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99th_Monkey

(19,326 posts)
Tue Jun 14, 2016, 03:14 PM Jun 2016

Orlando Mass Shooter Isn't the First To Have Worked for a Global Mercenary Corporation

Last edited Tue Jun 14, 2016, 05:17 PM - Edit history (1)

THE MAN WHO shot over 100 people and killed 49 in an Orlando nightclub Saturday worked at a retirement home as a security guard for G4S – a giant, often controversial global contracting corporation that provides mercenary forces, prison guards and security services. G4S is one of the world’s largest private security companies, with more than 620,000 employees and a presence in over 100 countries.

G4S confirmed in a statement that Omar Mateen had worked for the company since 2007, and said it was “shocked and saddened” by the shooting. A later statement said that Mateen was subject to “detailed company screening” in 2007 and again in 2013, “with no adverse findings.”

But one of Mateen’s former coworkers told the New York Times that he “saw it coming,” that Mateen “talked about killing people all the time,” and that he was “always angry, sweating, just angry at the world.”

The coworker, who said he quit his job due to harassment from Mateen, explained that he “complained multiple times” to G4S, because Mateen didn’t like “blacks, women, lesbians, and Jews.”

https://theintercept.com/2016/06/14/orlando-shooter-wasnt-the-first-murderer-employed-by-global-mercenary-firm/

ON EDIT: My take is Global Mercenary Corporate are death cults where bullies prevail, "have their way" with others, as illustrated by the fact that the co-worker was the victim of abuse, and reported the abuse to corporate authorities, yet it was the victim who needed to resign from his job and not the perp/abuser. GEBush let this particular Dark Genie out of the bottle in Iraq, with the MIC/DoD contractual underwriting of their corporate start-up with Blackwater.
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