Onward Christian Soldiers ( Blackwater)

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Onward Christian Soldiers
How a self-styled Christian warrior with deep ties to the right’s theo-con fringe established the world’s most powerful mercenary service
By Chris Barsanti
Tuesday, Jun. 5, 2007


As reported in Jeremy Scahill’s Blackwater, one of the largest providers of private security assets to the U.S. military is more than a business: It’s a well-armed and well-funded cog in the military-industrial complex led by a self-styled Christian warrior with deep ties to the right’s theo-con fringe. In short, the sort of thing to keep any right-minded, small-d democrat awake at night. Although the book itself is essentially a magazine feature bloated up to book length without the additional research needed to justify the heft, the facts at its core are the eye-widening stuff of lurid conspiracy novels.

The Christian warrior described above is Erik Prince, son of auto parts multi-millionaire Edgar Prince, who, until his death in 1995, ran bucolic Holland, Mich., as a company town and provided seed money for, among other causes, James Dobson’s Focus on the Family. Although Erik, a stridently orthodox Catholic convert and former SEAL, wouldn’t take over the family business, he followed in Edgar’s footsteps in other ways. In 1997, Erik founded Blackwater USA, a private security firm based on several thousand acres of North Carolina swamp. A number of Blackwater executives are deeply conservative Christians, including corruption-smeared former Pentagon Inspector General Joseph Schmitz, who is also a member of the Sovereign Order of Malta, which Scahill describes as "a Christian militia formed in the eleventh century ‘territories that the Crusaders had conquered from the Moslems.’" Blackwater makes hundreds of millions of dollars in no-bid contracts from the Pentagon and fields what might be the world’s largest private military force, with 2,300 armed men working around the globe, and a database with 21,000 more. As many critics have ominously noted, the company already has enough man- and firepower to take over a small Third World country.

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[MichaelHarris]

1. Well I'd like to add

FUCK Blackwater and FUCK Erik Prince!!!! Just what the world needs another Inquisition Army. I hate slime like this with a passion, one of these days toe jam like this will be exposed. Yeah Erik I called you toe jam. Send your army after my nappy ass, you know my name.

And as if it can't get any worse his sister is married to the son of the founder of Amway. They get no-bid contracts also?