Blackwater private security in New Orleans?

[mburbank]

Of course federal soldiers bother me, but to my mind they are the option of last resort and this was as big a crisis as we've ever had. The military, at least theoretically are answerable to the public. Blackwater is only answerable to their client.

And WHY does the federal govt NEED a private army answering only to them when they've GOT the army?

I'm not saying theirs any creepy shit neccesarily going on. They could be their simply out of the compulsive neocon need to privatize everything, I'm amazed they don't privatize their own bowell movements.

But the reason we hired private interogators in Iraq IS creepy shit. The whole reason we have them is so we can do stuff we don't want to ever see the light of day. Taking the risk of having that kind of mission creep on US soil is bad Juju.