Erik Prince did have a neo-crusader agenda. Does it tie into "the family"?

[midnight]

Countdown: Jeremy Scahill on the Latest Revelations About Blackwater
By Heather Wednesday Aug 05, 2009 12:00pm




Keith talks to Jeremy Scahill about the latest revelations implicating Blackwater in murder and gun smuggling and for having a radical right, neo-crusader agenda in Iraq.

Olbermann: As horrific as all of this sounds, it's just part of what you describe in the piece today. Flesh it out for us.

Scahill: Well, I mean obviously to hear the term murder and Blackwater in the same sentence is no great surprise, particularly to people who've been following the history of this company. It's been at the center of some of the worst violence in Iraq. Killing civilians repeatedly. Five of its men are going to be tried on manslaughter charges for the Nisoor Square massacre in Baghdad in September of '07. Another one plead guilty. The Congress is investigating. The IRS is investigating. This is a scandal plagued company.

What is explosive about what's happened here, and you just went through some of the most explosive of these details is that you have two former Blackwater officials, I have learned from sources that John Doe #2 was actually in Blackwater management and was privy to some of the inner workings of the company.

Erik Prince, the owner of Blackwater remains the sole owner of the company no matter that he stepped down as CEO and the founder of the company. He micro-manages every aspect of Blackwater's operations and that's well known. On the Christian supremacists angle, let's remember that Erik Prince used Blackwater as a neo-crusader force and has from the beginning. This is a guy who comes from one of the power-house families of the radical religious right.

His father was a major bank roller, and gave the seed money to Gary Bauer to start The Family Research Council, James Dobson, Focus on the Family. And then we have his forced deployed in Iraq as part of a war against a Muslim nation that George Bush characterized as a crusade.

What we have here Keith is a confirmation from insiders at Blackwater that in face Erik Prince did have a neo-crusader agenda, and most explosively, may have murdered or facilitated the murder of individuals that were intending to or did cooperate in the investigation of Blackwater. This is deadly serious.





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[waiting for hope]

1. It wouldn't surprise me that he does -

remember, the members of The Family feel that they are "chosen", thus that would make any murder "God's Work" .. these charlatans scare the crap out of me - no remorse, no guilt, no feeling that they may be wrong ... American grown terrorist.

[Old and In the Way]

2. It's the American Way....

Or AmWay, for short. I believe that his family fortune was tied to AmWay.

[MichiganVote]

3. The Devos's and the Prince's don't need the family in Wash. DC, they have their own

And believe me, it comes first.

[EFerrari]

6. Yep, and they're all dominionists. n/t

[RandomThoughts]

4. I would guess he is a Machiavellian... n/t

[nadinbrzezinski]

5. Oh the tangled web we weave...

this is the last gasp of Empire. Remember kids, these Mercs also support Empire...

Oh and murder, from Eric Prince... they are above the law... and that kids is THE FAMILY.

[DemoTex]

7. Has this question been asked? Did the "DC Madam's" phone records connect her to the "family".

Deborah Jeane Palfrey, suicided. Suicided, like Cliff Baxter. What connection? Both presented clear and present dangers to the Family. Could Cheney have popped them both?

[starroute]

8. The closest connection I know is through the Council for National Policy

A quick google around indicates that Erik Prince's parents were deeply involved with the CNP and he himself has supported it financial, though it isn't know if he's a member or not.

Several of the politicians involved with the Family are involved with the CNP as well.

The CNP has tended to be viewed as a general umbrella group for the extreme right, including both religious and non-religious conservatives. But I'm getting the impression that either it has a particularly strong dominionist element or the dominionists have become more dominant (no pun intended) within it as that sort of 80's-style umbrella group goes out of fashion.