Private mercenary armies like
Blackwater were hired as a part of George W. Bush’s prosecution of war by fraud
and deception in order to lessen the political impact of employing huge number
of troops. Now, those armies have become
the norm. Where will they go next? I’m sure their activities continue somewhere
in the world besides Iraq and Afghanistan.
Could they be hired and used against ordinary Americans as surrogates in
future Wacos or incidents like the Bonus March of 1932?
During times in which the two party
system rules there will be no need of the services of mercenaries to eliminate
opposition in the traditional sense. The
rigged election process does that. Things
will go on as usual, but what would happen in the aftermath of an irreversible economic
crash, calamity (Katrina) or a national uprising against the government when it
functions no longer? Will the Democrats
and Republicans go silently into the night to be replaced by new and inevitable
powers that have been fashioned? In such
times would the Media, the mother of both, create its own socialist private
army like Hitler’s SA?
During Reconstruction after the Civil
War the most extreme precedent of hiring private partisan armies to subdue and
persecute American citizens became a reality.
Radical Republicans corned the market on it. In 1870 in South Carolina Governor Robert K.
Scott armed 7,000 Negroes with Winchesters and recruited James E. Kerrigan’s
New York gunmen. In Louisiana Governor
Henry Clay Warmoth created the Militia Bill as a way to subject white
Southerners. If that didn’t work, he
could always call in official Federal bayonets and Gatling guns. In Arkansas
Governor Powell Clayton created another Republican Negro militia backed by
mountain gunmen. In Mississippi Governor
Adelbert Ames created his black militia.
Private armies have ingrained
themselves into the American political scene to such as extent that I predict
their future role will be as political catalysts for better or worse. The American breakup looms closer every day. In the meantime our national cohesiveness as
a people depends on those who look beyond the purse of the old corrupters and
who will not sink to the level of morphing into another SA, Black Shirt, Gestapo
(national police), or Cheka.
