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The trip began with a flight from DC to Blackwater's 7,000 acre facility in Moyock, NC (As trained Airborne professionals, Jim and I fell asleep within minutes upon taking our seats in the Cessna). Moyock is within a 2 hour radius of some of the largest Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine, FBI, etc. bases and is the largest private training facility in the US. This was purely intentional. More than ten years ago, the intent was to compete with regional fire arms ranges for law enforcement (LE) and private training (corporate security etc.) with the eventual goal of garnering some military contracts. In order to do better than the regionals, Blackwater needed to have access to the population requiring training. Being close reduced costs of the trainees and made face-to-face visits cheaper and easier for the two negotiating parties.
Erik Prince founded Blackwater along with several others, including the President (and former US Navy SEAL), Gary Jackson. Gary met us at Blackwater HQ and spent the next several hours with us, giving an unofficial history lesson on Blackwater, and even driving our vehicle on the tour.
Source: Blackfive (be sure and read the entire marvelous article, which has plenty of photos, and even a video to go with it).
Related: Blackwater Website
I am very glad that the people of Blackwater are there filling a need and providing a much-needed service for our nation.
What is up with the Obama people channeling Star Trek episodes?Yes. A Greek temple for the Messiah! Come to think of it, how appropriate a send-off for a candidate whose proposed economic policies will send us to prehistoric times.
Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama’s big speech on Thursday night will be delivered from an elaborate columned stage resembling a miniature Greek temple.
The stage, similar to structures used for rock concerts, has been set up at the 50-yard-line, the midpoint of Invesco Field, the stadium where the Denver Broncos’ National Football League team plays.
Some 80,000 supporters will see Obama appear from between plywood columns painted off-white, reminiscent of Washington’s Capitol building or even the White House, to accept the party’s nomination for president.
He will stride out to a raised platform to a podium that can be raised from beneath the floor.
"This is probably the largest single site target for law enforcement," Immigration and Customs Enforcement Communications Director Barbara Gonzalez said.The number of alleged illegal immigrants detained in a raid Monday at Howard Industries has nearly doubled, and could go higher, according to officials. They now say there are 595 suspected illegal immigrants.
About 475 people have been transported to the ICE detention facility in Louisiana.
On September 11, 2001, A Story About William Ayers' Memoir Was Published In The New York Times; The Interview Occurred Prior To Publication. "'I don't regret setting bombs,' Bill Ayers said. 'I feel we didn't do enough.’ Mr. Ayers, who spent the 1970's as a fugitive in the Weather Underground, was sitting in the kitchen of his big turn-of-the-19th-century stone house in the Hyde Park district of Chicago." [New York Times, 9/11/01]
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