Jan 31, 2015
“Get out of here you low life scum.” (C-SPAN)
Henry Kissinger or CODEPINK: Who’s the “Low Life Scum”?
by Rainbow Warrior
January 30, 2015
by Medea Benjamin
Alli McCracken, a peace activist with CODEPINK, shows former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger a pair of handcuffs during a protest at a Senate hearing on Thursday. If there was justice in this world, argue human rights activist, Kissinger would be in prison for his role in perpetrating war crimes as opposed to sitting before the Senate Armed Services Committee to offer his assessment of world affairs. (Photo: Courtesy of 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.
If McCain could stomach it, he could have read the report by the UN Commission on Human Rights describing the horrific consequences of that invasion. It includes gang rape of female detainees following periods of prolonged sexual torture; placing women in tanks of water for prolonged periods, including submerging their heads, before being raped; the use of snakes to instill terror during sexual torture; and the mutilation of women’s sexual organs, including insertion of batteries into vaginas and burning nipples and genitals with cigarettes. Talk about physical intimidation, Senator McCain!
You might think that McCain, who suffered tremendously in Vietnam, might be more sensitive to Kissinger’s role in prolonging that war. From 1969 through 1973, it was Kissinger, along with President Nixon, who oversaw the slaughter in Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos—killing perhaps one million during this period. He was gave the order for the secret bombing of Cambodia. Kissinger is on tape saying, “[Nixon] wants a massive bombing campaign in Cambodia. He doesn't want to hear anything about it. It's an order, to be done. Anything that flies on anything that moves.”
Senator McCain could have taken the easy route by simply reading the meticulously researched book by the late writer Christopher Hitchens, The Trial of Henry Kissinger. Writing as a prosecutor before an international court of law, Hitchens skewers Kissinger for ordering or sanctioning the destruction of civilian populations, the assassination of “unfriendly” politicians and the kidnapping and disappearance of soldiers, journalists and clerics who got in his way. He holds Kissinger responsible for war crimes that range from the deliberate mass killings of civilian populations in Indochina, to collusion in mass murder and assassination in Bangladesh, the overthrow of the democratically elected government in Chile, and the incitement and enabling of genocide in East Timor.
McCain could have also perused the warrant issued by French Judge Roger Le Loire to have Kissinger appear before his court. When the French served Kissinger with summons in 2001 at the Ritz Hotel in Paris, Kissinger fled the country. More indictments followed from Spain, Argentina, Uruguay—even a civil suit in Washington DC.
The late Christopher Hitchens was disgusted by the way Henry Kissinger was treated as a respected statesman. He would have been appalled by Senator McCain’s obsequious attitude. “Kissinger should have the door shut in his face by every decent person and should be shamed, ostracized, and excluded,” Hitchens said. “No more dinners in his honor; no more respectful audiences for his absurdly overpriced public appearances; no more smirking photographs with hostesses and celebrities; no more soliciting of his worthless opinions by sycophantic editors and producers.”
Rather than fawning on him, Hitchens suggested, “why don't you arrest him?”
Hitchens’ words were lost on Senator McCain, who preferred fawning to accountability. That’s where CODEPINK comes in. If we can’t get Kissinger before a court of law, at least we can show—with words and banners—that there are Americans who remember, Americans who empathize with the man’s many victims, Americans who have a conscience.
While McCain called us disgraceful, what is really disgraceful is the Senate calling in a tired old war criminal to testify about “Global Challenges and the U.S. National Security Strategy.” After horribly tragic failed wars, not just in Vietnam but over the last decade in Iraq and Afghanistan, it’s time for the US leaders like John McCain to bring in fresh faces and fresh ideas. We owe it to the next generation that will be cleaning up the bloody legacy left behind by Kissinger for years to come.
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World Famous Jewish Artist Alan Weiss Endorses: "Debating The Holocaust" by Thomas Dalton
Alan Weiss (born March 7, 1948, Chicago Illinois)[1] is an American comic book artist and writer known for his work for DC Comics and Marvel Comics.
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World Famous Jewish Artist Endorses: "Debating The Holocaust" by Thomas Dalton
From: Alan Weiss <alan@surrealdeal.net>
Date: Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 5:26 PM
Subject: RE: Holocaustic
To: ReporterNotebook <reporternotebook@gmail.com>
for Thomas Dalton, PH.D
Date: Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 5:26 PM
Subject: RE: Holocaustic
To: ReporterNotebook <reporternotebook@gmail.com>
Howdy,
Famous? Not so much. Marvel Comics artist? Yes, that’s me.
Impressed as I was with the Debating the Holocaust book, I wrote my short email the day I finished reading it. My email only begins to express the respect I have for the tasteful handling of the subject. Even the ‘entirely appropriate sarcastic jabs’ we were warned about in the intro, I found to be just that, entirely appropriate, as well as apt.
I am not a confirmed revisionist either, but feel honor bound to examine evidence, or lack thereof, of any so-called traditional history, the stuff of which our consensus reality is made.
Lately I’ve come to considering myself somewhat of a consensus reality revisionist. That goes for history, and religion as well.
Your friendly neighborhood Gringo Hebrew,
Alan W.
From: ReporterNotebook [mailto:reporternotebook@
Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2015 7:51 AM
To: Alan Weiss
Subject: Re: Holocaustic
Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2015 7:51 AM
To: Alan Weiss
Subject: Re: Holocaustic
Alan,
Are you the famous Marvel Comics artist?
On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 6:51 AM, Alan Weiss <Alan@surrealdeal.net> wrote:
for Thomas Dalton, PH.D
Just finished the book, Debating the Big H. It had come highly recommended by a close friend. I found it very even handed, as he'd said it was. Also very clear, concise, and compartmentalized to prevent drowning in devastating detail. Not easy , in dealing with such a difficult and multi-faceted subject, to avoid becoming hopelessly mired in the necrographic lists and statistics. Those can soon become holocaustic, burning your brain.
Instead, Dalton describes strongly but simply where he stands, with no over dramatization. The epilogue delivered a solid and sane summation. All things considered, a courageous book.
This is not to say the lists, graphs, and comparative columns of necessary stats went unappreciated. They stand as easily accessed reference.
Not the most pleasurable reading, but given the grim subject, I can't imagine how it could have been better handled.
All things considered, a powerful and most courageous book.
Thank You,
Alan Weiss
Sent from my iPad
World Famous Jewish Artist Endorses: "Debating The Holocaust" by Thomas Dalton
World Famous Jewish Artist Endorses: "Debating The Holocaust" by Thomas Dalton
From: Alan Weiss <alan@surrealdeal.net>
Date: Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 5:26 PM
Subject: RE: Holocaustic
To: ReporterNotebook <reporternotebook@gmail.com>
for Thomas Dalton,PH.D
Date: Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 5:26 PM
Subject: RE: Holocaustic
To: ReporterNotebook <reporternotebook@gmail.com>
Howdy,
Famous? Not so much. Marvel Comics artist? Yes, that’s me.
Impressed as I was with the Debating the Holocaust book, I wrote my short email the day I finished reading it. My email only begins to express the respect I have for the tasteful handling of the subject. Even the ‘entirely appropriate sarcastic jabs’ we were warned about in the intro, I found to be just that, entirely appropriate, as well as apt.
I am not a confirmed revisionist either, but feel honor bound to examine evidence, or lack thereof, of any so-called traditional history, the stuff of which our consensus reality is made.
Lately I’ve come to considering myself somewhat of a consensus reality revisionist. That goes for history, and religion as well.
Your friendly neighborhood Gringo Hebrew,
Alan W.
From: ReporterNotebook [mailto:reporternotebook@
Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2015 7:51 AM
To: Alan Weiss
Subject: Re: Holocaustic
Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2015 7:51 AM
To: Alan Weiss
Subject: Re: Holocaustic
Alan,
Are you the famous Marvel Comics artist?
On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 6:51 AM, Alan Weiss <Alan@surrealdeal.net> wrote:
for Thomas Dalton,PH.D
Just finished the book, Debating the Big H. It had come highly recommended by a close friend. I found it very even handed, as he'd said it was. Also very clear, concise, and compartmentalized to prevent drowning in devastating detail. Not easy , in dealing with such a difficult and multi-faceted subject, to avoid becoming hopelessly mired in the necrographic lists and statistics. Those can soon become holocaustic, burning your brain.
Instead, Dalton describes strongly but simply where he stands, with no over dramatization. The epilogue delivered a solid and sane summation. All things considered, a courageous book.
This is not to say the lists, graphs, and comparative columns of necessary stats went unappreciated. They stand as easily accessed reference.
Not the most pleasurable reading, but given the grim subject, I can't imagine how it could have been better handled.
All things considered, a powerful and most courageous book.
Thank You,
Alan Weiss
Sent from my iPad
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Fanaticism is now mainstream in the legal community, that it is affecting my divorce case:
When a Judge (or the lawyers) loses his or her objectivity, then the truism applies:
Everything is religious, everything is political.
Everything is religious, everything is political.
Justice Matthew F. Cooper: Sending me this about "The Fucking Jews"
Mr. Santomauro: No, actually, it was the opposite of that. It was "Fuck the Arabs" in the essay.
Sandra Schpoont (Attorney for my 11 year old son): Oh, that's better.
Madelyn Jaye:: (Attorney for my ex-wife): Oh, that's better.
Steven Mandel (Attorney for my ex-wife): That's better.
Justice Matthew F. Cooper: Oh, that's better.
Letter from The Mandel Law Firm (Steven J. Mandel) 12-9-13
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"An anti-Semite condemns people for being Jews, I am not an anti-Semite."--Michael Santomauro.