Blackwater havoc, from Iraq to New Orleans to Portland??
Portland needs full assurance from local and State politicians that Blackwater, or another “security” contractor, is not scheduled to be in Portland during the Top Off / Vigilant Shield terror drill. That company is a destructive force the Neocons and Far Right are relying on to orchestrate the level of chaos that can thwart effective, practical response to repression, violence, and subterfuge. Please read the article below, taken from today’s antiwar.com front page, and think how screwed Portland would be if these lunatics just happened to have been hired for augmented security purposes, during the “largest-ever terrorism drill/exercise”. Per reports from the drill press conference the other day, Michael Chertoff is supposed to be in town for the exercise in terror?! Given that he probably perceives US citizens to be the enemy, perhaps he’ll have a Blackwater contingent for his security… There is no justification for having this terror exercise (see Lie post below, http://portland.i
