Respect Blackwater's Authoritah!

By Robert Brodsky

South Park's Eric Cartman has done some pretty heinous things in his short life. He once convinced poor Butters that he was the last person left on Earth, all so he could go to a popular restaurant. And then there was the time that he arranged for a teenager's parents to be killed and then fed them to the boy in chili.

But, now he may have gone too far. From the Washington Impendent :

"Employees of the CIA-connected private security corporation Blackwater diverted hundreds of weapons, including more than 500 AK-47 assault rifles, from a U.S. weapons bunker in Afghanistan intended to equip Afghan policemen, according to an investigation by the Senate Armed Services Committee. On at least one occasion, an individual claiming to work for the company evidently signed for a weapons shipment using the name of a "South Park" cartoon character. And Blackwater has yet to return hundreds of the guns to the military."

Later in the story:

"On one of those occasions, in September 2008, Chief Warrant Officer Greg Sailer, who worked at 22 Bunkers and is a friend of a Blackwater officer working in Afghanistan, signed over more than 200 AK-47s to an individual identified as "Eric Cartman" or possibly "Carjman" from Blackwater's Counter Narcotics Training Unit."

The weapons controversy is sure to come up at today's Senate Armed Services hearing on Blackwater. Lets just hope we don't find out that they had anything to do with killing Kenny.