Bad Business

(Pentagon Contracts to Killers)

There once was a man named Tim Spicer…

Who thought it might be a bit nicer…

To lobby our Feds, for a contract he wed…

Of Two hundred and ninety three million…

See, Tim is the main squeeze at Aegis..

A contract, now just a bit famous..

For security was bought and the contract was sought

To establish defense in our spaces…

But Tim, had a very fine knack…

Shooting innocence right square in the back..

Two guards under he, shot a boy trying to flee..

The nature of hatred, was fact…

So Peter McBride was the child,

Who died on the watch, while Tim smiled…

Shot in the back, without justice attacked

“Shoot the bastard” was quoted in style…

While Tim counts all his fine Greenbacks..

Uncle Sam, taxpayer dollars have been sacked!

We’ve rewarded a killer, whose hands in our tiller

And contracted back to IRAQ!

The pentagon turned a blind eye…

The murder of Peter denied..

To their justification , contract reparation

Tim Spicer now lives rather high…

U.S. Citizens and Patriots unite…

We’ve contracted these losers , in blind site…

What does that have to do… with a contract that’s new?

To a company whose chief has this plight?

See the Army contractor Ms. Sieber…

Should have researched , a little more fiber…

Of the child attacked, who was shot in the back

Under murderous command of Tim Spicer…

The Pentagon must step up to the plate…

And deliver to Aegis their fate…

Of a contract denial…it must be our style

To not compensate these  murderous traits.

Tricia LaRose Vicedomine

Poet

More than fifty private security companies are in Iraq today, with an estimated 20,000 hired guns working for them. Spicer's group is supposed to coordinate them all. And there's one more catch: Spicer appears to have no previous experience handling such a large security operation, nor any ties to Iraq.

Spicer was paid $36 million by the government of Papua New Guinea to suppress a rebellion. His arrival with seventy other mercenaries--most of them South African--prompted riots, and when the army learned that he was paid such an extravagant sum, it launched a coup and arrested Spicer, who was caught carrying $400,000 in cash. Spicer was kicked out of the country, but not before the scandal led to the resignation of its prime minister, Julian Chan, and the collapse of his government.

Sandline International, a now-defunct company Spicer founded and ran, imported more than thirty tons of arms, primarily AK-47 rifles, to Sierra Leone, contravening a UN arms embargo that had been affirmed as British law. The African nation's deposed leader, the pro-British Ahmed Kabbah, had hired Sandline. But when he was caught, Spicer said that the British government had sanctioned his activity.

Spicer's overall record of integrity and business ethics was sufficiently questionable that he was used in 2001 as a case study in a conflict resolution seminar at the University of Birmingham in England. Students learned that Spicer's involvement in Sierra Leone was an example of what not to do in armed conflicts, in which mercenaries only increase violence by spreading small arms, said Jennifer Libster, a graduate student at Birmingham in 2001 who attended the seminar. "The opinion of my professor and consequently mine was that he was incredibly bright and corrupt," Libster said. "These people are basically murderers for hire."

Africa is now the testing ground for this theory. In Sierra Leone, it has won the war for the government against the Revolutionary Front, demanding in return a full franchise on Sierra Leone's diamonds--leading to suspicions that EO is a front for the DeBeers diamond cartel