Negroponte Gave Wrong Information At SJA Graduation

[Redstone]

From The Caledonian-Record (St Johnsbury, VT): http://www.caledonianrecord.com/pages/top_news/story/c0f565ae6

BY TAYLOR REED, Staff Writer
Saturday June 10, 2006

"U.S. Director of Intelligence John Negroponte gave a history lesson during his St. Johnsbury Academy graduation speech Monday. The problem was, his information was wrong. Negroponte said St. Johnsbury and the Academy were named for St. John and quoted the saint's gospel.

However, St. Johnsbury was actually named for Hector St. Jean de Crevecoeur at the suggestion of Ethan Allen, said local historian Graham S. Newell. Crevecoeur was a French writer of letters praising the American experience, Newell said."

And this is the brilliant guy who we trust to keep the terraists away?

Redstone

[BrklynLiberal]

1. The fact that this man is a lying POS should come as no surprise.

If he ever told the actual truth, he would probably disappear in a puff of smoke.

[saigon68]

13. He is also a murderer and a Nun Rapist His Vile Stench precedes

him wherever he goes

He is amerika's #1 true war criminal and evil scumbag

He is worse than Himmler, Heydrich and Mengele combined

[MaineDem]

2. Negroponte's history lesson in Vermont flawed - Boston Globe headline

Negroponte spoke at the St. Johnsbury Academy commencement, where his son was graduating. During his talk, Negroponte noted that the town and the academy were named for St. John and he quoted from the Bible's book of John.

"In the beginning was the word and the word was with God and the word was God," he said.

It turns out that St. Johnsbury got its name from a different John, one whose name was spelled in his native French.

...

Negroponte's spokesman said there was no harm done from the innocent mistake.

http://www.boston.com/news/local/vermont/articles/2006/06/10/negropontes_history_lesson_in_vermont_flawed/?rss_id=Boston.com+%2F+News

Geez, one would think these guys would check facts before a speech like this.

Gives me a warm fuzzy feeling knowing that the adults are in charge. :eyes:

[froshty1960]

3. Hmmm

Can you imagine the headlines if someone in the Clinton administration had been so ignorant in a speech?

[daleo]

6. Check facts?

That's for reality based people. It is much more efficient to just make stuff up. Among other things, it lets you invade countries on a whim.

[Redstone]

12. What the hell is his kod doing going to that school? Despite the

"Academy" name, it's not some preppy private school; it's the St Johnsbury public high school.

Oh God, don't tell me he LIVES in Vermont? I may have to renounce my birthright.

Redstone

[formercia]

4. Just shows you how full of crap he is

I'm surprised he didn't wail on about needing a crusade to defeat the heretic Saracens.

[Just Me]

5. *LOL* and we still don't accept these neocons make shit up,....

,...in order to write their own history?

Whew! These people were not called "the crazies" for no reason, ya' know.

[formercia]

7. Just make shit up lyrics

http://www.sing365.com/music/Lyric.nsf/The-USS-Make-Shit-Up-lyrics-Voltaire/685E2FDD2B76AD7D48256DAA0025BD68

The USS Make Shit Up Lyrics




I was stranded on a planet, Just me and Spock
Ee met a nasty nazi alien who locked our asses up
We found a hunk of crystal and a metal piece of bed
We made a laser phaser gun and shot him in the head

Bust a move, Tog

I was standing on the bridge when Sulu came to me
His eyes were full of tears he said "Captain, can't you see
the ship is gonna blow do something I beseech"
I grabbed a tribble and some chewing gum and stopped the warp core breach

And I say,
Bounce a graviton particle beam off the main deflector dish
Thats the way we do things, lad, we're making shit up as we wish
The Klingons and the Romulans pose no threat to us
'Cause if we find we're in a bind we just make some shit up

And though he's just a child, and some think him a twit
Wesley is the master when it comes to making up some shit
He's the guy you want with you when you go out in space
Now if only he could beam those pimples off his face

And if you're at a party on the starship Enterprise
And the karaoke player just plain old up and dies
Set up a neutrino field inside a can of peas
Hold on to Geordi's visor and sing into Data's knee

And I say
Bounce a graviton particle beam off the main deflector dish
Thats the way we do things lad, we're making shit up as we wish
The Klingons and the Romulans pose no threat to us
'Cause if we find we're in a bind we just make some shit up

Sisko's on a mission to go no bloody place
He loiters on a space station above Bajoran space
The wormhole's opened up and now they come from near and far
We'll keep the booze but please send back the fucking Jem-hadar

What is with the Klingons, remember in the day
They looked like Puerto Ricans and they dressed in gold lame
Now they look like heavy metal rockers from the dead
With leather pants and frizzy hair and lobsters on their heads

And I say
Bounce a graviton particle beam off the main deflector dish
Thats the way we do things lad, we're making shit up as we wish
The Klingons and the Romulans pose no threat to us
'Cause if we find we're in a bind we just make some shit up

Well, I was stuck on Voyager, pounding on the door
When suddently it dawned on me I've seen this show before
Perhaps I'm in a warp bubble and slightly out of phase
'Cause it was way back in the sixties when they called it "Lost in Space"

We were looking for a way to make the ratings soar
So we orchestrated an encounter with the Borg
Normally you'd think that that would get us into shit
But this one has a smashing ass and a lovely set of tits

And I say
Bounce a graviton particle beam off the main deflector dish
Thats the way we do things lad, we're making shit up as we wish
The Klingons and the Romulans pose no threat to us
'Cause if we find we're in a bind we're totally screwed but nevermind
We'll pull something out of our behinds, we just make some shit up

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8. Argh!



[alfredo]

9. It's more of the "Christian nation" propaganda.

They want the US to be reconstructed as a Mosaic law based theocracy. They will lie and cheat to promote their goals.

[RadiDem]

10. Negroponte's forte is DEATH SQUADS, he should have stuck to that

[Rex]

11. I just love it when the Right tries to act intellectual

by giving some kind of lecture on science or history...only to be proven completely wrong. I bet it would take 5 minutes on the Internet to find out the true history of St. Johnsbury Academy.

Negroponte just assumed something, then said it as recorded history. Sound familiar? Almost all conservatives or neocons have a warped view of reality and love revisionist history. They're sick people.

[0rganism]

14. Wow, he couldn't even be bothered to read the SCHOOL's history

Yet somehow, the US government has deemed this murderous dipstick qualified to manipulate the history of nations.

No wonder the rest of the world hates our guts.

[Vidar]

15. Why research when you can just make it up?

[Judi Lynn]

16. Now HERE'S some decent news in a Negroponte article!

Protesters Arrested After Disrupting Negroponte in Vermont
Written by Orin Langelle and Anne Petermann/Global Justice Ecology Project
Wednesday, 07 June 2006

National Intelligence Director John Negroponte's Commencement Address to the graduating class of private St. Johnsbury Academy in Vermont was disrupted twice by protesters inside the auditorium where the ceremony was being held.

Over 75 protesters gathered on the sidewalk outside of the Academy protesting Negroponte's shadowy record that spans decades including a stint as the U.S. Ambassador to Honduras and Ambassador to Iraq before his present position as the nation's number one "intelligence" overseer. Two other protesters from Vermont School of the Americas Watch were arrested as they attempted to gain entrance to the auditorium. (More details later in this article of Negroponte's actions in Honduras and his complicity in Nicaragua during the Contra War in the 1980's).

Briefly after Negroponte began his address, Michael Colby, a horse logger* from Worcester, VT stood up saying, "In the name of democracy I object to this man speaking. He has blood on his hands from his work in Central America and Iraq. He shouldn't be at the podium, he should be in jail. He is a war criminal." Colby was grabbed by police and security and escorted out of the auditorium to awaiting police cars.

As Colby was being escorted away, Negroponte told the audience, "Now it's my turn." But before he could continue, Boots Wardinski, another logger quickly rose stating, "No! It's my turn! When the headmaster intorduced Negroponte, he forgot to tell about all the people tortured, killed and raped (under Negroponte's helm in Honduras). You should be ashamed to stay in here and listen to this man."
(snip/...)

http://towardfreedom.com/home/content/view/834/

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17. Thanks for the update.