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    Quote Originally Posted by Grokmaster View Post
    Oh really? "Bought and paid for" by whom?
    You're kidding right? Derp - by the DeVos family, warmongering felon brother Erik Prince included.

    https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/de...contributions/

    “My family is the largest single contributor of soft money to the national Republican Party. I have decided to stop taking offense at the suggestion that we are buying influence. Now I simply concede the point. They are right.” -Betsy DeVos, 1997 op-ed

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    Eric Prince is a patriot. What have you done for the US?

    Quote Originally Posted by Bo-4 View Post
    You're kidding right? Derp - by the DeVos family, warmongering felon brother Erik Prince included.

    https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/de...contributions/

    “My family is the largest single contributor of soft money to the national Republican Party. I have decided to stop taking offense at the suggestion that we are buying influence. Now I simply concede the point. They are right.” -Betsy DeVos, 1997 op-ed

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    Quote Originally Posted by Peter1469 View Post
    Eric Prince is a patriot. What have you done for the US?
    Where is my "Funny" button?


    WASHINGTON — The private security company formerly called Blackwater Worldwide, long plagued by accusations of impropriety, has reached an agreement with the State Department for the company to pay $42 million in fines for hundreds of violations of United States export control regulations.

    The violations included illegal weapons exports to Afghanistan, making unauthorized proposals to train troops in south Sudan and providing sniper training for Taiwanese police officers, according to company and government officials familiar with the deal.

    The settlement, which has not yet been publicly announced, follows lengthy talks between Blackwater, now called Xe Services, and the State Department that dealt with the violations as an administrative matter, allowing the firm to avoid criminal charges. A company spokeswoman confirmed Friday that a settlement had been reached. The State Department spokesman, Philip J. Crowley, said he could not immediately comment.

    The settlement with the State Department does not resolve other legal troubles still facing Blackwater and its former executives and other personnel. Those include the indictments of five former executives, including Blackwater’s former president, on weapons and obstruction charges; a federal investigation into evidence that Blackwater officials sought to bribe Iraqi government officials; and the arrest of two former Blackwater guards on federal murder charges stemming from the killing of two Afghans last year.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Bo-4 View Post
    Where is my "Funny" button?


    WASHINGTON — The private security company formerly called Blackwater Worldwide, long plagued by accusations of impropriety, has reached an agreement with the State Department for the company to pay $42 million in fines for hundreds of violations of United States export control regulations.

    The violations included illegal weapons exports to Afghanistan, making unauthorized proposals to train troops in south Sudan and providing sniper training for Taiwanese police officers, according to company and government officials familiar with the deal.

    The settlement, which has not yet been publicly announced, follows lengthy talks between Blackwater, now called Xe Services, and the State Department that dealt with the violations as an administrative matter, allowing the firm to avoid criminal charges. A company spokeswoman confirmed Friday that a settlement had been reached. The State Department spokesman, Philip J. Crowley, said he could not immediately comment.

    The settlement with the State Department does not resolve other legal troubles still facing Blackwater and its former executives and other personnel. Those include the indictments of five former executives, including Blackwater’s former president, on weapons and obstruction charges; a federal investigation into evidence that Blackwater officials sought to bribe Iraqi government officials; and the arrest of two former Blackwater guards on federal murder charges stemming from the killing of two Afghans last year.
    You think facts matter? Really?
    “Conscientiously believing that the proper condition of the negro is slavery, or a complete subjection to the white man, and entertaining the belief that the day is not distant when the old Union will be restored with slavery nationally declared to be the proper condition of all of African descent, and in view of the future harmony and progress of all the States of America, I have been induced to issue this address, so that there may be no misunderstanding in the future”

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    Quote Originally Posted by Safety View Post
    You think facts matter? Really?
    Not to Pete I guess - Erik is no Patriot .. he grabbed Uncle Sam by the balls and yanked hard.

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    That doesn't change my opinion of him. Blackwater likely had CIA sanction to do all of that stuff. And crimes committed by employees can hardly make Eric the evil person you hysterically claim he is.

    Quote Originally Posted by Bo-4 View Post
    Where is my "Funny" button?


    WASHINGTON — The private security company formerly called Blackwater Worldwide, long plagued by accusations of impropriety, has reached an agreement with the State Department for the company to pay $42 million in fines for hundreds of violations of United States export control regulations.

    The violations included illegal weapons exports to Afghanistan, making unauthorized proposals to train troops in south Sudan and providing sniper training for Taiwanese police officers, according to company and government officials familiar with the deal.

    The settlement, which has not yet been publicly announced, follows lengthy talks between Blackwater, now called Xe Services, and the State Department that dealt with the violations as an administrative matter, allowing the firm to avoid criminal charges. A company spokeswoman confirmed Friday that a settlement had been reached. The State Department spokesman, Philip J. Crowley, said he could not immediately comment.

    The settlement with the State Department does not resolve other legal troubles still facing Blackwater and its former executives and other personnel. Those include the indictments of five former executives, including Blackwater’s former president, on weapons and obstruction charges; a federal investigation into evidence that Blackwater officials sought to bribe Iraqi government officials; and the arrest of two former Blackwater guards on federal murder charges stemming from the killing of two Afghans last year.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Peter1469 View Post
    That doesn't change my opinion of him. Blackwater likely had CIA sanction to do all of that stuff. And crimes committed by employees can hardly make Eric the evil person you hysterically claim he is.
    Oh he was DIRECTLY involved in that crap Pete - it's why he left the company in shame and they changed their name.

    https://www.thenation.com/article/bl...icated-murder/

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    Quote Originally Posted by Bo-4 View Post
    Oh he was DIRECTLY involved in that crap Pete - it's why he left the company in shame and they changed their name.

    https://www.thenation.com/article/bl...icated-murder/
    And yet he now lives and works in the Middle East.

    Sworn statements filed in Federal Court allege that Blackwater founder Erik Prince launched a “crusade” to eliminate Muslims and Islam.
    Based on what Prince and Blackwater has done, it seems they never kicked off the plan to eliminate Muslims.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Peter1469 View Post
    And yet he now lives and works in the Middle East.

    Based on what Prince and Blackwater has done, it seems they never kicked off the plan to eliminate Muslims.
    He's probably still working on his horrible plan to sell Trump and the Afghan's on mercenaries.

    https://www.politico.com/magazine/st...garbage-215563

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    Quote Originally Posted by Bo-4 View Post
    He's probably still working on his horrible plan to sell Trump and the Afghan's on mercenaries.

    https://www.politico.com/magazine/st...garbage-215563
    I actually think the UN should certify private military companies to be licensed, vetted, and available for use in hot spots nation-states don't want to waste their soldiers in. Somalia comes to mind. So far as Afghanistan goes, the US should leave and monitor for terrorist activity.
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