Blackwater Founder Accused in Court of Intent to Kill

Source: Washington Post

The founder of Blackwater USA deliberately caused the deaths of innocent civilians in a series of shootings in Iraq, attorneys for Iraqis suing the security contractor told a federal judge Friday.

The attorneys singled out Erik Prince, a former Navy SEAL who is the company's owner, for blame in the deaths of more than 20 Iraqis between 2005 and 2007. Six former Blackwater guards were criminally charged in 14 of the shootings, and family members and victims' estates sued Prince, Blackwater (now called Xe Services LLC) and a group of related companies.

"The person responsible for these deaths is Mr. Prince,'' Susan L. Burke, an attorney for the plaintiffs, said in U.S. District Court in Alexandria. "He had the intent, he provided the weapons, he provided the instructions, and they were done by his agents and they were war crimes.''

Judge T.S. Ellis III expressed deep skepticism about the claims. "Are you accusing Mr. Prince of saying 'I want our boys to go out and shoot innocent civilians?' '' he asked the attorneys."These are certainly allegations of not engaging in very nice conduct, but where are the elements that meet the elements of murder? I don't have any doubt that you can infer malice. What you can't infer, as far as I can tell, is intent to kill these people.''

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Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/08/28/AR2009082803782.html?wpisrc=newsletter

Prince's father co-founded the Family Research Council with Gary Bauer.<12> Prince is the brother of Betsy DeVos, a former chairwoman of the Michigan Republican Party and wife of former Alticor (Amway) president and Gubernatorial candidate Dick DeVos<10>, son of Richard DeVos, Sr. (listed by Forbes in 2007 as one of the world's richest men, with a net worth of $2.4 billion).<13>
Prince was unfaithful to his first wife, Joan Nicole Prince, cheating on her with their nanny, Joanna Houck. When Joan Prince died of cancer in 2003, Houck attended the funeral while pregnant with Prince's child. Prince and Houck were married a year later.
Prince has six children.<14>

While the GOP gave start-up funding for the Christian Coalition --

Obviously, the revolution of the 1960's which they like to misname a "sexual" revolution

was a widespread movement for peace, equality, change of culture ... including our overall

approach to medicine, childbearing, breast feeding, etc.

Needless to say, it was an attack on patriarchy, organized patriarchal religion -- and

authority, in general.

They are heretics that should die because they are Muslim ...
and every one 'knows' that Muslims are the agents of Satan , according to the Aryans...

Anything, anyone, anytime Virginia Beach is mentioned red flares and rockets should go off.

but only as the hollow men the stuffed men.

"Are you accusing Mr. Prince of saying 'I want our boys to go out and shoot innocent civilians?' '' he asked the attorneys.

Say it ain't so!

Why is it such a stretch of imagination to think someone like Prince capable of that? As for evidence, I've read that there is plenty of compelling evidence against him. The judge sounds as though he's already made up his mind, though, that the whole thing is inconceivable!

And quite a prevalent view here at DU --

Now they just need to add the names of the people that hired Blackwater to do their dirty work.

By continuing to employ Blackwater in Iraq, Obama has some of that blood on his hands.

to the truth of conspiracy and murderous intent of those in power?

This certainly wasn't what we were taught in our schools --

but it is certainly what we could have seen all over the world as part of

our/CIA doing if we had had less trust in our corrupted "people's" government

and more awareness. Of course, a free press would have also helped!

that they could not be held accountable for anything they did. And he knew who they were.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T._S._Ellis,_III

Judge Clears Contractor of Fraud in Iraq
Custer Battles Handled Baghdad Airport Security

By Dana Hedgpeth
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, February 9, 2007
A federal judge has dismissed a civil case against a military contractor accused of improperly billing Iraq reconstruction authorities for tens of millions of dollars worth of security services that it did not provide.

U.S. District Judge T.S. Ellis III in Alexandria said there was no evidence that Custer Battles, a firm started by Army veterans Scott Custer and Michael Battles, committed fraud under a $16.8 million contract to provide security at the Baghdad International Airport in 2003.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/08/AR2007020801871.html


Looks like that nice young man and his company will go scot free! How lucky they have a friendly judge!

I hate these bastards more every day.

"...he provided the instructions"

sound like intent dumbass?