Arbeid Macht Freiheit

Corrupt Bush crony corporation Mercenaries R Us Blackwater International and their head honcho Erik Prince are in the Senate spotlight at the moment and the media is finally catching up with what bloggers have been saying about them since the invasion – not that bloggers’ll get any credit.

But you only had to look at their bloody logo to see what they are, as Gaylord Sundheim graphically points out at Inhuman Interest:

Brownshirts, 21st Century-style

I can tell you this:: I’m not even a liberal, and Blackwater is about as fucking sketchy as sketchy can be.

And someone working there knows their fascist symbolism, guaran-damn-tee you. See below:

Can you guess which logo is Blackwater’s? *

For an extra jolt of distinctly teutonic imagery such as Himmler might have admired, check out the Wayback Machine’s file on Blackwater associate company Greystone Ltd. Their original brochure is a treat, too.

Oh, and Erik Prince, the far-right Christian billionaire behind the whole Blackwater/Greystone deal has been associated with the Bush family for years in some way.

I’m sure Dubya’s granddaddy Prescott would approve.

How very coincidental that Erik Prince is also closely associated with the far-right supporting Freiheit Foundation:

While Prince’s family has contributed greatly to religious right groups, Prince’s foundation has primarily funded conservative Catholic or evangelical organizations that do not have clear ties to the religious right. A major exception is the Freiheit Foundation’s $500,000 grant to ex-Watergate felon Chuck Colson’s Prison Fellowship, an evangelical ministry operating within the United States’ prison system and receiving financial backing from a variety of religious right funders.

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Prince has also provided $195,000 to the Institute for World Politics, a graduate school in Washington DC offering training in “statecraft” by examining diplomacy, military strategy, the formation of opinion, and other such topics taught by former government officials from the Department of Defense, Central Intelligence Agency, and other such agencies as well as private institutions such as the American Enterprise Institute. Like the American Enterprise Institute, the Institute for World Politics promotes a foreign policy in line with that of the Bush administration—a policy that has functioned to help Blackwater earn government contracts and to increase Prince’s own fortune.

*It’s the bear claw. Of course it could just represent Prince’s big love of doughnuts…

OOPS NEARLY FORGOT:

Blackwater have just been awarded the contract for US domestic drug enforcement. Be afraid.