As American commanders meet this week for the Afghanistan review, Obama is hiring military contractors at a rate that would make Bush blush. Tim Shorrock on the Blackwater heirsAmerica's New Mercenaries by Tim Shorrock
16/12/10 21:36:20 Local neighbourhood security rolls in on a Sunday morning in August 2010
16/12/10 21:38:13 You're absolutely right, but it's not nations who buy them. It's the friendlies with neighbourhoods where they want to "adjust" security problems, i.e., keep people "on message." When these wars wind down as they inevitably will, where do you think they will go? Right into your neighbourhood to keep themselves employed in the same intelligence capacity for local governments and wealthy private individuals who want "security." They sell a protection racket just like mobsters making up threats (terrorism, crime) against convenient scapegoats to "protect" people.
Colonel Vine & Lt Harry Bird both USMC Ret rolled into my North Kensington neighbourhood in London against me in February 2001 and are still here. They've been at it 24/7/365. Vine dabbled in a little rendition and travelled to Kabul after the successful invasion at the end of 2001. They also market their services to others. If you thought Toxic Debt was bad, wait for the destruction by Toxic Surveillance to emerge. Unless this plague is stopped democratically, Big Brother will be a reality beyond anything ever imagined from which there will be no escape. Local neighbourhood security rolling in on a Sunday morning in August 2010. Photographs taken from my kitchen window.
16/12/10 22:00:55 Oh, yeah? I've missed those rumours and would like to know what they are. I'm looking for solid evidence from the government about my experience during the last 12 years and four months 24/7/365. I've been waiting for Wikileaks to produce something. Maybe that's why the USAF is practising censorship on a large scale in-house before rolling it out-house.
16/12/10 23:22:50 "Pauline Neville-Jones, the U.K.'s minister of state for security and counterterrorism (and a former executive with QinetiQ PLC, a major intelligence contractor), told an audience at the Brookings Institution that "we have something of a crisis in Afghanistan" partly because of the "largely unregulated private sector security companies performing important roles" there."
"In response to a question from The Daily Beast, Neville-Jones said that American and British forces must work out "the operational rules and roles that they have when they are in the frontline." Unless that happens, "We are in danger of getting up against Geneva Convention problems and failure to observe fundamental rules of war." "
This is nothing compared with what is happeing inside the UK in London's North Kensington in my direct experience where US government agent/contractors have been operating Toxic Surveillance for almost a decade. This is not a war zone, yet it is under martial law devised by those former US military personnel using the Toxic Surveillance all of which is outside the UK's democratic rule of law and control. On top of which they play drty tricks to destroy and are not investigating anything legitimately. They are milking the system for all they can.
Baroness Pauline Neville-Jones is in the House of Lords and, as such, does not have a constituency and is not elected to any office. Most in government in the UK are elected officials unlike the US where the president appoints the cabinet and administrative postions. It's not unusual for a government minister to be from the House of Lords where they are appointed. The poblem for me is communicating with them as I have wanted to do in the past when she was a Conservative shadow minister (out of elected government but "shadowing" it in opposition) before taking over this role officially. She also has a significant background in government with respect to intelligence having headed the Joint Inteligence Committee in the past.
If there is a serious problem like the one here, I like to send along my thoughts and commetns by Email, but this cannot be done to someone in the House of Lords. For the House of Commons it's easy because elected officials are accessible. My MP is the Chairman of the Joint (Commons and Lords) Intelligence and Security Committee so I can sound off to him which I do frequently. But, this problem described here is way out of control with the US government agents/contractors taking over at the expense of everybody else and British sovereignty. If Dame Neville-Jones thinks the problem is a potential crisis in Afghanistan, it's a catastrophe in North Kensington.
17/12/10 00:07:53 Transparency is essential today. This is not WWII. Everything is different. You don't need secrecy with Drones and Cruise missiles. Everyone knows they are there. They just cannot do anything about them since we are picking on people who live basic lives on limited money and need to finance their war effort with drugs which we let them do, so we can keep fighting.
The French won the US Revolutionary War by sea and by land. They kept the British fleet occupied on both sides of the Atlantic so that the rag, tag 80% privateers as you call them could cope. Lafayette did a credible job on land. This was the French army and navy. They were military and not contractors.
Contractors cost a fortune and are part of the revolving door problem between the military and civilian defense workers. They get a huge amount of money much more than military or government employees. The revolving door problem rips off the US taxpayer. It's cushy collusion for top pay where those inside pay huge amounts waiting for the day when they can revolve to the outside world and cash in.
We, the West, are the ones who have done irreparable harm to our own war effort as I witness daily from the likes of Lt Harry Bird USMC Ret by his destructive behaviour that makes him about the ugliest American that ever was. He creates terrorism.
17/12/10 00:52:05 Marquis de Lafayette and his exceptional life including the US Revolutionary War
