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RAY MCGOVERN : Please Don’t Trust Fox News, There Was NO Heckler
EDITORS’ NOTE : On February 15, 2011, Ray McGovern, U.S. Army veteran and former senior CIA analyst whose duties included preparing the President’s Daily Brief and chairing National Intelligence Estimates, was beaten, handcuffed, violently dragged out and arrested by ‘two goons’ (in his words) after he stood up and turned his back ‘silently protesting’ a speech by U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, at George Washington University, in which she ironically called for internet freedom and condemned governments in the Middle East especially Iran for arresting protesters and not allowing free expression. 
The term “heckler,” is certainly inappropriate for what he was doing, is defamatory and a false accusation by FOX NEWS.
Ray McGovern gives Press TV his own account of what exactly happened.
[A rushed press tv transcript below]
Press TV: Would you give us your own account of exactly what happened during and after the speech?
McGovern: Let me just start out by saying that your lead-in indicates that you are relying on Fox News, which is a notoriously unreliable source. There was no heckler. Iwas the person there. I said not a word. I stood silently with my back to the Secretary lest she get the idea that everyone in that whole auditorium agreed with her war-mongering policies.
I was standing silently, and I was jumped on by a man in a regular suit, then another person in a police uniform. I still do not know who jumped me, but I was taken outside where nobody was watching; I was manhandled; I have cuts and lacerations all over my body, and the important thing is that I was not heckling anyone.
I was completely silent. So I was taken completely by surprise, and by the time I realized what was happening to me, I had a chance to yell “So! This is what America has become!” Then I turned to my people that were pulling me out of this auditorium and said, “Who are you?” and the odd thing is that to this day I do not know who they were. But luckily there are photos on the Internet.
We will be able to find out who ordered that 220-pound muscular man who manhandled me; who ordered him to do that to a peaceful person not making a sound. Many still cameras captured exactly what I was doing and what I was not doing. I just finish up again by saying “Please do not trust Fox News. There was no heckler.”
Press TV: Mr. McGovern what happened after they dragged you out? From what we understand you were put in jail and left bleeding for quite a while. Also please, elaborate for our viewers what was the stance you were trying to make?
McGovern: Well, the stance that I was making is that Hillary Clinton is a person who has been an admirer of every war she has heard of. She was a great supporter of the Iraq war even though she knew better, because I told her, what a catastrophe it would be. She is a great supporter of the Afghanistan war, where many thousands of people have met their deaths, and she is in the forefront of agitating for war on Iran, and that comes through in her speech here.
I was amazed after I was released from prison and was able to go to the hospital and get my wounds bound. I read the speech, and it was quite remarkable. It was a speech about protests, and she is saying here in the speech – I just quote two or three sentences – that “Iran this week is once again using violence against protesters seeking basic freedoms. People protest. They stand. They march and chant. And the authorities track them and block them and arrest them.” There is something Kafaesque about this.
She is saying this; three paragraphs; and she stood silently watching me in the fourth row being pounced upon by these goons and unceremoniously ejected from the auditorium. She finishes with this sentence: “Iran is awful, because it is a government that routinely violates the rights of its people.”
And here I am being thrown out, bleeding profusely from these wounds that you can see there, and thrown in prison without any medical attention; kept there for three and a half hours, and it was myself that had to take a taxi cab to the hospital to get my wounds attended to; my wrists X-rayed to see what damage had been done.
Now fortunately I am going to survive, but I am thinking about people who are less able to defend themselves, not that I try to defend myself, but less able to contend with this kind of violence. And for Hillary Clinton to be talking about peaceful means of protest, in the same speech at which she continued as she watched me directly in front of her, being pounced upon and violated, there is a little too much to take.
Press TV: Indeed, this was very different from how Rumsfeld reacted when you peacefully confronted him as well. What do you say to that, and also, can you elaborate on the US’s double stance as far as what is going on in the Middle East these days; Bahrain, Yemen etc.?
McGovern: I think you have said it all when you say “double stance.” We are very much in favor of protest when it seems to be succeeding, except in our country. We like to keep the lid on. But what happened, of course, was that I was arrested and I am charged; I have to go to court. They said that I was guilty of “unruly conduct.” So there is a law against that, and I am smiling now, because there were about sixteen cameras there and there was indeed unlawful conduct, but it was not I who was doing the unlawful conduct. There were two goons. And the main question is “Who told them to violate me? Who told them to give me this kind of treatment?” We are going to find that out.
Press TV: We hope that you do, but from what I understand the Veterans Group, which you are also a part of, has demanded an apology from the office of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Have you gotten any response from them?
McGovern: Well, we are now holding our breath. You see, when you are the sole remaining super power in the world, you do not need to apologize for anything. I will give you five dollars if I get an apology from Hillary Clinton.
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Yeah, Fox News, Fair and Accurate! Just like the union protests in Wisconsin are ‘riots’. Just like the coverage of Ron Paul at CPAC, except that it’s from a different year! What a bunch of f’ing liars the Fox News press tet tutes are! Those of you who believe what you hear on Fox are complete morons!
…don’t forget to include ABC, CBS also. They don’t necessary lie, but simply omit the truth or the other side of the issue.
I don’t trust any of them but I especially hate Fox News. Wolf Blitzer on CNN is a close second.
Hope Ray can use the appearance in court to demand some answers and make them public.
@ Cloak & Dagger
Ray may have a grounds for a major lawsuit against FOX News for defamation, or false accusation of a crime. It might be good way to tune down some of the rhetoric which comes out of FOX News.
The Obama Administration is not doing so good, with this hypocritical act, and the veto.
I don’t know why they cannot see what they are doing to themselves, or understand why they seem not to care. This gets just about as self-destructive as it can be.
Is Barack Obama totally unaware?
Debbie
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I think Press TV will have to wait a long time for their $5. I think Mr. Mc Govern has a strong case but sue-ing these criminals will be difficult, it seems the whole legal system in the US is corrupt.. Both the US and Israeli power elite thumb their noses at the law..
There is no ‘freedom of speech’ or ‘freedom of press’ if it point finger at Israel or Jews.
The Coastal Post, a small monthly newspaper in West Marin county, was nearly closed down after 32 years of publication in 2008 for its policy of upholding the “freedom of press” including the criticism of Israel and Zionism. Some of its readers, both Jews and non-Jews, have not liked paper’s equating Zionism with Judaism for good reason as both have nothing in common. The Coastal Post became the target of a smear campaign lead by the powerful Jewish lobby group, Anti-Defamation League (ADL) for publishing Carter and the Swarm in May 2008 issue. The article was written by Israeli-Russian Jew writer Israel Shamir. The publisher of the paper Don Deane labeled an ‘anti-Semite’ and the paper’s advertisers were intimidated. Don published an apology in February 2009 in case his paper hurt the feelings of the Jewish community. A defiant Israel Shamir wrote a response to ADL’s whining about his article.
http://rehmat1.wordpress.com/2010/04/14/freedom-of-press-very-dangerous-to-practice/
[...] VETERANS TODAY EDITORS’ NOTE : On February 15, 2011, Ray McGovern, U.S. Army veteran and former senior CIA analyst whose duties included preparing the President’s Daily Brief and chairing National Intelligence Estimates, was beaten, handcuffed, violently dragged out and arrested by ‘two goons’ (in his own words) after he stood up and turned his back ‘silently protesting’ a speech by U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, at George Washington University, in which she ironically called for internet freedom and condemned governments in the Middle East especially Iran for arresting protesters and not allowing free expression. [...]
It’s not for nothing they’re known as FauX News.
LIBYA-MOSSAD-CIA RAT-CAT ZIOCON+TALMUDIC-”MASTER-RACE” NEW MIDEAST TRUE-FALSE ARAB REVOLUTIONS INCLUDING EGYPTIAN ARMY COUP WERE PRE-PLANNED OPERA-STAGED BY MOSSAD-CIA TO SHUT OUT RUSSIA/CHINA FROM SUEZ CANAL+PETROL BEFORE IRAN/PAKISTAN NARCOPETROL GENOCIDE ATTACKS…………/:
LIBYA, THEN RUSSIA AND CHINA?
Muttasim Gaddafi, who reportedly once plotted against his father.
We imagine that many of the top people in Libya have long been working for the CIA and its friends.
There will be CIA-generals and Loyal-to-Gaddafi generals.
Worryingly, NATO may use the unrest as pretext to invade Libya.
The USA’s ‘Delta Force’ entered Libya in 1984. (“How Delta Force Works”)
Are they back again?
Saif Gaddafi, friend of the Rothschilds.
Can Gaddafi trust his own children?
Gaddafi’s adopted daughter Hannah was murdered by the USA in 1986.
Saif, the president’s second-eldest son, runs a charity called the Gaddafi International Charity and Development Foundation.
It has sent hundreds of tons of aid to Haiti. (Gaddafi’s sons and their lavish spending)
Saif “has extremely powerful friends in Britain, among them Prince Andrew and the Rothschilds as well as Peter Mandelson.” (Gaddafi heir Saif inevitably is a friend of Andy and Mandy)
Saif did a PhD at the London School of Economics, a place that reportedly recruits spies.
Saif and Prince Andrew “have a mutual close friend, the Kazakh-born socialite and businesswoman Goga Ashkenazy.”
Nat and Saif and Nat Rothschild “have a friend in common, Oleg Deripaska.” (Gaddafi heir Saif inevitably is a friend of Andy and Mandy )
Sa’adi, third-eldest son, has been a professional footballer and has had problems with drugs and alcohol. (WikiLeaks cables: A guide to Gaddafi’s ‘famously fractious’ family.)
Mutassim Gaddafi, the fourth son, is currently National Security Advisor.
He spent years in Egypt after allegedly plotting to oust his father. (France24 – The Gaddafi family tree)
Ayesha, a Gaddafi daughter, joined the defence team of the fake Saddam Hussein.
She is a ‘UN Goodwill Ambassador’.
The Land Destroyer blog (The Middle East & then the World) reports that the CIA plans are revealed in the RAND Corporation’s 2007 report entitled “Building Moderate Muslim Networks” and the Brookings Institute’s “Which Path to Persia?”.
The chief targets are still Russia and China.
And they have already been infiltrated.
According to Land Destroyer:
“Men like Mikhail Khodorkovsky … began building networks of NGOs modeled directly after those of the Anglo-Americans in the West, even naming this network the ‘Open Russian Foundation’ after George Soros’ Open Society Foundation.
“According to geopolitical researcher William Engdahl, this Open Russian Foundation included Henry Kissinger and Lord Jacob Rothschild on its board of directors and its goal was to transform Russia from a sovereign state and into something more palatable for globalist consumption.”
Thanks to Putin, Khodorkovsky is now in jail.
Freedom House’s list of “Who’s Next” includes: Belarus and the Ukraine.
“The globalists’ hope is to renew political unrest in Russia’s satellite regions.” (Land Destroyer)
Bread market in Benghazi
Libda’s Gallery
The globalists are keeping an eye on China which buys oil from the Sudan and Iran.
Chinese has been building ports in Pakistan, Bangladesh and Myanmar.
The US Strategic Studies Institute’s (SSI) suggests that China can either join the New World Order or face military confrontation. (Land Destroyer)
“The US … is attempting to balkanize Pakistan … specifically the Baluchistan region where China is establishing a naval presence…
“The US is also heavily involved in destabilizing Myanmar (Burma)…”
Strategically important Thailand “has suffered multiple attempts by the US to affect regime change.
“Their man, Thaksin Shinawatra is an overt globalist, having formally served as an adviser to the Carlyle Group… (The Middle East & then the World)
Tripoli
Tripoli by Sammy Naas
What about South America?
Recently Argentina seized weapons and drugs onboard a US Air Force plane.
“This is leading many, including the government of Argentina, to believe the US is staging another round of destabilization efforts in South America.” (The Middle East & then the World)
Venezuela and Bolivia are among the countries that have recently been targeted by the CIA.
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Thanks to Brian for this link: BBC News Africa Mandela welcomes ‘brother leader’ Gaddafi………… http://aangirfan.blogspot.com/
GO TO: http://aangirfan.blogspot.com/
AND:
http://tarpley.net/2011/02/18/mubarak-toppled-by-cia-because-he-opposed-us-plans-for-war-with-iran/
Mubarak Toppled by CIA Because He Opposed US Plans for War with Iran; US Eyes Seizure of Suez Canal; Was this the Threat that Forced Mubarak to Quit?
Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D.
TARPLEY.net
February 18, 2011
Washington DC, Feb. 18, 2011 — There never was an “Egyptian revolution,” but rather a behind-the-scenes military putsch by a junta of CIA puppet generals who evidently could not succeed in their goal of ousting Hosni Mubarak without the help of a heavy-duty ultimatum from Washington in the night between Thursday, February 10 and Friday, February 11, 2011. There is growing evidence that the threat in question involved the seizure or blocking of the Suez Canal, the Egyptian waterway which carries over 8% of all seaborne world trade, which the imperialists tried to grab back in 1956, and from which they would today like to exclude China, Iran, and Russia. As for Mubarak, there are strong indications that he was toppled by Washington and London because he opposed the current US-UK plan to organize a block of Sunni Arab states such as Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, and the Gulf states — under a US nuclear umbrella and shoulder to shoulder with Israel — for purposes of confrontation and war with Iran, Syria, Hezbollah, and their Shiite and radical allies.
This means that, with the fall of Mubarak, the Middle East has taken a big step on the road to general war………. http://tarpley.net/2011/02/18/mubarak-toppled-by-cia-because-he-opposed-us-plans-for-war-with-iran/
…the “suited” bodyguard acted more like HC’s boyfriend than a professional conflict intervention expert? Keep digging at the court level-order HC to the court to tell us her “defining” of “free expression.” Maybe she’ll use her husbands dictonary, and not the Founders Book of Webster. Ray is a veteran, and I sense no resentmnts in his pressTV interview..a true professional. vr j.