More than 22,000 mercenaries are operating in Iraq and Afghanistan. These unaccountable hired guns have shot civilians and participated in torture at Abu Ghraib and other detention facilities...for freedom's cause.

Meanwhile, the USA government sides with Laden and Laden-like stiflers of assorted freedoms, always in the name of "security" and to watch for everyday people "of interest" for so much as a non-aggressive religious, political, or personal opinion.

Worse, the only "difference" between military and civilian Courts is that hearsay can be entered in Courts Martial...there's likely enough to convict any 911 conspirators and those resisting their detention without resort to hearsay, but again, the government appears to favor actually cultivating "no cause" as if to encourage Laden's recruitments or encourage a blurring of aid in an Arab civil war...Providence forfend that it should be to aid self-described "freedom fighters" like Professor Dr. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad or Osama bin Laden and the Taliban!


The Stop Outsourcing Security Act, introduced by Rep. Jan Schakowsky in the House (H.R. 4650) and Bernie Sanders in the Senate (S. 3023), would prohibit hiring private mercenaries like Blackwater to perform tasks traditionally done by the military. Let's not oppose this Act's spirit just because some say it isn't en vogue to question authority or seek more than moral and personal nihilism; since when is rational objective weighing of edicts versus results "taboo"?