Just had another "duh" epiphany watching Jeremy Scahill's flicks from Iraq, (which I embedded on my blog, thanks to The Nation, for the loan) and some of the news coverage about it...
Here's the $64,000 question..
Are all the Blackwater goons white? Or most of them...
embedded on my blog
Just think "Erik Prince, North Carolina, KKK," and the implications are startling, if not frightening.
IS this band of mercenaries an expression of the old south racist agenda? If so, their return, AS A UNIT, to this country represents a very dangerous and disconcerting potential.
Considering that the Republican candidates won't even talk to minority groups, and the evidence of a very deliberate move to the right down in Jena, one might assume they have written-off the ethnic vote.
So how much of a leap is it to the conclusions I've drawn here?
I don't even need a tin-foil hat for this one...
And I think it would behoove all the blogs to converge on the Republican candidates' obvious racist direction in this long season of lies.