There's a case from back in the 60s in the US of Lt. William Calley who used excessive force, let's call it, in Vietnam.
Now I know of at least two currently reading this post who are what we'd call ageing Woke left and they're quite easily described by deed rather than by belief. They would go along with the Wiki page on Calley as definitive and comprehensive, even citing how Nixon put him under house arrest.
One interesting thing to me was that I was a radical student myself, a Fabian like many other Bill Ayers-es, leading to us pursuing careers in academia. The difference is that I was subsequently deradicalised, mainly through maturing and becoming Young Conservative, through circumstances, inc. love, marriage and a not bad career, house, car, clipped lawns, flowerbeds etc. etc.
My point in this post is not Calley nor my own metamorphosis but that while it's dead easy to find all about Calley in the search engines, it's not so easy to find about *John Kerry's sortie to a village*(see comments) where he did similar murder ... yes, unprotected villagers. In his case though, he's protected by the whole globopsycho deep state, plus radical lefty apparatus which reaches into every aspect of our lives in the west today, which protects Hanoi Jane's treason, plus that of John McCain (leaving aside his J6 daughter for now).
One rule for me, another for thee ... two tier in other words. Why not explore The Weathermen, Zimmerman, Ayers, Obama? Why not pursue those with equal fervour? Why not pursue Kissinger, Warburg, Schwab? I'm thinking we all know the answer to that ... and the answer is highly political.
And so onto today on Lord Toby's site and this excerpt below:
Lord Hermer, the Attorney General, pursued a “witch hunt” against British troops which left decorated war heroes facing false accusations of murder and torture, despite being warned that the allegations were lies. The Telegraph, which uncovered the story in an investigation, has more.
An investigation by [the Telegraph] can reveal the Attorney General’s leading role in the Al-Sweady scandal, which left decorated war heroes facing false accusations of murder and torture for more than a decade.
Emails and legal documents show that Sir Keir Starmer’s closest Cabinet ally acted as lead counsel in civil claims against the Ministry of Defence (MoD) and pressed for lucrative compensation despite mounting evidence that his eight Iraqi clients were “on the make”.
The Attorney General later insisted that it made no difference whether his clients were “a saint or a member of al-Qaeda” while suing British troops under human rights laws.
The question for us is which were lies and which plain truth? Which were focussed upon, which allowed to slip by ... and by whom? Who is sufficiently "apolitical", not just kidding themselves that they are so, pursuing all the wrongdoing with equal fervour?
Who would pursue Kerry, Chappaquiddick and Obama with the same fervour that they'd pursue Nixon and Colson?
On the part of the text with the asterisks*. Paddington asked about my inclusion of Kerry as a murderer, which caused me to have to go outside my home devices to old usb sticks and he has a point.
ReplyDeleteMy thing about Kerry was threefold ... firstly he was a nutter, able to kill with impunity, coz it's war, innit? Secondly, he was skull and bones, which adds to their conscienceless, "elite" behaviour ... it's seen in all the WEFers, banksters etc. Thirdly, he turned on other vets when it was far more expedient for his career.
Imho, it's a non-starter to question this purple heart or that, unlike the things sheeted home to McCain. Courage was not really the question with Kerry ... cavalier murderousness was.
Right, the one who murdered the civilians in that village was Bob Kerrey, part of a SEAL team. Kerry, as Paddington stated, was part of the Swiftboat lot. 50 foot, shallow draft, heavily armed, they'd storm up rivers Viet Cong hunting, plus some activity in Cambodia.
Attached to these boats were smaller rafts/skiffs/dinghies carrying three men, they'd zip over to the bank and the three would Cong hunt. In Kerry's case, he went after a rocket launching Cong who turned and fled, Kerry gunned him down.
Was Kerrey more egregious than Kerry? Yes, the civilians were unarmed, as with Calley. What was it then with Kerry? He had a conscienceless appetite for the killing, no different to the "guests" of our country today but was protected by powerful people who also assured his awards and media saturation, plus set the MSM narrative on him as hero.
For Kerry to then turn on all troops, inc. the killer/nutters in their midst, was rich coming from him.