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To: Fedora

One of your old posts on the topic

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1756224/posts?page=131#131

Over the 1971 Christmas holiday, VVAW members—among them Kerry’s associate Joe Bangert—protested US bombing by taking over several national monuments around the country, including the Lincoln Memorial and Statue of Liberty, and defacing them with antiwar messages.282 In April 1972, at Hanoi’s direction, the VVAW sent members to Washington to participate in “Dewey Canyon IV” and related demonstrations organized by the NPAC and PCPJ. In coordination with these demonstrations the NPAC staged a simultaneous demonstration in New York, at which Kerry spoke.283 In May 1972, to protest US bombing and mining operations, VVAW members cornered George H.W. Bush, then United States ambassador to the United Nations, and dumped blood on him.284


47 posted on 08/18/2017 2:23:50 AM PDT by piasa
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To: piasa

Wow, Bangart’s a piece of work...

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....


http://www.wnd.com/2004/09/26415/


51 posted on 08/18/2017 2:42:04 AM PDT by piasa
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