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9/11 Commission member Bob Kerrey to speak in Redlands Friday
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Former U.S. Senator Bob Kerrey, member of the "911 Commission" will speak at the University of Redlands Town & Gown Cultural Series on Friday, October 30, at 5:00 p.m. The website requests that attendees register in advance, and links interested parties to a form which requests personal information.
The venue touts Kerrey's appearance as one where he "will voice his thoughts on current economic events and changing public policy as well as environmental global warming issues" and "present his views on the future of education and on using technology and design to help solve urban issues such as those encountered in New York City".
Kerrey is known for having taken part in the Thanh Phong Massacre in Vietnam, outlined by Wikipedia to be a gruesome bloodbath:
"On February 25, 1969, he led a Swift Boat raid on the isolated peasant village of Thanh Phong, Vietnam, targeting a Viet Cong leader that intelligence suggested would be present. The village was considered part of a free-fire zone by the U.S. military. Kerrey's SEAL team first encountered a peasant house, or hooch, and killed the people inside with knives. While Kerrey says he did not go inside the hooch and did not participate in the killings, another member of the team, Gerhard Klann, said that the people killed there were an elderly man and woman and three children under 12, and that Kerrey helped kill the man. "
A scathing Counterpunch article from May 2001 outlined how Kerrey is wanted as a war criminal for doing the CIA's dirty work and killing innocent civilians, as well as the fact that Kerrey is referred to by
former Nebraska Senator John DeCamp as "emotionally disturbed" as a result of his Vietnam experience.
Regarding the investigation into the 9/11 attacks, Kerrey wrote in a March 2009 book review that
"It was simply too time-consuming for part-time service" and that the "examination of this conspiracy should go on, though not by the 9/11 Commission".
Kerrey went on to address the public's pervasive doubts of the official government story, and as he puts it, "why so many people have come to believe alternative conspiracy theories".
A Newsweek columnist from March 2009 explains that Kerrey had feared that the 9/11 investigation "depended too heavily on the accounts of Al Qaeda detainees who were physically coerced into talking"
and that "Kerrey said it might take "a permanent 9/11 commission" to end the remaining mysteries of September 11"
The 9/11 Commission Report, considered by many to be a coverup , and sham , is often dissected by the alternative media and best-selling author Theologan David Ray Griffin.
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