martial proceedings and other actions long before the story broke on the cover of the NYT. If some folks from Blackwater broke the law(s), then by all means inv3stigate and take such actions as are warrented. However, we ought not to be tarring the whole for the actions of a very tiny minority. Murdoc,

One thing that always is a major gripe for me is how the media handle things like this. They harp on and on like an ink-based jock itch about the “excesses” of Blackwater, or our militarym, or whomever, but they never tell the part about how we take those folks to task and prosecute them if they DO break the law.

Like Abu Ghreib, our own military had taken action on the folks involved and had already started courts-martial proceedings and other actions long before the story broke on the cover of the NYT.

If some folks from Blackwater broke the law(s), then by all means inv3stigate and take such actions as are warrented. However, we ought not to be tarring the whole for the actions of a very tiny minority.

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