Talk:Blackwater

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Hey

Hey--on my lunch break I'm going to try to come back here and write something up about the use of mercenaries by the US. Hopefully it will make this a bit more . . . relevant.Researcher 18:49, 19 September 2007 (EDT)

Awesome. As you can see by my "edit" to the article, I get grumpy over some of these uninformative stubs... human^{be in} 19:08, 19 September 2007 (EDT)

Too much work to do during lunch, I'll have to find time later to do it. But I'll put something up. Researcher 21:05, 19 September 2007 (EDT)

See: Private Eye's take Susan^{talk to me} 22:04, 28 September 2007 (EDT)

Frightening prospect?

"the fact that US has for the first time begun to employ them is a frightening prospect." Not frightening, just stupid. I work for the Dept. of Defense. Donald Rumsfeld tried to contract out everything to bypass career civil servants who make $20-30 an hour and hand off all the work to temp labor making $8-10 a hour. We're still in the process of rolling that back. Mega 21:53, 12 April 2009 (EDT)

I'd still call that frightening. Actually, I'd call the simple existence of PMCs frightening, and I would further call any Republican attempt to fuck over government employees frightening too. --PosthumanHeresy (talk) 22:07, 27 January 2016 (UTC)

Plastic jesus

Unfortunately not under CC so we can't repost, but funny (or scarily true) anyway. http://www.atheistcartoons.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/plasticjesus.jpg ^theist 13:47, 21 October 2009 (UTC)

You could ask the author for permission to use it? ħuman 17:58, 21 October 2009 (UTC)

After reading this article I have to say "Well, so much for Rational". This Wiki is no more rational than Wikipedia, and in fact, is actually less so. No, your political bias doesn't show at all!^{— Unsigned, by: 67.242.49.221 / talk / contribs}

"But I thought this was supposed to be RATIONALWiki!" Drink! Тy^{So long as they pretend to care, I will pretend to listen} 03:09, 26 July 2012 (UTC)

Ha. Think this guy works for Blackwater? --PosthumanHeresy (talk) 22:07, 27 January 2016 (UTC)

"Historical perspective and fears for the future"

http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Blackwater#Historical_perspective_and_fears_for_the_future

"In that the US is considered the guarantor of global stability, the fact that US has for the first time begun to employ them is a frightening prospect."

The US (and everyone else) have used mercenaries countless times already, from the inception of the country onwards.

I'm opposed to the practice, and groups like Blackwater, but that sentence needs to be changed.

ROPChain (talk) 09:51, 22 May 2014 (UTC)

Blackwater or Prince?

@DuceMoosolini Can we decide on what to do with this page? Is it about Blackwater or Erik Prince's various projects? I think that if it's the latter, it should be renamed back to Erik Prince. If the former, it should be split up into Blackwater and Erik Prince pages, though it's still kind of small for that. Bongolian (talk) 19:47, 7 March 2020 (UTC)

For my part, I think we should consider to rename it to Erik Prince and have a Blackwater redirect. Considering that Blackwater/Xe/Academi is what Prince is most known for and that the company is deeply intertwined with him and his political machinations, I don’t think it really matters which title we use. However, calling it Blackwater might be a bit dated (mainly reflecting its infamous involvement in Iraq). ScepticWombat (talk) 21:08, 7 March 2020 (UTC)