you can run but you can't hide

I think they should change their name to "For Profit Murder Corporation".

"Former Attorney General John Ashcroft now serves as ethics adviser".
This statement from the article is chilling.

Will the company's next name be STASSI?

I always thought it was spelled S-C-U-M-B-A-G-S

Yes and John Ashcroft is in charge of ethics. What could possibly go wrong?

Ravenwood?

Mercenaries can burn, regardless of the name they try to hide behind. Rot in hell, you dishonorable bastards.

Aristotle would frown on their...

Nah, actually, he'd be totes cool. He tutored Alexander, after all.

They're still mercenaries, and I feel content to look down my nose at them.

/lots of military in the family
//government thugs are better than freelance thugs

Why didn't they go with 'P. Diddy' and be done with it?

all authoritarian regimes need their personal military protection forces. those constitutional laws that restrain the proper military and police are so cumbersome.

Back when I was fighting the Viet Cong in the Congo no self-respecting merc would sign on with Blackwater

these 'dishonorable bastards' do more or less the same thing the US military does. but, you know, claiming that a US soldier is a coward because he didn't have the balls to refuse to serve in a series of reckless wars of choice that have caused the loss of prestige, wealth, and security for their country doesn't play well in jesusland. I know, let's fellate our military even more, since it's been at least 7 seconds since the last time I heard how our soldiers,whose total compensation including medical, retirement, insurance, mortgage, education, job training, food, affirmative-action-job-preference, and more is well over $100,000 these days even for the lowliest soldier, are forgotten and undersupported.

"ethics", in this case, means "what can we get away with according to international law"

Will kill for the highest bidder!

Former Attorney General John Ashcroft now serves as ethics adviser, and Jack Quinn, a top lobbyist and former counsel to President Bill Clinton, is an independent director.

*snicker* Heh *snicker*


Academi, pronounced "academy," was chosen, he said, in part to evoke the ideas of a Platonic academy, where the ethos is of excellence, honor and discipline.

"That's what we want our ethos to be in the future - trained thinkers and warriors," he said

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!

Right. Because independent thought and a high moral code are precisely what you want in a band of
hired goons......er mercenaries......er "private security forces".

*mutters something about spots and leopards*

Bomb Head Mohammed: these 'dishonorable bastards' do more or less the same thing the US military does. but, you know, claiming that a US soldier is a coward because he didn't have the balls to refuse to serve in a series of reckless wars of choice that have caused the loss of prestige, wealth, and security for their country doesn't play well in jesusland. I know, let's fellate our military even more, since it's been at least 7 seconds since the last time I heard how our soldiers,whose total compensation including medical, retirement, insurance, mortgage, education, job training, food, affirmative-action-job-preference, and more is well over $100,000 these days even for the lowliest soldier, are forgotten and undersupported.

0/10. Uninspired - you can do better. Next time, put your back into it and really herp that derp.

How about Douchebags Inc.?

We're no longer called Sonic Death Monkey. We're on the verge of becoming Kathleen Turner Overdrive, but just for tonight, we are Barry Jive and his Uptown Five.

just another gov't agency without all that "ethics" and "law" getting in the way. i mean that IS why they hired ashcroft and the other douchebag lawyer lobbysit, right?

6655321: "Former Attorney General John Ashcroft now serves as ethics adviser".

BWA-ha-HA!

You can't make this stuff up.

tjsands1118: I always thought it was spelled S-C-U-M-B-A-G-S

I thoughT it was spelled M-E-R-C-E-N-A-R-I-E-S.

I renamed my shiat to 'wonderful collages of processed food products' and I sell it on ebay for millions of dollars per year.

/A rose by any other name is still a rose.

Pechorin: Ravenwood?

+1

corn-bread: Academi, pronounced "academy," was chosen, he said, in part to evoke the ideas of a Platonic academy, where the ethos is of excellence, honor and discipline.

Interestingly enough, Xenophon and Plato were both students of Socrates.

So I guess they won't be helping me with my currency conversion needs, then?

I loved their backpacks when I was a kid.

Oh c'mon guys. These mercs ain't so bad. Haven't you ever watched the A team?

Mercenaries are enemies of everyone who belives in any countries right to self govern.

Mercenaries are anarco-capitalists and the worst breed of them.

All mercenaries should be tried by what ever country they are in as non-affiliated enemy combatants and terrorists.

I like it when your piss-ant soldiers talk tough, if Matrix was he'd laugh too.

kbronsito: "if they can just rename themselves over and over to confuse consumers they are avoiding their deserved fate."

I have a hard time mustering any sympathy for people who hire mercs. Particularly those who might hire mercs without having done any due diligence. We're talking about companies that exist to kill people. If you can't be arsed to look into that as deep as a simple Google search... bummer for you.

And as for the public... if they had any interest we'd have banned and prosecuted these farkers by now. Blackwater doesn't even have to hide from the public. It simply does not care. Not as long as Blackwater are westerners who shoot at brown people.

So they scrapped Death on the Cob then?

ringersol: . It simply does not care. Not as long as Blackwater are westerners who shoot at brown people.

This

Do they still talk bout how evil the British were for using Hessian mercenaries in school now?

Probably not.

Mentat: 6655321: "Former Attorney General John Ashcroft now serves as ethics adviser".
This statement from the article is chilling.

At least we know they'll protect us from boobies.

Sounds like Eric Prince is surrounding himself with like-minded apocalyptic fundamentalists.


Let the eagle soooooaaaaaarrr!!

Pechorin: Ravenwood?

Watch out for the Cheyenne Government.

Hobodeluxe: Oh c'mon guys. These mercs ain't so bad. Haven't you ever watched the A team?

Those were Soldiers of Fortune, forced into it by the Government, not paid for by the Government. Except for the final season I refuse to recognize.

PMC-highly trained soldier recruited to fight private wars for government interest. Is primarily attracted through competitive pay and benefits options.

US Servicemember-Highly trained solder recruited to fight private wars for government interest. Is primarily attracted through competitve pay and benefits options.

Having served in the military and been around 'contractors' the REAL difference between the 2 is that PMC's argued for a better contract.

Really, when is the last time the US deployed its troops in a manner consistent with safeguarding American lives and prosperity rather than the bottom line of a corporate interest?

ZAZ: There should be a rule for companies like the one eBay has, or used to have. If you change your name you get an icon saying you're trying to disguise yourself.

Only for 30 days.

/just changed my ebay name from something bland to my company name, since it's reasonably well known in my field

She comes in colors everywhere: Pechorin: Ravenwood?

+1

Approves:

/hotlinked

keylock71: "Former Attorney General John Ashcroft now serves as ethics adviser".

Jesus Christ...

It's like Ray Charles or Stevie Wonder as marksmanship instructor.

How long before they invade Montana?