It’s probably music to the ears of many to hear the detention camps at Guantánamo Bay Naval Base will be closed under executive orders by President Barack Obama.

After one dark embarrassing chapter in our history has been closed, it feels right to end another one. All that is left is for President Obama to shut down Blackwater Worldwide, along with any similar organizations, just like Nelson Mandela did in South Africa.

Allowing a business such as Blackwater to operate is evidence the economy is on the border of entering a market of anarchy, where stocks for a mercenary army are available on Wall Street.

There are those who claim that Blackwater is a “private security contractor” (it could be assumed that they don’t know the definition of the word mercenary).

But this claim is frivolous, since they operate like a real military, and I have yet to see mall cops wearing Kevlar vests and patrolling the food court with assault rifles.

The most obvious problem with Blackwater is that because they’re mercenaries, they are labeled as an unlawful organization according to United Nations Resolutions 44/34.

According to Article 47 of the Geneva Code, mercenaries are labeled as unlawful combatants and are not entitled to the same treatment as prisoners of war.

One would think that such an organization would try and hire professionals, but instead, they take any sociopath who feels he or she did not get a chance to kill enough in the real military.

With probably two weeks of training Eric Prince has his own platoon of trigger-happy drunks who think they’re the best mercenaries since Mike Hoare or Bob Denard.

The results, thanks to a little immunity law, were that mercenaries could enjoy a few shots while going on a little killing spree during their happy hour. Or they exercised crowd control by opening fire at innocent civilians.

Finally there is the issue of loyalty and where it truly belongs. It should be obvious that anyone who enlisted into the United States military did it because they felt it was an obligation to serve their nation.

But where does a Blackwater mercenary’s loyalty belong? Is it to their wallet or Prince? Being a business, there is more of a loyalty to their investors rather than to any state that employs their service.

If an army like Blackwater is allowed to continue to make a profit at literally the life of another, then what’s stopping someone from starting up their own assassin firm? Since Prince is allowed to have his own private army, there is most likely another entrepreneur who would love to have an army of assassins at his or her disposal.

Yet the worst-case scenario would be if Blackwater were offered a contract to overthrow a legal government, and put in its place a puppet regime, like what Sir Mark Thatcher tried to do in Equatorial Guinea.

With Executive Outcome now just a memory, any regime could use Blackwater to assist their own military in putting down civil unrest in cites or to help wage a war against a neighboring country.

In a world where conflicts will be breeding, thanks to humanities, greed and an army of gun for hires, all we can do is sit back and watch the world burn.