Blackwater leaving black mark on Armed Forces Bowl

by Dante Atkins (hekebolos) [courtesy of Calitics - Front Page]

You've read before about how Blackwater paratroopers parachuted onto the field at halftime of the SDSU "Fleet Week" game draped in a massive American flag (go check out the video in the link if you think I'm not being perfectly serious).  Well, now we find out that Blackwater is intending on corrupting the Bell Helicopter Armed Forces Bowl (college football game) to be played between Cal Berkeley and the Air Force Academy in Fort Worth, TX on New Year's Eve.

Now, I want to make something perfectly clear.  I have nothing against the Armed Forces Bowl in either product or principle.  What I definitely have a problem with is the fact that a lawless, murderous mercenary organization like Blackwater is being allowed to share the same field as the United States military, one of the proudest, most ethical, most professional, and certainly the most effective fighting forces the world has ever seen.

I don't want Blackwater associating themselves with the good name of our military any more, whether it's at Fleet Week or at the Bell Helicopter Armed Forces Bowl.

If you don't like it either, pass this around and raise some hell.  Ask anyone you know at Berkeley if they're happy that their university will be participating in a promotional event for a lawless mercenary organization.