SassyLady
01-08-2021, 12:08 AM
Interesting read
America’s Dark Epiphany: We Are All South Vietnamese NowThe GOP and conservative establishment proved themselves as worthless as the venal, do-nothing rulers in Saigon, who let the Communists win.https://stream.org/wp-content/uploads/Fall-of-Saigon-1-e1610043760425.jpghttp://www.verledentijd.com/2011/03/val-van-saigon/saigon-hubert-van-es/ (Fair Use, per Wikipedia)
A member of the CIA helps evacuees up a ladder onto an Air America helicopter on the roof of 22 Gia Long Street April 29, 1975, shortly before Saigon fell to advancing North Vietnamese troops.
By JOHN ZMIRAK (https://stream.org/author/johnzmirak/) Published on January 7, 2021 • 93 Comments
John Zmirak (https://stream.org/author/johnzmirak/)
My political journey began in Spring 1975. Just ten years old, I’d watched with mounting horror as the Communist forces of North Vietnam (https://stream.org/tag/vietnam/) conquered the South. Meanwhile our vindictive, post-Watergate Congress refused further aid. On April 30, the invaders overran Saigon. I will never forget the spectacle of US helicopters pulling out of our embassy. Or the rooftops crowded with desperate American allies clutching at the landing gear. In subsequent months, the “Boat People” fleeing Communist cruelty started washing up on our shores. I couldn’t shake my sense of helpless, directionless shame. I felt our country had profoundly dishonored itself.
And Winter 2020 has brought me back to that same place. Washington, D.C., this dark Epiphany Day brought me right back to Saigon. I’ll explain, but first a few necessary reflections on the violence.
Shooting Trump Protesters: Good. Shooting Violent Suspects: Bad.We don’t know yet if the instigators of the violence at the US Capitol were rogue Trump (https://stream.org/tag/trump/) supporters unhinged by the theft of our democracy (https://stream.org/tag/electoral-fraud/). Or Antifa (https://stream.org/tag/antifa/) members in costume. Or maybe a blend of both, with gullible overwrought patriots following a false flag waved by canny infiltrators. The pro-Communist riots in West Germany, 1967-8, were started by a police shooting of a demonstrator. That cop later turned out to be an East German Stasi spy (https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2009/06/stas-j03.html) sent to stir up trouble. Put nothing past the radical Left. Nothing.
https://stream.org/americas-dark-epiphany-we-are-all-south-vietnamese-now/
America’s Dark Epiphany: We Are All South Vietnamese NowThe GOP and conservative establishment proved themselves as worthless as the venal, do-nothing rulers in Saigon, who let the Communists win.https://stream.org/wp-content/uploads/Fall-of-Saigon-1-e1610043760425.jpghttp://www.verledentijd.com/2011/03/val-van-saigon/saigon-hubert-van-es/ (Fair Use, per Wikipedia)
A member of the CIA helps evacuees up a ladder onto an Air America helicopter on the roof of 22 Gia Long Street April 29, 1975, shortly before Saigon fell to advancing North Vietnamese troops.
By JOHN ZMIRAK (https://stream.org/author/johnzmirak/) Published on January 7, 2021 • 93 Comments
John Zmirak (https://stream.org/author/johnzmirak/)
My political journey began in Spring 1975. Just ten years old, I’d watched with mounting horror as the Communist forces of North Vietnam (https://stream.org/tag/vietnam/) conquered the South. Meanwhile our vindictive, post-Watergate Congress refused further aid. On April 30, the invaders overran Saigon. I will never forget the spectacle of US helicopters pulling out of our embassy. Or the rooftops crowded with desperate American allies clutching at the landing gear. In subsequent months, the “Boat People” fleeing Communist cruelty started washing up on our shores. I couldn’t shake my sense of helpless, directionless shame. I felt our country had profoundly dishonored itself.
And Winter 2020 has brought me back to that same place. Washington, D.C., this dark Epiphany Day brought me right back to Saigon. I’ll explain, but first a few necessary reflections on the violence.
Shooting Trump Protesters: Good. Shooting Violent Suspects: Bad.We don’t know yet if the instigators of the violence at the US Capitol were rogue Trump (https://stream.org/tag/trump/) supporters unhinged by the theft of our democracy (https://stream.org/tag/electoral-fraud/). Or Antifa (https://stream.org/tag/antifa/) members in costume. Or maybe a blend of both, with gullible overwrought patriots following a false flag waved by canny infiltrators. The pro-Communist riots in West Germany, 1967-8, were started by a police shooting of a demonstrator. That cop later turned out to be an East German Stasi spy (https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2009/06/stas-j03.html) sent to stir up trouble. Put nothing past the radical Left. Nothing.
https://stream.org/americas-dark-epiphany-we-are-all-south-vietnamese-now/