Serviam hits the stands...

...and my mailbox! Today our little company received the charter issue of a new magazine, Serviam. Here is their mission statement:

Serviam's mission is to provide accurate and actionable information about private sector solutions to promote global stability. We address users and consumers of private goods and services in the humanitarian relief, national development, security and military sectors; government and private providers of such goods and services; and government entities involved in decisions that determine or influence trends in this growing industry.

You may recall an incident involving the magazines editor, J. Michael Waller. Several years ago an article he wrote in Insight Magazine came under fire because of a quote attributed to President Abraham Lincoln. Mr Waller wrote the following:

"Congressmen who willfully take action during wartime that damage morale and undermine the military are saboteurs, and should be arrested, exiled or hanged," that's what President Abraham Lincoln said during the War Between the States.

But, guess what? President Lincoln never said that. FactCheck.org asked Mr Waller about this quote and he responded thus:

The supposed quote in question is not a quote at all, and I never intended it to be construed as one. It was my lead sentence in the article that a copy editor mistakenly turned into a quote by incorrectly inserting quotation marks.

He's obviously not learned much since that debacle. It would seem that he fancies himself a historian. In the charter issue of Serviam he writes, PSCs in America: 400 Years and Counting. PSC, for those not "in the know", are private security contractors. The article traces the importance of PSCs throughout American history, asserting that many American heroes began their service as PSCs, including Captain John Smith, George Washington, Myles Standish, Allan Pinkerton, and others.

I'm not linking to the magazines site, but you can find it easily enough - serviam magazine dot com.

Guess we shouldn't have sold those Velcro brand products to noir eau!