>Status: U >Date: Fri, 12 Feb 1999 23:46:14 -0600 (CST) >From: Marc Frucht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >X-Sender: kokopeli@earth >To: Williams Institute <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Ex NY City cop speaks out (fwd) >MIME-Version: 1.0 > > > >---------- Forwarded message ---------- >Date: Fri, 12 Feb 1999 15:47:01 GMT >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Newsgroups: alt.org.food-not-bombs >Subject: Ex NY City cop speaks out > >Richard Manning "Expatriate Letters" > http://i.am/expatriate > > >As a former NYC teacher (P/T), Youth Board Gang Worker and Police >Dep't Detective (Special Frauds Bureau) who went to Vietnam in 1967 as a Plans >and Operations Officer with the CIA : I confirm what Hackworth says is the >absolute truth concerning the wholehearted selfishness of our 'leadership', >BOTH military and civilian. The exceptions were, like Hackworth, those few, >most rare, men who had the moral courage to put honest loyalty to America and >humane values for the slaughtered Vietnamese BEFORE their personal whims, >vices, crimes AND careers. Vietnam was unusual, for it was a most SENSUAL, and >SEXY, war for the upper-echelon leadership; not just the average high tech >violence done to so many another yellow-skinned (or brown or black) inferiors >in our history. > >Most of the above leadership in Vietnam were - besides being moral >cowards - also physical cowards who never had to defend themselves or >their men with a weapon facing our 'enemy'. This double cowardice is >the 'why?' behind their support of a techno war; one using twice the >total WW-II tonnage of bombs against a 3rd World country - an agrarian country >with almost no industry and few viable military targets; and none to speak of >after 1968. > >Due to this, Hackworth's comments should be understood as even more >strongly applicable to the US Navy and US Air Force - push-button jet >jockeys dropping everything from napalm, cluster bombs, white >phosphorus, chemicals and high explosives on an almost exclusively >civilian population. Returning afterwards to their hot showers, clean >white sheets and Playboy R & R machismo hobbies. Hackworth may have >been an officer but he was something much more than a grunt with >shoulder insignia, for in facing the enemy on the ground he learned >the truth, and then had the wholly GREATER moral courage it takes to >step out of line and tell it to the people he really served - the US >public. It takes that kind of hero to go around his disloyal military >brass and his dishonest Presidents. > >Least we forget, let's not leave out the CIA : for it was their Col. >Lansdale and his illegal and totally immoral coterie of little boys >playing top secret spooky games who actually started the war >beginning in 1954. We must remember, it was the CIA, using mostly >detached military personell, who invaded and attacked the Vietnamese, >both North and South. Neither the so-called 'north' >Vietnamese nor the old Viet Minh in the 'south' ever did anything >against America or any American until they had been tortured and >assassinated to the tune of over 200,000 dead and wounded (by >1960), mostly civilians with the wrong sympathies. > >So there were only a very few, like Hackworth, McGehee and I >(presuming to put myself in their good company), who had the awareness and >balls to go against the Pentagon's and The Company's >lies and cover ups and murder and torture while we were in-country. > >Richard Manning >Ass't Operations Officer, Phan Thiet; Plans Officer, Nha Trang; Op & >Plans Officer, Ba Ngoi (Cam Ranh) > >-----------== Posted via Deja News, The Discussion Network ==---------- >http://www.dejanews.com/ Search, Read, Discuss, or Start Your Own >
