{"article":{"id":78808,"heading":"Ron Kovac","author":"builder123","created":"2003-08-26 01:42:58","modified":"2013-11-11 00:25:07","last_modified":"Mon, 11 Nov 2013 07:25:07","article":"

August 22, 2003

Westwood Federal Building Los Angeles

Duration 3:59 min.

Stream Kovac

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Thought this might be of interest.

Ron Kovac challenging Colin Powell



Colin Powell:

A Hawk With Smooth Talons

by Paul Rockwell

Oakland, California

Powell’s Propaganda Challenged

In September 1995, Colin Powell conducted a national tour to promote his autobiography, “My American Journey.” In “Target Iraq: What The News Media Didn’t Tell You”, media critics Norman Solomon and Reese Erlich recount an incident that took place in San Francisco. As Powell praised U.S. military invasions abroad, a middle-aged man, hunched in a wheelchair, shouted from the back of the room: “You didn’t tell the truth about the war in the Gulf, General.” Powell ignored the interruption. He continued to speak about the glory of the wars that brought him fame: “It is very rewarding to see this change in attitude toward the military.”

The man in the wheelchair was Ron Kovac, author of “Born On The Fourth Of July.” Struggling to be heard, he raised his voice: “I want the American people to know what the General hid from the American public during the Gulf War. They hid the casualties. They hid the horror. They hid the violence. We don’t need any more violence in our country … . We need leaders who understand the tragedy of using violence in solving our problems.”

Regarding the issues of race, Powell is duplicitous. He supports affirmative action. Far more important, however, is Powell’s support for world empire, international white supremacy. Powell’s ascendancy is associated with the suffering and deaths of thousands of innocent people of color -- civilians in Grenada whose psychiatric hospital was bombed; the Black Panamanians who lost their lives in Panama City; half a million Iraqi children killed by air raids and years of sanctions. When asked about the number of Panamanians killed by U.S. intervention, Powell said: “It isn’t a figure I think about.”

Under the Bush doctrine, countries of color, nations of the Third World, have no sovereignty, no rights, which the Anglo powers are bound to respect.

Colin Powell is hardly a moderate. He’s a hawk with smooth talons.

Paul Rockwell is a writer in the Bay Area rockyspad@earthlink.net<\/a>

Published in In Motion Magazine March 11, 2003.

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I resemble that remark!\r\n","author":"George W. Bush","parent_id":78808,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-08-26 10:02:09","modified":"2003-08-26 10:02:09","fileurl":""},{"id":78847,"heading":"George W. Bush imp","article":""mindless killbots." \r\n"Hey! I resemble that remark!"\r\n\r\nPosts like the above will only do harm to our struggle. the working class do not want to be any part of such childlike bantering. We need the working class on our side, now more than ever. Making comments like the above will only isolate them further from us, making it harder for us to speak to them regarding our message. And without the working class with us, we will never achieve victory over our oppressors.\r\n\r\n","author":"No. Calif.","parent_id":78808,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-08-26 10:33:50","modified":"2003-08-26 10:33:50","fileurl":""},{"id":78850,"heading":"^","article":"Blow me, you head queen.","author":"tpfkamw","parent_id":78808,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-08-26 10:40:29","modified":"2003-08-26 10:40:29","fileurl":""},{"id":79835,"heading":"Ron Kovac","article":"Occupy the Occupiers\r\nAugust 22, 2003 \r\nWestwood Federal Building Los Angeles \r\nSponsored by the Not in Our Name project","author":"builder123","parent_id":78808,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","created":"2003-08-29 22:58:29","modified":"2005-08-15 01:39:22","fileurl":"\/usr\/local\/www-domains\/la.indymedia.org\/public\/uploads\/2003\/08\/image1501.jpgbx8wpe.jpg","image":{"original":"\/usr\/local\/www-domains\/la.indymedia.org\/public\/uploads\/2003\/08\/image1501.jpgbx8wpe.jpg"}},{"id":80222,"heading":"Occupy the Occupiers","article":"August 22, 2003 \r\nWestwood Federal Building Los Angeles \r\n\r\nSponsored by the Not in Our Name project\r\n\r\n","author":"builder123","parent_id":78808,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","created":"2003-08-31 02:33:55","modified":"2005-08-15 01:39:22","fileurl":"\/usr\/local\/www-domains\/la.indymedia.org\/public\/uploads\/2003\/08\/image101.jpggh7fbf.jpg","image":{"original":"\/usr\/local\/www-domains\/la.indymedia.org\/public\/uploads\/2003\/08\/image101.jpggh7fbf.jpg"}},{"id":80247,"heading":"These people realize, don't they...","article":"...that they're tools of international groups whose stated goal is the violent overthrow of the United States of America?\r\n\r\nIn other words, they're being useful idiots.","author":"nonanarchist","parent_id":78808,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-08-31 20:21:00","modified":"2003-08-31 20:21:00","fileurl":""},{"id":80251,"heading":"and","article":"you're saying that's bad?\r\nThet aren't going to give up their criminal enterprise by being asked politely. The scum at the top of this pond is choking the life out of the \r\nrest of the waters of our society. Talk is cheap and cowardess is rampant.\r\nNo rights were ever gained by licking boots.","author":"Jefferson","parent_id":78808,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-08-31 20:29:43","modified":"2003-08-31 20:29:43","fileurl":""},{"id":80262,"heading":"No, jefferson, you don't understand.","article":"They want to overthrow the United States...not just the current administration.\r\n\r\nThat includes the Constitution.\r\n\r\nYou know, the little document that protects your freedoms?\r\n\r\nNow, how much freedom to dissent are you going to have if the Marxists get their way?\r\n\r\nI guarantee it is NOT going to be the Worker's Paradise (tm) you all so orgasmically predict.\r\n\r\nAnd you won't be able to do a thing about it...because you gave up that right.","author":"nonanarchist","parent_id":78808,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-08-31 20:47:49","modified":"2003-08-31 20:47:49","fileurl":""},{"id":80354,"heading":"nonanarchist","article":"Watch out! There's a Marxist outside your window!","author":"The ghost of Sen. Joseph McCarthy","parent_id":78808,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-09-01 16:12:51","modified":"2003-09-01 16:12:51","fileurl":""},{"id":80389,"heading":"Joe","article":"Then he'd better get his butt out of range.","author":"nonanarchist","parent_id":78808,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-09-01 21:00:12","modified":"2003-09-01 21:00:12","fileurl":""},{"id":80416,"heading":"they have made toilet paper out of it","article":"" That includes the Constitution.\r\nYou know, the little document that protects your freedoms? "\r\n\r\nDoes the 'Patroit Act' bring to mind anything? Not to you, it seems.","author":"Jefferson","parent_id":78808,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-09-01 23:03:05","modified":"2003-09-01 23:03:05","fileurl":""},{"id":80457,"heading":"Gee, that's funny.","article":"IMC's still here.\r\n\r\nAmazing!\r\n\r\nYou'd think the Brown Shirts would stifle the voice of dissent right away.\r\n\r\nHmmm...false alarm.","author":"nonanarchist","parent_id":78808,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-09-02 16:26:02","modified":"2003-09-02 16:26:02","fileurl":""},{"id":80541,"heading":"OneEyedMan","article":"Oh where, oh where has my little dog gone?\r\nOh where, oh where can he be?\r\nWith his ears cut short and his tail cut long,\r\n\r\nOh where, oh where can he be?\r\nMy little dog always waggles his tail\r\nWhenever he wants his grog\r\nAnd if the tail where more strong than he\r\nWhy, the tail would waggle the dog!","author":"KPC","parent_id":78808,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-09-03 15:52:27","modified":"2003-09-03 15:52:27","fileurl":""}]}