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The day after Inner City Press asked both US Ambassador Samantha Power and UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric about the UN Mission in South Sudan giving automatic weapons to warlord James Koang, who killed civilians, a new UN outrage was brought to the attention of Inner City Press and after its publishing and asking about it (video here), was confirmed by the UN.
Since the UN covered up its arming of South Sudan warlord Koang, and refuses to answer written questions including about its use of public funds, we published this report on this we'll follow up:
The UN Assistance Mission in Iraq, UNAMI, under the authority of the UN Department of Safety and Security (DSS), have "lost" 25 weapons from their armory in their base in the Green Zone in Baghdad.
The loss includes 18 Glock 9mm pistols, 5 G36 assault rifles, and 2 G36 sniper rifles. Sources say that 10,000s of thousands of rounds of ammunition are also missing.
DSS only discovered or internally acknowledged this months after the fact and cannot account for their loss. The UN's Fijian Guard Unit have had to start patrolling inside the base.
Source: Inner City Press
Related: Small Arms Survey Sudan [PDF]
Washington Post: Report: U.N. gave arms to South Sudan rebels later implicated in massacre
(Score: 2) by Spook brat on Thursday December 22 2016, @01:02PM
What did I write that makes you think I disagree with you? I'm all for distributed access to violence as a solution, all the way down to the individual. My post was getting a bit long, and I figured it wasn't the time for a treatise on my preferred style of government organization as well.
Besides, "sufficiently organized community" covers a LOT of ground, and leaves ample room for different communities to come up with solutions they feel comfortable with. A corporate "enforcement industry" is an intriguing concept, one that there's certainly space for. Just be careful to make sure that it's not the only game in town - corporations like to grow, and frequently attract sociopaths to leadership positions. I imagine that a sufficiently-sized corporate security firm would be barely distinguishable from a private army, and in the wrong hands could quickly get back to the "taking resources by threat of violence" model we're trying to get away from.
The other AC who responded to you [soylentnews.org] seemed to have the right idea, and I wouldn't mind having them on my team for rebuilding society after an SHTF calamity.
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