An hour with Blackwater's Eric Prince -- Charlie Rose Show on PBS tonight

[Bozita]

www.charlierose.com

I wish he'd have Jeremy Scahill for a full hour.
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[nadinbrzezinski]

1. You know they are trying hard to make Mercs palatable

[Bozita]

3. Yup, he was on "60 Minutes" with Lara Logan last night.

He's one scary sumbitch.

[niyad]

2. WHY is this thug getting all this air time? the only airtime I want him to get is in front

of a senate committee, under oath.

[Javaman]

4. Because he wants to show the nation what a good little brownshirt he really is. nt

[EnviroBat]

5. And again...

FUCKING WAR PROFITEER!

[Bozita]

6. kick

[Initech]

7. Blackwater is a bigger threat to us than al Qaeda is.

Erik Prince should be behind bars in a maximum security prison awaiting trial by a senate Committee, not appearing on talk shows.

:argh:

[Bozita]

8. When I first saw them in NOLA, I cringed!

[Initech]

9. When the proverbial "big one" happens...

You can pretty much guarantee those fuckers wont be welcome in LA. I'm surprised that New Orleans tolerated them. :scared:

[Bozita]

10. I'd really like to see some hearings. Who hired 'em? And why? At what cost?

There was no need.

[Initech]

12. I dont think we'll find that out.

At least not until 2009, and after we get a sizeable majority in the senate. I'd really like to know where they got their money, and how they were able to get in Iraq.

[Bozita]

13. I'm wonderin' who hired them for NOLA!

Tell me this shit ain't political payback.

[Swamp Rat]

15. We did NOT tolerate them.

Blackwater was sent here to KILL US!... and they did.

[Initech]

17. Good.

I'm still scared as shit that something is going to happen in LA (be it huge earthquake, Iran/North Korea retaliation, 7 of the 10 plagues, etc) and they'll be sent here to kill us as well. :scared:

[Swamp Rat]

18. We were also disarmed.

Law abiding citizens were disarmed in their own homes by the National Guard and police too - goodbye 2nd Amendment. We were left defenseless to face looters, outlaw police and Blackwater.

All I can say is, arm yourselves to the teeth and prepare for Blackwater to come to your town someday after a disaster.

[Bozita]

23. No badges, no uniforms, but lotsa firepower. Ergo, you must obey them.

I just pinched myself. I'm having a hard time believing this is America.

[Swamp Rat]

25. I could tell you stories...

but not on a public board, at this time. Someday I may publish a book that touches on this topic.

The Blackwater mercs treated us like they do 'enemy combatants' in Iraq.

The rest of America should be VERY concerned, no matter one's political stripe. If Freeps, for instance, think Blackwater is on their side, they have another thing coming.

[riderinthestorm]

11. And in Newsweek, and on NPR, and 60 minutes and....

For someone as "private" as Eric Prince purports to be, he is all over the airwaves these days spewing his shit.

His band of merry thugs are blasting their way through innocent crowds of folks from Iraq to New Orleans, with impunity (and even with the blessing of our Admin!)

Why? It's not cause they are a band of saints - it's because Eric Prince's precious cashola payline is threatened.

[Bozita]

14. Prince describes his Blackwater folks as US military vets with high skillsets. Charlie ain't asking-

...about foreign veterans. Like Pinochet's Chilean veterans.

[Swamp Rat]

16. Blackwater = paid murderers.

They are paid by politicians and corporations to murder their rivals and competition, and anyone who gets in their way.

Bushler used them to kill New Orleanians just to see if he could get away with it. New Orleans was the testing ground for what is to come.

[EFerrari]

22. I sort of understood that at the time, as horrible as it was.

I'm going to force myself to watch this little bastard and take notes and every time time he spews his expensive bs, I'm going to answer him. We all should as much as we can, while we can. :grr:

[Swamp Rat]

24. hey sfexpat2000

:hug:

[EFerrari]

28. Swampy, check out #27.

[kurth]

19. This murderous bunch must be BANNED from all government contracts

ASAP.

[Bozita]

20. Blackwater flies about 1000 missions/month in Afghanistan. I liked us better when we had our own ...

... Air Force.

[Bozita]

21. Hillsdale College ... Why ain't I surprised? ... It's the Northern state version of Pat Robertson U.

A school with an interesting history.

Really interesting, if you like sex scandals. Big-time sex scandals.

[Bozita]

26. leftcoast alert!

[EFerrari]

27. After watching this little bastard, I did a little reading on

these "America heroes".

Yesterday, a caller into Washington Journal from North Carolina said it was well known up in the north east corner of the state that Blackwater trained white supremacist militia types on their gun ranges. I didn't find anything about that -- yet.

But I did find that Prince's family gave Dobson the seed money for Focus on the Family; that he hired members of the SADL -- South African military who defended Apartheid -- to work in NOLA when Blackwater was there. And, that Prince is a Christian supremacist.

I'm going to keep poking around but, if I find what I think I'm going to find, these people are even worse than they look because not only are they profiteers but they are bigots of the worst sort with a highly developed ideology and they're the last people that should be in Iraq or on the California-Mexican Border.

Remember that article about skinhead graffiti that was found in Bagdhad -- "hate groups infiltrate the military". I'm wondering if it wasn't Blackwater guys that did that. . .