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28APR2001 One Awful Night In Thanh Phong
By now you've heard about Kerrey and his war crimes episode? Tragic. NPR
interviewed Kerry and "One Awful Night In Thanh Phong" reporter Gregory
Vistica. The article is to be published in today hardcopy edition of the New
York Times (It's online at www.nyt.com). Kerrey said, "I
cannot justify the killings."
More than 58,000 of our guys were killed. Millions, literally millions
of Vietnamese were killed during those war years.
The most lame excuse for killing civilians heard over and over here is that they were the enemy. We didn't know who were soldiers and who were civilians. Old men, women and even children were used by the North Vietnamese to kill Americans in South Vietnam. They were civilians by day, soldiers by night... in their own country. A country neither the French (when on the map the area was known as "French Indo-China") or the Americans had any right, need or reason to be in in the first 10,000 places. The names "French Indo-China" and "South Vietnam" were western inventions and had absolutely nothing whatever to do with the Vietnamese people. The Vietnamese in the "north" and the "south" fought the French and the Americans to win back their own homeland for their own people.
Off subject or not: The "Moving Wall" Vietnam Veterans Memorial will be in
Florence September 4 - 10. Florence is the only town in Oregon where the Memorial will be displayed in 2001.
It was such a terrible and shameful time in our history and maybe the
only good that can come out of Kerrey's story coming out just now is
that the Street Vets who hadn't handled it well after all these years
will have to realize they aren't as alone as they might think they are
in their concern for what happened. In retrospect, obvious are the American crimes against the Vietnamese. Not so obvious is how the United States government failed to meet the needs of American soldiers returning home after the war ended. Born on the 4th of July was just the tip of the socially irresponsibles' nutmeg. There are
dozens of no-reason reasons we were there but how they were able to keep the war going
had more to do with CIA drug running (and profiteering) than any other
half dozen factors. And what's changed? Did you hear the one about the
War on Drugs players (CIA and Peruvian military) "accidentally" shooting
down a Baptist airplane the other day? It never ends with these people.
Did anyone notice Madam Zorah missed on Duh appointing George HW as sitting head of CIA. I still suspect he's running it from kiddie-buck-porn.
TO HEAL A NATION
Ladies & gentlemen:
1963 was probably the year that most of the damage to the credibility of the United States Government began to occur. That was the year so
many Americans realized our government had taken a hard turn the wrong way.
I was only 14 at the time, but the assassination of President Kennedy, the convenient assassination of Lee Harvey Oswald and the phony
Warren Commission Report made me realize something had gone terribly wrong. Even at that young age, I knew from the Zapruder film that
Kennedy had taken a round from the front that blew off the side of his head and spewed his brains to the rear. Every other person with
hunting or combat experience knew it too, but our government insisted differently, shamelessly and blatantly, and they knew there was little
we citizens could do about it.
Immediately following Kennedy's death, President Johnson accelerated American involvement in Viet Nam, an act that served to further
erode American trust in the competence of our government, and for many to the extreme sense that our government no longer cared about
the lives of its citizen soldiers sent to that slaughterhouse.
Kent State saw war protesters shot down in cold blood, and we realized at that point that the government of the United States was no longer a
government of the people and by the people, but had become a monster that had turned and pursued an independent agenda of its own
-- all for its own purposes. Our kids were senselessly turned into cannon fodder in a fight that had no direct consequence on the security of
this nation, but the monster was intent upon defeating Communism at any cost to its citizens.
Nothing, not even the Civil War, had done so much to destroy American trust and confidence in our government as did the Viet Nam War.
Then came Ruby Ridge and Waco, where agents of the federal government clearly overstepped their constitutional authority and
slaughtered Vickie Weaver, a woman armed only with her baby daughter. At Waco, they barbecued an entire church congregation,
including 19 innocent little children, for having the temerity to shoot back when attacked by an army of BATF agents assaulting their home
without good cause.
Then came the relentless overlap of cover-ups to protect the federal agents and government officials who perpetrated and ordered those
heinous acts, to the extent that the federal government still insists upon immunity for FBI sniper Lon Horiuchi who took Vickie Weaver's life --
even though Horiuchi knew he was following an illegal order when he pulled the trigger on his sniper rifle.
Clearly, our government had taken the attitude of "us versus them", and American citizens not employed by the federal government now held
the new class distinction of being "them".
No one can respect a government that does such things, and out of 280 million American citizens shocked and enraged by our government's
actions, is it any wonder at least one of them wouldn't take the law into his own hands as Timothy McVeigh did? There is no defending
McVeigh or what he did, but those 168 innocent people who died in Oklahoma City that April morning were killed because the government
of the United States failed them.
By their refusal to prosecute the federal agents and officials responsible, and thus bring healing to those matters, the federal government lit
the fuse to the bomb in Oklahoma City, and there is no logical argument that can be made to the contrary. It wasn't the acts committed by
those renegade federal agents at Ruby Ridge and Waco that led to the bombing of the Murrah Building, but the refusal of the federal
government to heal those wounds with justice.
For that vile failure, 168 innocent Americans needlessly lost their lives, and executing Timothy McVeigh on May 16th won't bring a single
one of those souls back. The true killers are those who refused to use their government and judicial power to bring justice and healing to
those open wounds, wounds that remain open no matter what happens to McVeigh. The potential for more violence by another McVeigh
against innocent citizens who just happen to work for the federal government is still there, and our government still refuses to take the actions
necessary to eliminate that threat.
In the days of yore, and before our government turned bad, federal agents who committed illegal acts in violation of a citizen's rights were
sternly prosecuted and punished for their actions. This gave the citizens confidence that their government would make something right that
had gone terribly wrong. No one can blame a huge body like the federal government for employing a few bad apples who abuse their power,
but when that body protects the guilty instead of prosecuting them, justice is denied and the masses become enraged.
Believe me; there are more McVeighs out there waiting to strike. When they do, remember why.
Carl F. Worden
Liaison & Intelligence Officer
Southern Oregon Militia
 
27APR2001 Play Review: No Niggers, No Jews, No Dogs
26APR2001 George Bush's 100 Days
What does it add up too? "100 days, 100 special interest give-aways"
Picture:The White House with oil derricks in the background.
Text: Bush/Cheney 100 Days: It's Not What They've Done, But What They've Undone!
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Bush has wasted little time in turning the clock back for America's working families in his first 100 days. Bush's first actions include cutting family planning abroad, stopping protections against arsenic levels in drinking water, repeal of worker safety rules, gutting funding to fight the tobacco industry among others.
Bush is setting a tone. A tone that proves Bush is more concerned about servicing big business special interests than protecting the people.
The public is justifiably outraged. The American people are not blind. They see that between the arsenic rollback, the flip-flop on regulating carbon pollution, and his stated desire to drill oil in our most pristine wilderness...
The DNC has unveiled a new Duh website to highlight the disappointing record of President George W. Bush during his first 100 days in office.
The website features a detailed analysis of Bush's first 100 days, including
a "Bush Day-by-Day" calendar showing what he has done - and undone - every
day since taking office on January 20, 2001. The website also features ten
"Top 10 Lists" of some of Bush's greatest assaults on issues like the environment, women, his budget cuts; as well as, special interest giveaways,
contradictions and paybacks to big businesses, and much more.
25APR2001 IBM PARTNER IN HOLOCAUST SERVING DOMESTIC BIG BROTHER
Since the 1930s IBM skated for their part in identifying Jews for the purpose of bringing about their efficient demise at the hands of Hitler and the Nazis. While more than 70 years has passed since those days, we can't sit by and watch what happened to the Jews happen to us, especially at the hands of the very same IBM that did the original number on the Jews. According to some guy over at the barber shop who is asking for a boycott of IBM, their latest efficiency stunt involves the identification of everyone and then making the data available to the highest bidder.
For what it's worth as to who answers to whom about which news stories get reported on, Wired was the only easily accessible source for any variation of the Big Blue's Big Brother Lab story. Not CNNfn, not UPI and not Reuters.
Row v. Wade wasn't about baby killing, it was about privacy. In the process of ending baby killing, the neo-facist nutso goofball religious right wingers will throw the privacy baby out with the abortionists' bathwater, leaving the door wide open for IBM to sell who's who data to the questionably beneficient Big Brother bidder.
We began carrying this IBM as the Data Agent for Hitler story on February 11th, from which we point to a Sunday Times (UK) article. In today's edition ofThe Atlantic Online Jack Beatty writes, "A shocking account of IBM's complicity with the Nazis is a reminder that people bear moral responsibility for the actions of the corporation - a point that critics have failed to grasp." From: Hitler's Willing Business Partners. Wired also has a version of the story with some useful background links.
24APR2001 MONUMENTALLY MIRANDA
Speed Traps can be costly in dollars; that was before a recent Supreme Court decision. Now to be "trapped" could deny freedom like we've never known.
Carl Worden didn't waste a moment before commenting and warning readers to "Shut your mouth and take the ticket!"
23APR2001 SUPREME COURT DECISION VIOLATES FOURTH AMENDMENT
The Washington Post reports on "lawful" seizure (arrest) of Texas woman.
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