Post-Attack on the USS Liberty–Israel’s Blood Bath

By Phil Tourney

On the horizon we could see another helicopter coming at our ship. We thought to ourselves “Oh no, here we go again…more bloodshed from our so-called “friends” in Israel.”

The helicopter hovered above the main deck of the ship and then, to our surprise, dropped a brown paper bag containing an orange and, to our even greater surprise–a business card. On the front of the card read ‘Commander Ernest Castle, Naval Attaché USN’ and on the back of the card, handwritten it asked ‘Have you casualties?’…

As if the dummies couldn’t tell we had casualties after what our ‘allies’ had just done to us after a million armor-piercing rounds, a thousand rockets and 5 torpedoes. Rick Aimetti took the card to the bridge and gave it to the Captain, who was obviously in no mood to deal with this new lunacy. He told them clearly to get the hell away from his ship, finishing his remarks with ‘We want no help from you.’

They left the area and soon were out of sight.

There were many heroes that day who put life and limb on the line in order to save their shipmates in harm’s way. I found out later that the boiler tenders never left their battle stations, even though the boiler was Israel’s main target. Israel did her homework ahead of time and knew that a direct hit on the boiler would have blown the ship into tiny pieces and that would have been that. For Gary Brummett, J.P. Newel, Gene Owens, it turned out that their bravery saved our ship.

Now was the time to care for our wounded, damage control, plugging holes, putting out fires, etc. The mess deck was full of men because we were using it as the main triage center. Every table had a body on it, as well as the deck itself and there was almost no room to move…So many wounded were there, so much blood. I and others were the walking wounded and, judging by what we saw, we were very lucky.

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Ron Paul Raises $6.5 Million in One Day

By James Buchanan – EURO

The Ron Paul Boston Tea Party fund-raiser got off to an electrifying start, raising $10,000 per minute at times after the clock ticked over to 12:01am Dec. 16th. The rate gradually slowed as the wee hours of the night approached. By morning on the east coast, Ron Paul had already raised well over a million dollars while most people were asleep. The rate rapidly accelerated in the morning from $1,000 per minute to almost $6,000 per minute and stayed there for a good portion of the day. A lump sum of telephone contributions were added to the e-donations in the last hour of the fund-drive causing considerable confusion. The rate of donations picked up sharply in the last hour, jumping well above $10,000 per minute for a good portion of the last hour. Many supporters reported that the Ron Paul donation page appeared to freeze up in the last few minutes as a flood of donations poured in. There appears to be considerable confusion about what the exact tally was for the Dec. 16th fund drive. It appears to be very close to 6.5 million dollars. The total may even surpass this once the last hour’s telephone donations are added in.

The total fund-raising for the quarter has surpassed 18 million dollars, exceeding Ron Paul’s goal of 12 million by over 50 percent. It should be noted that Ron Paul has accomplished this despite an oppressive media black out by the controlled news networks. Also the Paul campaign (much to the frustration of his supporters) has not yet spent one penny on nation-wide advertising, which could add millions of wealthy supporters from California alone. Paul’s nation-wide appearances have been limited to the debates, an interview on the Jay Leno Show and The View, a full-page ad in the USA Today (bought entirely by a supporter) and very little else. Ron Paul’s support base has grown almost entirely from the Internet combined with an amazingly enthusiastic grass roots effort. (more…)