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Anthony C. LoBaido

James Rubin's white lies and damned lies

Posted: December 14, 1999
1:00 am Eastern

By Anthony LoBaido
© 2010 WorldNetDaily.com



BANGKOK, Thailand -- In late November, U.S. State Department spokesman James Rubin held a press conference regarding the recent forced repatriation of the anti-communist Hmong hill tribes of Indochina back to Stalinist Laos.

The Hmong had served in the CIA's special forces during the CIA's secret war in Laos during the Vietnam War.

"We have no -- found no evidence to confirm that the Lao government engages in the systematic violation of the Hmong minority's human rights as part of a nationwide policy," said Rubin.

Rubin was, in part, responding to a three-part investigative series I wrote on the Hmong published by WorldNetDaily, and the efforts of Reps. Mark Green, R-Wis., and George Radanovich, R-Calif. Both have large Hmong constituencies within their respective districts. Many of these Hmong Americans fought with the CIA special forces and experienced a genocidal terror campaign launched against them by the Stalinist Pathet Lao and its Russian masters.

The House of Representatives recently passed a resolution condemning the Pathet Lao in regard to its human rights record, and is threatening economic sanctions against the Stalinist government -- although the European Union is currently pumping in $7 billion in aid to the regime.

Rubin would do well to recall the words of Geoffrey Chaucer, the 14th century English poet and diplomat, who said, "Truth is the highest thing that man may keep."

To begin, consider the recently published book on the Hmong's genocidal persecution, "Tragedy in Paradise," by medical doctor Charles Weldon, who served with the Hmong for 11 years between 1963 and 1974 under USAID, a CIA front. Weldon witnessed many genocidal events waged against the Hmong, and describes one of them on page 128:

    As a Hmong column of men, women and children attempted to flee from the town of Phou Nong and escape the Pathet Lao forces in the southern enclave of Muang Moc.

    The enemy began firing at random into the mass of terrified people with automatic weapons and mortars. The Pathet Lao soldiers physically blocked the trail to prevent the people from escaping. They clubbed some with rifle butts, some were stabbed with bayonets; women and children were thrown off the cliffs and their bodies broken on the rocks below; infants were grabbed by the legs and their brains bashed out as they were slammed against the tree trunks. The slaughter went on for an hour.

How does that sit in your stomach, Mr. Rubin?

Understandably, the Hmong are suspicious of the State Department and the CIA, which they claim have worked against them under the Clinton regime. Backing this claim is the fact that two FBI agents who have recently traveled to Laos to investigate the disappearance and possible murder of two Hmong Americans claim they have been blocked in their investigation by the Pathet Lao.

Furthermore, the Pathet Lao have blocked Amnesty International from coming to Laos and investigating the forced repatriation of the Hmong from their refugee camps in Thailand.

Why doesn't the Pathet Lao want anyone to see the final destination and status of the repatriated Hmong?

Speaking of the 254 Hmong refugees returned to Laos by the U.N., Rubin stated that international observers, including U.S. embassy staff, who attended the first returns were "satisfied that they were conducted professionally and upheld the dignity and safety of camp residents."

Rubin's statements in this regard border on derangement. While the mass media were blocked from covering this event, this reporter alone managed to sneak into the camp. Inside the camp, I witnessed a full-scale riot, during which 20 Hmong men escaped the camp and fled to freedom. Those left behind screamed and cried in horror.

"They'll kill us all," many of them cried. These people remembered the genocidal acts like those described in Weldon's book all too well.

"We share the view of the United Nations and the Royal Thai government that it is safe for those determined not to be refugees to return to Laos," added Rubin.

Considering that Thailand is in the midst of a moral and economic free fall, that a huge portion of its people are addicted to the drug YaBa, that some of its cabinet ministers are known drug dealers, and that Thailand is a haven to Western pedophiles and drug addicts, aligning one's opinion to the Thai government is a risky proposition at best.

Secondly, the anti-Christian and pro-Communist record of the United Nations would take several sets of encyclopedias to document. For example, the United Nations gave a seat in exile to Pol Pot and his genocidal Khmer Rouge regime -- the only such seat ever given. Furthermore, U.N. Security Council members Red China and Russia have killed tens of millions of their own citizens in various genocidal campaigns.

Are they fit to judge the genocide enacted against the Hmong?

Rubin's remarks and worldview, if confined to the Hmong, could merely have been written off as an aberration -- an unfortunate lack of information about a betrayed people in an unpopular war in a far-off corner of the world.

Yet, an honest evaluation of U.S. foreign policy, under the hand of the Clinton administration, demonstrates a troublingly broad pattern of treason and betrayal of pro-Western, anti-Communists around the world.

The Afrikaners, former Rhodesians, black South Sudanese Christians (who have lost 1.5 million of their people to Islamic jihad since 1983), South Angolan UNITA movement, Kurds and Haitians all have seen their countries sold out by the West to Marxist genocidal regimes in recent years.

Clinton's foreign policy, from South Africa to Haiti to North Korea to Russia and Red China has been disastrous to American national security. This "policy," it would seem, has only two goals: 1) weaken and disarm the West; 2) strengthen Marxist regimes to the four corners of the earth.

As for Rubin's comments about "no systematic discrimination" against the Hmong -- hundreds of thousands of them are either dead or living in exile, not to mention the persecution the Hmong currently face in Communist Vietnam. It's hard to speak from beyond the grave -- yet that's what our conscience is supposed to do for us. It's called morals.

Adding to this insanity is the fact that thousands of Hmong children fought for the U.S. Special Forces at the exact same time President Clinton was in Russia in December 1969 for three weeks as a guest of the KGB -- the very same KGB that gave the biochemical weapon "Yellow Rain" to the Pathet Lao to use against the Hmong and their children.

So while Bill Clinton evaded the draft, ran demonstrations against the U.S. in England while carrying the North Vietnamese flag, Hmong children died in his place. Worse yet, the State Department ignored the biochemical genocide, refusing to publish the reports of botanists and genetic experts who traveled to Laos and documented the use of Yellow Rain.

And while the U.S. State Department today rightly seeks compensation for the Jewish Holocaust survivors, the Hmong war veterans living in the U.S. today receive zero combat benefits -- even though many of them fought for over 10 years, while many U.S. servicemen fought in Vietnam for only six months to one or two years.

Quite strange is the fact that while the U.S. Department of Justice assigned 800 agents to find one single anti-abortion zealot in the woods of North Carolina -- they failed, the FBI can't muster more than two agents to investigate the mass murder and biological genocide enacted against the Hmong -- one of the fiercest and best allies America has ever had.

Unless these two agents are Fox Mulder and Dana Scully of "X Files" fame, there is little hope for the Hmong to find the justice they so richly deserve.

Finally, Rubin and his disinformation machine should know that there is a God who exalts the humble and resists the proud. This God, revered by Jews, Christians and Muslims, mocks the plans of nations when they conspire against His will.

As such, the plans of the Western transnational elite for a global Tower of Babel run by New Age, quasi-Marxist, occultic abortion fanatics who hate Judeo-Christianity will not succeed.

Mr. Rubin, you and your ilk may well believe that you are de facto "gods" in the truest sense of the word. Yet you would do well to remember that the anger of the aforementioned betrayed groups continues to fester and multiply.

Those lamentable and sad Hmong, Afrikaners, Rhodesians, Kurds and South Sudanese who seek justice -- in both this world and the next -- are even now joining forces and focusing like a laser beam on you, Mr. Rubin, your boss Bill Clinton and his many cronies.

When this righteous wrath reaches critical mass -- and surely it will -- Mr. Rubin, you and your ilk will know once and for all that you are not God. And that is only fair, for neither are they gods whom the State Department has betrayed. Betrayed to rape, religious persecution, jihad, famine, crucifixion, slavery, torture, biochemical genocide, the murder of their wives, children and babies and even worse things.

You will know they are not God for one simple reason.

God would show mercy. They won't.


Related stories:
The great betrayal
'Killing fields,' mines and martyrs
Fear and loathing in Vietnam
Apocalypse Now for the Hmong





Anthony C. LoBaido is a university professor, journalist, writer and photographer. His blog is The Walls of Jericho.





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