DBWI: U.S to jail 27 International Brigadiers for their involvement in Vietnam.

I just saw the verdict being read out live on the BBC World Service, 27 members of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade were sentanced to life inprisonment for "Unpatriotic actions and Membership of a Communist organisation".

Thoughts, comments?
 
those terrorists are unworthy of Abraham lincoln's name!

I tell you, many of them have been linked with baader meinhof

I heard they bombed several US bases and some schools.
 

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I heard they bombed several US bases and some schools.
Not to mention the 1976 Paris Metro bombing - which most believe was committed by them.

I think they should be extradited to France - given that they fought the French in Vietnam, but most importantly they should throw the book at those guys.

Think how differently the war would have proceeded had the US intervened - Vietnam might still be Capitalist!
 
Not to mention the 1976 Paris Metro bombing - which most believe was committed by them.

I think they should be extradited to France - given that they fought the French in Vietnam, but most importantly they should throw the book at those guys.

Think how differently the war would have proceeded had the US intervened - Vietnam might still be Capitalist!


The Metro bombing had nothing to do with the International Brigades, it was a dispicable attack on civilians and nothing could be further from the Counter-Imperialist doctrine of the Brigades.

These men and women are heroes and should be treated as such.
 
I remember the International brigades going to bosnia in the nineties to help Milosevic, and they got slaughtered by US Marines.

so the "anti-imperialist" argument falls flat, because wherever the US happen to be, the IB are always there, and they just happen to be on the opposing side, as ever.
 
I remember the International brigades going to bosnia in the nineties to help Milosevic, and they got slaughtered by US Marines.

so the "anti-imperialist" argument falls flat, because wherever the US happen to be, the IB are always there, and they just happen to be on the opposing side, as ever.

What?, the International Brigades were there in a peacekeeping capacity, as requested by the USSR, to fight against the Ultranationalists.

And, as I remember, The US marines in question were drunk UN peacekeepers who attacked an International Brigade aid team who were distribuiting food to the locals who had been displaced by the US-sponsored coup.
 

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And, as I remember, The US marines in question were drunk UN peacekeepers who attacked an International Brigade aid team who were distribuiting food to the locals who had been displaced by the US-sponsored coup.

It's a good job the Maries were drunk, if not they'd have been blowing up allied UK troops in clearly marked vehicles. Again. :rolleyes:

Luckily the UK broke the alliance after the Americans and the Chets massacred and raped their way through the old town in Mostar.
 
I just saw the verdict being read out live on the BBC World Service, 27 members of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade were sentanced to life inprisonment for "Unpatriotic actions and Membership of a Communist organisation".

Thoughts, comments?

Good. Communist traitors deserve what they get. What took them so long though? We've dealt with every incarnation of our own 'international brigades' the 'Mackenzie-Papineau Brigade' in a timely fashion, ever since the Sapnish Civil War back in the thirties... The last of our bunch who went to Indochina were imprisoned or executed in the late 1970s. ("Colonel" Trudeau was hanged for treason in 1979.) The bunch who went to Bosnia were on the receiving end of the Canadian Army and the RCAF in 1997, with the survivors all being sentenced to life in prison for treason in 1999. ("Colonel" Gillespie was killed in the NATO intervention in Bosnia in 1997.)
 
Cut through the chomskyite agitprop. The US Marines were not drunk, and the IBs were on milosevic's side, even after srebrenica.

And the govt. the US overthrew was committing genocide against the Bosniaks and the Croats, which is good enough reason IMO.
 
The irony here is that by "making an example" of the volunteers who went to fight the French in Indochina, the US is endangering It's own Imperial holdings in the Phillipines.

Ever since the Spanish civil war, the Italian anti-fascist purges and the Greek conflict, the West has been persecuting and hunting the Brigades, to little effect, I might add.
 
I just saw the verdict being read out live on the BBC World Service, 27 members of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade were sentanced to life inprisonment for "Unpatriotic actions and Membership of a Communist organisation".

Thoughts, comments?

On talk radio the other day
Micahel portillo Conservative MP
''Its just another one of those endless crazy schemes we hear about over there, last month it was that boycott against communist japan. With the russian economy so weak you;d think the US could seize the advantage and try to send an ambassador to China or France but it seems our trans-atlantic cousins have no wish other than to be mired in isolationism and anti-communism.''

Jack Straw Liberal MP
''Well i guess i;d have to agree with michael. In foreign policy they seem incapable of realising the old adage that while no socialists are business friendly, some are less business friendly than others.
Lets face it even by the end of the vietnam war the ABL were political dinosaurs. Even the most rabid remnants of the comintern at the time viewed them as a liability. And ever since the Paris Pact stopped funding the IRA in the mid 70's their potential as any sort of threat has pretty much dissapeared alongwith most of their membership and the infamous Boston Chapter.''

Robert Kilroy-Silk UKIP via video link
''Typical PC bluster from these closet communists, they ought to get down in their knees and thank god for ...cut off due to interference ''

Reporter: We'll be back after the break

Looking back at history its the same old story ever since they arrested every member of the communist party on the old AFL-CIO board and their economy took so long to recover from the great depression with no union involvement in the new deal.

Cut through the chomskyite agitprop

Na anarchists generally hate the abraham lincoln brigade in OTL. Let alone in a timeline when their stalinism carried on for a couple more decades, i mean the ABL would have blatantly been the worst kind of Tankies when it came to stuff like Hungary '56 or the May '68 riots in the Peoples Republic of France.
 
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