Erik Prince is on NPR right now

[orangecrush]

Trying to make the case to allow him to take over (privatize) the war in Afghanistan.

NPR even giving him airtime sucks.

[JNelson6563]

1. IMO NPR sold its soul a while back.

No better than the others.

[orangecrush]

2. Prince has a sister

Betsy DeVos, as his conduit in the WH.

He will probably get his wish.

[BigMin28]

3. Yes they did.

That's why I no longer listen to or support them. It's a shame though. It used to be excellent reporting and programming.

[sharedvalues]

5. Agreed. In 2012 is when I realized

In 2012 NPR's news shows were broadcasting Romney's lies unchecked.

Background: Obama is center-right by European standards. As you can see by his use of drones and his republican-origin, 'free-market' health care plan. Not saying I agree or disagree with with those policies, but they illustrate Obama is fairly centrist and leans right on many issues.

Romney said on NPR, unchecked, and I paraphrase:
"Obama socialist Obama socialist Obama socialist Obama socialist Obama socialist Obama socialist Obama socialist..."
You get the picture.
I nearly threw the radio at the wall. After that morning I haven't listened to NPR regularly since.

[Dem2]

6. Lol

I burst into laughter every time I read these sorts of posts. Purity tests. We could never have the fairness doctrine return because no person from either party would listen to a station that allowed views that they disagreed with.

[JNelson6563]

13. Example

I don't have TV. Because it's awful. I catch NPR in car to/ from work. During election total Trump! Top of the hour all Trump for few mins, quick aside there's Clinton campaign stuff too but later, back to Trump! This happened pretty regularly. Another case, one of the morning commentators giggling about the journalists striking it big by turning Trump into cottage industry.

Sickening.

[WinkyDink]

14. Erik Prince is miles beyond a "purity test." Just so ya know.

[orangecrush]

16. Thank you

I'm glad someone here understands that.

[magicarpet]

4. War hardened mercenary armies are a very dangerous thing.

Especially in the hands if a Fascist Christian Dominionist who craves the destruction of Democracy then a Orthodox Fundamentalists Christian Theocracy installed in it's place.

A Prince hardened mercenary army will eventually and inevitably be turned against the American citizenry.

We pay for, then lead each other to our own gas chambers.

[orangecrush]

19. Prince is, imo, a terrorist

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His "army", minus the ideology, bears a srtrong resemblance to other terrorist organizations.

[UTUSN]

7. *Really?!1* He shows himself?!1

[orangecrush]

17. Yup

He has nothing to fear now.

Wonder if it will come out some day that he was a conduit to Putin for 45?

[Blue_true]

8. The problem is this.

People like Prince don't have a footprint unless the US military is there to cover their mercenary asses. He won't go into Afghanistan and fight the taliban with just his mercenaries.

[maxrandb]

9. Heard that shit and cancelled the remainder of my pledge

If he wants to be a mercenary, I think the French Foreign Legion is still in existence...and please would he take his fucking sister with him?

[GulfCoast66]

10. NPR is not and should not be MSNBC

This has been on the news pretty extensively and NPR is just being good journalist. That had an article on it this morning and with an official who was very critical of the idea.

Even the BBC has all sides in and questions them both.

[WinkyDink]

15. Irony: The "P" is for "public." Anathema to the Prince/DeVos families. And where else has this

specific radical crackpot thug and his "news" been on? FOX?

[Ilsa]

11. They shouldn't allow this without an immediate rebuttal.

NPR sucks.

[orangecrush]

18. Prince is, imo, a terrorist

[Ilsa]

23. I agree.

The rules under which his mercenaries operate are cruel and antithetical to the ethics the military must follow. The long term result of treating people this way is resentment towards the US and the growth of terrorism against the US.

[Initech]

12. Lock that traitor up!

[Pachamama]

20. American Terrorist

This is chilling....

[malaise]

21. He should be in prison

for war crimes

[nikibatts]

22. Let them know about it. But i warned yesterday this how Putin is getting Trump to bankrupt the USA

drain all the money from social safety programs and put it into the military so the Trumpeter mob can steal it all through military contracts. Why won't our Congress see this. This is how a lot of the money was stolen from the Russian people.

[AngryAmish]

24. I have advocated this for a while, just not with Blackwater.

Congress should issue Letter of Marque and Reprisal to a foreign entity (I was recommending the Zetas but they seem a spent force. Gulf Cartel or maybe Nueva Jalisco). Give them a billion dollars and be done with it.