This is from Newshoggers.com
Erik Prince, for those who have never heard of him, runs the highly secretive militarist guns-for-hire Blackwater organization. Blackwater has made tons of money in Iraq, among other places, and under the Bush administration got pretty much whatever it wanted and avoided punishment for its dirty deeds.
Newsblogger quotes from an article by Jeremy Scahill at The Nation:
"A former Blackwater employee and an ex-US Marine who has worked as a security operator operative for the company have made a series of explosive allegations in sworn statements filed on August 3 in federal court in Virginia. The two men claim that the company's owner, Erik Prince, may have murdered or facilitated the murder of individuals who were cooperating with federal authorities investigating the company. The former employee also alleges that Prince 'views himself as a Christian crusader tasked with eliminating Muslims and the Islamic faith from the globe,' and that Prince's companies 'encouraged and rewarded the destruction of Iraqi life.'"
Other charges include "smuggling weapons into Iraq" - that is to say, "transporting 'illegal' or 'unlawful' weapons into the country on Prince's private planes."
The first thing that hits me is how money not only corrupts but money combined with the power money gives, corrupts absolutely.
In addition, Prince claims to be a born-again Christian. I don't know if he's affiliated with C Street, but it would fit. He appears to be an elitist commissioned by his god to rule the world and thus is not bound by the law or by what is considered normal human behavior.
Scahill's entire article can be read here. And there is much, much more, including the fact that Bush imposed "gagging orders preventing investigation of the wrongdoings of 70 major companies involved in Iraq ... "
There's another story here (which is where I obtained the above photo).
1 comment:
This guy has been exposed a number of times but so far is still free! He raped the government and a lot of people in the government knew it! He runs his own private army and the government allowed him to do it at our expense. As usual, we got what we voted for. His men had the armored vest and vehicles our soldiers could not get in Iraq. How was that possible? Kids died or are maimed for life because someone did not care enough to get the equipment to our soldiers rather than a private army getting paid very well for taking the same risks our soldiers take for very little pay.
Someday the truth about the Iraq war will come out but it will not bring any kids back to life.
What a disgrace.
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