Take a look at these three short video clips, especially the last one. You will walk away with a heavy heart.
Posted on 09/06/2004 10:31:38 PM PDT by ETERNAL WARMING
Kerry vet aide's extremist history Joe Bangert lived in Hanoi, revered Ho Chi Minh
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Posted: September 7, 2004 1:00 a.m. Eastern
WASHINGTON – A John Kerry veterans' organizer lived in Hanoi for five years in the 1990s, testified that American troops skinned and crucified Vietnamese in the 1960s and joined the presidential candidate at an infamous 1971 meeting of the Vietnam Veterans Against the War executive committee in which the assassination of U.S. senators was debated, Joseph Farah's G2 Bulletin reports.
Joe Bangert, a Massachusetts English teacher and longtime friend of the junior senator, has campaigned with Kerry in several states and serves the campaign as a veterans' organizer.
At the Winter Soldier Investigation, sponsored by Jane Fonda and the VVAW in 1971, Bangert told some of the most hair-raising stories, reveals a report in the latest issue of the premium, online intelligence newsletter published by WorldNetDaily.
The former Marine who claims to have served with the Marine Observation Squadron with the First Marine Air Wing in 1968 said the atrocities he witnessed began on his first day in country.
"I was picked up by a truckload of grunt Marines with two company grade officers – first lieutenants," he told the Winter Soldier hearing in Detroit. "We were about five miles down the road, where there were some Vietnamese children at the gateway of the village and they gave the old finger gesture at us. It was understandable that they picked this up from GIs there. They stopped the trucks – they didn't stop the truck, they slowed down a little bit, and it was just like response, the guys got up, including the lieutenants, and just blew all the kids away. There were about five or six kids blown away, and then the truck just continued down the hill."
He also testified about observing South Vietnamese troops under U.S. command torture a woman prisoner by shooting her repeatedly, then disemboweling her and skinning her. He also claimed Vietnamese suspects and civilians were crucified under U.S. command.
Bangert, who lived in Hanoi for about five years in the 1990s and still travels to the Communist totalitarian capital, in 2001 called Jane Fonda a "heroine" for her controversial visits to North Vietnam during the war, according to G2 Bulletin.
In fact, Bangert, like Kerry, traveled to Paris to meet with the North Vietnamese and Viet Cong delegations. Bangert recalled the highlight for him was getting to sing "The Ballad of Ho Chi Minh" for the assembled guests. He boasts of having performed the ballad more than a thousand times in public. Bangert wore a shirt for the occasion emblazoned with the Viet Cong flag.
"She was a heroine to visit Vietnam under B-52 bombardment in July 1972, and this needs to be said aloud," he wrote about Fonda in the VVAW publication.
In 1997, Bangert was one of three former VVAW members to pay tribute in Hanoi to Ho Chi Minh on his birthday. Bangert joined Chuck Searcy and Eric Herter May 19 – which was also the 30th anniversary of the founding of the VVAW.
Bangert worked for Kerry throughout the primary season in New Hampshire, Missouri and South Carolina.
Joe Bangert, seen just to the left behind former N.H. Gov. Jean Shaheen
When Kerry gave his victory speech in New Hampshire on the night of the primary, Bangert stood on stage between the presidential candidate and former New Hampshire Governor Jean Shaheen.
And that should be no surprise given Bangert has worked for Kerry in most if not all of his campaigns, including his first run for the Senate going back to 1984.
Kerry first adamantly denied attending a November 1971 VVAW executive committee meeting in Kansas City at which the assassination of several U.S. senators was debated. Later, when the Kansas City Star tracked down 32-year-old FBI records affirming Kerry's attendance, his campaign explained that he "had no personal recollection" of the meeting. Bangert was there, too.
"We were rebelling," he explained. "We were decompressing from our time in Vietnam. We were incapable of doing violence."
Take a look at these three short video clips, especially the last one. You will walk away with a heavy heart.
You have my sympathy.
Latest number I saw or heard was either 455K or 855K ... sorry, I know that's a significant disparity, just don't recall which it was - but it's upwards of 1/2 million copies at this point.
Too many ties ping.
Bangert. That commie scumbag traitor from hell, not the other one.
This story has appeared on twenty different blogs in the last three months and not one of the LMSM has picked up on it. This lying rat bastard shows up at Kerry events and gets the crowd going before Kerry comes out and has the nerve to call him a great American Hero. This campaign is communism at its worst and the American people have NO F'N CLUE. Disgusting.
Lot of folks out there, still need'in killin,
Kerry's Krowd never ceases their destruction of America.
This really crosses the line...
This bastard needs to give dates, location and unit - and let us see if this is another freaking "Christmas in Cambodia" myth...
Semper Fi
I would hope that many Americans would do something if this communist is elected.
1. Soap Box
2. Ballot Box
3. Ammo Box
We're still at #1. Time will tell if #3 becomes necessary.
Thanks. I'm thinking it is probably closer to 855K.
Kerry and his ilk were in direct communications with the Communists and coordinating anti-war activities in America. Go here FBI FILES and check out pages 21 through 25 for proof.
Kerry betrayed America, he betrayed his fellow Vietnam Veterans, and he betrayed our POW’s and their families.
KERRY also went to Paris and met with the Communist North Vietnamese and the Communist Viet Cong representatives to discuss how America should surrender. KERRY then came back to America and went on TV to spew the Communist’s propaganda. KERRY IS A TRAITOR TO AMERICA.
A couple weeks back Sean Hannity said that he had in his possesion a video tape of Kerry burning down huts in Vietnam and that he would talk about it. I havent heard it mentioned anymore. Does anyone know what happened? Was it a fake? What did Sean say about this?
"Seems like all of Kerry's friends are liars or communists..
Some of them are both..."
the 'ol VVAW gang seems to be having a reunion with the Kerry campaign.
Hurley, Muller, Bangert.
Scott "The Assassin" Camil, it appears, was the Kerry campaign worker who "found" the leaflet that was supposed to be the 'smoking gun" that connected the Swiftvets to the RNC.
These people should all be in prison, not out bothering decent people as they try to get the liar Kerry elected.
Thank goodness you put in the "by marriage" part. He really is scum. Kerry has to be totally delusional.
The sad thing about this is that bringing the info to the general public has the potential to pit vet against vet, further deepening divisions between Americans who should be standing shoulder to shoulder against Islamofascism.
Take care and keep typing!
I just can't understand it but your remark made me think about piano wire and then - a kevlar bootlace. Must have been something subconscious - eh? Who knows about these things.
Wahoo.
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