INSIDE THE LC: THE STRANGE BUT MOSTLY TRUE STORY OF LAUREL CANYON AND THE BIRTH OF THE HIPPIE GENERATION: PART I
BY DAVE MCGOWAN | MAY 8, 2008
“There’s something happening here
What it is ain’t exactly clear”
Join me now, if you have the time, as we take a stroll down memory lane to a time nearly four-and-a-half decades ago – a time when America last had uniformed ground troops fighting a sustained and bloody battle to impose, uhmm, ‘democracy’ on a sovereign nation.
It is the first week of August, 1964, and U.S. warships under the command of U.S. Navy Admiral George Stephen Morrison have allegedly come under attack while patrolling Vietnam’s Tonkin Gulf. This event, subsequently dubbed the ‘Tonkin Gulf Incident,’ will result in the immediate passing by the U.S. Congress of the obviously pre-drafted Tonkin Gulf Resolution, which will, in turn, quickly lead to America’s deep immersion into the bloody Vietnam quagmire. Before it is over, well over fifty thousand American bodies – along with literally millions of Southeast Asian bodies – will litter the battlefields of Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia.
For the record, the Tonkin Gulf Incident appears to differ somewhat from other alleged provocations that have driven this country to war. This was not, as we have seen so many times before, a ‘false flag’ operation (which is to say, an operation that involves Uncle Sam attacking himself and then pointing an accusatory finger at someone else). It was also not, as we have also seen on more than one occasion, an attack that was quite deliberately provoked. No, what the Tonkin Gulf incident actually was, as it turns out, is an ‘attack’ that never took place at all. The entire incident, as has been all but officially acknowledged, was spun from whole cloth. (It is quite possible, however, that the intent was to provoke a defensive response, which could then be cast as an unprovoked attack on U.S ships. The ships in question were on an intelligence mission and were operating in a decidedly provocative manner. It is quite possible that when Vietnamese forces failed to respond as anticipated, Uncle Sam decided to just pretend as though they had.)
Nevertheless, by early February 1965, the U.S. will – without a declaration of war and with no valid reason to wage one – begin indiscriminately bombing North Vietnam. By March of that same year, the infamous “Operation Rolling Thunder” will have commenced. Over the course of the next three-and-a-half years, millions of tons of bombs, missiles, rockets, incendiary devices and chemical warfare agents will be dumped on the people of Vietnam in what can only be described as one of the worst crimes against humanity ever perpetrated on this planet.
Also in March of 1965, the first uniformed U.S. soldier will officially set foot on Vietnamese soil (although Special Forces units masquerading as ‘advisers’ and ‘trainers’ had been there for at least four years, and likely much longer). By April 1965, fully 25,000 uniformed American kids, most still teenagers barely out of high school, will be slogging through the rice paddies of Vietnam. By the end of the year, U.S. troop strength will have surged to 200,000.
Admit it.
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Pondering doing next:
Omicron: From Botswana to ‘mmmurrrica with no in-house infectiousness
Or.
Brawndomectin: It’s got what plants crave
Or.
Taxicab Confessions: The Vegas Cancer Center
Or.
The Radio Host floated off the cliff
I found myself alone at the edge of the riverbed as the rafts floated by with the people shouting. They began to disappear over the horizon.
One of the beauties of the Information age that we reside in is how the sunshine of truth can disinfect historical lies. As noted the Gulf of Tonkin incident was pure fiction that not only resulted in the death of many Americans and Vietnamese; but set off a series of events to where we find ourselves today running towards nuclear conflict. Think I’m being hyperbolic…just take a moment and think of how world history has progressed since this time. To make matters worse … the Vietnam War has its roots in WW2 - but that is another story. Coming back to the Gulf of Tonkin … it was the vile LBJs idea to create a war. For some reason all Democrat presidents want to be like FDR (another vile POS) …thus, the need to be a wartime president. Fast forward to today, we have demented Joe who wants to be such a president so his poll numbers will rise. What type of sickness invades such people AND what as a society who have to live the consequences going to do? Pax