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Report as: spam offensive Marvin L Foushee on 5/21/08 at 6am

I hit the bookmark that would send me into Columbia's online newspaper, The Spectator, and the screen came up: Account Closed, Suspended. I know that I am an obnoxious school news bartender, but really, are such extreme Stalinist measures that necessary in a post 9/11 republic? Better warn the Barack Obama supporters on campus that Osama bin Negro maybe flying an airplane towards the Empire Zionist Building on your campus.

Report as: spam offensive Marvin L Foushee on 5/21/08 at 7am

On June 8, 1967, US Navy intelligence ship USS Liberty was suddenly and brutally attacked on the high seas in international waters by the air and naval forces of Israel. The Israeli forces attacked with full knowledge that this was an American ship and lied about it. Survivors have been forbidden for 40 years to tell their story under oath to the American public. This USS Liberty Memorial web site tells their story and is dedicated to the memory of the 34 brave men who died.

The Attack

After surveilling USS Liberty for more than nine hours with almost hourly aircraft over flights and radar tracking, the air and naval forces of Israel attacked our ship in international waters without warning. USS Liberty was identified as a US naval ship nine hours before the attack by Israeli reconnaissance aircraft and continuously tracked by Israeli radar and aircraft thereafter. Sailing in international waters at less than five knots, with no offensive armament, our ship was not a military threat to anyone.

The Israeli forces attacked without warning and without attempting to contact us. Thirty four Americans were killed in the attack and another 174 were wounded. The ship, a $40 Million Dollar state of the art signals intelligence platform, was later declared unsalvageable and sold for scrap.

The Cover Up

Despite a near-universal consensus that the Israeli attack was made with full knowledge that USS Liberty was a US Navy ship, the Johnson administration began an immediate cover-up of this fact. Though administration officers continued individually to characterize the attack as deliberate, the Johnson administration never sought the prosecution of the guilty parties or otherwise attempted to seek justice for the victims. They concealed and altered evidence in their effort to downplay the attack. Though they never formally accepted the Israeli explanation that it was an accident, they never pressed for a full investigation either. They simply allowed those responsible literally to get away with murder.

[For the greater good,",",",",", of Stalinist Israel]—The Catholic Saint, Lyndon Baines Johnson

Report as: spam offensive Rick on 5/21/08 at 1pm

Marvin, are you from North Carolina?

Report as: spam offensive Rick on 5/21/08 at 2pm

By the way, I'm a big fan of your internet posts. Is this your website?
http://u-mon.blogspot.com/




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