December 1, 1999 – 4:41 pm
"We slipped a note…under the door into the Pentagon and said, ‘Look, let us go up there…and burn down five of the biggest towns in North Korea — and they’re not very big — and that ought to stop it.’ Well, the answer to that was four or five screams — ‘You’ll kill a lot of noncombatants!’ — and ‘It’s too horrible!’ Yet over a period of three years or so…we burned down every town in North Korea and South Korea, too….Now, over a period of three years this is palatable, but to kill a few people to stop this from happening — a lot of people can’t stomach it."
November 1, 1999 – 6:22 am
"Wearing dark glasses was a way of communicating. Lies are uncovered through eye movements, and I, on many occasions, was lying."
–former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet, USA Today, Nov. 23, 1999, identifying a quote from his new book, Augusto Pinochet: Dialogues with His History
November 1, 1999 – 6:20 am
U.S. SENATOR SPARKMAN: "At a time when Indonesia was kicking up pretty badly–when we were getting a lot of criticism for continuing military aid–at that time we could not say what that military aid was for. Is it secret anymore?"
U.S. SECRETARY OF DEFENSE ROBERT MCNAMARA: "I think in retrospect, that the aid was well justified."
SPARKMAN: "You think it paid dividends?"
MCNAMARA: "I do, sir."
—Hearings on Foreign Assistance, 1966,
October 1, 1999 – 10:58 am
The European invasion and domination of the "New World," i.e., the Columbus Enterprise, set the pattern for centuries. It continues. This pattern has produced the most egregious genocide of ancient native cultures in world history. Columbus revealed a new arrogant attitude in the hemisphere when he entered into his diary in 1492, upon being greeted by the Arawak natives on the Caribbean Island of Hispaniola: "They would make fine servants…With fifty men we could subjugate them all and make them do whatever we want."
September 1, 1999 – 1:59 pm
[Essay originally published as an article in The People’s Voice of Franklin County (Massachusetts), Autumn 1999]
