Kissinger nailed for war crimes
By Bill
Hackwell
San Francisco
War criminal and former Secretary of State and National
Security Advisor Henry Kissinger just can't get away from
demonstrators.
On July 19 he was dogged yet again by a militant protest
as he spoke to a Commonwealth Club event in San Francisco.
Just five days earlier, 1,000 demonstrators at the elite,
all-white, all-male redwoods retreat of Bohemian Grove had
confronted Kissinger and other ruling class figures.
The protest outside San Francisco's posh Nob Hill Fairmont
Hotel was loud enough to be heard inside, where Kissinger was
talking about foreign policy.
Kissinger got his entry into U.S. politics as a trusted
aide of the Rockefeller oil and banking empire. He can't deny
that he was largely responsible for charting U.S. foreign
policy from 1969 to 1976. In that period U.S. overt and
covert actions resulted in destruction and the death of
millions in Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Chile, East Timor,
Angola and the Middle East.
As evidence mounts against him, Kissinger must use his
speaking engagements to try to defend himself against charges
of being a war criminal.
The protest was organized by a number of organizations
including the International Action Center. Progressive San
Francisco City Supervisor Chris Daly told the protest that
not only was Kissinger unwelcome but that Daly was
introducing a resolution at City Hall documenting Kis
singer's war crimes. Other speakers included Ben Terrall from
the East Timor Action Network, Alejandro Stuart from La Pena
del Sur and Alicia Jrapko from the IAC.
Jrapko, who fled the U.S.-backed military dictatorship in
Argentina in 1976, told the rally that she was representing
the thousands of disappeared and still unaccounted for people
of Argentina. "I hold Kissinger directly responsible for
wiping out a whole generation in my country. We will never
forget and will follow you everywhere you go," she said.
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