Dateline: January 7, 2015
Historical
ID of now US Secretary of State John Kerry, who today quite
rightly condemned the terror attack on the offices of a Paris newspaper
plus a history of French colonial and neocolonial terror.
What first comes to mind is US Secretary of State John Kerry's prestige for his heroic Swift Boat
killing of a Vietnamese in his own beloved country during the holocaust
the US committed in Vietnam. A wounded Vietnamese freedom fighter, who
had been aiming a rocket launcher at the Swift Boat Kerry commanded, was
shot by Kerry as he was running away. Kerry by daringly running his boat
right at the danger was decorated for having saved the boat and its
crew. ["KERRY leaped ashore, pursued the man behind a hootch and killed him" from official Silver Star Citation "For the President, E.R. Zumwalt, Vice Admiral, Commander of US Forces in Vietnam"]
Secondly,
that Kerry quite amazingly had enlisted more than a year after the
obvious sham Tokin Bay incident and the extending the bombing in
the South to include North Vietnam as well. Kerry would later star in
headline news condemning the US war on the Vietnamese, describing
atrocities as nearly continuous during his testimony before a
congressional committee of the US House of Representatives
Next, we recall, during then Senator Kerry's run for the presidency, the spectacle of
him hailing Vietnam war veterans marching across the stage before his
addressing a rally - and that during his losing campaign, Kerry was
(logically) nick named, Mr. Flip-Flop.
Your author is still interested to know whether millionaire John Kerry ever
sought to contact the family of the Vietnamese patriot he managed to
shoot dead to see if those that survived the war perhaps could use some
compensation, especially since the war had been called a mistake by
Secretary of State, Robert McNamara, who had run the war for years.
In
his televised press conference with his French counterpart standing at
his side, Kerry, contrasted the "uncivilized" behavior of the
terrorists, who had murderously attacked the personnel of a French
newspaper in a France which "gave birth to democracy" with
the French Revolution.
Correction!
The ideals and successes of the French Revolution notwithstanding,
shortly after it, French troops massacred up to a million Haitians and
abducted their revolutionary hero president in businesslike revenge for
the loss of about a third of France's colonial revenue for the
successful (and extremely brave) Haitian slave revolution that brought
Haitian independence.
No,
Secretary Kerry, France has an infamous history of terror, inhumanity
and mass murder in its colonies Vietnam and Algeria and during a
thirty year occupation of Syria, all three in part as fascist Vichy France.
France is committing crimes against humanity as I write, arming,
funding, secretly advising murdering gangs invading and destroying
Syria. France preceded this with French-British-American warplanes destroying
the most prosperous (formerly poorest) nation in Africa (a former
British/French colony) with a UN Quality of Life Index higher than nine
European countries, between 42 and 44 billion in Gold in its State Bank, whose citizens are still fighting to
regain Libyan independence against overwhelming odds. So much for French civilization as praised
by John Kerry, who might believe himself to be civilized as well, but
has made himself ridiculous by claiming that America's dozens of invasions
of innocent nations as being in the name of freedom.
French
President Hollande correctly called the deadly attack on the French
newspaper's personnel "exceptional barbarism." Millions of citizens in the
phenomenal number of nations formerly occupied by the brutal military
of the French Empire, as well as good people everywhere, have long
considered such words spoken by the French president appropriate to past
merciless French colonialism as well as recent neocolonialism, with
present French heartless and death-dealing violations of the UN
Nuremberg Principles of which France is signatory (and prosecutable).
Yours
truly doubts anyone with an ounce of memory would take the absurdly
self-righteous words of Mr. John Kerry seriously. They are, frightfully
and sadly, quite in keeping with corporate monopoly media suckering of
millions of 'why-me-worry' Americans into accepting the label 'Vietnam
War Hero" for every single American who 'served' in the US genocidal
depopulation of French Indochina.
It
goes without saying that criminal American media gives special
honors to Americans holding government office, who are 'heroes' for
having participated in bringing death to all-told, five or six-million
soft-spoken Buddhists of an ancient culture, most of whom children of
rice farmers.
John
Kerry is in fine company: recent Secretary of Defense and hero Chuck
Hagel; Senator John McCain, who heroically bombed the cities of Hanoi
and Haiphong twenty-six times; former Seal commander, US senator,
governor, presidential possibility, now university president, Bob
Kerrey, accused by his Seal 'point man' on 'Sixty Minutes" and in the New
York Times Magazine of having ordered the gunning down of eighteen young
ladies and a baby, after holding down an elderly man while his throat
was cut.
As
far as the particular religious protestations and assumed complaint of
the terrorists reported in the press regarding terror in today's Paris, one might imagine that a more significant motive would be an
obvious fighting back with terror against the infinitely more massive
terror France is still presently participating in againt the
innocent Muslim population of the entire Middle East 'cradle of
civilization.'
Jay Janson is an archival research peoples historian activist, musician and writer; has lived and worked on all continents; articles on media published in China, Italy, UK, India, in Germany & Sweden Einartysken,and in the US by Dissident (more...)