@Getz: Unfortunately for your argument, being charged with something doesn't make you automatically guilty. For example, based your lack of reasoning I could make the charge that you are five years old. You might be, I don't really know for certain, but the fact that I have made that charge doesn't mean you are five years old... simply that you I think you lack maturity and the ability to critically think.
In the case of your example, lets go through them one by one.
Weapons smuggling: The investigation has been going on for five years. There have been no convictions.
Drug smuggling: The only web site talking about this was democraticunderground.com . Do you always get your information from propaganda sites? If so I'd recommend doing a little actual research before spouting off what you learned from a bunch of people who don't let the facts get in the way of the truth.
Extortion: Blackwater has not been charged, nor is under investigation for extortion. One of their former employees attempted to extort Blackwater, but somehow I doubt this is what you meant when you said "multiple officials who've been charged with...."
Human Trafficking: I can't find anyone making this claim, looks like you pulled this out of the usual place...? The only reference to Blackwater human trafficking I could find at all was simply using the term to describe their training people and then sending them into a warzone. It had nothing to do with the criminal nature of human trafficking (as in Coyotes smuggling people across the border, or slavery).
Killing Civilians: This is the only part of your post that has even a sliver of truth in it... but we've already talked about this.
What could Blackwater have possible done to outweigh their bad karma? Protected food shipments and medical personnel on humanitarian missions. Protected high level members of foreign governments who were risking their lives to bring stability and peace to their country. Lots of arguments could be made focusing on the positive things Blackwater has done over the negative but doing so would create a post just as stupid as the one I responded to originally.
Blackwater isn't perfect or probably even "good" but I'm tired of idiots spouting off what they heard on a web site that cares nothing about truth and just wants a bunch of mind slaves that will do their bidding and spout their drivel all over the internet. If killing a civilian were the sole basis by which any organization were judged and demonized, particularly in war zones we'd have no more armies, no more red cross, no more police, no more government period... and once we lacked all those things we'd see civilians killed in numbers no one believed possible.
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@Teran: For you to say that my argument was idiotic is silly. It was only 1 sentence, I did not believe it needed elaboration. For you to dismiss Xe's past work as only questionable shows how unattached you are.I like how you imply that game developers that glorify war are on the same level as these monsters. You ignore the difference between actually making money off of killing and making money with a game that has killing in it, which is a complete disregard for logic.
There is nothing questionable about killing peoples mothers and fathers for no reason.
People often do not believe their arguments need elaboration when they have no evidence to back it up. Simply muttering the name "Blackwater" might be enough of a buzzword for you and others who get their propaganda from certain web sites but in the real world it's not. The fact that you think Blackwater glorifies war at all shows how detached from reality you really are.
Blackwater doesn't make money off of killing. They don't get paid a bounty for each dead body, instead they make money off of protecting. Sometimes it is materiel, sometimes it is people. Killing someone just makes their job harder because it brings with it media attention and a degree of scrutiny they'd rather not have, especially after previous controversies.
You talk about the company as though it instigated a conflict and is now profiting off of it. You don't seem to care that they were hired to do a job and continue to receive employment despite earlier controversies. Perhaps your misguided rhetoric is directed at the wrong organization. Video game developers on the other hand aren't typically hired to make a game about a war. They do it because they feel they can glorify it and create a product people will buy.
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