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leftofthedial (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-13-07 09:49 AM Original message |
True or False: Blackwater is the 21st Century's version of the SA brownshirts. |
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MethuenProgressive (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-13-07 09:51 AM Response to Original message |
1. False. |
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rudeboy666 (959 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-13-07 10:03 AM Response to Reply #1 |
4. Concur |
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leftofthedial (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-13-07 12:56 PM Response to Reply #4 |
27. I carefully said a 21st century version of the SA |
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seemslikeadream (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-13-07 11:33 AM Response to Reply #1 |
13. If they would learn more from history |
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leftofthedial (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-13-07 12:54 PM Response to Reply #1 |
25. I know plenty of history |
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Evergreen Emerald (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-13-07 09:52 AM Response to Original message |
2. You just scared me. |
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cali (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-13-07 09:55 AM Response to Original message |
3. False. Eric Prince would |
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Bobbieo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-13-07 10:14 AM Response to Reply #3 |
5. And SA means? Secret Army - Please spell out! |
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Didereaux (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-13-07 11:47 AM Response to Reply #3 |
15. well the $$$ are near the top but... |
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Chimpy McCokespoon (84 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-13-07 12:01 PM Response to Reply #3 |
16. You don't think Blackwater is about ideology? |
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RainDog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-13-07 12:40 PM Response to Reply #3 |
24. Prince is an ideologue |
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leftofthedial (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-13-07 12:55 PM Response to Reply #3 |
26. you haven't been paying attention if: |
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DS1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-13-07 10:16 AM Response to Original message |
6. Yes, and the Marines are Bush's SS |
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tanyev (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-13-07 10:19 AM Response to Original message |
7. Potentially true. |
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backscatter712 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-13-07 10:37 AM Response to Original message |
8. True. |
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L. Coyote (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-13-07 10:56 AM Response to Original message |
9. WORSE. They answer to a single corporate CEO, not a government. |
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msongs (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-13-07 11:04 AM Response to Original message |
10. goons and thugs that would kill anybody for $$$$? hmmmmm nt |
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Bitwit1234 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-13-07 11:24 AM Response to Original message |
11. The republican administration COULD be called Fascist and they deserve the title |
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DS1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-13-07 12:26 PM Response to Reply #11 |
21. collisions eh? |
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mmonk (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-13-07 11:30 AM Response to Original message |
12. True in a sense. Close enough. |
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happyslug (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-13-07 11:45 AM Response to Original message |
14. But the SA was the ONLY Nazi Organization NOT found guilty at Nuremberg |
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mmonk (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-13-07 12:14 PM Response to Reply #14 |
20. That's closer I think. You are right IMO. |
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leftofthedial (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-13-07 12:59 PM Response to Reply #14 |
28. the SA were a paramilitary private gang of thugs |
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mitchum (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-13-07 12:05 PM Response to Original message |
17. I dunno...private armies led by authoritarian Catholics certainly predates the Nazis... |
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leftofthedial (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-13-07 01:00 PM Response to Reply #17 |
29. LOL |
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dkofos (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-13-07 12:11 PM Response to Original message |
18. No, that would be the YOUNG REPUBLICANS. |
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ThePowerofWill (462 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-13-07 12:12 PM Response to Original message |
19. I say false. |
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tanyev (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-13-07 12:38 PM Response to Reply #19 |
22. Yep. For many years I thought they were trying to drag us back to the 50s. |
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ThePowerofWill (462 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-13-07 01:02 PM Response to Reply #22 |
31. Thats what their after the "Gilded Age". |
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leftofthedial (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-13-07 01:03 PM Response to Reply #22 |
32. more like the dark ages |
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ThePowerofWill (462 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-13-07 01:08 PM Response to Reply #32 |
34. Something i found funny in your remark. |
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leftofthedial (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-13-07 01:08 PM Response to Reply #34 |
36. hence the quotation marks |
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leftofthedial (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-13-07 01:01 PM Response to Reply #19 |
30. they are descendants of the Pinkertons |
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ThePowerofWill (462 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-13-07 01:05 PM Response to Reply #30 |
33. I'll agree with that point about being a bit more militaristic. |
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Hutzpa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-13-07 12:40 PM Response to Original message |
23. And there are South Africans |
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Swamp Rat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-13-07 01:08 PM Response to Original message |
35. True. All they need to do is wear little skull & bones lapel pins, and voila! |
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stimbox (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-15-07 10:34 AM Response to Original message |
37. Mostly true. |
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in_cog_ni_to (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-15-07 10:49 AM Response to Original message |
38. Well, yes they are in fact. The psycho-in-chief's very own PRIVATE military. |
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alfredo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-15-07 10:51 AM Response to Original message |
39. Illegal combatants |
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