Protesters / McCain Fight Ancient Battle

“Get out of here you low-life scum,” McCain snapped at one point.

According to the AP, Sen. John McCain (R-Arizona) was left fuming mad after hecklers disrupted a congressional hearing on Thursday.

According to ABC News, the protesters, who were affiliated with the liberal activist group Code Pink, swarmed behind former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger as he arrived for a Senate hearing on national security.

“Arrest Henry Kissinger for war crimes!” the protesters chanted, apparently upset at the Nixon administration official for his role in the Vietnam War.

McCain, a Vietnam veteran, had no understanding for their criticism.

“You’re going to have to shut up, or I’m going to have you arrested,” he told them.

McCain also apologized to Kissinger for allowing their “despicable” interruption to occur.

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Death Row Vietnam Vet With PTSD Executed

WARNING: The above video is graphic and violent.
Video by MrMikesMondoVideo

According to 11Alive.com, A Vietnam veteran convicted of killing a deputy from Laurens County, Georgia was executed on Tuesday.

Andrew Brannan died by lethal injection at 8:33 p.m., according to authorities.

Around 7:45 p.m., the United States Supreme Court denied a stay of execution for Brannan. Earlier on Tuesday, the Georgia Supreme Court also denied a request for a stay of execution.

According to CBS News, Brannan was convicted of shooting and killing Deputy Kyle Dinkheller during a 1998 traffic stop. Supporters of the veteran had argued that his life should have been spared because he suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).

A clemency hearing held Monday was 66-year-old Andrew Brannan’s last hope for escaping execution. In the end, his defense failed to convince Georgia’s Board of Pardons and Paroles that his death sentence should be commuted to life in prison, based on the post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) his defense team says he suffered after his military service in the Vietnam war.

Brannan’s family was “profoundly disappointed,” according to a statement released by the family’s attorneys. While conceding that “[t]he death of Deputy Sheriff Kyle Dinkheller was a terrible tragedy,” the statement read, “Executing a 66-year old decorated Vietnam veteran with no prior criminal record who was seriously ill at the time of the crime only compounds the tragedy.”

Unfortunately, anyone who watches the video above will probably have little sympathy for Brannan.

http://www.11alive.com/story/news/local/2015/01/12/brannan-parole-board-hearing/21663901/

The U.S. And Vietnam

Kyle Kulinski discusses Vietnam and the idea of an intelligent war policy on the Secular Talk radio show.

Secular Talk video.

JFK On Vietnam Sounds Eerily Familiar

Kyle Kulinski looks at an oddly familiar recording of JFK talking about Vietnam and compares it to Obama’s present situation.

Idaho Renames I-84 The Vietnam Veterans Memorial Highway

The state of Idaho has found a concrete way to recognize Vietnam War veterans in a year that marks the 50th anniversary of the Gulf of Tonkin incident.

On Tuesday, the state officially declared the I-84 highway in Idaho as the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Highway.

“It goes further than a thank you. This really is an act of appreciation,” said Capt. Henry Parker, commander of the Idaho Department of the Military Order of the Purple Heart.

Vietnam Vet Threatened With Deportation

How can a Vietnam Vet be deported?

Last November, with a noose around his neck and fearing deportation, Vietnam veteran Fredy Gutierrez threatened to leap from a ramp at Florida’s Turnpike and Interstate 595 during morning rush hour.

Thousands of motorists were stuck on the highways because of Gutierrez’s very public and dramatic statement.

“He doesn’t want to hurt anyone,” Teresa Gutierrez said of her husband of 11 years. “He just wants to live out his life in this country.”

Gutierrez has claimed that he had volunteered to join the U.S. Army to fight in Vietnam at age 17. Today, after having lived in the United States for more than 47 years, Gutierrez said authorities want to deport him to his native Colombia because of a criminal history that dates to 1974.

“I was always under the impression that after serving honorably and pledge allegiance to the flag, I was a U.S. citizen,” Gutierrez says in a grim video, which ends with Gutierrez instructing viewers to contact the U.S. Department of Homeland Security on his behalf.

Chinese Oil Rig Was Moved From Waters Off Of Vietnam

On Wednesday, China moved an oil rig out of waters claimed by Hanoi after two months of drilling that triggered a near-breakdown in ties between the neighbors and led to deadly protests in Vietnam.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-07-16/chinese-oil-firm-moves-rig-away-from-disputed-waters-off-vietnam.html

http://www.businessweek.com/ap/2014-07-16/china-moves-oil-rig-out-of-waters-vietnam-claims

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/07/16/china-vietnam-rig-idUSL4N0PQ5TZ20140716