Richard Stanley
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We don't really have a good category for this type of post, so I put in History since it mentions the British East India Corporation BEIC, and my comments about that further below.
The author of the excerpted article was a mercenary, and he distinguishes his motivations as different from such as Erik Prince, .... and such as the faux populist President who hired Prince's sister as SecEd, BTW.
I wonder if the author of this knew that the American flag was modeled on the basic flag design scheme for the BEIC? I'm guessing not. And what if it was? Well if that is all there is to it is a symbolic affinity, then maybe nothing at all. But imagine if the Treaty of Paris ending the Revolutionary War was immediately abrogated by a secret agreement? Is the USA in actuality a sham business corporation of sorts, with distant landlords?
The Americas, and elsewhere, were claimed for their royals (the reals) and we now enjoy our piece of the real estate (the royal estate?). The king grants colonial estates to his favorites, and they parcel it out to the colonists. A war happens with leaders on both sides being Freemasons (and don't forget the Jesuits) and when the war ends, the kings loyalists stay in place. The famous 'tea party' of Adams was composed of his masonic lodge.
The author of the excerpted article was a mercenary, and he distinguishes his motivations as different from such as Erik Prince, .... and such as the faux populist President who hired Prince's sister as SecEd, BTW.
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Who would this viceroy be? Probably Prince had himself in mind, and that should worry everyone. Under his watch, Blackwater military contractors opened fire in a city square in Baghdad, killing 17 civilians in one of the worst episodes of the Iraq war. When asked by Congress how he addressed potential wrongdoing among his employees in 2007, he said: “If there is any sort of … problem, whether it's bad attitude, a dirty weapon, riding someone's bike that's not his, we fire him. … If they don't hold to the standard, they have one decision to make: window or aisle.”
Prince has been developing these ideas for a while. In his Journal op-ed, he wrote that the British East India Company should be the model for U.S. operations in Afghanistan. This private company was the instrument of British colonization of India for centuries, led by a viceroy with monarchical powers and a private army to rule the natives. Prince’s solution for Afghanistan amounts to neo-colonialism.
There are other problems with Prince’s proposal. MacArthur was fired by President Harry Truman for abuse of power—hardly a venerable model for a viceroy. Also, the armies of the British East India Company did much harm in India, and bankrupted the company. British taxpayers had to bail it out in 1770, and then the government had to seize control in 1874.
For Prince, a large mercenary force inspired by the British East India Company would be Blackwater 2.0, a phenomenal business opportunity for someone with White House connections. (His sister is Betsy DeVos, the secretary of education.) But he’s also got inroads of his own. In January, he held secret meetings in the Seychelles, allegedly to establish a back channel between Trump and Vladimir Putin (a spokesman for Prince denied to the Post that the meeting had anything to with Trump). Or perhaps he just wants to come home. After the Iraq fiasco, he went into self-exile, helping Abu Dhabi raise a secret army in the desert and working for China in Africa.
One might think these are different times—that the abuses of the British East India Company are irrelevant to the current age. That would be wrong. ...
https://www.theatlantic.com/interna...afghanistan-erik-prince-trump-britain/533580/
Who would this viceroy be? Probably Prince had himself in mind, and that should worry everyone. Under his watch, Blackwater military contractors opened fire in a city square in Baghdad, killing 17 civilians in one of the worst episodes of the Iraq war. When asked by Congress how he addressed potential wrongdoing among his employees in 2007, he said: “If there is any sort of … problem, whether it's bad attitude, a dirty weapon, riding someone's bike that's not his, we fire him. … If they don't hold to the standard, they have one decision to make: window or aisle.”
Prince has been developing these ideas for a while. In his Journal op-ed, he wrote that the British East India Company should be the model for U.S. operations in Afghanistan. This private company was the instrument of British colonization of India for centuries, led by a viceroy with monarchical powers and a private army to rule the natives. Prince’s solution for Afghanistan amounts to neo-colonialism.
There are other problems with Prince’s proposal. MacArthur was fired by President Harry Truman for abuse of power—hardly a venerable model for a viceroy. Also, the armies of the British East India Company did much harm in India, and bankrupted the company. British taxpayers had to bail it out in 1770, and then the government had to seize control in 1874.
For Prince, a large mercenary force inspired by the British East India Company would be Blackwater 2.0, a phenomenal business opportunity for someone with White House connections. (His sister is Betsy DeVos, the secretary of education.) But he’s also got inroads of his own. In January, he held secret meetings in the Seychelles, allegedly to establish a back channel between Trump and Vladimir Putin (a spokesman for Prince denied to the Post that the meeting had anything to with Trump). Or perhaps he just wants to come home. After the Iraq fiasco, he went into self-exile, helping Abu Dhabi raise a secret army in the desert and working for China in Africa.
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One might think these are different times—that the abuses of the British East India Company are irrelevant to the current age. That would be wrong. ...
https://www.theatlantic.com/interna...afghanistan-erik-prince-trump-britain/533580/
I wonder if the author of this knew that the American flag was modeled on the basic flag design scheme for the BEIC? I'm guessing not. And what if it was? Well if that is all there is to it is a symbolic affinity, then maybe nothing at all. But imagine if the Treaty of Paris ending the Revolutionary War was immediately abrogated by a secret agreement? Is the USA in actuality a sham business corporation of sorts, with distant landlords?
The Americas, and elsewhere, were claimed for their royals (the reals) and we now enjoy our piece of the real estate (the royal estate?). The king grants colonial estates to his favorites, and they parcel it out to the colonists. A war happens with leaders on both sides being Freemasons (and don't forget the Jesuits) and when the war ends, the kings loyalists stay in place. The famous 'tea party' of Adams was composed of his masonic lodge.
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