(2010-09-18) Future Mercenary Side Effects

Fabius Maximus on the potential future Side Effect-s of major Mercenary use that we've done for our War On Iraq and Afghanistan adventures.

Scott Horton wrote: Over the past several years, entities closely linked to the private security firm Black Water have provided intelligence, training and security services to US and foreign governments as well as several multinational corporations, including Monsanto, Chevron, the Walt Dis Ney Company, Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines and banking giants Deutsche Bank and Barclays, according to documents obtained by The Nation. … One of the most incendiary details in the documents is that Blackwater, through Total Intelligence, sought to become the “intel arm” of Monsanto, offering to provide operatives to infiltrate activist groups organizing against the multinational biotech firm.

Fabius notes: Neither author mentions the most obvious and serious result of corporate use of mercs: they’ll be used against us. Dirty tricks against those opposing corporate power. Animal rights activists, feminists pursuing class action litigation, environmentalists, union organizers. (Read *The Daemon.) Once a soldier kills for a dollar, unconnected to a national army, an invisible but real line has been crossed.