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3rd February 2015, 22:00
Code Pink's Medea Benjamin Responds To John McCain Calling Her 'Low Life Scum
The demonstration was against Kissinger, but McCain may end up being the worse for wear.
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http://crooksandliars.com/2015/01/code-pinks-medea-benjamin-responds-john
Code Pink's Medea Benjamin had a question for Sen. John McCain after he called her and her group "low life scum" while protesting Henry Kissinger during a Senate committee hearing this week. My money is on option one.
Who’s the “Low Life Scum:” Kissinger or CODEPINK?:
A very angry Senator John McCain denounced CODEPINK activists as “low-life scum” for holding up signs reading “Arrest Kissinger for War Crimes” and dangling handcuffs next to Henry Kissinger’s head during a Senate hearing on January 29. McCain called the demonstration “disgraceful, outrageous and despicable,” accused the protesters of “physically intimidating” Kissinger and apologized profusely to his friend for this “deeply troubling incident.”
But if Senator McCain was really concerned about physical intimidation, perhaps he should have conjured up the memory of the gentle Chilean singer/songwriter Victor Jara. After Kissinger facilitated the September 11, 1973 coup against Salvador Allende that brought the ruthless Augusto Pinochet to power, Victor Jara and 5,000 others were rounded up in Chile’s National Stadium. Jara’s hands were smashed and his nails torn off; the sadistic guards then ordered him to play his guitar. Jara was later found dumped on the street, his dead body riddled with gunshot wounds and signs of torture.
Despite warnings by senior US officials that thousands of Chileans were being tortured and slaughtered, then Secretary of State Kissinger told Pinochet, "You did a great service to the West in overthrowing Allende."
Rather than calling peaceful protesters “despicable”, perhaps Senator McCain should have used that term to describe Kissinger’s role in the brutal 1975 Indonesian invasion of East Timor, which took place just hours after Kissinger and President Ford visited Indonesia. They had given the Indonesian strongman the US green light—and the weapons—for an invasion that led to a 25-year occupation in which over 100,000 soldiers and civilians were killed or starved to death. The UN's Commission for Reception, Truth and Reconciliation in East Timor (CAVR) stated that U.S. "political and military support were fundamental to the Indonesian invasion and occupation" of East Timor.
see more here:
http://crooksandliars.com/2015/01/code-pinks-medea-benjamin-responds-john
And Forbidden Knowledge came out with this today:
John McCain: Traitor
ttp://www.ForbiddenKnowledgeTV.com/page/27015.html
Worse than his cowardly actions in Vietnam was the cover up afterwards.
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Earl Hopper spent 30 years with the
Army in Airborne Special Services and
with Army Intelligence and he was a
founding member of the National
League of Families, dedicated to returning
living POWs and MIAs of the Vietnam War.
He and those interviewed allege that the
narrative propagated by McCain, of his
five and a half years as a Prisoner of War
in North Vietnam is about as far from the
truth as one could possibly imagine. They
allege that McCain, from the very first
moments of his capture behaved as a
COLLABORATOR and propaganda tool for
his North Vietnamese captors.
McCain is described as engaging in no less
than 30, and up to 38 anti-American
propaganda broadcasts for Radio Hanoi
during the period of his captivity.
Far from the image of the dedicated American
"hero" sweating it out in a North Vietnamese
prisoner's "hotbox" for five and half years,
McCain was observed by fellow prisoners to be
receiving special treatment by his captors, who
were fully aware of his father's and grandfather's
4-star Admiral positions with the US Navy.
Not a single contemporary captive interviewed
here ever witnessed McCain's alleged "torture"
at the hands of his jailers and the consensus
opinion of the other POWs in McCain's camps
was that McCain was actually NEVER tortured
by the North Vietnamese.
McCain's disgraceful and wholly reprehensible
conduct (along with that of John Kerry) during
the 1991-93 Senate Committee on POW/MIAs,
where McCain made massive efforts to block
the release of classified documents and is
described here as the person who did the "most
harm" to the movement of families who wanted
to rescue any remaining loved ones, left behind
in Vietnam and Laos.
McCain is described by those interviewed in
this clip as perhaps the person who did the
most to quash this movement - and they
suspect that this was because he didn't want
the truth to be revealed by them.
To them, his actions leave no doubt that McCain
is a traitor to this country and its veterans and
especially, to the families of POWs and MIAs.
The demonstration was against Kissinger, but McCain may end up being the worse for wear.
yP9In2fNs84
http://crooksandliars.com/2015/01/code-pinks-medea-benjamin-responds-john
Code Pink's Medea Benjamin had a question for Sen. John McCain after he called her and her group "low life scum" while protesting Henry Kissinger during a Senate committee hearing this week. My money is on option one.
Who’s the “Low Life Scum:” Kissinger or CODEPINK?:
A very angry Senator John McCain denounced CODEPINK activists as “low-life scum” for holding up signs reading “Arrest Kissinger for War Crimes” and dangling handcuffs next to Henry Kissinger’s head during a Senate hearing on January 29. McCain called the demonstration “disgraceful, outrageous and despicable,” accused the protesters of “physically intimidating” Kissinger and apologized profusely to his friend for this “deeply troubling incident.”
But if Senator McCain was really concerned about physical intimidation, perhaps he should have conjured up the memory of the gentle Chilean singer/songwriter Victor Jara. After Kissinger facilitated the September 11, 1973 coup against Salvador Allende that brought the ruthless Augusto Pinochet to power, Victor Jara and 5,000 others were rounded up in Chile’s National Stadium. Jara’s hands were smashed and his nails torn off; the sadistic guards then ordered him to play his guitar. Jara was later found dumped on the street, his dead body riddled with gunshot wounds and signs of torture.
Despite warnings by senior US officials that thousands of Chileans were being tortured and slaughtered, then Secretary of State Kissinger told Pinochet, "You did a great service to the West in overthrowing Allende."
Rather than calling peaceful protesters “despicable”, perhaps Senator McCain should have used that term to describe Kissinger’s role in the brutal 1975 Indonesian invasion of East Timor, which took place just hours after Kissinger and President Ford visited Indonesia. They had given the Indonesian strongman the US green light—and the weapons—for an invasion that led to a 25-year occupation in which over 100,000 soldiers and civilians were killed or starved to death. The UN's Commission for Reception, Truth and Reconciliation in East Timor (CAVR) stated that U.S. "political and military support were fundamental to the Indonesian invasion and occupation" of East Timor.
see more here:
http://crooksandliars.com/2015/01/code-pinks-medea-benjamin-responds-john
And Forbidden Knowledge came out with this today:
John McCain: Traitor
ttp://www.ForbiddenKnowledgeTV.com/page/27015.html
Worse than his cowardly actions in Vietnam was the cover up afterwards.
IMcYqtayU7c
Earl Hopper spent 30 years with the
Army in Airborne Special Services and
with Army Intelligence and he was a
founding member of the National
League of Families, dedicated to returning
living POWs and MIAs of the Vietnam War.
He and those interviewed allege that the
narrative propagated by McCain, of his
five and a half years as a Prisoner of War
in North Vietnam is about as far from the
truth as one could possibly imagine. They
allege that McCain, from the very first
moments of his capture behaved as a
COLLABORATOR and propaganda tool for
his North Vietnamese captors.
McCain is described as engaging in no less
than 30, and up to 38 anti-American
propaganda broadcasts for Radio Hanoi
during the period of his captivity.
Far from the image of the dedicated American
"hero" sweating it out in a North Vietnamese
prisoner's "hotbox" for five and half years,
McCain was observed by fellow prisoners to be
receiving special treatment by his captors, who
were fully aware of his father's and grandfather's
4-star Admiral positions with the US Navy.
Not a single contemporary captive interviewed
here ever witnessed McCain's alleged "torture"
at the hands of his jailers and the consensus
opinion of the other POWs in McCain's camps
was that McCain was actually NEVER tortured
by the North Vietnamese.
McCain's disgraceful and wholly reprehensible
conduct (along with that of John Kerry) during
the 1991-93 Senate Committee on POW/MIAs,
where McCain made massive efforts to block
the release of classified documents and is
described here as the person who did the "most
harm" to the movement of families who wanted
to rescue any remaining loved ones, left behind
in Vietnam and Laos.
McCain is described by those interviewed in
this clip as perhaps the person who did the
most to quash this movement - and they
suspect that this was because he didn't want
the truth to be revealed by them.
To them, his actions leave no doubt that McCain
is a traitor to this country and its veterans and
especially, to the families of POWs and MIAs.