It's About Time!

Imagine a private organization that has little or no accountability to the law. Imagine that it pays its members handsomely and that it operates in near absolute secrecy from the public. Its thugs transport precious commodities for high-paying governments, killing all who threaten them or, as has been the case, even innocent bystanders.
Now open your eyes. What's your first guess? A drug cartel? The mafia? Wrong. This group is called BLACKWATER, an apt name* for a wannabe-clandestine mercenary kill-squad which has repeatedly ignored both international, domestic, and military laws, not to mention every scruple and ethic held by honest men and women. They are one of several military contracting firms hired to protect US officials in Iraq. Its members have, by the testimony of eyewitnesses, killed innocent people and have not been brought to justice.
One drunken Blackwater employee killed a guard of a member of the Iraqi Government and received nothing harsher than severance and a plane ticket home. Now they have killed at least 13 more civilians without provocation.
It's about time. Although it is undoubtedly too little too late, the House (and, consequently) Secretary Rice are finally doing something about this subsidized evil.

*According to Wikipedia, Blackwater is also a term "used to describe water containing fecal matter and urine."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071005/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/blackwater_rice

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/05/washington/05cnd-blackwater.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin

http://www.amazon.com/Blackwater-Rise-Worlds-Powerful-Mercenary/dp/1560259795