Blackwater Goes The PR Route

Security company will try to pass itself off as warm and fuzzy - Burson - Marsteller needs a lot of lipstick for this pig.



Yeah, it'll be difficult if not impossible to polish this mercenary turd, considering the various slaughters that have been attributed to it's violent and trigger happy personnel. Not to mention the civilian snuff videos from Iraq that companies like Blackwater are proud to shoot.

And to me it was very curious the other day that Rice at the state department felt it necessary to squawk that she would overhaul U.S. diplomatic security practices in Iraq. It was most likely a preemptive move to keep any stifling oversight off the security firm's backs. After all, the people being threatened, wounded and killed are only Iraqi citizens, not the country's occupiers, so why upset the apple cart?
But Rice's proclamations and the hiring of a PR firm is just image management, something fascists are wont to excel at. As are the slimy incestuous relationships between this cabal and corporate sleaze -