Good Evening Friends,

We left off last time with the legal position produced by Blackwater, the private military contractor, now known as Z Coroporation - having to do with the deaths of Iraqi civilians, and this was shortly after the Fallujah incident, I believe.

According to independent investigative reporter, Jeremy Scahill, Blackwater said that on the one hand they could not be held liable in a private, civil manner because they were a part of the United States of America "total force." However, on the other hand, they could not be held accountable under the Uniform Code of Military Justice because they're civilian contractors, operative word being 'civilian.'

There are many adjectives one might use to describe such a statement. But we are interested in its philosophical meaning. I would argue that the statement is a linguistic expression - phenomenologically - of the corporate entity of Blackwater and private military contractors in general, midpoint in its transmogrofication from corporate entity to "goverment."

Whaaaat!!!

The "revolving door" of Washington. If the corporate world does not want to destroy government, per se, but replace and become the government, what about the figures who go into government, then the corporate world, then government, then the corporate world, and on and on, so on and so forth?

Bureau-corporatists want to be in government and never want to leave government, per se.
But they also want more money...
But they want to be in 'government,'...
But they want more money....
But they want to be in 'government,'...
But they want more money....

Get the idea? Midpoint in the transmogrofication process.

Next time we'll return to the Corleones in the garden.

wingedcentaur