The Bucks County Courier Times love to quote Bill Perry. They're my paper, so I have researched Mr. Perry before and posted about him on my page. If you remember the altercation at the cancelled "Stolen Honor" show, he's the guy that wound up with the other guy's hand around his throat in the news coverage (The choker of Mr Perry (Dan Sweeney) was there, too - sitting quite near where Mr. Perry was standing. He's on our side)
Anyway - here's more about Mr Perry.
During one heated exchange, Korean War veteran Dan Sweeney of Philadelphia grabbed Bill Perry, a member of Vietnam Veterans Against the War, by the neck. Asked why, he said, "because I felt like it, that's why."
"Kerry can't handle the words that he said himself. Otherwise this film would be shown tonight," Sweeney said. "They don't want anybody to see what he said."
Perry, who said he was one of 120 soldiers who testified during the 1971 "Winter Soldier Investigation" of atrocities they witnessed in Vietnam, called the film no good.
At one point, he and Dalbey stood nose-to-nose arguing its merits.
"The movie's a sack of lies," Perry said. "I was in Vietnam. I witnessed these things."
"How can you comment about what you haven't seen," Dalbey shouted, referring to the 42-minute film. "Get him here to debate this. Get Kerry here."
A little look into the background of Mr. Perry reveals that he had the following to say about the United States during the Winter Soldier "investigation":
People say we must stop the war. I feel it's so much more than this. The whole rich man's game has always been fear. They've always been very much into impressing us. Now here's the Empire State Building. Be impressed. Now here is the C-5A or some fantastic jet bomber. Be impressed. You know, be afraid of it. Here is a club. I'll bust your head if you don't stay in line. Be impressed. Be afraid.
Here's what Mr. Perry had to say about Vietnam under communist rule:
The whole life style of the Vietnamese people, their whole cultural and social way of life, is nothing but love. It's a kind of love we really lack in this country and a kind of love that we have to build. A kind of opening of ourselves, an honesty ourselves and a love for each other where you know there will be no reason to hurt anyone except perhaps to protect our love. You know, the kind of love which is called primitive or savage.
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