Erik Prince: Evil never sleeps

About once a year, when I can find the strength, I do a news search to see what Blackwater-founder Erik Prince has been up to, and he never disappoints. He's always doing things that are immoral, unethical, and often illegal. Keep in mind that this is only a sampling from just this past year.
Let's start with the immoral.

Erik Prince, the billionaire founder of military contractor Blackwater, is charging $6,500 per seat on a chartered plane out of Afghanistan, The Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday.

Prince saw the tragedy unfolding and decided that was an opportunity to add to his billions.

Now let's move on to the unethical. There's a lot of territory to cover here.

Erik Prince, the former head of security contractor Blackwater and a top ally of former President Trump, was reportedly part of a deal crafted last year to distribute an experimental COVID-19 vaccine.

Prince is involved with the possible distribution of the UB-612 vaccine, which is being developed by U.S. firm COVAXX, according to Reuters, which cited business records and three people familiar with the arrangement.
..."There's room for a couple dollars per dose in commissions," Prince reportedly said in a Nov. 9 text to Paul Behrends, a former associate.

Tragedy? People dying? Prince is right there. But there's more unethical than just that.

A former British spy and Republican mega-donor Erik Prince, a founder of the private military contractor Blackwater (now rebranded as "Academi) and brother to former U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, recruited a motley crew of home-grown American operatives from the conservative group Project Veritas and elsewhere to lead an initiative to infiltrate state-level Democratic party organizations and campaigns, according to a new report.

What a surprise that his sister Betsy DeVos is involved in unethical conduct. That's really some kind of family.
Finally, let's look at the illegal.

In 2019, Erik Prince, the founder of the notorious mercenary firm Blackwater and a prominent Donald Trump supporter, aided a plot to move U.S.-made attack helicopters, weapons, and other military equipment from Jordan to a renegade commander fighting for control of war-torn Libya. A team of mercenaries planned to use the aircraft to help the commander, Khalifa Hifter, a U.S. citizen and former CIA asset, defeat Libya’s U.N.-recognized and U.S.-backed government. While the U.N. has alleged that Prince helped facilitate the mercenary effort, sources with knowledge of the chain of events, as well as documents obtained by The Intercept, reveal new details about the scheme as well as Prince’s yearslong campaign to support Hifter in his bid to take power in Libya.

The mission to back Hifter ultimately failed, but a confidential U.N. report issued last week and first reported by the New York Times concluded that Prince, a former Navy SEAL, and his associates violated the U.N. arms embargo for Libya.
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The Intercept’s reporting shows that the push to aid Hifter continued even after Project Opus fell apart. In the summer of 2019, after their backdoor efforts failed to convince Jordan to approve the arms transfer, Prince called a member of Trump’s National Security Council to request a meeting; Prince asked the official to meet with Christiaan Durrant, Prince’s business associate and former employee. At the Army and Navy Club near the White House, with Prince sitting silently at his side, Durrant described the campaign to back Hifter and asked for U.S. support for their mercenary effort, the former NSC official told The Intercept. The upside, Durrant told the official, was that the U.S. help would limit Hifter’s reliance on the Russians, who were also supporting him in the war.

So violating a U.N. arms embargo sounds like breaking the law to me. I left in the part about "limiting reliance on Russians" because he creates a great segway to his next illegal act.

Erik Prince, founder of the private security firm Blackwater and a Trump administration adviser, has sought in recent months to provide military services to a sanctioned Russian mercenary firm in at least two African conflicts, according to three people with knowledge of the efforts.

Prince, who is the brother of Trump Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, met earlier this year with a top official of Russia’s Wagner Group and offered his mercenary forces to support the firm’s operations in Libya and Mozambique, according to two people familiar with Prince’s offer.

Trying to work with an officially Russian mercenary group, the very same group he wanted to limit at the very same time.
That sounds like no just illegal, but unethical and immoral too.
I'm going to add this last one, just for nostalgia purposes.

Blackwater was the most notorious contractor in the Global War on Terror. Founder Erik Prince announced to FOX anchor Brian Kilmeade he's bringing back the private military firm.

Keep in mind that all of this Erik Prince did in just the past year. What will he do next year?

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a secret army?

The largest undercover force the world has ever known is the one created by the Pentagon over the past decade. Some 60,000 people now belong to this secret army, many working under masked identities and in low profile, all part of a broad program called "signature reduction." The force, more than ten times the size of the clandestine elements of the CIA, carries out domestic and foreign assignments, both in military uniforms and under civilian cover, in real life and online, sometimes hiding in private businesses and consultancies, some of them household name companies.

The unprecedented shift has placed an ever greater number of soldiers, civilians, and contractors working under false identities, partly as a natural result in the growth of secret special forces but also as an intentional response to the challenges of traveling and operating in an increasingly transparent world. The explosion of Pentagon cyber warfare, moreover, has led to thousands of spies who carry out their day-to-day work in various made-up personas, the very type of nefarious operations the United States decries when Russian and Chinese spies do the same.

Newsweek's exclusive report on this secret world is the result of a two-year investigation involving the examination of over 600 resumes and 1,000 job postings, dozens of Freedom of Information Act requests, and scores of interviews with participants and defense decision-makers. What emerges is a window into not just a little-known sector of the American military, but also a completely unregulated practice. No one knows the program's total size, and the explosion of signature reduction has never been examined for its impact on military policies and culture. Congress has never held a hearing on the subject. And yet the military developing this gigantic clandestine force challenges U.S. laws, the Geneva Conventions, the code of military conduct and basic accountability.

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Pricknick's picture

deserve a dirt nap after their lead poisoning.
Eric and his sister are primer ready.

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Regardless of the path in life I chose, I realize it's always forward, never straight.

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

Read a biography in High school "Otto Skorzeny, Commando Extraordinary"
It just dealt with WW II. Possibly the other wikipedia events hadn't happened yet. But they sound even more like Erik Prinz.
Skorzeny was born rich and titled. A perfect analog for the 1%

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I've seen lots of changes. What doesn't change is people. Same old hairless apes.

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"Hifter".
"Hifter"???
"HIFTER"!

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In the Land of the Blind, the One-Eyed Man is declared mentally ill for describing colors.

Yes Virginia, there is a Global Banking Conspiracy!

who the military does contracting with.

Why does he let this go on?

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@Fishtroller 02

Ol' Farina-brain doesn't have what it takes for his right thumb to know what his right index finger is doing, to say nothing of any other fingers, hands, toes, etc.

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There is no justice. There can be no peace.