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Videos Show Blackwater in Iraq Running Over Woman, Firing into Traffic
Videos posted by Harper's Magazine show the private contractor formerly known as Blackwater in Iraq running over a woman with a car, smashing into Iraqis' cars to move them out of the way and firing a rifle into traffic.
The behavior by Blackwater seen in the videos adds even more fuel to evidence that the company "encouraged and rewarded the destruction of Iraqi life."
The videos are included in a piece by Charles Glass entitled “The Warrior Class” that looks at the rise of private security contractors. Glass had been shown the videos by a former Blackwater employee.
Describing the video dated April 2006 that shows the woman being hit by a Blackwater vehicle, Glass writes: "A woman in a black full-length burka began to cross the street. The vehicle struck the woman and knocked her unconscious body into the gutter. The cars slowed for a moment, but did not stop, nor did they even determine whether the victim was dead or alive. A voice in the car taking the video said, 'Oh, my God!' Yet no one was heard on the radio requesting help for her. Most sickeningly, the sequence had been set to an AC/DC song, whose pounding, metallic chorus declared: 'You’ve been… thunderstruck!'"
Glass writes that the tape he was shown ended with the inscription, "In support of security, peace, freedom and democracy everywhere."
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Show AllSick, sick, sick country.
But I think this is true for the entire American military, the most cowardly military that ever existed that doesn't dare to attack anyone who's even remotely in the same league power-wise. A big bully picking on kids. But don't misunderstand me: I don't blame American people for this, it's absolutely not the average American's fault, and I also used to think a professional army was a good idea - it's just that this is what you get when you turn military power basically into a market commodity, where people are killing other people as their day job. If Europe was still in charge of the world, we'd do the same (well, much worse probably).
How many generations will it take this time?
Loads of people love video games (I do too btw). But don't ever try discussing their possible negative effects with them :-/
Thanks I did not know that that's quite an INFO, its full circle, they're coming out of the closet, with time passing by, they will use less lawyers more politicians & assassins.
@last PEOPLE WILL SEA. it is because of footage like that, they are hunting Julian Assange.
We must remember not only blackwater but those give birth to the MONSTROSITY & those who FINANCE it.
We do not have nca we have to be our OWN MEMORY not to torture not to annihilate but to hold to ACCOUNT.
The marriage of Monsanto & blakwater is four MONSANTO a point of no return. politically, culturally, legally & morally.
THE FOOTAGE GIVES FULL MEANING TO THE EXPRESSION COLLATERAL DAMAGE, in the encyclopedia of exceptionalism.
No terror no torture just truth
I realize that some cultures still employ customs and practices sanctioning financial restitution to the survivors of persons heinously killed or maimed.
But multinational corporations viciously take advantage of such customs. So that, as in Amerika, where our thoroughly commodified culture puts a price tag on everything, the glorified equivalent of hush money now substitutes for true accountability and justice.
What a sad shame and disgrace!
And, as outrages pile up, I am finding it more difficult to even simply exist here - to simply get up out of bed, care about my job, care about pastimes outside of work, and in particular, care about any kind of socializing with the inhabitants of this fascist hellhole they arrogantly call by the name of two continents of diverse and peace-loving poeple - America. Everybody around me - neighbors, co-workers they all get a good laugh at theese videos of brave "Americans" putting "terrist sand niggers" in their place - or at least, they would not find them at all troubling.
Living in the USA is like being forced at gunpoint to attend a party entirely populated hundreds of stupendous boors and assholes, and nothing but boors and assholes - and all the doors out are locked.
The isolation that all right-thinking poeple experience in this place is terrible. I despise this place and I despise the voilence and swaggering arrogance that are it's principles.