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polly7

(20,582 posts)
Fri Jan 30, 2015, 06:50 PM Jan 2015

Henry Kissinger or CODEPINK: Who’s the "Low Life Scum"?

Published on
Friday, January 30, 2015
by Common Dreams

byMedea Benjamin

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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!


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Henry Kissinger or CODEPINK: Who’s the "Low Life Scum"? (Original Post) polly7 Jan 2015 OP
I know who the scum bag is, and his last name is Kissinger. . . . BigDemVoter Jan 2015 #1
hank could never attain rank that respectable reddread Jan 2015 #2
Kissinger AND faux macho McCain. merrily Jan 2015 #3
Don't forget Hillary considers Kissinger one of her close friends. nt benz380 Jan 2015 #4
McCain, Kissinger and Clinton flocking birds reddread Jan 2015 #6
And she's "like a sister-in-law" to His Chimperial Majesty. hifiguy Jan 2015 #15
+ Eighty Gazillion Scuba Jan 2015 #28
Thank You! Code Pink rocks! Agony Jan 2015 #5
Just 10 days passed since MLK Day gratuitous Jan 2015 #7
''The issues are much too important for the Chilean voters to be left to decide for themselves.'' Octafish Jan 2015 #8
+10000! nt. polly7 Jan 2015 #10
Get thee to the greatest page malaise Jan 2015 #9
Henry the K Trailrider1951 Jan 2015 #11
Proudly kicked and recommended! ColesCountyDem Jan 2015 #12
Ranked in order - the low-life scum is McSane then Kissinger LibGranny Jan 2015 #13
Kissinger should have been tried, convicted and hanged hifiguy Jan 2015 #14
War criminal for the 1%'rs harun Jan 2015 #16
If those old war criminals had a conscience, they'd be ashamed. nt Mnemosyne Jan 2015 #17
bumper sticker guillaumeb Jan 2015 #18
Easy dylan33 Jan 2015 #19
Low life scum, Senator McCain? mountain grammy Jan 2015 #20
Thank's John for making everyone notice. Spitfire of ATJ Jan 2015 #21
That's got to be a trick question. BlueMTexpat Jan 2015 #22
Yeah, thanks for calling them low-life scum, McCain navarth Jan 2015 #23
Which one would Hillary choose? nationalize the fed Jan 2015 #24
K&R for the original post and subsequent informative posts and links. JEB Jan 2015 #25
Kissofdeathinger and MICain Dont call me Shirley Jan 2015 #26
Kissinger is a piece of shit. He is lower than scum. Lint Head Jan 2015 #27

BigDemVoter

(4,149 posts)
1. I know who the scum bag is, and his last name is Kissinger. . . .
Fri Jan 30, 2015, 06:53 PM
Jan 2015

There IS another sack of shit there, and his name is John McCain. . .

 

hifiguy

(33,688 posts)
15. And she's "like a sister-in-law" to His Chimperial Majesty.
Fri Jan 30, 2015, 08:02 PM
Jan 2015

Do real Dems need any more reasons to keep this woman as far away from the presidency as is humanly possible?

gratuitous

(82,849 posts)
7. Just 10 days passed since MLK Day
Fri Jan 30, 2015, 07:06 PM
Jan 2015

And here is a cause that Dr. King was directly involved in, still going on to this day. Sen. McCain sides with the forces of oppression, the forces Dr. King denounced and opposed during his career. Sen. McCain calls the people carrying on Dr. King's ideological and spiritual legacy "low life scum." Sen. McCain is more distressed by the demonstration in the hearing room than he is by anything Henry Kissinger ever did.

Which side are you on?

Octafish

(55,745 posts)
8. ''The issues are much too important for the Chilean voters to be left to decide for themselves.''
Fri Jan 30, 2015, 07:06 PM
Jan 2015


"The issues are much too important for the Chilean voters to be left to decide for themselves... l don't see why we need to stand by and watch a country go communist because of the irresponsibility of its own people."

-- Henry Kissinger on the US-backed coup d'etat in Chile.

http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Octafish/844

malaise

(267,784 posts)
9. Get thee to the greatest page
Fri Jan 30, 2015, 07:07 PM
Jan 2015

Kissinger is not merely a low life scumbag - he's a fugging murderous war criminal.

Trailrider1951

(3,408 posts)
11. Henry the K
Fri Jan 30, 2015, 07:09 PM
Jan 2015

The only man I despise worse than Cheney the Dick. What an evil blight on Humanity he is! I APPLAUD Code Pink for their courage in speaking TRUTH to the powerful. As for Senator McCain, what a putrid little bootlicker he is...he makes me want to vomit.

 

hifiguy

(33,688 posts)
14. Kissinger should have been tried, convicted and hanged
Fri Jan 30, 2015, 08:00 PM
Jan 2015

for crimes against humanity 30 years ago. That is all.

guillaumeb

(42,641 posts)
18. bumper sticker
Fri Jan 30, 2015, 08:23 PM
Jan 2015

How big would the bumper sticker have to be to put "Medea Benjamin for President in 2016" on it?

mountain grammy

(26,568 posts)
20. Low life scum, Senator McCain?
Fri Jan 30, 2015, 09:26 PM
Jan 2015

These are American citizens speaking up about war crimes and you, as an elected official, are sworn to uphold the law. You, Senator, are derelict in your duty to support the Constitution.

BlueMTexpat

(15,348 posts)
22. That's got to be a trick question.
Fri Jan 30, 2015, 09:52 PM
Jan 2015

Anytime I see the name Henry Kissinger, I automatically think low-life scum.

McCain is too.

navarth

(5,927 posts)
23. Yeah, thanks for calling them low-life scum, McCain
Fri Jan 30, 2015, 10:00 PM
Jan 2015

you would have given us fucking Sarah Palin as a Vice President. You've got some balls calling anybody low-life scum.

nationalize the fed

(2,169 posts)
24. Which one would Hillary choose?
Fri Jan 30, 2015, 10:03 PM
Jan 2015


Hillary Clinton reviews Henry Kissinger’s ‘World Order’

By Hillary Rodham Clinton
Washington Post.com September 4, 2014

When Americans look around the world today, we see one crisis after another. Russian aggression in Ukraine, extremism and chaos in Iraq and Syria, a deadly epidemic in West Africa, escalating territorial tensions in the East and South China seas, a global economy that still isn’t producing enough growth or shared prosperity — the liberal international order that the United States has worked for generations to build and defend seems to be under pressure from every quarter. It’s no wonder so many Americans express uncertainty and even fear about our role and our future in the world.

In his new book, “World Order,” Henry Kissinger explains the historic scope of this challenge. His analysis, despite some differences over specific policies, largely fits with the broad strategy behind the Obama administration’s effort over the past six years to build a global architecture of security and cooperation for the 21st century.

During the Cold War, America’s bipartisan commitment to protecting and expanding a community of nations devoted to freedom, market economies and cooperation eventually proved successful for us and the world. Kissinger’s summary of that vision sounds pertinent today: “an inexorably expanding cooperative order of states observing common rules and norms, embracing liberal economic systems, forswearing territorial conquest, respecting national sovereignty, and adopting participatory and democratic systems of governance.”

This system, advanced by U.S. military and diplomatic power and our alliances with like-minded nations, helped us defeat fascism and communism and brought enormous benefits to Americans and billions of others. Nonetheless, many people around the world today — especially millions of young people — don’t know these success stories, so it becomes our responsibility to show as well as tell what American leadership looks like.

...Kissinger is a friend, and I relied on his counsel when I served as secretary of state. He checked in with me regularly, sharing astute observations about foreign leaders and sending me written reports on his travels. Though we have often seen the world and some of our challenges quite differently, and advocated different responses now and in the past, what comes through clearly in this new book is a conviction that we, and President Obama, share: a belief in the indispensability of continued American leadership in service of a just and liberal order...
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/hillary-clinton-reviews-henry-kissingers-world-order/2014/09/04/b280c654-31ea-11e4-8f02-03c644b2d7d0_story.html

Henry Kissinger Confronted While Receiving The Freedom Award




 

JEB

(4,748 posts)
25. K&R for the original post and subsequent informative posts and links.
Fri Jan 30, 2015, 11:38 PM
Jan 2015

The whole world knows who is low life scum, but it seems there is very little to be done. Hat tip to Code Pink for giving it a go.

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