Naturally your wingnuts would see obtaining the release of innocents as worthless. These are the same sort that thought Jimmy Carter ought to nuke the embasssy, to ’show’ the rioters in Iran.

And that the Taliban should execute the GI.

Mr. Prince operated his companies in a manner that encouraged and rewarded the destruction of Iraqi life. For example, Mr. Prince’s executives would openly speak about going over to Iraq to “lay Hajiis out on cardboard.” Going to Iraq to shoot and kill Iraqis was viewed as a sport or game.

And all on our nickel.

Eric Price is going over the Eric Prince story on democracynow.

Left out the most important fact.

Prince, a devout Catholic

Wonder if Josh Bolton would mind if we just turn Eric Prince over to the Iraqis.

Hardly the most important fact…

According to Schahill (who was the one speaking, not Eric Prince talking about himself as I mistyped above) said that Prince converted to R.C. because it was the closest to the original Xtian tradition.

Well, it is an indication of his extremism, in the sense that being a Protestant just wasn’t religious enough for him.

It is, if religious belief is used to justify the committing of atrocities.

I don’t think you can say converting to Catholicism makes you an extremist. My wife did, and she hardly qualifies.

He’s also flat out wrong. The 1st century Christians would be anathema to someone like Prince. All that sharing, and turning the other cheek, and such.

That was quite one of the most despicable things said in recent memory. Oh, yeah, they support our troops. :-(

It’s not the conversion per se, it’s the reason why Prince said he did it.

Details. Details.

According to Scahill, Prince thinks it’s his job to make the world completely Xtian. Eliminating Mulims is just the first part of his task.

Chris Hayes on Rachel is right. The left needs to meet the mobilization of the radical right with its own mobilization. Democracy is not something that can be taken for granted. If it has value, it has to be fought for.

According to John Doe 2’s declaration, “Mr. Prince knowingly hired two persons who were previously involved in the Kosovo sex trafficking ring to serve at relatively high-levels within his company.” He adds that “Mr. Prince’s North Carolina operations had an ongoing wife-swapping and sex ring, which was participated in by many of Mr. Prince’s top executives.”

http://www.motherjones.com/moj…..e-swapping

I swear I did not see this last part on Leen’s diary, Huff Post or Gorillia Guides I read the story 3 times.
Why do you need people who ran a sex ring if your into wife swapping I assume sex ring means human trafficing or Pimping and Sife Swapping is consensual.
Also was Prince then Swapping or Selling his wife?

Prince in the same league as other’s who have used religion as a excuse. It’s really not about the religion itself, it’s about the person hiding behind it.

Newt Gingrich also converted to catholicism.

there’s a hilarious headlne video item up on the current tv website with a banner that says: “FoxNews complains about about CurrentTV reporters’ release: Fox News sucks”

The video features Peroxide and Hannity complaining about the Clinton DPRK mission and hinting that Gore may have staged the whole incident in the first place (sent those reporters to get captured so that Dems can rescue them)

I’m on a PDA so I can’t link it

And his reason shows what an idiot he is to boot. As was pointed out earlier, post-Constantine Christianity is vastly different from the original, first-century Christians. The early Christians who were thrown to the lions were often in that predicament because they refused to serve in the Roman military.

I don’t know, from what I’ve heard, what early part of RCism Prince has in mind. One would guess it’s a somewhat later stage than the getting-thrown-to-the-lions part. Probably the point at which RCs got their military act together. Only thing that would make sense from what we know about him.

Just what does a Catholic have to do these days to get excommunicated Prince, Pat Buchanan they all hide behind their faith.
And the church wonders why people leave.

It is part of the discipline of democracy to respect the roles and responsibilities of each branch of government, and, above all, to respect the verdicts of elections and judgment of the people. – (John McCain)

But please remember that the voice of the people is heard most clearly on election day. Not everyone has the opportunity to be heard at town hall meetings.

Wait earlier Roman Catholic Church Mel Gibson’s pre Vatican 2 church the one the current Nazi Pope let in recently.

Damn draft-dodgers.

PPII excommunicated all communists, but Hitler died a R.C.

Roman Catholic Church – the refuge of pedophiles.
http://dianej.wordpress.com/20…..se-report/

You left out members of the fascist group Opus Dei.

Below the belt! (boxing)

Red card! (soccer)

Germany’s four-year love affair with its own Bavarian-born Pope was in tatters yesterday after Chancellor Angela Merkel accused the pontiff of giving the impression that Holocaust denial was “permissible” through his decision to pardon the British-born bishop, Richard Williamson.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/…..63843.html

Mel Gibson maybe belong to another bunch of Vatican 2 separatists.

PPII (listened to a bio of him by a Brit R.C. who started off thinking he would clear the pope of charges of Nazism, but after reviewing newly available docs that the R.C. released to him, became more than ever convinced of how deeply in cahoots he was with the Nazis) was an authoritarian. Got along quite will with dictators as long as they weren’t godless.

Euwh they flogg themselves for their sins the RC church gave that up in the middle ages! Somehow they got special permission to go old old school to the dark ages.

Mornin’ Blue Texan and Firedogs,

from the wife swapping link:

According to John Doe 2’s declaration, “Mr. Prince knowingly hired two persons who were previously involved in the Kosovo sex trafficking ring to serve at relatively high-levels within his company

would go a ways to explain the whole let’s-lock-rape-victims-up-in-a-box-car-until-co workers-free-them thing

I’m really out to lunch this morning. I keep typing PPII when I mean PPXII.

All the Popes have supported the established order as long as they get paid.
Godless is defined by not paying cash more than not respecting human rights.

Is it Netroots time?

Any numbers on women contractors aid workers going missing presumed killed or kidnapped no body found?
To many Iraq women missing to search that way but are Iraqi women showing up in police raids of whore houses?

Hi BT and Pups. Hopeless for me to try to catch up with the pack, but I am trying to ease back into the harness. We’re still surrounded by (fewer, at least) boxes, and waiting waiting waiting for our former home to sell, pant pant. Oogh.

Enough of Prince. Put him in stocks and release the bull into the arena, horns sharpened.

I suffer from a terminal case of stubborn. My flaming passion of these past years was re-kindled by Rachel’s blase attitude toward the “Brooks Bros Rioters” and their effect on our governance. WHY WHY WHY were they and their handlers never called to task, slapped HARD, summarily thrown into the pokey, door shut and the key tossed in the latrine?! Why oh WHY do Rachel and The Nation spend the time and effort to argue the merits of whether Dems should have held their own, competing riot in Miami-Dade BOE headquarters?! Would that save democracy? Whu???

Why were those rioters, faux or frivolous – no matter, not facing charges IMMEDIATELY? In my demented state, I think we lost our so-called democracy that day. Period.

But I digress. Yes. Eric Prince should face the most serious charges possible in today’s world. But he never would have gotten as far as he has if our system of law on/law off hadn’t let slide every lesser assault on our so-called democracy.

When police in the tiny republic of Montenegro swooped on a suspected pimp accused of running a major sex trafficking operation, they ran into an embarrassing problem.

The man they were about to put behind bars was none other than the country’s deputy state prosecutor.

Montenegro has been shaken hard by the burgeoning scandal, which allegedly involved leading members of the judiciary, police and political officials. Zoran Piperovic, the republic’s deputy prosecutor, was arrested this week, and six other officials have been detained. They are accused of forcing women, mostly from Moldavia, Ukraine and Romania, into prostitution.

The arrests are only a small part of the scandal, according to sources in the Montenegrin capital, Podgorica. It is an open secret in the Balkans that people-trafficking rings run through Montenegro to Bosnia and Kosovo, with profits from the dirty trade reaching millions of euros.

The sex-slave routes lead to Italy and Britain

http://www.prisonplanet.com/go…..ested.html

Being a nasty and claiming to be a xtristan is a mechanism to have a free pass. Either god made me do, wanted me to do, allowed me to do it, or I am his instrument. God is deemed perfect, religion is his club. God doesn’t make mistakes.

It’s the ultimate whitewash.

Believe in god – no personal responsibility. QED

They had back orders to fill for members of Governor Mark Sanford’s Family.

not in my home. but i get yer point. sigh.

Yeah I want the FBI to do something we have laws and pay taxes for a reason or should all Lefties buy guns? Does Rachel want a blood bath the GOP certainly does I do not think she has thought this through.

Accountability does not exist.

Only little people get to be accountable.

Eric Prince should face the most serious charges possible in today’s world

Ain’t going to happen. With the ENORMOUS windfall profits they made in Iraq, Blackwater/Xe has the best set of lawyers that money can buy.

They don’t believe in free will? Ok either they really went off the deep end or I should have paid more attention in Sunday school.

good morning,

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Someone has to take the fall for the defeat in Iraq. The GOP will blame Obama the second he pulls out But Prince is to tempting to pass up.

Hi, Katy. You’re up early. Did you say today is a chemo day?

Don’t believe it will work that way. The media can be controlled to say that withdrawal is victory.

A few years ago when Blackwater activities showed up in the news, I read that Prince was co-founder of Family Research Council with Gary Bauer, his sister is married into DeVos family of the pyramid (imo) Amway company & Prince interned at Bush White House but left because it wasn’t conservative enough for him. For a young guy, he has led a pretty hinky life.

Did you see Scahill (he wrote the book Blackwater) talk about Prince on Olbermann? Here’s some footage.

Only if its a GOP President withdrawing. But can even the media protect Prince? Considering everything he’s supposedly done it should be easy to make a case against him.
Unless Eric Holder decides to put the fix in.

People can use religion to suit their own needs. Many take away moral and ethical lessons. Many take away something else. That the danger of religion, especially the abrahamic ones – intepretation. anyone can do it and they do!

I’m not little, just short. Are you labelling yourself little? Shame on you.

So, force them to earn their stinking living. Don’t enable them willingly.

Good Morn ((((Katymine)))) ;->

Seriously, I’ve heard of this wonderous person, Jane Hamsher. You need not act alone and feel small. Mebbe u should re-read some of her stuff. Pretty good for a gal. *G*

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That’s a great point. And I don’t want to get into Catholic bashing because every faith tradition have some great and wonderful people as well as scum bags. I’ve known some very spiritually gifted gifted Catholics as well as other faiths, I’ve worked with the Sisters of Providence and found them to be amazing people we could all learn from.

But I suspect the less spiritually-evolved folks like Buchanan and Prince are not drawn to those aspects of the faith.