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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsI think the TSA needs a DO NOT frisk list, for the way they treated former SOS Henry
Kissinger. Never agreeded with his politics, but he is no terrorist. IMO.
ret5hd
(20,533 posts)sadbear
(4,340 posts)Let him reap what he sowed.
madokie
(51,076 posts)The bombing of Cambodia comes readily to mind
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Kissinger
Fuck henry with a 2x4 sideways every day of the week and twice on sunday
Lost-in-FL
(7,093 posts)NYC_SKP
(68,644 posts)Problem solved.
Lochloosa
(16,073 posts)The United States, apprehensive about Southeast Asia becoming part of the Soviet sphere of influence, were willing to commit whatever resources were needed to incorporate it into the American Empire. American military leaders believed that Cambodian territory was providing a transportation route from North to South Vietnam and a haven where North Vietnam established its headquarters. Despite the fact that in the 1960s and early 1970s, Cambodia was safely in the American camp, its use by North Vietnam was becoming a problem.
In 1969, President Richard Nixon and his National Security Advisor, Henry A. Kissinger, unleashed B-52 carpet bombing for over fourteen months against a people who still tilled the soil with water buffalo. The 3,500 bombing sorties resulted in 600,000 deaths. The American bombing of Cambodia was a closely guarded secret primarily because the U.S. was not at war with Cambodia.
Not only did Nixon and Kissinger not seek the necessary approval from Congress to bomb Cambodia, they tried to conceal the bombing not only from the American public but Congress as well. Nixon and Kissinger believed that these hideous lies were imperative to hold on to South Vietnam as part of the American Empire..
Following the bombing, many peasants were so outraged at the United States and their puppet leader in Cambodia that they chose to join the Khmer Rouge, a marginal revolutionary communist group whose ranks swelled to a major force. After taking power, the Khmer Rouge unleashed a reign of terror killing over one million people.
FUCK HENRY KISSINGER!
http://thirdworldtraveler.com/American_Empire/Nixon_Cambodia_LFE.html
coalition_unwilling
(14,180 posts)his experiences in Nixon's cabinet notwithstanding, no citizen is or should be above the law.
That said, there are a hell of a lot of Vietnamese, Cambodians and Chileans (both dead and alive) who would disagree with you about Kissinger, btw. Not sure if you want to go there, though.
Ichingcarpenter
(36,988 posts)you are kidding right? You never saw the film
The Trials of Henry Kissinger
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0326306/
Warpy
(111,383 posts)It's all his fault for being too cheap to pay for one of those VIP boarding passes.
ret5hd
(20,533 posts)yellowcanine
(35,702 posts)Henry K might in fact be a terrorist if we were to apply the same standards to him as we do to other "terrorists."
kickysnana
(3,908 posts)Frisking is not about stopping terrorism.
it is about making you think they are doing something when they are not and getting you used to having the government put their hands on you and other outrageous things for your own good.
hifiguy
(33,688 posts)for the rest of his life. He was and is a monster, a war criminal and a terrorist. Ask the people of Chile about ol' Henry.
The Magistrate
(95,257 posts)The man is directly responsible for a great many human beings being tortured to death.
CK_John
(10,005 posts)Nixon, Reagan, and Bush 1 & 2.
Blame the voters and Congress who did nothing about him at the time.
Blaming the past is foolish, unproductive, and locks the mind into a would of, could of, and should of worldview.
The Magistrate
(95,257 posts)Should some misery come his way, particularly in his old age, it strikes me as quite appropriate.
think
(11,641 posts)is proof of how idiotic the whole TSA process is.
This is not to mention that the TSA is now getting into involvement with our highways, train, and bus travel.
The Department of Homeland Security & the TSA were created under the Bush Administration and costs America over $55 billion PER YEAR.
kestrel91316
(51,666 posts)Waronterra up until now, so he'll get no sympathy from me.
BlueToTheBone
(3,747 posts)This was too nice for the evil POS.
treestar
(82,383 posts)Rather than make a judgment ahead of time - that would bring accusations of elitism.
obxhead
(8,434 posts)Solly Mack
(90,792 posts)Tierra_y_Libertad
(50,414 posts)"Because I do it with one small ship, I am called a terrorist. You do it with a whole fleet and are called an emperor." A pirate, from St. Augustine's "City of God"
Lochloosa
(16,073 posts)like everyone else? It may be wrong to frisk an older person and, if so, then it's up to us to change it. But "list" have a way of seperating people into classes and that's not who we are. At least, that is my understanding.
SheilaT
(23,156 posts)just to drive home how idiotic the whole TSA is.