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3-18-14 March 14 Petraeus Protest at Stanford |
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By Toby Blome
We live in a very surreal world, where a 4 Star General, David Petraeus, who is responsible for some of the bloodiest and most brutal human rights violations against the people of Iraq and Afghanistan is invited to speak at one of our most prestigious universities. Gen. Petraeus helped train, orchestrate and protect the brutal paramilitary death squads that did America's worst crimes in those countries, including the torture and killing of thousands. Oh, and he also helped expand President Obama's secret drone wars, including popularizing the "double tapping" tactic of sending secondary drone strikes into an area already hit, killing anyone that happens to be trying to give aid to the injured survivors of our murderous hellfire missiles. Oh, and let us not forget that he was head of the CIA at the time when the bodies of 16 year old Tariq Aziz and his 12 year old cousin were turned to ash by a U.S. drone hellfire missile while they were driving on a highway by themselves on the way to play soccer. Why were they targeted by the CIA? Tariq had the courage to vow to use a camera to photograph the civilian victims of our drone war in Pakistan. Mr. Petraeus was also in charge when Abdulrahman Al-awlaki, a 16 year old U.S. citizen and non-combatant was killed in Yemen by U.S. drone while sitting in a cafe with 5 or 6 other youth who were also killed in the attack that day.
Stanford anti-war students invited CodePink and World Can't Wait in a protest outside the event location. Activists brought great visual displays and signage to break the silence and deliver the truth to the public entering, reminding them of the real horrors and crimes that bloody the General's hands.
Toby and three other activists went into the event where, 50 minutes after the start, she yelled out, "General Petreaus, You are a 4-Star War Criminal.
You should be arrested for the torture and killing of thousands of Iraqi and Afghan people. Your drone machines are terror in the sky. Your death squads and special forces are terror on the ground. Stop killing so that the 1% can profit from stolen resources. War criminals stay off our campuses. Stanford Students Wake Up and learn the truth." They were removed by security.
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