Are we surprised by Xe?

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Brought to us by Republic Broadcasting Network:

The latest charges, filed this week in U.S. District Court in Alexandria, bring to more than 60 the number of Iraqis allegedly killed or wounded since 2005 by armed Blackwater contractors guarding U.S. diplomatic personnel in Iraq.

The Moyock, N.C.-based security company, since renamed Xe, earned more than $1 billion under that contract before the State Department, under pressure from the Iraqi government, let it lapse in May.

One of the new plaintiffs is the estate of Akram Khalid Sa’ed Jasim, 9, who died when Blackwater shooters allegedly opened fire on a minivan returning from the Baghdad airport on July 1, 2007. The boy was traveling with his extended family, who had gone to the airport to apply for passports.

The Blackwater guards also shot the boy’s mother in the back as she bent over trying to shield her 3-month-old daughter, who nevertheless was shot in the face, according to the lawsuit. The boy’s father, uncle and cousin also were wounded.

The racketeering count added to the suit this week accuses Prince’s companies of engaging in murder, weapons smuggling, money laundering, tax evasion, kidnapping, child prostitution, illegal drug use and destruction of evidence.

The companies are accused of carrying out three or more kidnappings using three airplanes, identified in the suit by their tail numbers. Susan Burke, the plaintiffs’ lawyer, said Wednesday that the kidnappings appear to have been so-called “extraordinary renditions” in which suspects are taken to other countries for interrogation.

The child prostitution charge involves young Iraqi girls allegedly being brought to the Blackwater compound in Baghdad’s fortified Green Zone, identified in the lawsuit as the “Blackwater Man Camp,” to provide oral sex to contractors for $1.

So, we are surprised why?

Crooks and Liars reported:

Now there’s this case involving DynCorp, as reported by CorpWatch:

   Middle-aged men having sex with 12- to 15-year-olds was too much for Ben Johnston, a hulking 6-foot-5-inch Texan, and more than a year ago he blew the whistle on his employer, DynCorp, a U.S. contracting company doing business in Bosnia.

   According to the Racketeer Influenced Corrupt Organization Act (RICO) lawsuit filed in Texas on behalf of the former DynCorp aircraft mechanic, “in the latter part of 1999 Johnston learned that employees and supervisors from DynCorp were engaging in perverse, illegal and inhumane behavior [and] were purchasing illegal weapons, women, forged passports and [participating in other immoral acts. Johnston witnessed coworkers and supervisors literally buying and selling women for their own personal enjoyment, and employees would brag about the various ages and talents of the individual slaves they had purchased.”

   Rather than acknowledge and reward Johnston’s effort to get this behavior stopped, DynCorp fired him, forcing him into protective custody by the U.S. Army Criminal Investigation Division (CID) until the investigators could get him safely out of Kosovo and returned to the United States.

And the case’s outcome?

Incredibly, the CID case was closed in June 2000 and turned over to the Bosnian authorities. DynCorp says it conducted its own investigation, and Hirtz and Werner were fired by DynCorp and returned to the United States but were not prosecuted. Experts in slave trafficking aren’t buying the CID’s interpretation of the law.

As shown, these types of activities seem to occur whenever you get a government funded operation into a foreign land, allow them to operate without oversight, or, consequence.  Blackwater, now Xe, only did what others have done in the past.  They were ALLOWED to do it, however, BECAUSE nobody stood up to Dyncorp’s illegal actions, just as there have been no real consequences for Xe.

Lack. of. Consequences.

A Senator is corrupt?  Don’t worry… we can cover for him/her… with no consequences, unless they are forced to resign.  We saw this mentality throughout the Bush terms; Monica Goodling, anyone?

And, if you thought that the police, the SAME police who arrested people for wearing t-shirts to a townhall meeting, were actually going to DO something when the shoe hit the other foot — you were sadly mistaken even if I was not surprised.

The “Industries” get a closed door with PResident Obama and voila… they are ASSURRED of their profit margin REGARDLESS of what bill passes.

But, be a poor person, male or female, white or black, and get caught speeding — ticket.  With dope — jail time.  The real criminals, they simply get embarrassed, sit on the sideline for a few years, and then are right back at it.

America… the best corrupt soceity money can buy.

On a personal note, I just passed the A+ CompTia Essentials Exam (821/900) and I take the A+ IT Technician CompTia exam Friday.  Hoo-Rah.

Now, back to our regularly scheduled whiskey sippin’….