Wow! Blackwater is intent on putting themselves out there as equals to our military. Yesterday, we learned about their paratroopers parachuting onto the field during halftime at the SDSU "Fleet Week" game and today there's this news from Calitic:
Well, now we find out that Blackwater is intending on corrupting the Bell Helicopter Armed Forces Bowl (college football game) to be played between Cal Berkeley and the Air Force Academy in Fort Worth, TX on New Year's Eve.
This is a disgrace to our fighting men and women who earn next to nothing compared to these mercenaries who play by their own rules and not those of our professional military forces. I can't believe the university is going along with this either, unless Blackwater slipped them a huge monetary donation. That would make sense. Everything in our country seems to be for sale these days.
Read Calitics suggestion on what we can do about this:
I don't want Blackwater associating themselves with the good name of our military any more, whether it's at Fleet Week or at the Bell Helicopter Armed Forces Bowl.
If you don't like it either, pass this around and raise some hell. Ask anyone you know at Berkeley if they're happy that their university will be participating in a promotional event for a lawless mercenary organization.
Even if you don't know anyone at Berkley, it can't hurt to write their administration and let them know how you feel. Before you start raising hell though, check out this YouTube video of a Blackwater parachutist landing on the field at the Fleet Week SDSU game (around the 2:45 mark). He's holding the American flag and his parachute is emblazoned with the Blackwater logo.
