USS Liberty survivor Bryce Lockwood has praised Rep. Thomas Massie for speaking out about the 1967 attack on the U.S. vessel, in which 34 Americans were killed.
"Tucker, in 2005, Stephen Rosen, who was then a senior official with the American-Israel Political Affairs Committee, was dying with Jeffrey Goldberg at that time. He was with the New Yorker magazine, I believe he's with the Atlantic magazine now. He said to Jeffrey, you see this napkin? In 24 hours, I can have the signature of 70 senators on this napkin. Does that tell you something about who runs America? How does that make you feel as someone who was wounded in the service of the US military, in the service of the United States? Disgusted. Why are you speaking about this man? I have to hand it to Thomas Massey. His political career was over. The president and his political affairs supporters literally threw millions of dollars at Thomas Massey's primary campaign and got him pitched off the ballot. And Congressman Massey stuck his neck out by speaking publicly from the floor of the United States Congress. There were roughly 15, perhaps 17 of us survivors that were there, family members, sitting in the gallery when he gave his five-plus-minute speech on the USS Liberty urging the Congress to take action, Article 1, Section 8, U.S. Constitution to, it's not exact wording, investigate acts of piracy on the high seas and offenses against the law of nations And Congress has ignored that for the past 59 years. Now here, Thomas Massey sticks his neck out. The gentleman took us all to lunch afterwards at the Bull Feather restaurant there in Washington. I think that name is rather ironic, Bullshit Bullfeathers, treated us to lunch, personally met each one of us while we were there. That day's Speaker Pro Tem of the Congress, Darrell Issa, came in, personally shook hands with every crew member, introduced himself around, made a few jokes about that Jarhead it was of order. Another congressman also came in, Congressman McGuire, same thing, introduced himself around. It left me with a wonderful feeling. Something can be done after 59 years to wake Congress up to their obligation to humanity."
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USS Liberty survivor Bryce Lockwood has praised Rep. Thomas Massie for speaking out about the 1967 attack on the U.S. vessel, in which 34 Americans were killed.
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