http://www.armedfemalesofamerica.com/featuredwriter/tiger.htm
The Tiger Force Massacres
ANOTHER BENCHMARK OF GOVERNMENT TYRANNY
By Ted Lang
Continuously pointing out the horror of big, ultra powerful government and its police and military enforcers is just as necessary as the opposition’s incessant publicized need to continuously push for gun control for the masses. It is useless to point out to these big government zealots that private citizen ownership of firearms successfully deterred the Nazi armies from invading Switzerland during World War II, or that it removed from all Cold War considerations on the part of the former Soviet Union any desires for occupying a conquered United States. The latter aspect of the Soviet Union’s military plans toward the US has only recently been disclosed.
Yet in spite of this information, the liberal controlling forces of our big government-oriented Democrat-Republican Party keep inching forward the ever-increasing illegal and unconstitutional gun control at both the state and federal level. And consistently dismissed along with all these incremental sell-outs of individual freedom by virtually all levels of government, are the growing examples of horrific government tyranny that continuously come to light.
By now, the main driving force behind the total, incrementally executed abolition of all firearms ownership by individuals in the United States, should be recognized as the primary agenda of the mainstream establishment media, a media controlled by powerful left-liberal millionaires/billionaires whose collectivist, communist leanings align more with the Marxism of the ADL and the ACLU than with the majority of decent Americans. For the media, gun ownership by American citizens is the greatest threat to collectivist big government, which when progressing to its highest state, is termed “communism.â€
The media has demonstrated its penchant not only for political bias, but also for a rabid interference in the voting processes of our so-called “free elections.†The media can therefore exercise its camouflaged efficacy in terms of influencing politics and elections. But what the big money and power behind-the-scenes media moguls cannot control is an armed and free electorate. This is anathema to public mind control. And this is why the millionaire/billionaire socialist-controlled media needs gun control, and why it must be done incrementally to avoid alarming a now-free populace.
Merely pasting the truth in terms of bumper or window stickers on cars and trucks might get some attention on the part of a few Americans, but the factuality of the assertion: “Gun control works – it did for Hitler and Stalin,†will never really sink in with Americans. Hitler and Stalin are recognized as being deranged, despotic and totalitarian freaks. Hence, the danger that is big government is lost on all who momentarily consider this fact when seeing such stickers. The human slaughter committed by such uncompassionate tyrannies happened elsewhere, in far-away places, within the borders of strange foreign lands, and “could never happen here.†That’s precisely the attitude our public opinion shapers are so heavily counting upon.
And that is why it is so important to continuously remind America to reflect upon our own homegrown atrocities: Waco, Ruby Ridge, My Lai, Wounded Knee, and yes, even 9-11! Why the latter? It was the failure of our own protectors, our government’s FBI, CIA and FAA, who were all apprised of the impending terrorist plot, and either chose to do nothing, our allowed gatekeeper politics and structured incompetence to override the national security so relied upon by our God-fearing, law-abiding people. And now, the Tiger Force Massacres can be added to this ignoble list of American government atrocities against Humanity!
How awesomely powerful our military enforcers and protectors must have felt in dispensing death to anyone even remotely connected to the enemy and the “evildoers.†These weren’t people, only “gooks.†Recently in Iraq, our invading, occupying forces were subjected to yet another guerilla-type truck bombing that took many lives. Our colonial forces “returned fire,†shooting at “suspected terrorist strongholds.â€
What were these strongholds? They were the private homes of innocent Iraqi citizens. That would include old men and women, very old men and women, small children, babies, toddlers, along with some younger males that might or possibly could take up arms against our colonial forces. Clearly, firing indiscriminately into the homes of defenseless, innocent residents by our military with fully automatic assault rifles is authorized under the banner of: Law is government, and government is law.
ABC’s World News Tonight with Peter Jennings showed video clips of some of the survivors of the 1967 Tiger Force Massacres perpetrated by an elite volunteer unit attached to the famous 101st Airborne Division. As I stated in previous columns, a small, family-owned Toledo, Ohio newspaper, The Blade, did the investigative journalism on yet another American government atrocity that our rulers were very anxious to cover up. It is offered that a tip was communicated to the independent newspaper’s Washington bureau. Why this “tip†happened now remains unclear.
Our government could have opted to cooperate, but that would never happen now, especially during this most secretive, USA Patriot Act-oriented clandestine and war-mongering Bush administration. And it is certain that big media ABC is participating in the airing of this atrocity to both embarrass the Bush administration and to voice its objections to the Iraqi war. And as Bush himself pointed out, “You’re either with US or agin’ US,†or something like that. Bush sycophants will point out that anybody that doesn’t support American colonial incursions into Iraq is unpatriotic and un-American.
But precisely, what is so American and patriotic about the Tiger Force Actions in Vietnam, that included: “…the 45 strong unit took the war to the villagers, killing hundreds of them … soldiers killed unarmed civilians…murder was not uncommon – it was more or less the rule of the day?†A write up of the report entitled, “Killer Instinct,†was carried on ABC’s website, and was written by Brian Ross and Jill Rackmill. “What they would essentially do is they would kill prisoners, they would kill soldiers, they would kill villagers and they would sever ears and wear them as necklaces,†the article revealed.
The initial article posted on the web by the Guardian Unlimited on October 26th, written by Paul Harris entitled, “Vietnam killing spree revelations shock US,†offered: “The killing spree was ignored or encouraged by army top brass, but when an inquiry did take place it lasted for four years. No one was charged. Details were not released to the public, and are still classified. Bill Carpenter, a former special infantryman with Tiger Force, believes the self-styled death squad's former commander, Lt James Hawkins, should be held accountable. He 'thoroughly enjoyed killing' and, now retired to Florida, still defiantly defends his platoon's wartime activities. 'I don't regret nothing,' Hawkins has said.â€
The Harris exposé offers: “They tortured and mutilated victims. A litany of horror has emerged - a baby decapitated for the necklace he wore, a teenage boy for his tennis shoes. A former Tiger Force sergeant, William Doyle, told reporters of a scalp he took off a young nurse to decorate his rifle. The Blade investigation concluded that hundreds probably died. 'We weren't keeping count,' Ken Kerney, a former soldier who is now a California firefighter, told the paper. 'I knew it was wrong, but it was an acceptable practice.'â€
Harris’ article continues, “But memories of the blood lust run deep in Vietnam. One farmer, Nguyen Dam, now 66, vividly remembered being attacked. ‘Our people didn’t deserve to die that way. We were farmers. We were not soldiers. We didn’t hurt anyone,’ he said.â€
“The Blade also found amazing stories from within Tiger Force itself. One soldier, Gerald Bruner, turned on his own men and ordered them to stop shooting civilians or he would open fire. For this, he was berated by a commanding officer and told to see a psychiatrist.â€
Isn’t it odd that an element of the mainstream media accentuates the term “unarmed civilians,†yet has this very concept at the forefront of its agenda for US? Isn’t this the primary focus of its own socialist opinion-shaping agenda, to disarm all American civilians in blatant violation of the restriction placed upon American government from doing so as prohibited by the Second Amendment of the United States Constitution?
If it is wrong to kill unarmed civilians, then was it right to kill armed American civilians at Waco, people who just like the Vietnamese villagers, merely wanted to be left alone by American government? Wasn’t it also necessary for government propaganda to first dehumanize “the enemy†as merely being “gooks,†or “freaks,†or “Jewsâ as in the case of the Nazis? If American government can be shown to be so mercilessly wrong and easily capable of genocide, why does the media want our police and military to have such a monopoly of deadly “tiger" force?
The Tiger Force Massacres
ANOTHER BENCHMARK OF GOVERNMENT TYRANNY
By Ted Lang
Continuously pointing out the horror of big, ultra powerful government and its police and military enforcers is just as necessary as the opposition’s incessant publicized need to continuously push for gun control for the masses. It is useless to point out to these big government zealots that private citizen ownership of firearms successfully deterred the Nazi armies from invading Switzerland during World War II, or that it removed from all Cold War considerations on the part of the former Soviet Union any desires for occupying a conquered United States. The latter aspect of the Soviet Union’s military plans toward the US has only recently been disclosed.
Yet in spite of this information, the liberal controlling forces of our big government-oriented Democrat-Republican Party keep inching forward the ever-increasing illegal and unconstitutional gun control at both the state and federal level. And consistently dismissed along with all these incremental sell-outs of individual freedom by virtually all levels of government, are the growing examples of horrific government tyranny that continuously come to light.
By now, the main driving force behind the total, incrementally executed abolition of all firearms ownership by individuals in the United States, should be recognized as the primary agenda of the mainstream establishment media, a media controlled by powerful left-liberal millionaires/billionaires whose collectivist, communist leanings align more with the Marxism of the ADL and the ACLU than with the majority of decent Americans. For the media, gun ownership by American citizens is the greatest threat to collectivist big government, which when progressing to its highest state, is termed “communism.â€
The media has demonstrated its penchant not only for political bias, but also for a rabid interference in the voting processes of our so-called “free elections.†The media can therefore exercise its camouflaged efficacy in terms of influencing politics and elections. But what the big money and power behind-the-scenes media moguls cannot control is an armed and free electorate. This is anathema to public mind control. And this is why the millionaire/billionaire socialist-controlled media needs gun control, and why it must be done incrementally to avoid alarming a now-free populace.
Merely pasting the truth in terms of bumper or window stickers on cars and trucks might get some attention on the part of a few Americans, but the factuality of the assertion: “Gun control works – it did for Hitler and Stalin,†will never really sink in with Americans. Hitler and Stalin are recognized as being deranged, despotic and totalitarian freaks. Hence, the danger that is big government is lost on all who momentarily consider this fact when seeing such stickers. The human slaughter committed by such uncompassionate tyrannies happened elsewhere, in far-away places, within the borders of strange foreign lands, and “could never happen here.†That’s precisely the attitude our public opinion shapers are so heavily counting upon.
And that is why it is so important to continuously remind America to reflect upon our own homegrown atrocities: Waco, Ruby Ridge, My Lai, Wounded Knee, and yes, even 9-11! Why the latter? It was the failure of our own protectors, our government’s FBI, CIA and FAA, who were all apprised of the impending terrorist plot, and either chose to do nothing, our allowed gatekeeper politics and structured incompetence to override the national security so relied upon by our God-fearing, law-abiding people. And now, the Tiger Force Massacres can be added to this ignoble list of American government atrocities against Humanity!
How awesomely powerful our military enforcers and protectors must have felt in dispensing death to anyone even remotely connected to the enemy and the “evildoers.†These weren’t people, only “gooks.†Recently in Iraq, our invading, occupying forces were subjected to yet another guerilla-type truck bombing that took many lives. Our colonial forces “returned fire,†shooting at “suspected terrorist strongholds.â€
What were these strongholds? They were the private homes of innocent Iraqi citizens. That would include old men and women, very old men and women, small children, babies, toddlers, along with some younger males that might or possibly could take up arms against our colonial forces. Clearly, firing indiscriminately into the homes of defenseless, innocent residents by our military with fully automatic assault rifles is authorized under the banner of: Law is government, and government is law.
ABC’s World News Tonight with Peter Jennings showed video clips of some of the survivors of the 1967 Tiger Force Massacres perpetrated by an elite volunteer unit attached to the famous 101st Airborne Division. As I stated in previous columns, a small, family-owned Toledo, Ohio newspaper, The Blade, did the investigative journalism on yet another American government atrocity that our rulers were very anxious to cover up. It is offered that a tip was communicated to the independent newspaper’s Washington bureau. Why this “tip†happened now remains unclear.
Our government could have opted to cooperate, but that would never happen now, especially during this most secretive, USA Patriot Act-oriented clandestine and war-mongering Bush administration. And it is certain that big media ABC is participating in the airing of this atrocity to both embarrass the Bush administration and to voice its objections to the Iraqi war. And as Bush himself pointed out, “You’re either with US or agin’ US,†or something like that. Bush sycophants will point out that anybody that doesn’t support American colonial incursions into Iraq is unpatriotic and un-American.
But precisely, what is so American and patriotic about the Tiger Force Actions in Vietnam, that included: “…the 45 strong unit took the war to the villagers, killing hundreds of them … soldiers killed unarmed civilians…murder was not uncommon – it was more or less the rule of the day?†A write up of the report entitled, “Killer Instinct,†was carried on ABC’s website, and was written by Brian Ross and Jill Rackmill. “What they would essentially do is they would kill prisoners, they would kill soldiers, they would kill villagers and they would sever ears and wear them as necklaces,†the article revealed.
The initial article posted on the web by the Guardian Unlimited on October 26th, written by Paul Harris entitled, “Vietnam killing spree revelations shock US,†offered: “The killing spree was ignored or encouraged by army top brass, but when an inquiry did take place it lasted for four years. No one was charged. Details were not released to the public, and are still classified. Bill Carpenter, a former special infantryman with Tiger Force, believes the self-styled death squad's former commander, Lt James Hawkins, should be held accountable. He 'thoroughly enjoyed killing' and, now retired to Florida, still defiantly defends his platoon's wartime activities. 'I don't regret nothing,' Hawkins has said.â€
The Harris exposé offers: “They tortured and mutilated victims. A litany of horror has emerged - a baby decapitated for the necklace he wore, a teenage boy for his tennis shoes. A former Tiger Force sergeant, William Doyle, told reporters of a scalp he took off a young nurse to decorate his rifle. The Blade investigation concluded that hundreds probably died. 'We weren't keeping count,' Ken Kerney, a former soldier who is now a California firefighter, told the paper. 'I knew it was wrong, but it was an acceptable practice.'â€
Harris’ article continues, “But memories of the blood lust run deep in Vietnam. One farmer, Nguyen Dam, now 66, vividly remembered being attacked. ‘Our people didn’t deserve to die that way. We were farmers. We were not soldiers. We didn’t hurt anyone,’ he said.â€
“The Blade also found amazing stories from within Tiger Force itself. One soldier, Gerald Bruner, turned on his own men and ordered them to stop shooting civilians or he would open fire. For this, he was berated by a commanding officer and told to see a psychiatrist.â€
Isn’t it odd that an element of the mainstream media accentuates the term “unarmed civilians,†yet has this very concept at the forefront of its agenda for US? Isn’t this the primary focus of its own socialist opinion-shaping agenda, to disarm all American civilians in blatant violation of the restriction placed upon American government from doing so as prohibited by the Second Amendment of the United States Constitution?
If it is wrong to kill unarmed civilians, then was it right to kill armed American civilians at Waco, people who just like the Vietnamese villagers, merely wanted to be left alone by American government? Wasn’t it also necessary for government propaganda to first dehumanize “the enemy†as merely being “gooks,†or “freaks,†or “Jewsâ as in the case of the Nazis? If American government can be shown to be so mercilessly wrong and easily capable of genocide, why does the media want our police and military to have such a monopoly of deadly “tiger" force?