Have I got this right? Is this arrogant motherfucker the guy who saw his company grow from .......

[Stinky The Clown]

..... a few hundred thousand in fees before the Iraq war to hundreds of millions today?


Erik Prince/Blackwater CEO

He's essentially sitting before a Congressional committee and being as arrogant and disrespectful as anyone I've ever seen.

Mr. Prince, you win the Prick of the Week Award.

You deserve a long prison spell. As to your prior military service as a US Navy Seal ..... fuck it. You've DISearned any respect you may have thought you garnered.

You Arrogant Motherfucker.

[babylonsister]

1. What you said; he is an arrogant prick. nt

[Dr.Phool]

32. He gives us normal pricks a bad name.

[Hutzpa]

140. America gave rise to arrogant prick n/t

:evilgrin:

[AndyA]

2. You said it all.

Agreed.

Prick of the Week is better than he deserves.

[unhappycamper]

3. "You Arrogant Motherfucker."

That sums it up nicely. :thumbsup:

[bdamomma]

6. aren't they all arrogant m'fers.

[ashling]

47. Hey motherfucker, get me some iced tea!

ops, wrong thread

:sarcasm:

[SusanaMontana41]

80. Me too, but take your time ...

no rush ... no loofahs ...

[BOSSHOG]

4. Hey he's a christian conservative supporter of republicans

And no doubt he's pro-life.

Every religion has to have their armed terrorist group, Blackwater is christianity's terrorist army. Where will their guns point next.

[Golden Raisin]

12. With a private army of his own.

Storm-troopers anyone?

[The Wizard]

102. Get the brown shirts

out of moth balls, polish the jack boots and warm up the ovens. Happy days are here again. Uber Feurhers Cheney and Busch have restored order. Are the train running on time yet? This way to the showers. Where's Franz Leipkund when you need him?

[hobbit709]

122. More like Ernst Roehm and his SA

[Thothmes]

154. Probably not. Roehm was gay

[hobbit709]

159. Aren't a lot of republicans in the closet?

[Golden Raisin]

148. And Halliburton already has

that dandy (undoubtedly no-bid) contract for domestic internment camps.

[janetle]

14. Ha! Pro-life. The hypocrisy!

[The Backlash Cometh]

100. Have you noticed how incredibly profitable it is to be a Christian conservative

supporter of Republicans?

[RoccoR5955]

125. He's about as pro-life....

...as most of us are pro hemorrhoids! This one pimple on the butt of humanity that should be popped!

Lock this creep up and throw away the key, along with the rest of his parent company, Bushco, Inc.

[whistle]

5. The Cspan online broadcast link is very unstable it keeps shuttig down on me

[bdamomma]

7. yea,it does for me too.

[sinkingfeeling]

8. I heard this morning that Blackwater has over $1 billion in contracts.

[opihimoimoi]

9. This is a guy who wants the "war" to continue...PROFITS BEFORE COUNTRY

He could care less how this is ruining our Nation...If his boys are doing $1000 per day...what then is his take per day?

[ClayZ]

11. How can he sleep at night?

[opihimoimoi]

22. Like a baby of course....laughing all the way to the Bank.....

[Auntie Bush]

72. Very soundly on his ten foot high king sized fluffy mattress filled with

shredded $1000 bills! Trouble is...he has to take a wad of Ambien pills because his conscience keeps rapping him on the backside if his head with an AK-47.

(Silly post but it was fun visualizing)

[dickbearton]

42. Exactly, He is a war profiteer...

During WW2. war profiteers were put behind bars, that is were
he belongs.

[Raster]

51. He's a war profiteer just like cheney* and a myriad of other bush* associates.

Yes, in World War II FDR and Congress put stiff penalties on war profiteering. Today the Executive Branch ARE the war profiteers and Congress are the collaborators.

Wake up America!:kick:War profiteers and collaborators!

[dorktv]

70. no, TRUMAN was the reason that those guys were nailed.

FDR was worried it would undermine the war effort-but it actually saved the US billions.

[Raster]

76. noted. my point is that at least there were regulations against profiteering.

I think Bill Maher made the statement Iraq isn't like Viet Nam, it's like ENRON.

[hobbit709]

123. War profiteers should be put on the front with no support

[Just-plain-Kathy]

69. He’ll be our next Department of Defense Secretary...

We’ll just call him “Little Cheney”.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

105. Little Dick n/m

[KalicoKitty]

114. He is Dick (DeVoid) DeVos' brother-in-law.

DeVos ran for Governor of Michigan last election. He is Mr. Amway-aka SCAMway.

RICH repukers!!!

"The DeVos family's contributions to Republican causes over the past 15 years is almost legendary.

Led by patriarch Rich DeVos, whose personal wealth has been estimated at $3.5 billion, the family has supported some of the largest, most influential conservative and Christian organizations in the U.S. - and given some of the biggest political donations.

DeVos and Jay VanAndel cofounded the Amway Corp. in Ada, near Grand Rapids, in 1959. The company was based on a direct-sales network marketing home and personal care products.

Amway, its parent company, Alticor and their family owners have given at least $7.5 million to federal campaigns since 1990. All of it went to Republicans and most was soft money - cash or assets given to political action committees or parties and not directly to candidates or their committees."

More:


http://www.wzzm13.com/news/elections/election_article.aspx?storyid=56325

[Bluerthanblue]

10. yeah, "war is hell"

of a good way for him to make a killing financially-

And he is called a 'born again christian'.

what a sad witness he makes on all counts.


:shrug:

[sicksicksick_N_tired]

13. WAS a Navy Seal. NOW a merc,...just a greedy effin' merc!!! eom

[Warpy]

15. When did it become legal for a rich man to raise his own army?

A sane country would have gotten rid of this piece of shit years ago.

He's raising his personal army of Christian soldiers for Armageddon. Yes, he's one of those.

[xchrom]

16. i LOVE it when you are on fire like this! recommend.

[Bitwit1234]

17. Yep like Halliburton he got rich on the war.

Halliburton, when cheney left was on the verge of bankruptcy. When bush invaded a neutral country and started a war, he gave cheney's old company all the no-bid contracts and the worth has soared. Now they move out of the country to defer dectection of their crookedness.

[dickbearton]

44. Put the war profiteers behind bars were they belong.

[SharonAnn]

78. And to avoid paying taxes. US Treasury pays them, they don't pay taxes.

isn't that a sweet deal?

[daninthemoon]

136. And blew cheney's personal stock threw the roof.

[formerrepuke]

18. "Blackwater considers itself a partner to the Dept of Defense and all Govt agencies..."

Erik Prince, 2006

http://content.hamptonroads.com/story.cfm?story=107985&ran=89575

God damn.. this guy is RW creep to the core, isn't he?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erik_Prince

[Nimrod2005]

19. Guantanamo?

Under Castro's rule?

[lonestarnot]

20. Arrogant Motherfucker is right!

[Raster]

21. Onward Christian Soldiers....er, Mercenaries...

Yes-sir-ee, killing for Christ! Thank you Eric Prince!

[earth mom]

23. This is the mo fo that is no doubt gonna run the detention camps.

:puke:

[hobbit709]

124. Wouln't he look perfect in a SS officer's uniform?

[leftofthedial]

24. christist repuke fascist scum

a concise and articulate snapshot of what is miserably, utterly fucked up about this country today

[1776Forever]

25. $92,000,000.00 Presidential Airways, Inc., (d/b/a Blackwater) DOD contract -

http://www.defenselink.mil/contracts/contract.aspx?contractid=3614

DOD - 92 Million awarded to Blackwater -

Presidential Airways, Inc., an aviation Worldwide Services company (d/b/a Blackwater Aviation), Moyock, N.C., is being awarded an indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity (IDIQ) type contract for $92,000,000.00. The contractor is to provide all fixed-wing aircraft, personnel, equipment, tools, material, maintenance and supervision necessary to perform passenger, cargo and combi Short Take-Off and Landing air transportation services between locations in the Area of Responsibility of Afghanistan, Kyrgyzstan, Pakistan and Uzbekistan. This contract was competitively procured and two timely offers were received. The performance period is from 1 October 2007 to 30 September 2011. The United States Transportation Command Acquisition Directorate, Scott Air Force Base, Ill., is the contracting activity (HTC7 11 -08-D-0010).

[Divine Discontent]

36. yeah, can you believe it???

what's the senate gonna do about this? this man is a THREAT to America and our constitution. He has his own private frickin army for God's sake!

I don't say this very often at all, but I seriously think he's far from really believing anything about Jesus' teachings. He's one of the merchants selling his wares in the church that upset Jesus that he flipped their tables over because of their falseness!


I rebuke this arrogant prick and his cohorts, and televangelist scum who disgrace the church of Jesus Christ.


COME ON CONGRESS, get on the ball and slam this cheating prick who has blood all over his body, forget about his hands!

[HughMoran]

26. Murder by proxy

He can easily be implicated...

[tekisui]

27. Killing pays.

He is benefiting, but shrub, State Dept. and Congress are facilitating.

[yellerpup]

28. Kick his butt, Stinky!

This is the outfit responsible for the debacle in Fallujah--second in line to the FU in Chief.

[gademocrat7]

29. You nailed it.

[Name removed]

30. Deleted message

Message removed by moderator. Click here to review the message board rules.

[L0oniX]

31. This is an example of what our military breeds and turns loose on society

Bush and his military have turned us all into killers for money.

[rcsl1998]

33. Ollie the Second (nt)

[tom_paine]

34. Probably dreaming about "Execute Congress Plan Black Option Three"

You know, where a "terrorist attack" knocks it out and Citizen Corps Councils and Shadow Government rule Amerika.

That is one sick Nazi-Xtian Reconstructionist murderer, there.

[Stinky The Clown]

35. Fresh Prince of McLean

McLean, VA, being the offices he occupies ..... not the 'office' down in North Carolina.



Prince Group, LLC
1660 International Dr
Mc Lean, VA , 22102-4848
Phone: nnn.nnn.nnnn
FAX: nnn.nnn.nnnn
Website: www.princegroup.com

[Divine Discontent]

37. oh and K&R for SURE! n/t

[Totally Committed]

38. Kick!

When you're right, Stinky, you're right!

TC

[jgraz]

39. Hey, if you owned the most well-equipped and ready military within U.S. borders...

You could afford to be arrogant, too. Especially if you operated with the blessings of the Dictat ..er.. Executive branch.

[spanone]

40. that's filty rich arrogant motherfucker

[defendandprotect]

41. Actually, I didn't notice arrogance and I was looking for it --

obviously, he feels secure -- but I'm not sure totally secure.

If you wanted to see "arrogance" -- frightening arrogance -- it was the official who came in the morning after the Exxon Valdez . . . . whoa

Not only arrogant but his demeanor kind of said . . . . "I'll be here and all of you people will be gone."

Granted -- the whole mercenary thing stinks --
the message is these guys won't serve in our own military -- we don't pay enough?

but the message is clear: No one wants to serve in our military unless forced into it by poverty or stupidity!!!

I'm wondering if mercenaries are even more dangerous for us than a DRAFT?

[RaleighNCDUer]

79. "I'm wondering if mercenaries are even more dangerous for us than a DRAFT?"

Absolutely!

I grew up in the era of the draft and it was not nearly as onerous as some would have us believe. Even with VN in full swing, most draftees served their two years, never saw combat, then got out. And most draftees served well and honorably. The draft was not the cause of the disasters in the military in the 60s - it was fighting an unjust war that made for a lousy, demoralized military. Just like today.

Mercenaries, OTOH, are answerable only to the bucks, and the guy who pays them. As someone noted above, it would not be DHS or INS who will be running detention camps in the US - it will be Blackwater or one of their ilk. Mercenaries not responsible to the government or the public, but to their commander, who may be Prince, or some guy who thinks he is a prince. No accountability.

They claim to be American patriots, but so did the murderers of The Order.

[defendandprotect]

81. Wonderful comments --

Rightly, when you can't raise a military to fight a war, that should be the end of it --
and this "private" way to run a war should be stopped --

Where did they get the authority to do this?
I guess the founders didn't think to prohibit it?

[Lasher]

91. Since you think the draft in the 60s & 70s was no big deal...

I'll be you are not one of us who were drafted.

[PassingFair]

108. Obviously not one of the 55,000 who DIED, either. n/t

[RaleighNCDUer]

141. I didn't say it was no big deal. I said it wasn't as big a deal as

it is now made out to be.

I was raised as a civilian-military brat, and a high percentage of people I was aquainted with growing up were draftees. And those I knew in my years on Navy or AF bases, many enlisted in those services to avoid being drafted. A lot of those draftees, and enlistees, went on to become lifers. I, myself, had a high draft number, but enlisted in the Marines three years later after dropping out of college. I am not unfamiliar with the concept of the draft.

If you are old enough to have been drafted for VN, then you must remember the mindset of the days before VN. Being drafted in the 50s and early 60s meant taking a couple years out, maybe going to Europe or Japan, then coming home. Everybody did it. Even Elvis. The tragedy of the draft was not in being forced to serve, but in being forced to serve in an illegal war, travelling to distant lands to kill people who never offended us. It wasn't the draft that was intrinsically wrong, it was the war. If the draft itself was the problem, there would have been millions on the streets in WW2, when ten times the VN numbers were drafted.

I'm just saying that there are problems with a draft if the cause is wrong, but the problem is not with the quality of soldiers it produces. And without a draft we must figure out how to deal with a military that is powerful enough to defend us OR to seize power for itself, which a conscript military could never be counted on to do because they are us. I was raised around our military, and served in the military, but today a part of me fears our military - something I never expected.

[quiet.american]

43. Why not be arrogant when Bushco is telling him he's got nothing to worry about.

I think we all know by now absolutely nothing will come of this, except that this guy will either receive a coveted ambassadorship/billions more in contracts/a medal signifying one of the highest honors in the land/will decide to campaign to become a Senator or Congressman and will coast to victory with the blessings of the NRA.

[subsuelo]

45. how can any sane person not conclude that Blackwater is a terrorist organization?

[OzarkDem]

46. For pride goeth before the fall

and shame cometh after.

We'll see these guys sharing a cell with the Dukester before its all over.

[vssmith]

48. Erik's connection to Dick DeVos

If you follow Michigan politics you know we had a Republican running for governor named Dick DeVos. His father started Amway (many call it Scamway). Luckily, the voters of my state rejected him in favor of Jennifer Granholm. His wife had previously been the head of the Republican party in Michigan. She said at one time that, “the problem with Michigan is that people make too much money here.” Spoken like a true multi-billionaire. Her maiden name is Prince and she has a brother named Erik who owns a company called Blackwater. Erik went to Hillsdale College in Hillsdale, MI, perhaps the most conservative college in the country.

[vanboggie]

64. That's right

and Betsy Prince DeVos is just as arrogant as her brother.

[Octafish]

74. Absolutely, vssmith. DeVos and Prince families are scAmway Billionaires.

... ignorant, inbred pyramid schemers and Bible thumpers fused with NAZI if-you're-not-Dutch-you're-not-much KKK turds.

Voucher Warriors

Dick DeVos:
Major donor to right-wing politicians

DeVos political connections have been equally well nurtured by DeVos money. DeVos family political contributions totaled more than $2.3 million in 2003 and 2004, including more than $1.8 million to party committees in Michigan. In 1998, DeVos founded Restoring the American Dream, a PAC that funded right-wing Republicans, anti-choice PACs, and other Republican PACs. In all, the PAC gave a total of $465,955 to Republican candidates over four election cycles (from 1998 to 2000).<14>

The Board of Advisors of the PAC includes DeVos's father, Rich DeVos; rejected Supreme Court nominee Robert Bork; Tom Monahan, Domino's pizza founder and a prominent anti-choice activist; and former Reps. Steve Largent (R-OK) and J.C Watts (R-OK).

As important as these contributions are to the Republican Party, they pale in comparison to the history of corporate contributions of the Amway Corporation. Up until the time new campaign finance laws changed so-called "soft" money rules that allowed unlimited corporate donations to political parties, Amway was one of the largest contributors of soft money to the Republican Party and GOP candidates. According to the watchdog group Common Cause, Amway and affiliated donors made soft money contributions to the RNC totaling $4,147,000 between January 1, 1991, and June 30, 1997.<15>

In the 2000 national election, Amway was the second largest contributor of soft money to the Republican party. Amway has helped Republican candidates in other ways as well. For example, that same year, the George W. Bush campaign used Amway's voicemail network to broadcast its message to tens of thousands of Amway/Quixtar distributors with a "personal voicemail message" from Bush.<16>

In 2004, Amway donors gave heavily to newly created 527s helping to fund groups like the ultra-conservative, anti-tax group "Progress for America." In addition to their donations to this and other groups in 2004, the Amway/Alticor Inc PAC directly donated $30,000 to Republicans running for federal office. So far this year, the AmWay/Alticor PAC has again directly donated $13,800 to Republicans. In recent years, the PAC has been funded exclusively by the DeVos family and executives of the two corporations.<17>

SOURCE:

http://www.pfaw.org/pfaw/general/default.aspx?oid=21903

PS: A most informative reply, yours. A hearty welcome to DU, vssmith!

[vssmith]

129. Blackwater's connection to the Bush family

Turns out Joseph Schmitz, COO & general counsel of the Prince Group, Blackwater's parent company, is married to one Lucila Garnica Gallo, Colomba Bush's sister (Jeb Bush's wife).

[Octafish]

152. That fact deserves its own thread.

Please post that important information, my Friend from the Great Lakes State.

If you don't mind, I'm going to use it as inspiration and add to my small series, "Know your BFEE."


Know your Bush Family Evil Empire



Know your BFEE: Scions of the Military Industrial Complex

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x1766663


Know your BFEE: Spawn of Wall Street and the Third Reich

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=389&topic_id=872755


Know your BFEE: Money Trumps Peace. Always.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x250447


Know your BFEE: They kill good soldiers like Col. Ted Westhusing for profit...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x126094


Know your BFEE: America’s Ruling Gangster Class

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x2969845


Poppy Bush brought up JFK Assassination and ''Conspiracy Theorists'' at Ford Funeral

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x3029417


Know your BFEE: Robert Gates did more than keep the doors open at BCCI

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x2810465


Know your BFEE: The Fellowship ‘Preys’ for America

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=364&topic_id=2591203&mesg_id=2591203


Sink the BFEE: Foley gives us Congress. Condi sends 'em to prison.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=364&topic_id=2401056


Beat the BFEE: Poppy’s CIA warned about terror plots and did not stop them

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=364&topic_id=2418621


Know your BFEE: Los Amigos de Bush

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x2214484


Know your BFEE: Neil Bush hangs out with Russian Mafiya Godfather

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=364&topic_id=2082945


Know your BFEE: Poppy Bush was in Dallas the day JFK was assassinated.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=364&topic_id=1946852


Know your BFEE: Nazis couldn’t win WWII, so they / Bushes.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=364&topic_id=1547206&mesg_id=1547206


Know your BFEE: At every turn, JFK was opposed by War Party

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=364&topic_id=1366764


Know your BFEE: Lies Are the Currency of Their Realm

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=364&topic_id=1170858


Know your BFEE: Cheney & Halliburton Sold Iran Nuke Technology

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=364&topic_id=928662


Know your BFEE: The Stench of Moussaoui Permeates the Octopus

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=364&topic_id=757860&mesg_id=757860


Know your BFEE: Moussaoui Must Die for Bush and 'His' Government

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=364&topic_id=602016


Know your BFEE: Alito is just another word for Mussolini

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=364&topic_id=266685



What the heck, this belongs here, too:


BFEE Turd Daniel Pipes tied to DANISH CARTOONS

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=364&topic_id=417774


Know your BFEE: Like a NAZI

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=364&topic_id=133897


Know your BFEE: The China-Bush Axis

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=5333644


Know your BFEE: Bush and bin Laden Clans Together in Bed

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=5280903


Know your BFEE: Libby Is the First Big BFEE Turd to Go Down

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=5233814


Know your BFEE: WHIG (White House Iraq Group) made phony case for Iraq War

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=5077403


Know your BFEE: The Secret Government

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=5027094


Know your BFEE: Reinhard Gehlen

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=4863411&mesg_id=4863411


Know your BFEE: Poppy Bush Armed Saddam

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=4813493


Know your BFEE: Killer Businessmen who put Power and Profit before Country

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=4401300


Know your BFEE: Nixon Threatened to Nuke Vietnam

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=3953519


Know your BFEE: Corrupt Craftsmen Hoover and Dulles

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=3908104


Know your BFEE: Poppy’s CIA Made Saddam Into the Butcher of Baghdad

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=3853409


Know your BFEE: Hitler’s Bankers Shaped Vietnam War

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=3832033&mesg_id=3832033&page=


Know your BFEE: Merchants of Death

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=3743890


Know your BFEE: R. James Woolsey, Turd of War


http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=3699042


Know your BFEE: Sneering Dick Cheney, Superturd-Superrich-Supercrook

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=3627538


Know your BFEE: Bush Lied America into War

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=3601654


Know your BFEE: James R Bath – Bush – bin Laden Link

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=3571293&mesg_id=3571293&page=


Know your BFEE: War Profiteers

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=3493251


Know your BFEE: Dead Men Tell No Tales

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=3389867


Know your BFEE: Bush and bin Laden Clans Together in Bed

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=5280903


Know your BFEE: Rev. Sun Myung Moon OWNS Poppy Bush

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=3355939


Know your BFEE: Homeland Czar & Petro-Turd Bernie Kerik

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=2788428


Know your BFEE: American Children Used in Radiation Experiments

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=3312956


Know your BFEE: Eugenics and the NAZIs - The California Connection

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=2511192


Know your BFEE: The Barreling Bushes

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=2472759


Know your BFEE: A Crime Line of Treason

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=2748315


Know your BFEE: How Smirko Got Rich

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=2529964


Know your BFEE: George W Bush did "community service" at Project P.U.L.L.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=2956067


Know your BFEE: Vote Suppressor Supreme, the Turd Bill Rehnquist

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=2414083


Know your BFEE: George W Bush Knew 9-11 Was Coming and Did NOTHING!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=2404049


Know your BFEE: Oliver North, Drug Dealer

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=2396787


Know your BFEE: Pat Robertson Incorporated a Gold Mine with a Terrorist

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=2397004



These aren’t labeled “Know Your BFEE,” but they’re meant in the same spirit:


Poppy Bush Involved in JFK Assassination -- BFEE's Spooked!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=3274455


Vietnam and Iraq Wars Started by Same People

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=3193142


JFK Would NEVER Have Fallen for Phony INTEL!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=5501005&mesg_id=5501005


Plame Affair makes clear: USA is run by TRAITORS.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4200507


BFEE Is More than Capable of Bombing Their Own Countrymen

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=4045149

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=125x46709


And for all my friends in those hard-to-reach areas:

A Short History of Conspiracy Theory

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=4086438

[Eurobabe]

112. Do you have a link or proof for that?

Unfucking-believable. (That Dicky's wife is Prince's sister) :hi:

Thanks!

[vssmith]

131. Your link

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erik_Prince

[Eurobabe]

158. Wow this guy is SOME Christian eh? Making a living out of

killing people.

The Bush Ranger connections sure take care of their own, don't they? :puke:

[Odin2005]

49. This merchant of death deserves to be haning on the end of a rope.

[Thothmes]

53. end of a rope

I am going to presume that you mean after he has been duly indicted for a captiol felony offense, tried by a legally constituted jury, found guilty based on real evidence, then sentenced by the court. Or are you for just lynching the guy.

[Odin2005]

62. The former, obviously.

Though my gut makes me want to say the latter...

[KT2000]

50. Yeah!!

You said it!

I kept thinking - I wish he had to sit with photos of his home and cars, pre-Iraq war and his home and cars now, while he testified.

[provis99]

52. Nothing but a degenerate mercenary

If Osama bin Laden cut him a better deal with more profits, he and his boys would be happily training terrorists to kill American soldiers.

[MissWaverly]

54. 200,000 to a billion, and it's all on our tax dollars

[defendandprotect]

82. Olbermann said something interesting on this tonight . . ...

KO kind of intimdated -- if I heard him correctly -- that because they are a "private" firm...
the Congress/public might decide not to pay all the way on the contracts .. . . ???
Did anyone else get that impression -- ????

Many of the Halliburton contracts have had no ceiling!!!
I didn't hear if that was going on with Blackwater . . .. ?

[MissWaverly]

151. I have had that in the back of my mind

If they can prove wrongdoing can any of these payments be rolled back. I wonder. Also with only 800 some employees in
Iraq and their training sessions, how did they go from 200,000 to a billion of our tax dollars, for what???

[defendandprotect]

153. For one minor money making deal . . . soldiers said they were being charge $100 for a bag of laundry

and it would come back unwashed -- pretty much the way it was sent out -- full of dust and yuck.
And, they couldn't refuse to send their laundry!!!!

[MissWaverly]

157. yes, or the moldy tents or undrinkable water

can we get the money back for this fraud.

[mod mom]

55. I realize he is paid by the pentagon, but CAN'T CONGRESS DEFUND THESE THUGS?

AND DISARM THEM!

[Thothmes]

106. Believe he is paid by the State Department

[End Of The Road]

56. Hey, it's not just a mercenary ARMY

Rumor has it that Blackwater is working on acquiring an air force as well. And I'm not talking about that airline they've got.

http://www.declineandfall.net/2007/08/coming-to-state-near-you-blackwater-air.html

Sorry for the crappy link. I've read about this elsewhere, but can't find it right now.

[mitchum]

57. Hey...he pulled himself up by his jackboot straps!

He should be tried and hanged as a war criminal

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

59. LOL I'm loving the pun.

[mirrera]

58. OUR EFFIN MONEY!!! Private company my ass...n/t

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

60. Getting a billion dollars in taxpayer money in several short years will make one arrogant.

[populistdriven]

61. I wonder how Hillary or Obama will deal with him?

No doubt he will remain on the payroll to keep the mercs away from the executive

[defendandprotect]

83. Corporate media isn't going to ask candidates questions about Blackwater or Halliburton . . . or

war profiteering -- !!!

[madrchsod]

63. SS Reichsfuhrer Erik Prince

his only loyality is to his fuhrer

[Pastiche423]

65. Poor baby

He doesn't like his photo taken.

Prince is noted for disliking having his photo taken and distributed; he often uses his hands to shield himself from photographers. While attending a technology conference in North Carolina, he was visibly uncomfortable when photographed on stage and officials asked that the images not be published.<2> Some have claimed that this is due to fear of terrorist reprisals for his role in creating Blackwater USA.<2>

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erik_Prince

I don't believe it's terrorists that he is afraid of.

[Rex]

66. I would say Crime of the Century, but Enron holds that spot.

Well, Halliburton.

[ishtar66]

67. Eric Prince

From today's Washington Post:

Waxman said ...."that Blackwater has received more than $1 billion in federal contracts since 2001, mostly from the State Department and more than half that amount "without full and open competition." While a U.S. sergeant costs the government $50,000 to $70,000 a year, he said, a Blackwater staff member with a comparable position costs more than $400,000."

"the panel's Republicans generally defended the company and the role of private security contractors in Iraq."

I am a Canadian and the only good Bush Republican or Harper Conservative is one behind bars. These people are treasonous scum.

We both have plenty of house cleaning to do.


http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/02/AR2007100201037_2.html?hpid=topnews&sid=ST2007100201081

[ishtar66]

68. Eric Prince

I love it this is really juicy!

"Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) blasted the majority staff
report for mentioning the Republican ties of Prince and his
family. The report noted that Prince's father was a prominent
Michigan businessman who contributed to conservative causes,
that his sister formerly chaired the Michigan Republican Party
and earned the title of "pioneer" for her
fundraising in Bush's 2004 campaign and that his
brother-in-law was the 2006 GOP nominee for governor of
Michigan. Issa charged that committee Democrats were trying to
tar the Blackwater chief executive as a political
partisan."

The truth hurts doesn't it!!!!!

[Lasher]

92. If Prince is not a political partisan,

it would be hard for me to imagine just what one would look like.

Edit: Check this out, he interned for Poppy and for Dana Rohrabacher (R-of course), and campaigned for Pat Buchanan in 1992.

http://www.nndb.com/people/926/000117575/

[rurallib]

71. HEY WATCH IT!! This guy is a future president!

I'd say @2020

[RoccoR5955]

126. Future president....

...over my dead body!

[femrap]

73. FATHERFUCKER.....NT

[Octafish]

75. A merceneray overseas.

A deputy at home.

These are NAZI times.

[mod mom]

77. They have a vested interest in insuring the wars continues!

[opihimoimoi]

84. Just Who are they protecting anyway?....the American diplomats? The American Embassy/Ft Bahgdad?

Is this worth it???

[annm4peace]

85. For all the CONGRESS PEOPLE

Especially you, Betty McCollum, ask to have Erik Prince arrested, seize his assets, disband Blackwater, and the other mercenary groups.

**** I watched the hearing of the contractors killed and their burned bodies strung up on the bridge, and hear the family members painfully describe how BLACKWATER has stonewalled the famlies from knowing what happened to their loved ones ********


The lapdog Republicans make me sick how they support this criminal who has fleeced the TAX PAYERS, and his protected his employees who have killed innocent woman and children in Iraq and left his own employees exposed to dangers.

Just when I think Republicans can't sink lower, they do it again. How shameful for their constituants.

[opihimoimoi]

88. The Repugnants are shameless in their zeal for CONTROL/DOMINATION...

Are they sick with some Republican pathogen??? Sure seems so.

[shanti]

86. he's doing the 'closed-mouth' thing

just like the chimperor. he's hiding a lot of secrets and is not about to say shit.

[Lugnut]

87. What H2S said

And far better than I could.

[Hekate]

89. What you said, Stinky, what you said. It makes the mind reel. nt

[sasquatch]

90. He deserves a Boondocks Saints style takedown

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boondock_Saints

[scarface2004]

93. he s a piece of shit too!!!

[colorado_ufo]

94. Are there any legal limits to how big an army this guy can raise?

If he continues to grow richer, he could conceivably acquire an army big enough to challenge the actual US Army. Then what is to stop him from a military coup?

This is one of the most dangerous threats to our nation since the Civil War.

[golddigger]

107. No!...to your question

Little Bushit has his own Praetorian guard now...

:mad:

[Raksha]

95. You can tell he's a psychopath just by looking at him

and knowing what he does. The guy gives me the creeps!

[BRB_TheFireball]

96. I would call this guy a douchebag, but...

that might offend all the well-meaning douchebags.

[ishtar66]

97. Unbelievable arrogance!

Here is what Dana Milbank of the WaPo thinks:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/02/AR2007100202022.html?hpid=topnews

The Man From Blackwater, Shooting From the Lip

By Dana Milbank
Wednesday, October 3, 2007; Page A02

Like the company he founded, defense contractor Erik Prince doesn't seem to answer to anybody.

His security business, Blackwater, has been involved in at least 195 shootings in Iraq -- but it has operated outside U.S. and Iraqi laws. Similarly, when Prince made a rare public appearance before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee yesterday, he acted as if the lawmakers were wasting his time.

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How much does Blackwater, recipient of $1 billion in federal contracts, make in profits? "We're a private company, and there's a key word there -- private," Prince answered.

What about the 2004 crash of a Blackwater plane in Afghanistan, when federal investigators said the pilots acted unprofessionally? "Accidents happen," Prince explained.

The lack of prosecution for a drunken Blackwater worker who shot and killed a security guard to an Iraqi vice president? "We can't flog him," Prince said.

The high wages for Blackwater security guards? "They're not showing up at the job naked," Prince reasoned.

What's more, Prince said, "I believe we acted appropriately at all times." It was a bold statement for a man whose company is being probed by the FBI for the killing of 11 Iraqis in Baghdad last month -- but Prince, a former Navy Seal, was a cool performer.

The 38-year-old scion of a car-parts magnate, Prince wore his blond hair in a military cut and tapped his pen as he fielded questions of those war critics who would turn Blackwater into another Halliburton. Asked if he needed a break before the final two questioners, Prince replied: "If there's two questions left, I'll take them and then let's be done."

Prince argued that Blackwater was merely doing in Iraq what the State Department hired it to do -- and if there's a problem with the arrangement, it's a lack of rules governing private contractors. In making this case, he was aided by aimless questioning by some Democrats; Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D.C.) thought it necessary to ask Prince about Blackwater's 401(k) plan, and Rep. Diane Watson (Calif.) went on a tear about Rush Limbaugh.

Republicans, meanwhile, proved content to shill for a major donor. Prince's father helped to bankroll the religious-conservative movement, and his sister, Betsy DeVos, is a big Republican fundraiser who married into the Amway fortune. Prince himself has given $236,000 to GOP candidates and conservative causes -- typical of a defense contracting industry that, according to the Center for Responsive Politics, gave nearly $1 million to members of the oversight committee since 2003 -- 83 percent of it to Republicans.

"Blackwater will be held accountable today!" vowed Chairman Henry Waxman (D-Calif.), who has received only $6,300 from defense contractors over the past 17 years.

"Blackwater appears to have fostered a culture of shoot first . . . and then ask the questions," trumpeted Elijah Cummings (D-Md.), whose career contributions from defense interests tally a mere $1,200.

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"We should take care not to prejudge," said Tom Davis of Virginia ($717,829).

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"We should not be holding this hearing," protested John Mica of Florida ($145,454). "Therefore, I move that the committee do now adjourn."

Many Republican questions could only loosely be qualified as such. Lynn Westmoreland (Ga.) congratulated Prince for a "very good job," while Chris Shays (Conn.) credited him with a "perfect job."

"How many individuals under your protective service have been injured or killed?" asked Patrick McHenry (N.C.).

PRINCE: Zero.

McHENRY: Zero?

PRINCE: Zero, sir.

McHENRY: Zero individuals that Blackwater's protected have been killed in a Blackwater transport?

PRINCE: That's correct.

McHENRY: Zero?

PRINCE: Zero.

Democrats were careful not to even mention Prince's politics -- but California Republican Darrell Issa ($131,235 from defense interests) decided to take offense anyway. "Labeling some company as Republican-oriented because of family members is inappropriate, and I would hope that we not do it again," Issa complained.

"Well, the only one who's done it is you," Waxman pointed out, accurately.

Issa stammered and didn't complete his reply.
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Though Prince read his opening statement with beads of sweat on his brow and upper lip, he quickly adapted to battle. When Danny Davis (D-Ill.) asked him to concede that Blackwater had killed innocent civilians, Prince replied: "No, sir. I disagree with that. . . . There could be ricochets. There are traffic accidents, yes. This is war."

As the hearing stretched through the lunch hour, the witness grew cockier. Paul Hodes (D-N.H.) said no more than "Thank you for being with us" before Prince shot back: "Glad I could come here and correct some facts."

Prince had evidently made enough corrections, for a member of his entourage caught the chairman's eye and made a "timeout" signal. The hearing thus adjourned, the Blackwater chief picked up the "MR. PRINCE" nameplate and, with a sly look, pocketed the souvenir.


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[The Backlash Cometh]

98. We need to build a firewall between the business and public sector.

We're getting our asses handed to us because incredibly greedy people are destroying our country.

[kurth]

99. Fun and Profit courtesy of your hard-earned tax dollars

[Subdivisions]

101. It's really easy to be arrogant to a Congressional

committee when you know what he knows and you are protected by executive signing statements and you are the president's personal private army.

[peaches2003]

104. And that's the real danger

He is the Bush/Cheney private army and can easily be used against us as well as the Iraqis. The Dems should say it like it is.

[Broadslidin]

103. The Imperial U.S. Government has No Problem Contracting Murderous Thugs.

while protecting international financial corporate interests.

Tis simply malignant narcissistic human nature.

[Magleetis]

109. It occurred to me

As I lay in bed last night thinking about the Blackwater testimony. Mr Prick said that all life is precious or something to that effect. He could not possibly believe this and I know it was a lie because he is in the business of war and killing. His passion is training people to use weapons and kill. So many of the war mongers want it both ways and the hypocrisy is mind boggling. * says he is for a culture of life and yet he is responsible for the deaths of thousands if not millions. I am not fooled by the charade of lies and deceit. It is simple. If you are in the business of war you are a liar if you say all life is precious. Rather, Mr. Prick has no respect for human life. He is the worst kind of person on earth, an evil killer.

[colbertforpresident]

111. Stop Bitching here at DU

and call your representative and tell him/her how you feel about our country using mercenaries! Tell them how digusted you are with war profiteers!

[Magleetis]

117. I use DU

as a place to vent my frustration and it helps me. If you don't like my posts, simply put me on your ignore list. Don't tell me to stop bitching.

[Lasher]

119. Ha ha!! Ban bitching here at DU?

If bitching posts were prohibited we would probably see only 2 or 3 threads a month!

[BrklynLib at work]

110. Could not have been better said!!!!

:grr:

[pnorman]

113. I watched most of his testimony on the web.

His suppressed arrogance came through in a few places. But he was defending what he believed was "right", so I'll give him a C-minus "pass". But what REALLY nauseated me were those c*cksucker Congressmen, who did their level best to help him off the hook, with their fawning "rhetorical questions"! THEY took a special oath, and are on OUR payroll!

pnorman

[pnorman]

128. I should have said:

"His suppressed arrogance --- and contempt for the Committee --- came through in a few places."

Here's a website I had seen earlier on DU, that should be read by everyone here concerned about such private paramilitary armies: http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Blackwater_USA_linked_to_Bush_administration_1002.html

pnorman

[Raffi Ella]

115. .

I just recently started paying attention to this story.I saw him on T.V. yesterday and I've been reading up on Blackwater...it's all so surreal.

I wish the Bushbots and Republicans in general would put Country before Party and imagine how it feels to not agree with the President and his men,to feel compelled to speak and act on behalf of the Constitution and to know there are camps being built in America,dissenters are being arrested and jailed,Habeas Corpus is no longer and now,NOW... the Government has an army at the ready that is under no obligation to follow the rule of honor and integrity and could,if contracted,turn their weapons on American Citizens...

I cannot believe this has happened in America.

[still_one]

116. Probably a good play to buy defense stocks, since it looks like they plan to keep us there longer

<scarcasm> but unfortunately it will enrich these companies

[calimary]

118. And did you notice the smirk on his face when Diane Watson was

talking? MOTHERFUCKER!!! AMWAY MOTHERFUCKER!!!

:grr:

[Rosa Luxemburg]

120. he can join Abramoff in jail

[Vilis Veritas]

121. Meet the new Racketeer, Erik Prince.

War is a Racket

http://www.lexrex.com/enlightened/articles/warisaracket.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_Plot

By Major General Smedley D. Butler, USMC, the General who stopped the first attempt at a Corporo-Fascist Regime Change in the US.

No Fear.

edited to add another link...

[rateyes]

127. That guy served 4 years in the military....

and makes, according to his own words, more than a million dollars in salary (didn't say how much more.) Gen. Petraeus is a damned fool. He is career military, and makes about 180,000.00. Hell, he could have privatized, and made a fortune off taxpayers like Erik Prick....I mean Prince.

[EnviroBat]

130. Since fuckers like this have guns, I have guns...

All citizens of this nation should hereby REFUSE to recognize ANY members of Blackwater as authority in any capacity. Come to my neighborhood, and I will see you as an armed criminal, nothing more. Not a cop, not a legitimate member of the armed forces, but as a threat to my security and property, and I WILL take a stand, as will my friends and neighbors. Let's not forget the shit they pulled during Katrina. Armed thugs violating the Constitutional rights of citizens during a time of emergency. That is fucked up and WRONG!

Fuck Blackwater. Fuck Erik Prince. Fuck em all!

[Dukkha]

134. it sickens me to think they were allowed in New Orleans

Who knows what they did down there since it could easily be covered up. There's still lots of residents unaccounted for from the 9th Ward. and yes I am armed as well againt the Blackwater brownshirts that may try to kick down my door.

[daninthemoon]

137. I believe they're still there, patrolling the upscale neighborhoods.

[EnviroBat]

146. Seriously? I had no idea those snakes were still down there. n/t

[EnviroBat]

144. Hey Neo, glad to know you're here in town should the "shit" go down...

[spanone]

132. Congress does not intimidate anyone connected with this mal-administration

prince has been annointed from high and congress can kiss his ass.....seems to be his attitude

[EFerrari]

133. I noticed that he hates to be called a mercenary. n/t

[nam78_two]

135. This man was awful

I had heard you all comment about how arrogant and obnoxious he was, but I saw the actual hearing last night and he is all that and worse. I couldn't believe how rude and arrogant he was throughout the hearing. Unfazed really....

[happyslug]

138. As to prior Military Experience, I remind people of one person who had a lot of Medals...

And won them legitimately. That person won every medal an enlistee could earn in the German Army of WWI. His name, Hitler of WWII fame. Did his medals mean he was a good person? No, just that he did his job while in the Military. Serving in the Military is good, but that does NOT mean bad men do not do it.

[Thothmes]

155. lot of medals

Hitler's highest award was the Iron Cross second class. He did not win every medal a German soldier could win during the first World War. He was by all accounts a brave, capable soldier.

[happyslug]

156. I was going by a Historian as to Hitler's medals

And while Hitler did NOT win every medal someone could earn, he won every medal AN ENLISTEE could be expected to win. There is a difference between those two statements and why I worded my comment the way I did. Did hitler win EVERY MEDAL a German soldier could win? NO, but he never was promoted above the rank of Corporal and as such was NEVER is a position to win any other medal then the one's he did.

[tbl92666]

139. A Piece of Human Garbage

I'd hate to be him, when it comes time to pay the bill for the karma he's racking up...

There is simply no adjective strong enough to describe how vile this man is.

[TomClash]

142. Jesus said

"He who lives by the sword shall perish by the sword." Matthew 26:52

Well, Jesus it's time to get busy with the Prince of Darkness.

[EnviroBat]

147. Yeah Jesus, how about lopping this fuckers head off already? n/t

[valerief]

143. Mel Gibson will be making a gloryfest movie about him soon, I'm sure. nt

[autorank]

145. K*R Very well said Husb!

[npincus]

149. he's just a symptom of rotted-out, law-defying, fascist government

without a B*shco there'd be no Blackwater... if not this prick, there's be another.

[mod mom]

150. Get this blackwater's Trade Association name: International Peace Operations Ass.

Paging Dr. Orwell

10.02.07 -- 6:33PM
By Josh Marshall
Everybody needs a trade association in DC, even in the private military contractors. Their outfit is the International Peace Operations Association. Their "mission is to promote high operational and ethical standards of firms active in the Peace and Stability Industry; to engage in a constructive dialogue with policy-makers about the growing and positive contribution of these firms to the enhancement of international peace, development, and human security; and to inform the concerned public about the activities and role of the industry."

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/054856.php