Con Man Kerry Tries To Pull Pathetic Scam On Pakis

Self-satisfied Senator John Kerry, Democratic Chair of the Senate so-called "Foreign Relations Committee" (U.S. Global Domination Committee would be more honest) went to Pakistan last week to try and talk the Pakis into releasing professional U.S. cutthroat Raymond A. Davis. Davis, a former Special Forces soldier- (i.e. a highly-trained killer and ideological fanatic, as this elite unit is limited to hard rightwingers, plus the U.S. military systematically indoctrinates its troops, especially the elite ones), shot and killed two Pakis in the middle of the city of Lahore. He claimed they were trying to rob him. He fired through his windshield, shooting one several times in the back as he was fleeing and killing him. Davis told the police he's a "consultant" to the embassy. Turns out he works covertly for the CIA, apparently scouting targets if not doing the actual assassinations. Now the U.S. is insisting he's a "diplomat," contrary to what Davis himself told the authorities in Pakistan.

Additionally, two of his crew racing to him at the scene of the shooting drove their SUV the wrong way down a one-way street and killed a motorcyclist. These two have been spirited out of the country by the U.S. Davis was working out of  a safehouse, not the embassy.

Kerry's pathetic con angle was to promise the Pakis that Davis would be "investigated" and maybe prosecuted in the U.S. Fat chance. After the U.S. let the Blackwater Butchers of Nisur Square, Iraq, off scot-free after their massacre in which 17 helpless civilians were slaughtered in their cars, stuck in a traffic jam, what kind of shameless gall and cynicism does it take to make such a proposal? With insults to their intelligence like this, no wonder the Pakis are pissed. And what sovereign nation likes foreign assassins running around in their country with a license to kill?

As for the U,.S. pious insistence that the Pakis must free Davis under the bogus premise that he's a "diplomat" with immunity, we have here another glaring example of the U.S.' hypocritical double standard when it comes to international law. The U.S. seized a number of Iranian diplomats in Iraq, which it accused of subversive activities, and subjected them to the tender mercies of its interrrogators. Still haven't heard that they were ever freed. And when a drunken Georgian diplomat killed a pedestrian in the U.S., the U.S. twisted Georgia's arm to waive his ACTUAL immunity (not spurious immunity as in the Davis case), then tried him and imprisoned him. And that death, while loathsome and criminal under U.S. state law, was an accident.