I still am very fond of the country of my birth. This despicable man caused suffering to many people I knew. I think anyone who treats him and honors as anything other than the international criminal that he is will not get any support or respect from me until they acknowledge their mistake in this.

At the time of the 1973 coup, Victor Jara was a well-known songwriter, theater director and supporter of then-president Salvador Allende, a socialist.

Soldiers occupied the university where Jara worked and rounded up students, professors and other suspected leftist sympathizers, herding them into a soccer field called Chile Stadium.

Jara became one of many who vanished into the underground locker rooms that military officers converted into torture chambers. His body was discovered a few days later near a cemetery on the outskirts of Santiago de Chile. He had been shot 44 times, and his guitar-strumming hands were crushed, apparently by rifle butts.


http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2015/04/17/florida-reopens-trial-in-slaying-of-chilean-folk-singer-who-opposed-u-s-backed-dictatorship/

abetted those atrocities were never punished.

What War Criminals don't think of when in the process of committing their crimes, is that they are dealing with HUMAN BEINGS, not SUB HUMANS who are not worth worrying about. Victims DO NOT FORGET what was done to them.

Which is why Kissinger is wanted for questioning, all these years later, for his role in aiding his buddy, dictator Pinochet, in the commission of those atrocities.

The day we choose to dismiss such atrocities, is the day we become responsible for them. I do not ever wish to be a party to such crimes.

NEVER FORGET!

affairs of every country in the world and bend those countries to their will. That is called EMPIRE. And we all know the disastrous results to millions of human beings throughout history, caused by Empires. Are they CRAZY?

And they speak it about with such banality, as if they were talking about something that is acceptable, when to any sane person, what they are talking about is horrific as we saw in Iraq and Libya and Afghanistan and Vietnam.

I am appalled that we do not have enough courageous people in government to put a stop to this Global terror being inflicted in our name, on so many millions of people.

Vietnam, Cambodia, Chile, Indonesia, Iraq, Egypt, Syria, Yemen, Iraq, Iraq, Libya, Bahrain, Egypt,

war criminal...

as a "defender of human rights." Who, you ask?

Here's who:


I know it is not possible for a prominent politician to avoid all contact with other prominent figures but to call this kettle of human sewage a "defender of human rights" presumptively disqualifies HRC from being within a parsec of the presidency and tells me far more than I need to know about her.

of the human condition and foreign policy as he expressed it in his book on nuclear weapons and foreign policy back in the early 1960s before the Viet Nam War was a big issue. (On edit, I should add that my view of the world was very much influenced by my father, a devout Methodist and a pacifist who knew everything about you after he had talked to you for 15 minutes because he was such a loving listener, a real human being and Christian. Kissinger did not measure up to my high standard but then not many do.)

How anyone could read his foreign policy philosophy and think it was anything sane is beyond me. I suspect that people are maybe impressed by his German accent. What else could it be? He can find countries on a map? I don't know. I just don't see his charm at all. He can write books that sound intelligent? Never met the guy, and I don't remember precisely what he said in the book he read, but I was not impressed at all. But then, who am I?

Sometimes I think that certain people manage to finagle themselves into the role of esteemed scholar and wise consultant when they are just talking through their hat and don't see the big picture at all. I put Kissinger in that category. I'm neither an esteemed scholar nor a wise consultant and I make lots of mistakes, but I don't go around pretending that I am perfect or infallible. When I read Kissinger's book,

I remember I had the sense that I was reading the opinions of someone with far too much confidence in his own opinions. How old was I? Maybe 19-21? I still think he has too much self-esteem and that a lot of people have suffered for it.

Kissinger has been bloody wrong about a lot of things, and innocent people have paid for his bad advice and errors. Kissinger and Cheney. What a pair. Somehow they belong together.

My grandfather, whom I lived with after my mom died when I was 13, was also a Methodist minister.

preaching hellfire and brimstone rather than self-discipline and love of others. The trend started when I was in college and caused me to become a Unitarian.

But there were no better people than the traditional Methodists who followed the discipline and teachings of John Wesley. And they believed that women should be educated. My Methodist ancestors were progressives and abolitionists. I believe that John Wesley was a staunch abolitionist.

Hymn-singing in Methodist churches is amazing.

My GFers last church (died in 86) had a fundie couple. They finally went elsewhere. My grandfather said the ones that preached the loudest had to to cover up the sound of rattling bones in their closet

When I go to church (which I don't do much now but used to a lot -- taught Sunday School and had to quit when I went back to school at the age of 50), I want to hear about how I can be a better person by following the guidelines of my religion. I don't want to hear about what will happen to me if I don't "believe" this or that or if I stray off some narrow path that is never traced very clearly for me.

I don't want my religion to make me into an intolerant, angry person. I want it to invigorate my best instincts. That is what I look for in my religion. I want inspiration, not desperation.

for post of the year. Kissinger is slime, I can't believe someone here would defend him.

the pro-violence and oppression agenda permeates third wayers regardless of their latest name change.
just the fact that they need to change their name should be adequate info.
What are they supposed to be called this week?

questioning. If he has nothing to hide, I don't know why he has not responded to the court in Chile. There are a few places Herny is not free to travel to.

In fact, a short time ago when he planned to visit Ireland, there were people there ready to arrest him and take him to Chile.

Victims do not forget. Something Henry and his ilk never thought of, mainly because they view those who oppose their horrific policies as sub humans.

These are pretty sick people. I wonder why any Dem would be consorting with a Nixon cohort in the first place.

If you take down Kissinger, you have to take down so many "leaders" and cherished fantasies that the military/industrial/espionage/fascist cabal would have nobody to field their team.

and Kissinger in our example would be in the same dock with the other war criminals.

We won't see another Nuremburg in my lifetime...and we are overdue.

It will take the defeat of the US Empire to trigger international revulsion/vengeance/retribution...a total, humiliating defeat. That's because the USA has lost the ability to monitor itself and criticize its failings. The US people are captives of the 1% Elite.

It is the 1% that must answer to the next Nuremburg judges...but where is the court that is honest and fair enough? Not in Europe! Asians have shown no desire to go about legal proceedings; they are inclined to more direct forms of retribution, and they have their own captive populations to suppress.

The UN is an unlikely candidate...but probably the best we have currently.

to be put in the dock. I don't think Loretta Lynch though, if she's ever confirmed, will be inclined to convene such a trial anymore than Eric Holder has.

He inspired a lot of anger and hate.

like he should be condemned, then and only then will I support them. We need to put up other viable candidates for the primary because dragons will fly in the sky before that happens.

He has more blood on his hands than any living person and should have been hanged for his immense catalog of war crimes and crimes against humanity long ago. Millions of human beings died or were tortured because this hellspawn had power. He makes DicKKK Cheney look like a piker.

who will be ninety next month, STILL finds Kissinger to be a despicable man.

K&R