tinfoil-hat time

I've just got a few questions, a thought or two that my paranoid little brain came up with. I'm not saying that I believe that these things to be true, but what I have said many times in this blog is this: You dont have to believe in conspiracy theories, but you ignore the ideas contained within them at your own peril. i.e., just because the theory is crazy, dont discount all the ideas contained within. So here are a few of my questions:

1. How many troops are in the Blackwater organization, and how quickly can they be deployed compared to the regular army?
2. How many Blackwater troops have been convicted of violent crimes?
3. How many Blackwater troops are foreign nationals?
4. How easy is it for Blackwater to bring these troops into America?

One of the marks of any two-bit third-world tyranny is an army more loyal to its own needs than to the nation that they supposedly serve. Our own military, I think, is immune from this. But what about a private army, highly paid (sometimes 10X regular army pay), of hidden make-up (corporate secrecy, as the Freedom of Information Act "doesnt apply", even though the corporation does government bidding with government money). Now, I've seen people speculating about the possibility that Dubya could go rogue (yes, you Len) and never thought he could get away with it because I didnt think that the military would go along with it. But now, here's this private army, run by a Right-wing Christian (is he a Fundamentalist?) . Could it be used to stage a coup?

Crazy? Naturally, it's crazy, after all, things like that dont happen in our country. Our government leaders do not lie to us, or give our shrinking tax dollars to their friends, or ignore the will of the majority. And our elections are fair and free, with an emphasis on fair, right? Our press operates independently as the Fourth Branch, providing much needed oversight, rather than mouth-pieces for the government controlled by friends of the administration, yes? So, of course it's crazy to wonder about these things.

Obviously, the guys at the Nation are bit crazy, too. I mean they are liberals, after all.