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From 2018: THEOCRATIC MERCENARY ERIK PRINCE AND THE CHRISTIAN RIGHT.
"President Donald Trumps election allowed the Christian right to achieve a new level of domination in the US government. Since the 1960s, the #ChristianRight has become the loudest voice in the Republican Party, moving their message from the revival tents and into the political arena. Continuing this tradition, Erik Dean Prince, founder of the private security services firm RBlackwater, embodies the values of a heavily financed movement in American politics, combining elements of corporate greed, pro-war fanaticism, and religious fundamentalism. Prince has been eyeing a run for political office, which would enable him to help legislate his proposals and build momentum for his fellow travelers to achieve the same in the 2018 and 2020 elections.
A Son is Born
"Erik Dean Prince was born in Holland, Michigan, on June 6, 1969, the youngest child and only son of Edgar and Elsa Prince, who also had daughters Betsy, Emilie, and Eileen. As documented by author Suzanne Simons in her 2009 book Master of War: Blackwater USA's Erik Prince and the Business of War, Prince grew up in a religious household and attended Christian schools; the Princes were members of the Reformed Church in America, a conservative Christian sect that follows the philosophical template of theologian John Calvin.
"Edgar Prince worked as a die caster and then chief engineer for the die cast machine manufacturing outfit Buss Machine Works after serving in the US Air Force. In 1965 he and two co-workers struck out on their own to establish Prince Manufacturing. By the 1970s the company expanded its operations and became financially successful, as did the Prince family. Edgar Prince died of heart failure in 1995, and the company was sold to Johnson Controls for over $1 billion.
"Surrounded by those who share their belief in Christian-based politics, the Prince family has used its fortune to help build the conservative Christian movement. Focus on the Family founder #JamesDobson and Richard Nixon's disgraced former special counsel Charles Colson (who became a born-again Christian after serving seven months in prison for his role in the Watergate scandal) were family friends. Edgar and Elsa Prince were major contributors to the Family Research Council and founded the nonprofit Edgar and Elsa Prince Foundation in 1979, substantial funds from which have gone toward the effort to abolish the legal wall separating church and state. lhe Prince family also has deep ties to the Council for National Policy (#CNP) which, according to its vision statement, supports 'a united conservative movement to assure, by 2020, policy leadership and governance that restores religious and economic freedom, a strong national defense, and Judeo-Christian values under the Constitution.'
"From Reverend Billy Graham's "spiritual counsel" to twelve US presidents, to Reverend #JerryFalwell's #MoralMajority movement of the 1970s and '80s, to Marion Gordon #PatRobertson's #ChristianCoalition (now the Christian Coalition of America), the movement to push a fundamentalist 'Judeo-Christian' agenda into the public sphere has been an ongoing crusade. Keeping with family tradition, #ErikPrince's sister Betsy married fellow Christian right figure Dick DeVos, whose father is the founder of Amway and the past president of the CNP from 1990-1993. #BetsyDeVos served as the chair of the Michigan Republican Party and now serves as US Secretary of Education under Donald Trump. The DeVos dynasty, labelled a 'family of extremists' by the Center for American Progress, is undoubtedly having an influence on the Trump White House.
"As many readers of this publication [#TheHumanist] likely know, the Christian right calls for: mandatory prayer in school, the abolition of #ReproductiveRights and bans on #SameSex marriage, persecution of #minority groups, and funding of #pseudoscientific studies (such as those that deny #ClimateChange and promote intelligent design). Recently, Secretary DeVos instructed her office to remove guidelines protecting the #CivilRights of #transgender students. This is only one of many ways that she and her #Trumpian cohorts are ignoring the will of the majority in favor of the #theocratic #tyranny of the few. By contrast, DeVos's brother Erik, characterized by critics as a 'mercenary' and '#WarProfiteer,' made his mark on US policy through his controversial outfit Blackwater. "
Read more:
https://www.thefreelibrary.com/THEOCRATIC+MERCENARY+ERIK+PRINCE+AND+THE+CHRISTIAN+RIGHT.-a0545669941#USPol #TrumpSucks
#Authoritarianism #ErikPrinceIsAWarCriminal #ErikPrinceColonialism #ChristoFascism #Fascism -
What do #VanceBoelter and #ErikPrince have in common? Quite a bit! But Prince prefers to farm out #Assassinations to his minions!
#Theocratic #Mercenary Erik Prince and the #ChristianRight
by Mike Kuhlenbeck • 19 June 2018
"Erik Dean Prince was born in Holland, Michigan, on June 6, 1969, the youngest child and only son of Edgar and Elsa Prince, who also had daughters Betsy, Emilie, and Eileen. As documented by author Suzanne Simons in her 2009 book Master of War: #Blackwater USA’s Erik Prince and the Business of War, Prince grew up in a religious household and attended Christian schools; the Princes were members of the Reformed Church in America, a conservative Christian sect that follows the philosophical template of theologian John Calvin.
"Edgar Prince worked as a die caster and then chief engineer for the die cast machine manufacturing outfit Buss Machine Works after serving in the US Air Force. In 1965 he and two co-workers struck out on their own to establish Prince Manufacturing. By the 1970s the company expanded its operations and became financially successful, as did the Prince family. Edgar Prince died of heart failure in 1995, and the company was sold to Johnson Controls for over $1 billion.
"Surrounded by those who share their belief in Christian-based politics, the Prince family has used its fortune to help build the #ConservativeChristian movement. Focus on the Family founder James Dobson and Richard Nixon’s disgraced former special counsel Charles Colson (who became a born-again Christian after serving seven months in prison for his role in the Watergate scandal) were family friends. Edgar and Elsa Prince were major contributors to the Family Research Council and founded the nonprofit Edgar and Elsa Prince Foundation in 1979, substantial funds from which have gone toward the effort to abolish the legal wall separating church and state. The Prince family also has deep ties to the Council for National Policy (#CNP) which, according to its vision statement, supports “a united conservative movement to assure, by 2020, policy leadership and governance that restores religious and economic freedom, a strong national defense, and #JudeoChristian values under the Constitution.”
"From Reverend #BillyGraham’s “spiritual counsel” to twelve US presidents, to Reverend #JerryFalwell’s #MoralMajority movement of the 1970s and ’80s, to Marion Gordon #PatRobertson’s #ChristianCoalition (now the #ChristianCoalitionOfAmerica), the movement to push a #fundamentalist “Judeo-Christian” agenda into the public sphere has been an ongoing crusade. Keeping with family tradition, Erik Prince’s sister Betsy married fellow Christian right figure Dick DeVos, whose father is the founder of Amway and the past president of the CNP from 1990-1993. Betsy DeVos served as the chair of the Michigan Republican Party and now serves as US Secretary of Education under Donald Trump. The DeVos dynasty, labelled a “family of extremists” by the Center for American Progress, is undoubtedly having an influence on the Trump White House."
#ChristoFascists #ChristoFascism #Mercenaries #PrivateSecurity #MAGA #MAGADeathCult #RightWing #ViolentExtremists
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Seems #GOP and #ChristianRight only care about women when they want to discriminate against #TransPeople! HYPOCRITES!
GOOD! Bill to ban #trans athletes from girls’ and women’s sports teams fails to advance in Senate
By STEPHEN GROVES
Updated 7:27 PM EST, March 3, 2025WASHINGTON (AP) — "Legislation that aimed to bar transgender women and girls nationwide from participating in school athletic competitions designated for female athletes failed to advance Monday night in a divided Senate as Democrats stood united against an issue that Republicans leveraged in last year’s elections.
"A test vote on the bill failed to gain the 60 votes needed to advance in the chamber as senators stuck to party lines in a 51-45 vote tally.
"The bill sought to determine #TitleIX protections 'based solely on a person’s reproductive biology and genetics at birth.' The vote came as Republicans have homed in repeatedly on the social cause, casting it as an issue of ensuring athletic fairness for women and girls.
"President Donald #Trump signed an executive order last month giving federal agencies wide latitude to ensure entities that receive federal funding abide by Title IX in alignment with the administration’s view, which interprets 'sex' as the gender someone was assigned at birth.
"Still, Republicans in Congress have set their sights on enshrining that policy into law by amending the 1972 Title IX law, which protects people from discrimination based on sex in education programs or activities that receive federal financial assistance."
Read more:
https://apnews.com/article/transgender-athletes-congress-dfd81b15ebc09409f1bf6c8642f130f3
#TransRightsAreHumanRights #GenderSpectrum #GBLTQRights #GenderFascists #USPol -
UPDATE: #Texas #library committee suspended, decision to reclassify #IndigenousHistory book as "fiction" reversed
Judd Legum
Oct 23, 2024"The change to the book review process was driven by a local #RightWing group, Two Moms and Some Books.
"After Popular Information's report, the reclassification of the book became national and international news, receiving coverage from MSNBC, The Austin-American Statesman, The San Antonio Current, The Texarkana Gazette, The Chicago Sun-Times, The Guardian, The Independent, and others. Two days after Popular Information's report, a coalition, including PEN America, the Writers Guild, and Penguin Random House, wrote a letter to the Montgomery County Commission demanding they reverse the decision.
"On Tuesday, the Montgomery County Commission 'issued a stay' against all decisions made by the citizens' reconsideration committee since October 1, and also put all future decisions of the committee on hold. That means the book will be placed back in the non-fiction section of the county’s public libraries. In addition, the Commission created a group "to review and revise library policy,' including the role and composition of the citizens' reconsideration committee."
https://popular.info/p/update-texas-library-committee-suspended
#Colonization #Censorship #Fascism #TruthAndReconciliation vs #LiesAndDenial #WampanoagTribe #WampanoagNation #TexasFreedomToReadProject #TwoMomsAndSomeBooks #ChristianRight #MontgomeryCountyTexas #Wampanog #ChildrensBooks #Librarians #NativeAmericans
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UPDATE: #Texas #library committee suspended, decision to reclassify #IndigenousHistory book as "fiction" reversed
Judd Legum
Oct 23, 2024"The change to the book review process was driven by a local #RightWing group, Two Moms and Some Books.
"After Popular Information's report, the reclassification of the book became national and international news, receiving coverage from MSNBC, The Austin-American Statesman, The San Antonio Current, The Texarkana Gazette, The Chicago Sun-Times, The Guardian, The Independent, and others. Two days after Popular Information's report, a coalition, including PEN America, the Writers Guild, and Penguin Random House, wrote a letter to the Montgomery County Commission demanding they reverse the decision.
"On Tuesday, the Montgomery County Commission 'issued a stay' against all decisions made by the citizens' reconsideration committee since October 1, and also put all future decisions of the committee on hold. That means the book will be placed back in the non-fiction section of the county’s public libraries. In addition, the Commission created a group "to review and revise library policy,' including the role and composition of the citizens' reconsideration committee."
https://popular.info/p/update-texas-library-committee-suspended
#Colonization #Censorship #Fascism #TruthAndReconciliation vs #LiesAndDenial #WampanoagTribe #WampanoagNation #TexasFreedomToReadProject #TwoMomsAndSomeBooks #ChristianRight #MontgomeryCountyTexas #Wampanog #ChildrensBooks #Librarians #NativeAmericans
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UPDATE: #Texas #library committee suspended, decision to reclassify #IndigenousHistory book as "fiction" reversed
Judd Legum
Oct 23, 2024"The change to the book review process was driven by a local #RightWing group, Two Moms and Some Books.
"After Popular Information's report, the reclassification of the book became national and international news, receiving coverage from MSNBC, The Austin-American Statesman, The San Antonio Current, The Texarkana Gazette, The Chicago Sun-Times, The Guardian, The Independent, and others. Two days after Popular Information's report, a coalition, including PEN America, the Writers Guild, and Penguin Random House, wrote a letter to the Montgomery County Commission demanding they reverse the decision.
"On Tuesday, the Montgomery County Commission 'issued a stay' against all decisions made by the citizens' reconsideration committee since October 1, and also put all future decisions of the committee on hold. That means the book will be placed back in the non-fiction section of the county’s public libraries. In addition, the Commission created a group "to review and revise library policy,' including the role and composition of the citizens' reconsideration committee."
https://popular.info/p/update-texas-library-committee-suspended
#Colonization #Censorship #Fascism #TruthAndReconciliation vs #LiesAndDenial #WampanoagTribe #WampanoagNation #TexasFreedomToReadProject #TwoMomsAndSomeBooks #ChristianRight #MontgomeryCountyTexas #Wampanog #ChildrensBooks #Librarians #NativeAmericans
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UPDATE: #Texas #library committee suspended, decision to reclassify #IndigenousHistory book as "fiction" reversed
Judd Legum
Oct 23, 2024"The change to the book review process was driven by a local #RightWing group, Two Moms and Some Books.
"After Popular Information's report, the reclassification of the book became national and international news, receiving coverage from MSNBC, The Austin-American Statesman, The San Antonio Current, The Texarkana Gazette, The Chicago Sun-Times, The Guardian, The Independent, and others. Two days after Popular Information's report, a coalition, including PEN America, the Writers Guild, and Penguin Random House, wrote a letter to the Montgomery County Commission demanding they reverse the decision.
"On Tuesday, the Montgomery County Commission 'issued a stay' against all decisions made by the citizens' reconsideration committee since October 1, and also put all future decisions of the committee on hold. That means the book will be placed back in the non-fiction section of the county’s public libraries. In addition, the Commission created a group "to review and revise library policy,' including the role and composition of the citizens' reconsideration committee."
https://popular.info/p/update-texas-library-committee-suspended
#Colonization #Censorship #Fascism #TruthAndReconciliation vs #LiesAndDenial #WampanoagTribe #WampanoagNation #TexasFreedomToReadProject #TwoMomsAndSomeBooks #ChristianRight #MontgomeryCountyTexas #Wampanog #ChildrensBooks #Librarians #NativeAmericans
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UPDATE: #Texas #library committee suspended, decision to reclassify #IndigenousHistory book as "fiction" reversed
Judd Legum
Oct 23, 2024"The change to the book review process was driven by a local #RightWing group, Two Moms and Some Books.
"After Popular Information's report, the reclassification of the book became national and international news, receiving coverage from MSNBC, The Austin-American Statesman, The San Antonio Current, The Texarkana Gazette, The Chicago Sun-Times, The Guardian, The Independent, and others. Two days after Popular Information's report, a coalition, including PEN America, the Writers Guild, and Penguin Random House, wrote a letter to the Montgomery County Commission demanding they reverse the decision.
"On Tuesday, the Montgomery County Commission 'issued a stay' against all decisions made by the citizens' reconsideration committee since October 1, and also put all future decisions of the committee on hold. That means the book will be placed back in the non-fiction section of the county’s public libraries. In addition, the Commission created a group "to review and revise library policy,' including the role and composition of the citizens' reconsideration committee."
https://popular.info/p/update-texas-library-committee-suspended
#Colonization #Censorship #Fascism #TruthAndReconciliation vs #LiesAndDenial #WampanoagTribe #WampanoagNation #TexasFreedomToReadProject #TwoMomsAndSomeBooks #ChristianRight #MontgomeryCountyTexas #Wampanog #ChildrensBooks #Librarians #NativeAmericans
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Sarah Huckabee Sanders tries attacking Kamala… she INSTANTLY regrets it - https://youtu.be/Tmw546tTj6U?si=5ME8ZUUJzp6ChAnY #DumpTrump #vote #vote2024 #2024vote #Election2024 #2024election #USPolitics #USElections #USElection #GOPClowns #USElection2024 #KamalaHarris #Harris_Walz2024 #HarrisWalz #HarrisWalz2024 #Jan6 #Jan6th #January6th #January6thInsurrection #Jan6thInsurrection #Jan6Insurrection #BTC #BrianTylerCohen #FarRightExtremists #FarRight #ChristianRight #Atheism #AtheistVoter #SarahHuckabeeSanders #SarahSanders #ChildlessCatLadies #GOPWarOnFamilies
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The #Bogus #Historians Who #Teach #Evangelicals They #Live in a #Theocracy
A new #book on the #Christianright reveals how a series of #unscrupulous #leaders turned #politics into a #powerful and #lucrative #gospel.
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Conservatives #Extremism #Fascism #Religion #RepublicanParty #Hate #Bigotry #Violence #Genocide #Discrimination #Homophobia #Transphobia #ThePartyOfHate #EmptyThePews
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@glynmoody
The US are a global disgrace. With #healthcareCosts and #infrastructureDebt through the roof, #infantMortality rising and #lifeExpectancy declining, one would expect some thought to begin entering policy - but the #ChristianRight strike again.The planet is experiencing a #population and #consumption crisis and yet all the #BusinessRoundtable care about is adding more consumers.
#ThirdWorld growth levels for an aggressive and soon-to-be Third World country.