Slinking away to a Cheneyland sanctuary?
From The Gawker:
Blackwater Owner Fleeing To United Arab Emirates?
The Nation reports that creepy Blackwater owner Erik Prince, who has abruptly put his company up for sale, may move to the UAE, which has no extradition treaty with the United States. He hasn't been charged with any crimes, yet.
For those of you arriving 7-8 years late to the party, "Blackwater" is a "corporation" that "kills people" for "money". This short documentary explains the whole thing:
| The Daily Show With Jon Stewart | Mon - Thurs 11p / 10c | |||
| Why We Fight for Money | ||||
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As always, the silence from the Right when another one of Cheney's genuinely depraved little roaches is forced into the light is deafening, because in one person, Prince represents all those traits the Right most admires; he is a multi-millionaire fundamentalist zealot who stays rich by killing people for money, a walking testament to radical gummint deregulation who smirks an inherited-privilege smirk every bit as good as Dubya, and snaps off his oath before ineffectual Congressional hearings with the Real Good Posture of a young Ollie North.
No, Prince is merely a "murdering thug neo Christin Crusader and private army boy to Cheney"; the sort that wingnut men want to be, and wingnut women want to be with. So he gets a pass (and a secret prayer that they could make themselves worthy of having a Real Man like Ewick lay his glorious Christian eggs in their abdomines.)
Now is he were a genuine monster...
...like, say, some sinister inner city community organizer...
...or one of those Union devils...
...or an "anti-American" teacher who dared to hold up a protest sign! At a fucking assembly!...
...or a card-carrying member of the ACLU (the post itself is standard-issue wingnut whiny paranoia, but the comments are choice)...
...or even a third-tier cartoon character in s second-rate cartoon...
...I'm sure the Right would suddenly find the energy to stand up on their hind legs long enough to stage a real fine protest.
4 comments:
I think of Prince as our time's William Walker. Same freebooting, privateering mentality.
Walker generated the same sort of awed admiration among the goofuses of his time, too.
Curiious. I wonder what the female members of Herr Prince's family and/or entourage feel about this move. But then again, I doubt that it matters in the least.
Thanks, Dg,
It always was my favorite too - and I've seen it several times - and it caused the first great philosophical conversation I had with my Dad, who watched it with me. I was 9 or 10 at the time I think.
I did learn something from seeing it this time though.
I had no idea that the director was one of the Four Tops.
Cool!
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All I can say is "good riddance" and don't the the door hit you on the way out Erik.
Maybe he and Papa Dick can become walled in neighbors living within the range of Iranian missiles? Nothing makes me happier!
That said, shouldn't there be a tax for the super rich Americans who run to the lifeboats and abandon their country? After all, it was all those tax dollars we sent to DC that paved the way for Erik's meteoric rise. Jus' saying.
Once expatriated, a government with balls would strip him of his citizenship (after all, he is effectively renouncing it by moving to UAE) and treat him like any other foreigner with a history of gun running, violence and terror. Like adding him to a no fly list. I would say he should be out of reach of an extrajudicial killing by the US government (at least without due process). But apparently, we believe in doing such things now.
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