25-08-2009, 04:01 PM
(This post was last modified: 25-08-2009, 04:06 PM by Peter Lemkin.)
Calley's sentence of life in prison for killing 500+ men, women, children and one todler who had survived his men refused to shoot was commutted shortly after verdict to three years house-arrest by Nixon [real appropriate sentence when there are men in prison for life for smoking a joint or stealing food when hungry - even innocent of any crime!].....sick, disgusting....words I can't use here...... Colin Powel was involved in the cover-up, as were many others - all promoted, It was a very average village encounter - not an exception. Calley was scapegoated, and all there and his superiors equally guilty of War Crimes. Iraq is the same. Ditto Afghanistan and wherever we go. I've seen from Bill Blum, who I trust, a figure of aver 40 million dead due to American policies since WW2 and many millions from our soldiers with our guns and bullets, missles, bombs, cluster-bombs, etc. Something to be real proud of....
"Let me issue and control a nation's money and I care not who writes the laws. - Mayer Rothschild
"Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience! People are obedient in the face of poverty, starvation, stupidity, war, and cruelty. Our problem is that grand thieves are running the country. That's our problem!" - Howard Zinn
"If there is no struggle there is no progress. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and never will" - Frederick Douglass
"Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience! People are obedient in the face of poverty, starvation, stupidity, war, and cruelty. Our problem is that grand thieves are running the country. That's our problem!" - Howard Zinn
"If there is no struggle there is no progress. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and never will" - Frederick Douglass