War contractor sues victim's families to keep them quiet


Procedural tricks to overturn justice

One of the reasons I stress the uniform rule of law all the time is because it is not unusual for people and companies currently employed by the government to ask for special privileges and exemptions from the law. Like American Blackwater in this case.

The families of four American security contractors who were burned, beaten, dragged through the streets of Fallujah and their decapitated bodies hung from a bridge over the Euphrates River on March 31, 2004, are reaching out to the American public to help protect themselves against the very company their loved ones were serving when killed, Blackwater Security Consulting. After Blackwater lost a series of appeals all the away to the U.S. Supreme Court, Blackwater has now changed its tactics and is suing the dead men's estates for $10 million to silence the families and keep them out of court.

That is scary stuff, and at the very least it is abuse of the system.

— NeoWayland

Posted: Mon - June 11, 2007 at 01:54 PM  Tag


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