(Community Matters) Since Blackwater is back in the news, thought I’d remount my posting from Jan 3:
I’m now reading Jeremy Scahill’s Blackwater, about Erik Prince and his conglomerate of mercenary fighters.
Jeremy Scahill is an award-winning investigative journalist who has reported extensively from Iraq.
Scary what DOD and DOS have outsourced. Even scarier when I realize the firepower that’s been built up in private hands. The largest private army in the world with access to Prince’s hundreds of millions, now probably billions.
Prince is a disciple of Focus on the Family and the Family Research Council (James Dobson & Gary Bauer) and probably a member of the secretive Council for National Policy. During Bill Clinton’s presidency, James Dobson started referring to the president’s administration as a regime, even going so far as stating that, “. . . . the regime [is] now passing itself off as a democracy . . . ” and stating out loud that Christians may have to choose between supporting our government and standing with God.
The commander of a well-equiped, private army of 20,000 who follows this man wondering whether Christians will have to defy and rise up against our president?
Steven and I both finished the book that week. We were slack-jawed imagining the power Erik Prince has acquired. Today, they’re back in the news here
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