Don’t forget that Blackwater may be coming to your town. The plan is to use Blackwater to assist local enforcement in case of an emergency. I live in hurricane territory and fear Blackwater may show up if a storm hits. We got through Alicia and Allison without outside help and we absorbed a huge number of Katrina refugees. But next time I expect Blackwater will show up just to get us used to armed occupation. If Blackwater comes, we are under occupation. I have no obligation to respect this illlegal occupying force. I will paint the StillFree tag on their vehicles, and if there’s a cofrotation I will run. But if push comes to shove, I will have no qualms about killing a Blackwater occupier, though it would be better to merely wound one. Wounded are more of a drain on resources than the dead.

Come on folks, the game is up. We’ve had two rigged elections in a row. Blackwater’s training to fight inside the US, and the 20 year long fundie effort to acquire The Bomb by infiltrating the Air Force seems to be paying off. One more shakey election and it’s Happening Here. My best hope is that corporate America takes the long view and realizes that an educated and free populous in their interest and stomps on the face of the fundie conspirators.

All I know is that if Blackwater comes to your city, they are an illegal occupying force. Whatever one might do to them is not illegal. They are no a legitimate authority and deserve no respet. I would encourage anyone in a Blackwater occupied region to mostly rely on nonviolent resistance. This will gain media sympathy and will gain the sympathy of local law enforcement. Local police will likely be suffering as civilians do. Do not antigonize city police. Direct protests at Blackwater. The local cops and National Guard have more weapons than Blackwater will and can easily defeat the mercenary occupiers if we give them the will to do so. Remember how things went in Romania in Christmas of ‘89.