About Those Blackwater Dudes

Blackwater, as well as other so-called "security firms" with U.S.government contracts, combine to form a bad moon rising over this country.

Sociopaths and functional psychotics should never be paid for practicing their pathology!

Now they are patrollong te streets of New Orleans?

Erik Prince (AKA Erik D. Prince)

Born: 1970

Birthplace: Holland, MI

Gender: Male

Religion: Born-Again Christian

Race or Ethnicity: White

Sexual orientation: Straight

Occupation: Business, Military

Nationality: United States

Executive summary: Blackwater USA mercenary firm

Military service: Navy SEAL Team Officer (1993-96)

Erik Prince is a billionaire right-wing fundamentalist Christian from a powerful Michigan Republican family. A major Republican campaign contributor, he interned in the White House of President George H.W. Bush and campaigned for Pat Buchanan in 1992.

He founded the mercenary firm Blackwater USA in 1997 with Gary Jackson, another former Navy SEAL.

Father: Edgar (d. 1995, billionaire, started Family Research Council with Gary Bauer)

Mother: Elsa

Sister: Betsy DeVos (former chair, Michigan Republican Party)

Wife: Joan (four children, d. 2003, cancer)

High School: Holland Christian High School, Holland, MI

University: Hillsdale College, Hillsdale, MI

Blackwater USA Co-Founder and CEO (1997) Family Research Council Intern

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