"If ever ye seek a reason to close down parochial schools, ye need look no further than Holland Christian's very own 'Prince of Darkness'.
----from "The Quotations of Chairman Joe"
For decades now, the Rescumlickan party has been assiduously working to privatize whatever governmental functions that they cannot sell off outright. The important advantage to privatization is that the money comes not from persuading unsuspecting customers, but from demanding the revenues from unsuspecting taxpayers. Here we have the blessed capitalist paradise wherein one can reduce costs by slashing services while all the time demanding revenues on parity with those still in the business who are actually serving the public. Ergo, this wretched “school” across the street that was once a public elementary school but is now a privatized 'high school'; that was once filled with teachers, but is now filled with computers; that was once filled with laughing playing children, but is now filled with surly juvenile delinquents. Schools with no teachers, no regular classes and almost no accountability. This is the educational paradise created by one Betsy DeVos, she of the Prince and Scamway fortunes who, through unlimited political contributions, has risen to take her place among those practicing unlimited political expedience—all in the name of greed.
DeVos, another of this administration's national embarrassments, was on CBS's 60 Minutes a week ago demonstrating her complete ignorance about all matters educational, sitting dumbfounded as she stammered through answers put to her by Leslie Stall about the mess she and her ScamWay family has made of education in the State of Michigan. Nowhere has the 'charter' school movement been more profound and less accountable; nowhere has the public domain been so stripped of resources, a billion dollars a year now goes to these operations, money stolen from the public trust to line the pockets of capitalist pigs. The experiment has, by all accounts, been a miserable failure. Yet this has not prevented the likes of these Scamway ideologues from imposing this failure upon the rest of the nation. Experience is again powerless to instruct. What happens when objective reality calls to account the ideological imperative? Answer: away with reality! But then, in DeVos' own words, she is only “doing god's work”.
This isn't the only legacy bequeathed to us by Holland Michigan's Holland Christian High School. Betsy's brother another alumnus of this American Madrasa, is none other than the world's most notorious mercenary, the prince of darkness himself, Eric Prince.
Prince should have been long since arrested and sent to the Hague to be tried for war crimes stemming from outrages committed by his company—then known as Blackwater—during the Iraq war. Instead he had taken refuge in the Middle East during the Obama administration and as the election of 2016 approached began to do work for the tRUMP campaign, eventually ending up advising the campaign and the transition team on appointments to national security posts. With the elevation of Disgustus to the presidency, Prince was again back in the country pressing the newly anointed to privatize the entire war in Afghanistan, a war his company, now calling itself Frontier or FSG, would then prosecute. Also, in the works, was an idea floated about to create a privatized intelligence agency, run by Prince, that would compete with the CIA, NSA, and the several military agencies and report directly to Disgustus. The projects were tabled in the immediate wake of the Michael Flynn imbroglio and the Russian investigations, but news has recently emerged that the proposal regarding intelligence has not only re-emerged but has actually been funded in the recent budget resolutions passed by Congress.
Things keep getting curiouser and curiouser as this country careens from scandal to scandal, outrage to outrage, like a pinball from lever to post. Not only has Prince been implicated in shady financial dealing in the Seychelles Islands while attempting to establish yet a second 'back-channel line of communication between Caesar Disgustus and the Kremlin; but, according to a recent YouTube podcast by “The Young Turks”, the world's most notorious mercenary has not only been selling military hardware and technology to Azerbaijan, Libya and other less than savory actors, but he has successfully lobbied this government into creating a private intelligence agency within the U.S. Government, run by Prince's company—formerly Blackwater, now Frontier or FSG (Frontier Security Group). This is not an entire family or even U.S. Owned operation. According to “The Young Turks”, the largest shareholder is a Chinese Government run bank.
Eric Prince is a mercenary, a war criminal, and a traitor. By doing his bidding Disgustus has further put this nation's security at risk by placing national intelligence and, therefore, national security in the grasp of not only the Prince of Darkness but within the reach of hostile foreign powers.
There is a further concern here, and that is that these machinations are more than likely going to develop a modern Praetorian Guard. Disgustus is known to worship dictators. Leadership like that of Russia, China, the Philippines, and Turkey are objects of adoration by this fool. He reportedly sleeps with a copy of Hitler's speeches on his nightstand. He has, on at least two occasions, openly mused about the advantage of a “presidency-for-life” here in the United States. Imagine a newly-minted 'strongman' complete with his own version of a “Revolutionary Guard”, patterned after the old German Gestapo or, perhaps, the Roman experience with its Praetorian Guard in the assassination of its republic. This is where we may well be headed.
Cenk Uygur, formerly of MSNBC and host of "The Young Turks", reported that the government was informed of Prince's involvement with alleged illegal arms and technology transfers in 2016 by the then CEO of the company, an action that led to the ouster of Frontier's chief executive. The Obama administration did nothing, perhaps because, as Uygur suggested, the administration may have felt that Clinton was going to win and that the next administration could take up the task of cracking Prince's skull. But there may have been a more sinister reason. Could it be that those in power are now intimidated, if not terrorized, by this groups of mercenaries and fear the consequences of calling them to accountability?
It is worth noting that by the first century C.E., the Praetorian Guard regularly not only assassinated the Caesars but chose who would succeed in his place. The foundations of the Republic begin to tremble.
'An Br'er Putin, he jus' laugh and laugh”
Impeach and Imprison.
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Note: "The Young Turks" once a weekday news program on MSNBC, has since moved to the internet featuring reporting, among others, of former CBS Nightly News Anchorman Dan Rather. Like Rachel Maddow and Lawrence O'Donnell, Cenk Uygur's reporting is a reliable source of information.
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