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Oh, this is just our Erik being sworn in to testify before some congressional committee or other back in 2007 about some alleged Blackwater depredation or other. Who can keep track? Oh Lord, a crusading Christian freedom fighter's work is never done -- at least as long as there are Muslims left to exterminate.





The Nation



Blackwater Founder Implicated in Murder



by JEREMY SCAHILL



August 4, 2009



A former Blackwater employee and an ex-US Marine who has worked as a security 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."



In their testimony, both men also allege that Blackwater was smuggling weapons into Iraq. One of the men alleges that Prince turned a profit by transporting "illegal" or "unlawful" weapons into the country on Prince's private planes. They also charge that Prince and other Blackwater executives destroyed incriminating videos, emails and other documents and have intentionally deceived the US State Department and other federal agencies. The identities of the two individuals were sealed out of concerns for their safety. . . .

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We really need to figure out some sort of strategy for dealing with the flotsam and jetsam that continues to surface from the eight years of unbridled lunacy and criminality that were the Bush regime. Now it's one of the regime's most prized sociopaths, the founder of Blackwater, the American "security" firm (this is what we call out terrorist organizations) into which the regimistas poured still-uncounted jillions of dollars to befoul the good name of our country all over the world with its high-caliber acts of marauding and mayhem. From what we knew about this Erik Prince bozo, a thug with delusions of Christian grandeur, it always seemed pretty clear that he belonged under lock and key. As with so many of the regime's stooges and cronies, the only real question was whether he should have been in a prison or a mental institution.With Blackwater under investigation (surprise!), it's now being alleged by two people who worked for Prince Nutso that he "may have murdered or facilitated the murder of individuals who were cooperating with federal authorities." And this is supposed to be a surprise? When you've got a government run by sociopaths, hiring a mix of sociopaths and psychopaths -- and you know how badly they get on together -- and telling them there are no rules for people like us, what do you expect?Okay, let's look at just a little of this.Now of course the report goes on and on and on, you bet, and we should care about the sordid details, like the allegations that Blackwater was smuggling guns into Iraq in dog-food bags. But really, is there anything useful to be learned for those of us who spent those eight years screaming that everyone who participated in the activities of the Bush regime should be subject to the death penalty -- preferably on an execute-now, ask-questions-later basis? And the fact is, the rest of the country didn't give a damn about the all-consuming campaign of degradataion, depredation, and extermination unleashed by the Bush regime against all its "enemies" while it was going on, and by the time the shock and shame became too overwhelming, they simply tuned out. Bush? George W. Bush? Sorry, name doesn't ring a bell. Oh wait, didn't there used to be a lesbian by that name?It appears that the sins of the Bush Regime -- including all those committed by, in, around, and for the regime -- have a "sell by" pull date just like dairy products in the supermarket.Besides, if the regimistas were to be held to account for every last murder, why, there'd be no end of it! I say, just add this to Attorney General Eric Holder's Super-Fantastic List of Old Stuff to Maybe Someday Investigate, or Not. (The list could someday actually have value to the adminstration, as it becomes increasingly desperate to buttress its one incontestably admirable quality: that it'sthe Bush regime.)

Labels: Blackwater, Bush Regime law-breaking, Erik Prince