Anti-drug law could draw 30-year sentence for Blackwater shooters

Anti-drug law could draw 30-year sentence for Blackwater shooters

rawstory.com

Blackwater Worldwide guards who fired on Iraqi civilians in a 2007 massacre that left 17 dead, including young children, may actually meet the business-end of justice.

According to a recent report, the Department of Justice may use an anti-drug law intended to fight the 80's crack epidemic to put the gunmen away for up to three decades, minimum.

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[edit on 5-12-2008 by baseball101]

Interesting ... i always see people bringing up blackwater in many of the threads and how they go about with utter disregard for life and seem to be the us's "ss" ... i thought this would be something that people should see that these blackwater people could be finally getting some cold hard justice served to them

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I don't think Blackwater is the United States SS team, but I do have to say, they do have an interesting habit of appearing in some of the voilitile places. Honestly, military or Merc... I'd do whatever I had to to get the heck outta where I was and get home. Though, their meathods do seem a bit barbaric.

This ain't gonna fly in court. If it does its misusing a law. This reminds me of that line in 'Apocalypse Now'. "Trying to prosecute someone in a war for murder is like giving speeding tickets at the Indianapolis 500"

Zindo

on the yahoo story linked in the quote above they say

The Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1988 law calls for 30-year prison terms for using machine guns to commit violent crimes of any kind, whether drug-related or not.

it seems the attempt to use this law is to implement a heavy sentence, that would normally apply in cases of murder, against the blackwater people, whom they can't convict of murder.

while these guys probably deserve it, i find the spirit of the prosecutors a little distasteful.