Blackwater Skates

Yet again, it looks like Blackwater International skates free. The fox of the Justice Department has concluded that there are no hens in this henhouse, and this embarrassment to the state of North Carolina continues to get away with murder, literally. According to an AP report:

Blackwater Worldwide, the security contractor blamed by an angry Iraqi government for the shooting deaths of 17 civilians, is not expected to face criminal charges — all but ensuring the company will keep its multimillion-dollar contract to protect U.S. diplomats.

Instead, the seven-month-old Justice Department investigation is focused on as few as three or four Blackwater guards who could be indicted in the Sept. 16 shootings, according to interviews with a half-dozen people close to the investigation.

The final decision on any charges will not be made until late summer at the earliest, a law enforcement official said. All spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to publicly discuss the investigation.

The problem, it seems, is in holding the corporation responsible for the actions of a few of its employees. Granted I'm no lawyer (and it would be nice to have the input of one here), but if you recruit sociopaths, nurture them in a culture of cowboy diplomacy, train them to "defend" (A.K.A. "kill"), arm them to the teeth, and then send them out into the public arena with express instructions to move as quickly and efficiently as possible from point A to point B, and in the process of doing that these sociopaths leave a trail of dead civilians who just happened to be in the way, isn't then the organization who is responsible for the training, nurture, and enculturation of these sociopaths also culpable for their subsequent behavior? Isn't there something in there about "depraved indifference homicide"?

Evidently not. The buck doesn't stop with Prince Erik and Blackwater. It never will.

Perhaps it's foolish to expect that it could. After all, these Moyock Morons are fractal reflections of an administration and a president who cannot acknowledge mistakes, an administration and a president that passes the buck of their own failures to "the Democrats in congress" or "the Iranians" or "the terrorists" or "the media" or whomever. Like the administration they serve, Blackwater International is the epitome of prideful, self-excusing narcissism. They are the rapist who says, "You can't blame me! I'm not responsible for where my penis happens to go!"

The tragedy is that not only are the Iraqi's being royally screwed by Prince Erik and Blackwater and the recent Justice Department decision, but so are we all.