"A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear."--Marcus Tullius Cicero 42B.C.
THE CONTRACTORS CREEDI am a US contractor. I look out for myself, the operators to my left and right, and no one else. I will always take advantage of the fact that I can finally tell military officers to pack sand, and will do so at every occasion. I am my country’s scapegoat, the "plausible deniability" warrior, and I love it. Less than $700 dollars a day is unacceptable. I am trained to eat things that would make a billy goat puke, but will refuse anything less than 60 dollars per diem because I am greedy. I care not for ribbon’s and awards for valor. I do this job for the opportunity to kill the enemies of my country, and to finally get that boat I’ve always wanted. I will be in better shape than 99% of the active duty personnel, although this is not hard. I will equip myself with the latest high speed gear, and will trick out my M4 until it weighs more than a 24 lb, not because it works better, but because it looks cool in the photographs. I will carry more weapons, ammunition, and implements of death on my person, than an infantry fire team, and when engaged I will lay waste to everything around me. In any combat zone, I will always locate the swimming pool, beer, and women, because I can. I will deploy on my terms, and if it ever gets too stupid, I will simply find another company that pays me more.
Integrity - Zao - Negative Approach - Gorilla Biscuits - The Black Dahlia Murder - As The Sun Sets - Risen - Hellchild - The Esoteric - Stiff Little Fingers - 7 Seconds - Cast From Eden - Strife/Angermeans - Where Fear And Weapons Meet - The Tossers - Dick Dale - Eyes Upon Separation - Maroon - CCR - Bodycount - Dillinger Escape Plan - The Pogues - The Nips / Nipple Erectors - From A Second Story Window - Youth Of Today - KRS-ONE - Crowpath - The Damned - November Coming Fire - Arsis - Quicksand - Thug Murder / Last Target - Boys From The County Hell - Richard Wilhem Wagner - MC5 - Kiss the Cynic - Grandmaster Flash - Absence - Evergreen Terrace - The Explosion - Caliban - ODB - Star of Earendil - Johnny Cash - Duke Ellington - The Refused - The 5,6,7,8's - Nasum - Nueva Etica - '68 Comeback Special - The Agony Scene - Red Roses For A Blue Lady - As I Lay Dying - Botch - Replicant Impulse - Converge - The Drifters - Billy Idol - Bodies in the Gears of the Apparatus - Billie Holiday - Coalesce - State of Alert - The Slackers - Earth Crisis - DEADGUY - John Lee Hooker - Luddite Clone - The Cadillacs - The Cro-Mags - Pig Destroyer - Desmond Dekker - Suicidal Tendencies - Agoraphobic Nosebleed - Minor Threat / Fugazi - Misfits / Samhain / Danzig (Fuck the misfits w/o Glen) - Sizzla - Redemption 87 - Doreen Shaffer - Dag Nasty - Robert Gordon - Link Wray - Some Girls - Capleton - Dion and the Belmonts - Shane MacGowan & the Popes - Alec Empire - Hanin Elias - Conflict - Drowningman - Warzone - Filthy Theiving Bastards - Government Issue - The Faction - Beneath the Wheel - Afterproject
Leon the Professional, Heat, Dr. Strangelove, Shallow Grave, The Shining, Shaun Of the Dead (pretty much if its a movie about dead people who get back up and walk again, I probably like it), Bladerunner, Blue Velvet, Mulholland Dr., Ghost in the Shell, Zatoichi, Sonatine, Hana-bi, Yojimbo, Lost in Translation, Requiem for a Dream, American Psycho, The Machinist, L.A. Confidential, etc.
Ayn Rand, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, David Horowitz, Indeh, In the Days of Victorio, Philip K. Dick, Ishi, Aldous Huxley, Orwell, Hemingway, the Glorious Qu'ran, The Age of Reason
"For sale: baby shoes, never worn."-Hemingway ----------------- "So much the better. We shall fight in the shade."-Dienices