Erik Prince needs to be put in jail

[gopiscrap]

[MontanaMama]

1. Yep.

And his evil sister too.

[gopiscrap]

2. agreed

[malaise]

3. Never forget when you see Nicole Wallace et al smiling

that Bush and Cheney created this monster

[gopiscrap]

5. exactly

[Mike 03]

7. Ouch. But you're right.

[Ferrets are Cool]

11. Never have, never will

[underpants]

4. Whaaawhat happened?

[gopiscrap]

6. Prince's hired (by trump) mercenaries

are on the streets of Portland snatching people up in violation of their constitutional rights

[babylonsister]

9. Is there a definitive

link proving Prince is involved? I can't seem to find one.

[PatSeg]

31. The person who first said on MSNBC

(can't remember his name now) that DHS hired private contractors, came back on TV and said that it turned out not to be true. Apparently DHS is pulling people from all over the country including DEA and ICE to go to Portland and other Democratic led cities. This little stunt could weaken various U.S. agencies all for political purposes.

[Hortensis]

13. Is there a definitive source that private paramilitary contractors

are deploying to Portland? EVERYONE is watching for this, but I can't find one, only things like Twitter and Reddit posts, claims in opinion pieces, etc.

All the major investigative journals are investigating, their A teams watching closely on the scene and searching out info via all their contacts for private "paramilitary" elements -- not federal employees. If this ominous development was confirmed, it should immediately become breaking and front-page news.

[zaj]

26. So... Nothing yet

This post is rather authoritarian at this point

[Hortensis]

30. :) Rather.

[IronLionZion]

29. Triple Canopy and Constellis Group have won federal contracts for security services

https://news.bloomberglaw.com/federal-contracting/triple-canopy-to-perform-106-million-michigan-security-contract

https://www.miaminewtimes.com/news/video-guard-threatens-to-pepper-spray-immigration-activists-at-miramar-ice-office-11327948

https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2015/08/03/757206/10144291/en/Triple-Canopy-Wins-47-8M-Federal-Protective-Services-Contract.html

https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2017/08/02/1071010/0/en/Constellis-Awarded-Two-Department-of-Homeland-Security-Federal-Protective-Service-Contracts.html

Here's a boogaloo boy who brutally murdered a Triple Canopy contractor guarding federal buildings https://heavy.com/news/2020/06/steven-carrillo/

Constellis is directly descended from Erik Prince's Blackwater and has merged with Triple Canopy. They've put effort into hiding his involvement.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triple_Canopy

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academi

https://constellis.com/

[Hortensis]

32. What has any of this to do with employees from various

federal agencies causing trouble in the streets of Portland on orders from the president of the United States?

That's plenty bad enough without imagining they're also private mercenaries.

That latter will be real when it's real, not when conspiracists say it is.

[IronLionZion]

33. Private companies have contracts to secure federal buildings

that's who is beating up protesters in Portland. They're using vandalism of federal buildings in downtown Portland as the justification.

[Hortensis]

41. No, all honest observers so far identify them as legitimate federal

agents committing likely illegal but definitely un-American acts. No one's saying it can't happen, only that there's no evidence of private paramilitary forces yet.

If you want to be alarmed, maybe focus on the support the feds are getting from some factions withing OR/Portland law enforcement. It's real and potentially dangerous of this were to progress.

[IronLionZion]

43. They are not identifying themselves, showing badges, or saying which agency they work for

Legit federal agents would show their badges

[Hortensis]

44. Well, a judge Just ruled they don't have to. MANY disagree,

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of course, you, my husband, me, tens of thousands of legal experts.

You know, Iron, this has been developing for a long time. The Republican leadership realized a long while ago now they could no longer win elections unless they integrated their party. They chose to take a different path. And the corrupted and stolen elections of 2016, with Russia throwing in with the Repubs to make war on our nation, was all hell finally breaking loose and promising to multiply during this term and this election.

And here we are, with what smart people have been fearing and predicting for decades coming to a head. But at least this time far more people are starting to realize the unthinkable is happening and getting angry, instead of imagining the big issue's which healthcare system Democrats should implement.

Have a nice evening. There will be more videos of Trump-sent thugs attacking citizens on the streets of our cities.

[LeftInTX]

50. We have security guards at our federal building here

But the security guards are pretty run of the mill security guards. They make sure that your bags are scanned before you go in.

One time we were protesting there one night. For some reason they came out and got mad. There were only 5 of us. I think we let them know why we were there and they left us alone. It was night and dark and there was no one around to notice our lame protest. (They probably thought we were burglars..LOL)

I can't imagine the security guards having anything to do with crowd control though and can't imagine them being involved in really trying to secure the building in the case of 4,000 protesters..LOL Keep San Antonio lame!

[cos dem]

8. Put his sister there too.

[Texin]

16. I was about to post the same thing, but you beat me to it.

[IronLionZion]

25. Yup. Or have her play the hunger games

[smirkymonkey]

47. Yes! Let them rot in a cell together for the remainder of their miserable lives.

They are both satanic.

[Firestorm49]

10. They are not supposed to operate on domestic soil. Again, here we sit accepting it.

[malaise]

12. The invasion and occupation of Iraq was illegal

They should all be locked up

[usaf-vet]

35. Bush had them in New Orleans after Katrina. And they were confiscating guns. Not liberals.

Republican hired merc's hired for crowd control which apparently included confiscating guns.

Someone, PLEASE give me an example of liberals confiscating guns in mass anytime anywhere!

Goggle gun confiscation during Katrina. Remember that was (Bush Republican) and they hired Blackwater mercenaries to go into New Orleans.

[malaise]

36. You're right

I remember when General Russel L. Honoré told them to stand down

[JDC]

14. He has a long criminal history

[gopiscrap]

15. I didn't know that

do you have details?

[meadowlander]

40. Lying to Congress and to the Mueller investigation about his meeting in the Seychelles

for a starter.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/schiff-says-house-will-make-a-criminal-referral-of-trump-ally-erik-prince-for-possible-perjury/2019/04/30/fca8a4de-6b49-11e9-a66d-a82d3f3d96d5_story.html

If we had an actual justice department, he would still be in jail.

Reached a settlement for illegal gun-running:

https://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/21/world/21blackwater.html

More gun-running/weaponising crop-dusters:

https://theintercept.com/2020/02/20/erik-prince-fbi-investigation-trump-barr/

Gun-running in Somalia in 2012

"a 2012 UN report called the project "the most brazen violation of the [Somali] arms embargo by a private security company."

https://www.forbes.com/return-of-erik-prince/#7601abbe50aa

Accusation of murder-for-hire, witness tampering and destruction of evidence:

https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/blackwater-founder-implicated-murder/

[rockfordfile]

17. I agree

[bucolic_frolic]

18. Love the post

no explanation needed.

[rainin]

19. Will we ever learn how much of the untraced 500B stimulus went to him?

I'm guessing he's awash in cash right now and ready for battle

[BobTheSubgenius]

20. My preference would be that someone put him in a box.

But I'm not a good person. YMMV

[VA_Jill]

21. Actually

He needs to be put on a plane and transported to The Hague to be tried for war crimes in several countries.

[pandr32]

22. Oh, so agreed!

[dlk]

23. As Mary Trump said in her recent interview with Colbert

Americans are really bad at holding people accountable. The prince of darkness is a criminal whose list of crimes is too long to list. He belongs behind bars for eternity.

[bdjhawk]

28. Sadly, Americans are bad at holding conservatives accountable

but are zealots at non-stop squealing to hold Dems accountable for mountains-out-of-molehill issues or those they had very little to do with. All of this aided by hate talk cable TV, radio and social media pundits as well as mainstream media who go along for fear of being accused of being “leebruhl” !!!

[dlk]

34. Yes, there is a clear double standard

[smirkymonkey]

48. +1000

This, exactly, and I am tired of it. The fact that republicans still control the Senate is not a good enough excuse. I want to see these bastards held accountable for what they are doing to this country and we are going to have to find a way. I refuse to believe that our hands are tied until the changing of the guard.

This is a matter of the survival of our Democracy and our nation. Surely all the brilliant legal minds we have on our side and who see the danger here can come up with something to put a stop to this republican overreach.

[pecosbob]

49. The French know how to take care of this sort of thing...tumbrils and guillotines.

Another five or ten years along this course and corporations will be the only ones with a vote or a voice.

[AllaN01Bear]

24. yeppers

[ellie]

27. Yes, he does.

[NurseJackie]

37. What's this in reference to? Is this just a random passing thought? Or...

... did something specific happen?

[gopiscrap]

38. MSNBC said govt is hiring his mercenaries to snatch people

off of the street in Portland

[NurseJackie]

39. Thanks... I'll look for a link.

[SmartVoter22]

42. Great research with links here

This is great info, lots of links to read and hopefully, garner more info on the DeVos family, who IMO, are traitors and only interested in profiting off the suffering of others.
This kind of corporate behavior should be outlawed.

The DeVos Family made thier money with a pyramid scheme, which most people know as Amway. A company that sold cheap producrs, via a multi-level marketing scheme, in which only the DeVos' profitted. Even those who worked for years selling that junk, found that once they got close to getting a higher income, from the hundreds of people they had to signup to sell under them, the DeVos' changed the rules and it took longer to get to a higher level.
All the while, the DeVos' profitted more and more.

They are founders of ALEC, the shady group that writes all the legislation for all GOPs in almost ever state.
Not one of the current GOP's could write a bill, because f they tried, the donors would dry up. This is pay for play using laws, they wrote to protect themselves.

We need new leaders who will outlaw and claw back those shady profits, end secretive law making groups and force all electeds to to the entire job they were elected to do.

It may be time to kill off the lobby industry and only allow individual citizens to lobby bills that personally affect them. That may be an empowering move, every citizen would benefit from.

[I_UndergroundPanther]

45. I agree with what you said smart voter22

[live love laugh]

46. Yeah a decade ago ny