Blackwater - Bush's Private Army - Founders Big Repuke Supporters

[RamboLiberal]

http://home.hamptonroads.com/stories/story.cfm?story=108028&ran=144012

ERIK PRINCE, 37, Blackwater’s founder and chairman, has deep roots in conservative Republican politics in Michigan.

His father, Edgar Prince, turned a small die-cast shop in Holland, Mich., into a major auto parts supplier with a specialty product: a windshield visor with a lighted mirror. After his death in 1995, the company was sold for $1.4 billion. Edgar Prince was a confidant and financial backer of Gary Bauer, a conservative activist and onetime presidential candidate.

Erik Prince’s sister Betsy, a former chairwoman of the Michigan Republican Party, is married to Dick DeVos, billionaire son of the founder of marketing giant Amway and this year’s likely Republican candidate for governor of Michigan.

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GARY JACKSON, 49, Blackwater’s president, has been with the company almost from the beginning. Like Prince, he is a former SEAL, having retired as a warrant officer after 23 years in the Navy.

Jackson makes no secret of his political leanings. As editor of Blackwater’s weekly electronic newsletter, he posted this headline at the top of the edition after the November 2004 presidential election: BUSH WINS; FOUR MORE YEARS!! HOOYAH!

[MikeNearMcChord]

1. This a good segway into something that I find interesting.

Why is it that if a group of rednecks say in Georgia form a militia, the government says that is a threat, yet if I were to form a private Army, backed with Wall Street Money, the FedGov barely trembles? Aren't they both a threat?

[wordpix2]

2. Hooyah for more rich folk getting richer on BushCo wars & chaos

Another Bushbot getting contracts as he and his fam give to the Repugly-cants.

[Master Mahon]

3. Blackwater Down

great article in The Nation awhile back...
See how Blackwater was responsible for employee deaths that led to the eviscerating of Fallujah. They ignored contracts, people died, all for the bucks!!

http://www.thenation.com/docprint.mhtml?i=20051010&s=scahill

[texastoast]

4. We have a constitutional right to bear arms, correct?

I want a smart bomb and an F-16.

Is that okay?