Occupy Henry Kissinger At NY Historical Society to remind us the hippies were RIGHT, Vietnam was BS

[Playinghardball]

Source: Daily Kos



On one side of 50th St and Park Ave there was a line of 200 men entering a food shelter, on the other side of the block people were paying up to $100,000 for a table at the New York Historical Society as they honored war criminal Henry Kissinger.

Fellow kossack Danger Durden and I arrived at the NY Historical society around 5pm, and already a line of people grew on both sides of the front doors to greet attendees at the NY Historical Society with crimes of "SHAME!" and "Kissinger, mass murderer". Although Henry Kissinger committed his most heinous acts before I was even born that does not make those war crimes any less horrible. Vietnam, Cambodia, Bangladesh, Chile, the lack of accountability that allows Kissinger to roam free is the same lack of accountability today that allows Condi Rice, that Dick Cheney, Rumsfeld, Bush and other war criminals from the Bush/Cheney torture administration to go free today. Without accountability there is no rule of law.

Aside from the horrors of Vietnam, I am particularly focused lately on the events of Chile when President Allende was thrown out of power by the Kissinger backed despot General Pinochet in the early 70's. Students of Naomi Klein's "Shock Doctrine" will know that Kissinger's backing of Pinochet was an act of economic war, wherein the free market ideologue Pinochet brought the wonders of austerity styled free market corporatism to Chile at the point of a gun. Soccer stadiums were filled Guantanamo style with labor leaders and others who would never see their families again. Rivers flowed red with the blood of resisters in Chile. This is the 'virtue' of free markets, an idea so unpopular because it so heavily favors the super rich over workers and multinational corporations over local business that it must be stuffed down the throats of the unwilling at gunpoint in the name of economic freedom. This is Kissinger's legacy, a man who overthrows Democracy in the name of Dictators and Free Markets and is celebrated with $1,000 plate dinners by the "re-writing history and ignoring the icky parts historical society" while his own countrymen starve in the streets.

More: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/11/08/1034225/-Occupy-Henry-Kissinger-At-NY-Historical-Society-to-remind-us-the-hippies-were-RIGHT,-Vietnam-was-BS

[Mojeoux]

1. Hello?! Witness!!

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[Kaleko]

2. Kissinger needs to be stripped

of the veneer of respectability by the people he harmed the most.

This quote will help in that effort if we continue to spread it further abroad:

"Military men are dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns for foreign policy."

~ Henry Kissinger, quoted by Bob Woodward in The Final Days, 1976

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

3. Blood on his hands

How many young soldiers died because Kissinger sabotaged the peace talks so that Nixon could get elected?

http://www.thenation.com/blog/156011/kissingers-backas-911-truth-seeker

Vietnam. Kissinger participated in a GOP plot to undermine the 1968 Paris peace talks in order to assist Richard Nixon's presidential campaign. Once in office, Nixon named Kissinger his national security adviser, and later appointed him secretary of state. As co-architect of Nixon's war in Vietnam, Kissinger oversaw the secret bombing campaign in Cambodia, an arguably illegal operation estimated to have claimed the lives of hundreds of thousands of civilians.

[They_Live]

4. He was also involved with Bush/Cheney

giving them advice on Iraq, etc, "behind the scenes".

[samsingh]

5. kissinger is an evil terrible monster

there is a lot of blood on this sob's hands

[timor]

6. Kissinger and Indonesia and East Timor

The East Timor and Indonesia Action Network (ETAN) was one of the organizers of the demonstration. You can find information about Kissinger's role in Indonesia's illegal invasion and occupation of East Timor at their website:
www.etan.org

[G_j]

7. our favorite war criminal

gets to dine w/ presidents