Thursday, October 21, 2010

Efforts to Prosecute Blackwater Are Collapsing

by James Risen from The NY Times

This to me illustrates rather dramatically how you can't win through US courts when the interests of the capitalist ruling class is involved. I argued this yesterday in relation to efforts to reform the US Constitution. 

The privatization of war has become a prime tool of this class in order to hide their war crimes, crimes against humanity, and to enrich themselves.
Nearly four years after the federal government began a string of investigations and criminal prosecutions against Blackwater Worldwide personnel accused of murder and other violent crimes in Iraq and Afghanistan, the cases are beginning to fall apart, burdened by a legal obstacle of the government’s own making.