The Justice Department just indicted five evil southern scum-lords who used to run Blackwater, the private murder company hired by Dick Cheney to kill everyone in Iraq. The charges? Weapons violations, something about illegal machine guns, lies to the Feds, general criminality. No murder charges, because it’s always the little shit that brings down these big shits. Oh and Daryl Gates, evil-ass racist LAPD chief during the Rodney King era, is dead. The Friday after Tax Day is Moral Tax Day! [Reuters/TPM/NYT]
IT'S JUSTICE DAY!
April 16, 2010
Feds Nail Five Blackwater Executives; Evil Racist Fascist ex-LAPD Chief Finally Dead
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It’s a Festivus Miracle!
Is my man Barry going to prosecute and arrest people from now until November? Cool! Whatcha got rethuglican weenies?
Any charge related to their, ahem, unique method of doing vodka shots?
Goldman Sachs and Blackwater busted, Daryl Gates bites it–not a bad day, I’d say. Now if Glenn Beck can do his inevitable Jonestown thing…
Love him or hate him, Gates was a badass mutherfucker.
But Blackwater/Xe/JesusKillz head honcho Erik Prince goes forth unindicted?
[re=558610]GoinGreen[/re]: No he wasn’t. He was an asshole twerp who hid his stupidity and racism behind a badge.
Did the world suddenly get invaded by rainbow pooping aliens?
What next? Rush busted for viccoden prescription shopping.
D.A.R.E. were the most obnoxious bumper stickers ever. I take no particular joy in Darrell Gates’ demise, but only because I’d completely forgotten about his existence.
Wait . . . I read the articles and Weapons Charges?? Hey, catholic church . . . you can breathe a sigh of relief, keeping child sex slaves . . . still cool.
Cock. Meat. Sammitch. You fuckers can bring the bread n’ butter.
[re=558609]stew[/re]: Becky is just making obscene metephors likening the Trade Center tragedy to our debt-ridden goverment. Hint: No non-troll on this site will “run down the stairs” (wink, wink, nudge nugde, don’t you know ?)
[re=558612]Ken Layne[/re]: He called for the execution of all drug offenders, then his son got busted burglerizing drug stores to get his opiate fixes. Karma-ish.
Let’s end the day on a high note. Dick Cheney captured at his fortress in Wyoming by an foreign paramilitary unit and put on a plane to The Hague so he can stand trial for war crimes.
The group also was accused of amassing some 227 short barrels for M4 rifles for their work in Afghanistan and Iraq but U.S. law limits such weapons. Prosecutors said the group allegedly arranged straw purchases to evade detection.
Wow, I thought only thugs and lowlifes used straw purchases to hide their weapons buying. Oh — nevermind.
And didn’t Daryl Gates serve as the template for the crazy militaristic SWAT guy on Hill Street Blues — the one who bought the APC? Well tough shit old man.
[re=558610]GoinGreen[/re]: Badass? He decided to use a tank to batter down a crack house. On the night it debuted, he alerted the press who were there to watch the LAPD demolish the house next door to the crack house. While the crack dealers escaped out the alley, cops were handcuffing two innocent women while their toddlers looked on, horrified. I would use “dipshit” before I used “badass” to describe Gates.
[re=558612]Ken Layne[/re]: You are speaking of his later work (and rightly so) – as a cop and a SWAT guy, he was very tactically endowed. He had no more business being in a leadership position than, say, Cheney – because he was built to eliminate obstacles. BTW – I am an ex-cop who knows that there ARE bad guys out there that the only way to control them is by killing them. Luckily for me, I never had to do the dirty work.
[re=558616]Darkness[/re]: As Ken said, it’s the grand tradition of organized crime that the top dog(s) gets nailed for the little shit, like perjury, obstruction, conspiracy, fraud, etc.
One of the big benefits of having an army (literally, in Xe’s case) of minions is that you have fall guys for the serious-time shit like drug-trafficking, murder and rape.
I wonder if Gates’ afterlife involves lying on the ground surrounded by a bunch of armed officers and getting wailed on.
First Michael Jackson and then Gates? All the people I detest are croaking! Yay!!!
Hey was that a unicorn?
At least with Gates’ demise, my pension fund is off the hook for about $140K annually, unless he set it up for his widow to continue receiving the benefit.
So, will either Dick or Lynn Cheney be on tv this weekend talking about how prosecution of the Blackwater criminals makes all Americans less safe?
[re=558606]Hooray For Anything[/re]:
And now for the Feats of Strength!
And, Re: The Friday after Tax Day is Moral Tax Day!
This statement takes all- the eternal fucking winner- always and forever, Amen.
[re=558642]Terry[/re]: Liz. She will be on the Faux Noise Sunday panel, foaming at the mouth over this turn of events.
[re=558629]GoinGreen[/re]: Unfortunately some of those guys are cops. So why don’t we invent a better method – trial, jury of peers… just free associating here, seeing what I can come up with.
[re=558636]I Heart Accuracy[/re]: Coincidentally, Michael Jackson and Daryl Gates uttered the same last words:
“Beat it…”
[re=558636]I Heart Accuracy[/re]: I love you…fellow Michael Jackson hater.
No Eric Prince (of Darkness)? Maybe one of the others can be persuaded to roll over on him.
[re=558646]GOPCrusher[/re]:
That was my guess, too. Daddy’s girl, she is.
[re=558651]Limeylizzie[/re]: I hated Michael Jackson for the same reason I hate the pope and his minions–they’re child fuckers with immunity through fame and power. When a lawyer friend (yes, some of my best friends are lawyers) suggested his doctor would lose his medical license and only have to do community service, I told him there are those who feel the doctor had already done the community a service.
As for Gates, this was the guy who went to a fundraiser when the shit hit the fan in L.A. He either knew it was going to hit the fan and didn’t care or he should have known the shit was going to hit the fan or he wasn’t qualified to be Chief. He was the dick who literally let his city burn while he did nothing, just to show people they should have given him more power. He was an arrogant asshole.
Gates bit it? That means somewhere deep in the heart of Cali Ice-T got a pair of motherfucking wings!
[re=558629]GoinGreen[/re]: What do you do when you shoot the wrong guy? Say “sorry, here’s your life back?”
>there ARE bad guys out there that the only way to control them is by killing them. Luckily for me, I never had to do the dirty work.
This is the chickenhawk mantra.
[re=558648]x111e7thst[/re]: Considering that I am now a fatass engineer that sits around all day, reading the Wonkette and snarking about the very same type of assholes we are talking about here, I am agree witchu! I quit the force after 2 1/2 years because I was more afraid of some of the cops that I worked with than the bad guys we chased, because of either incompetence or excessive testosterone, or both.
[re=558652]zhubajie[/re]: Yeah, that’s what I was hoping.
One thing that the Feds have always been relentless at in this country is identifying and attacking those groups which get influential enough to threaten the government’s hold on things. You can “free speech” whatever, but once you get too big for your britches, the Feds will come down on you. It’s the nature of government.
Sometimes this is for evil (MLK, war protestors, basically everything the FBI did under Hoover), but sometimes this works out for the best (the mafia, neo-nazis, the Confederacy). So when you’ve got a millionaire religious fanatic with a private army, GOP-connected or not, you’ve got to assume that people up the food chain are going to start taking an interest. Especially when they are starting to undercut the military and the CIA.
[re=558636]I Heart Accuracy[/re]:
Right? All we need now is the sudden death of Charles Kruathammer and BINGO! Trifecta of Joy!
[re=558667]Tommmcatt[/re]: I’d like to see Ben Stein die from a staph infection that has become resistant to antibiotics through evolution.
[re=558671]Franklin Pierce & Pierce[/re]:
I’d settle for him losing the ability to speak.
Now we can unseal the RFK papers?
[re=558608]LittlePig[/re]: This round of Ass-Crack® Vodka is on me, Uh, wait, I didn’t mean it like that.
[re=558652]zhubajie[/re]: Hmm, that’s what I was thinking.. Erik, Son of The Guy Who Made Lighted Vanity Mirrors a Reality surely deserves a little fucking scrutiny as a CEO, I would think. Oh, wait, that’s right, CEO = automatic immunity in most cases here.
“evil-ass racist LAPD chief during the Rodney King era”
He also hated gay people
http://www.lgbtpov.com/2010/04/former-lapd-chief-daryl-gates-dies-remembering-his-era-of-homophobia/
(via joemygod)
[re=558612]Ken Layne[/re]: So I guess there will be dancing and champagne when some pissed of Messican finally caps Sheriff Joe Arpaio, then?
Couldn’t Blackwater be reformed by running the FEMA Death Camps and killing Republicans?
To this news I say, “Hell ya!!” BTW, I don’t know what exactly that photo is of, but it is scary as fuck.
[re=558681]mcc[/re]: Why is it not surprising that a gun-obsessed racist leather-fetishist cop is also homophobic? It’s like there’s a recipe.
[re=558612]Ken Layne[/re]: I’m with you: Gates was a megalomaniac monster, in both his earlier and later oeuvre.
[re=558611]chascates[/re]: Forget about Erik Prince — I’m still waiting for the arrest warrants to be issued for Erik Prydz and that fucking “Call On Me” song.
Man, I always put Daryl Gates in my Death Pool, but didn’t enter one this year.
Is Cal Worthington still alive?
[re=558690]sweetfancymoses[/re]: It’s a poor, dead innocent racoon that does not deserve to be associated with the human-being horrors being discussed in the post.
“If you play the tape backwards, you see us help King up and send him on his way….”
–Bill Hicks
[re=558684]Lascauxcaveman[/re]: Joe’s almost 80.. I’m sure he has atherosclerosis of some sort. And c’mon–we all know Messicans are lazy! They’ll just wait for the inevitable.
[re=558701]Smoke Filled Roommate[/re]: ah but those mexican drug cartels, they are some real go-getters. they don’t just stand around home depot all day looking for a handout.
[re=558612]Ken Layne[/re]: Word.
[re=558696]G. Friday[/re]: Yes he is. Alive and well and living in Lake Tahoe. He still makes completely cheesie car commercials against a green screen and shows old footage of him and his dog Spot of one variety or another. The juxtapositioning of Really Fucking Old Cal and only somewhat Old Cal and some random wild animal is often more than a little confusing to anyone under the age of 40 who wasn’t raised on “Go see Cal” commercials.
Meanwhile Cheney has already submitted his order for tomorrow’s breakfast, to be served in the atrium.
[re=558696]G. Friday[/re]:
No, but his dog Spot still is. All of them.*
* – obscure reference to Cal Worthington’s old commercials in the 80′s.
[re=558704]Crank Tango[/re]: I’m the last person to think Mexicans are lazy– sheesh, I live in Tolleson.. I’m used to seeing ‘Hecho en Mexico’ decals and Sonoran license plates everywhere. Honestly, I’m surprised someone (anyone) hasn’t gotten to Joe sooner. (Btw–happy to own two pink MCSO thermals I walked out with under my clothes on two different occasions..)
[re=558690]sweetfancymoses[/re]: Isn’t that Nick Denton’s dog?
[re=558611]chascates[/re]: “***chascates says at 5:29 pm, April 16th, 2010 wrote: “But Blackwater/Xe/JesusKillz head honcho Erik Prince goes forth unindicted?***”
cc: you Sir!
Pose the embodiment of a conundrum…
As an olde soldier…my only question would be: did they… fore sure and truly, actually get the man behind the tree…?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFplhNPhZEI
carbon copy, Sir…you reflect my thoughts…precisely.
Keep on keepin’ on…!
[re=558684]Lascauxcaveman[/re]: You must be an Ex-Arizonan…I live here (out of obligation, not of choice) and want to be an ex-Arizonan, too…
All I ask, when your dream comes true, is…”Where is the tombstone, so I can drunk-piss on it?”
[re=558717]Terry[/re]: And to think…my dad just reminded me that he was pitching for Toby Halicki’s ‘new’ movie, “Gone in 60 Seconds.”
Wonder if Cal has a DVD copy of “The Junkman,” and will he let me borrow it long enough to rip it…
[re=558720]Smoke Filled Roommate[/re]: I don’t understand about half of the words in that post lol. But yeah if anyone actually knows any Mexicans, they would know how hard they work. Three jobs, maybe a side business, get a nice truck…I know several that have way more than I ever will and they did it by manual labor. I have a masters and will be in debt up to my eyeballs forever and never own anything.
Man, posts like this are why I read wonkette.
[re=558740]Crank Tango[/re]: Tolleson is in AZ. MCSO: Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office (i.e., Tent City, pink underwear, actual thermals in winter). Hecho en Mexico = ‘Made in Mexico’ and Sonora is, well, Sonora. Hmmmph. However, I still would Tango w/you. Anytime.
[re=558726]Gramps[/re]: RSVP to that party.
We need a little umbrage with our snark. Wiggergate pimp Boy George Okeefe feeds Foxfuck some ultimately (by Jerry Brown no less) discredited soft apple ACORN porn and they buy it. Who cares?
The pussy ass pandering Dems. 345-75. That’s who! They willingly defang some ‘get out the poor vote’ scapegoat target of the wingclowns. Give Pimple Boy the Pulitzer, and maybe a Medal Of Honor for some out-of-context, hollow Handycam, over-produced by Martin Hannity, Nazi Punks Fuck Off video project. Worst pandering since the Iraq War Resolution Funding. 77-23.
All the while, as Chascates points out,
Blackwater/Xe/JesusKillz head honcho Erik Prince goes forth unindicted?
I know the Dems won’t do shit. But, Xe needs to be the last of this perverted alphabet.
They are nothing more than Cheney’s mercenary miltia xian assvodka drinking mules, who in another time would effectively serve Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin.
Fuck Gates Ken, we need to see XE disintegrate!
If Erik Prince ain’t bein’ perp walked, this don’t mean shit. There is not punishment enough for this rich-boy, war-gaming, Christianist bastard. Anything to make a dent in West Michigan’s “Dutch Mafia” is LONG overdue.
[re=558646]GOPCrusher[/re]: [re=558655]Terry[/re]: Let us not forget the Bad Sisters Palin & Bachmann.. I live in a hell-hole full of TeaParty, Sarah-lovin’ twits (aka all-white, ivory-tower, educated, (mostly) rich Republicans (local description of neighborhod is “Tiny Kingdom”). Disclaimer: not my fault; I didn’t marry very well; young and in love at a tender age.
[re=558612]Ken Layne[/re]: Please, please don’t let that be a poorly photoshopped pic of a dog or a mountain lion…. ?? I don’t Think you would, as you are yourself the owner of a fine-looking dog. And mountain lions for the most part mind their own business.
And mountain lions for the most part mind their own business.
Not to be confused with cougars, who rob cradles.
[re=558757]Aurelio[/re]: oh please! Let’s not drag sex into this!!! (teehee!)
Yeah! Fuck Goldman; Fuck Blackwater. Merry Christmas, dammit!
One had to be a backstabbing, racist, all around mean, bloodcurdling cynical, bastard fuck to become a captain at lapd. To make chief from the ranks required knowledge of the worst that man can do to ones fellow man, and I am talking about the people you work with, not the criminals. He lived way too long. Rot in hell.
today’s news was a wonderful jumpstart for my weekend. i’ll be working, but fuck it.
pretty please will the sec go after these fuck-knobs next?
http://www.propublica.org/feature/the-magnetar-trade-how-one-hedge-fund-helped-keep-the-housing-bubble-going
Administrative mistakes were made.
My big boobs say “Waterboard Erik Prince”
Where’s that mutherhumper? They oughtta air drop that christian soldier in Afghanistan without a flak jacket.
[re=558624]GOPCrusher[/re]: The Fortress of Cheneytude?
[re=558781]El Pinche[/re]: and a yarmulke stapled to his head.
[re=558781]El Pinche[/re]: Oh, the bastard is still chairmen of the board of Blackwater (I’ll NEVER call it by its rebranding), but he resigned from being CEO in a move to make some other sucker the eventual fall guy, of course. He’s not just dirty bastard, he’s a coward to boot.
[re=558771]obfuscator[/re]: Sounds like the Magnetar Trade was a kissin cousin of the shit Goldman just got SEC sued for, so there may be hope. On the other hand these fucks can all hire really good lawyers so often they walk. Like those two Bear Stearns hedge fund assclowns just did.
(With apologies to any assclowns who may be offended by my likening them to someone who worked for Bear Sterns.)
[re=558781]El Pinche[/re]: No doubt the feds hope they can put enough pressure on one or more of the indicted tto make them shop Eric out to save their own miserable asses. If this was a drug case prosecutors might well be indicting wives and adult children to up the pressure. In this case I doubt that would help.
“The group also was accused of amassing some 227 short barrels for M4 rifles for their work in Afghanistan and Iraq but U.S. law limits such weapons”
Big whoop, if they didn’t pay the $200 tax per weapon it’ll only be tax violation in the end. But the straw purchases better put them under the jail with a big, horny pervert or ATF will have proven yet again it only targets small-fry morons who hack-saw a barrel off a used shotgun after the undercover ATF ‘agent’ begs and pleads…
Peggy pens pretty prose piece pertaining to pervert priests and pedophile protecting Pope.
For once I agree with Peggy Noonan, except for the whole giving a shit whether the Catholic Church survives or not thing.
LAPD – Cowards.
[re=558786]obfuscator[/re]: and a yarmulke stapled to his [Erik Prince's] head.
That is hilarious, and just too perfect.
[re=558751]LowerdPeninsula[/re]: Too true. I had the pleasure of spending some time in West Michigan and couldn’t get out fast enough. I think the combination of the Dutch Mafia in Holland, the Amway folks in Grand Rapids and the closed “high-society” of East Grand Rapids would make for a fantastic series on HBO. Big Love meets Twin Peaks meets Real Wives with just a dash of The Sopranos thrown in. With a cameo by zombie Gerald Ford.
[re=558697]BlueStateLibtard[/re]: [re=558753]Words[/re]: Ugh, you people. Don’t you know a chupacabra when you see one? Honestly, bone up on your Mexi-monsters already!
[re=558612]Ken Layne[/re]: Is that a picture of a Grapefruit Chupacabra up top?
~
[re=558748]Smoke Filled Roommate[/re]: ; ) I lived in tucson for a few years, so I guess I knew the spanish words LOL.
[re=558790]x111e7thst[/re]: [re=558788]LowerdPeninsula[/re]: [re=558786]obfuscator[/re]: Prince will never be prosecuted. I’m hoping for that unlucky last trip to the “sandbox.” I’m a solemn man, but that jagoff is responsible for too many civilian deaths (mostly “sand niggers” and “ragheads” all in the name of jesus). Off with his head!…dance till you’re dead…heads will roll…ahem, sorry.
By the way, the New York Times wrote an article claiming that Tea-partiers are more educated then the average Americans. Wonkette-worthy news if I ever saw it.
[re=558812]Marxist-Leninist Papist[/re]: Being educated doesn’t automatically make you wise, tolerant, or open-minded. They all probably when to them “Christian shools.”
[re=558812]Marxist-Leninist Papist[/re]:I saw that. It also claimed that ‘baggers are better off and less affected by the current recession. I was puzzled until I remembered all the NY Times articles about the immense stockpiles of WMDs in Iraq.
Cheney, they’re closing in. You’re friend are getting arrested. Maybe you should take a vacation in Argentina.
[re=558812]Marxist-Leninist Papist[/re]:
Blind faith → enlightenment → intelligence.
Personally, I’m VERY disappointed by the Blackwater/Xe arrests.
You’d think that, with all their access and ability to evade regulations, an illegal weapons charge against Xe personnel would involve something more interesting than a bunch of over-the-counter AK-47s (or AK-74s), and some of the short M-4 barrels.
I mean, “Big Deal.” :::Yawn:::
Call me back when someone gets busted for . . . say, an Javelin anti-tank missile fitted with a pistol grip? A Minuteman III ICBM in a shoulder holster? A C96 Broomstick Mauser with the original wooden holster/stock?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mauser_C96
(Particular that last one. Only because, like most of Sensible People, I want one, too.)
Oh, and did you hear that Pakistan is, in the wake of the scathing UN report, launching a new investigation into the death of Benazir Bhutto?
Because, after all this time, she’s Still DEAD?
[re=558667]Tommmcatt[/re]: Someone needs to cripple that fucker.
[re=558817]Servo[/re]: [re=558813]Words[/re]: it’s true for the Oprah set too…
http://www.integralworld.net/anderson2.html
remarkable how many people take this new agey stuff seriously. I mean *seriously*. Nothing’s funnier than a True Believer if your sense of humor is dark enough.
[re=558818]Neilist[/re]: I’ve got a concealed carry permit. Where can I buy one of those Minuteman III ICBMs w/shoulder holster please? It would make those trips to Wal-Mart safer for my family.
[re=558806]user-of-owls[/re]: Yer correct…hell yes, that’s easy…it’s a road kill El Chupacabra…!
http://www.elchupacabra.com/
[re=558825]Gramps[/re]: I know my goat suckers, by gum. Even in Mexicanish.
I am going to save my schadenfreude on the Blackwater indictments until somebody actually gets convicted. My general impression is that US gun laws are so pussified and full of holes that you couldn’t convict John Hinckley of a petty misdemeanor off of them.
[re=558823]Chernobyl Soup[/re]: Soup, old trout: The Minuteman missile itself is hard to get ahold of. But a warhead you can get anywhere.
For starters, I suggest you ask the Pakistani guy running the Slurpee machine down at your local 7/11 Shop ‘n Rob. He probably personally worked with A.Q. Khan back in the day . . . .
. . . you know, back when that Feminist Hero of Democracy, Benazir Bhutto, was lying to us about her government’s violations of the NPT and wholesale transfers of nuclear weapons technology to Iran, North Korea and the other Freedom Loving Peoples?
But don’t look for Ms. Bhutto behind the counter, down by the microwave burrito section or otherwise. She’s Still DEAD . . . .
Can’t be el chupacabra because unlike Benazir Bhutto, they can’t be killed!
[re=558812]Marxist-Leninist Papist[/re]: The only civilized country with any citizen less educated than the average American is the USA.
My boyfriend was in REHAB with Gates’ son… says he was sort of a dick, too.
Which is a surprise, because Tommy LaSorda (manager of the Los Angeles Dodgers) also had a
messed up son… I think he died. But he was very gay and flamboyant.
Both dads were pure 1950′s Los Angeles and Pure Homophobic.
Wonder what Gates’ son is up to these days, maybe not Evil anymore? who knows.
My car got set on fore during the Riots- dumbasses tried to pour gas on the hood and thought it would go up in flames
Anyone worth their salt knows you have to put a rag in the gas tank and light it.
So, it was a Stupid Riot, as well as a destructive and devastating riot. But hey! it brought PAYDAY LOANS to south-central LA,
and also Magic Johnson, for a minute or two–
sr
[re=558802]hockeymom[/re]: No shit. They don’t get noticed because their Christian conservatism is very austere and incredibly insular, but West Michigan is one of the strangest areas in the United States if you ask me. “Closed society” describes it perfectly. You’re welcome there, but if you don’t know anyone (the big, rich families who rule the city from the shaows), you’re basically a nobody in that town.
[re=558684]Lascauxcaveman[/re]: Maybe a pissed-off deputy? I can’t imagine he treats the help any better than he does anyone else.
[re=558614]gurukalehuru[/re]:
DARE was a great program, at least in my “Drugs Are Really Excellent” interpretation of it.
[re=558696]G. Friday[/re]: He might still be around. Unless he ate a bug.
[re=558612]Ken Layne[/re]: I’m with you on this one, Ken. I was an L.A. cop in the seventies and Gates was a dick, IMHO. In fact, one of the reasons I left the job before retirement was that I didn’t like the way the department was headed under Gates. I was gone by the time the various scandals arose in the 80′s and 90′s. But, admittedly from a distance, I was sure that the department had continued to slide under Gates. Then with the King mess he revealed to the world his incompetence and bigotry. I was sad for an organization that used to be admired and respected, and I was glad that I was gone.
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