Eric Gairy person
also: Eric Gary, Eric Gehry, Gary, Sir Eric Gary, guy, this guy
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Claims (5)
Maurice Bishop overthrew
Eric Gairy documented
“power in March of 1979 by ousting the Eric Gary guy that was illegally elected in a bloodless coup. Bishop, on the other hand, was a London educated lawyer. And see, that's kind of weird to me. And you see that in many of these cases where …”
▶ Operation Gladio-Grenada 1979-1984 @ 42:03
Maurice Bishop overthrew
Eric Gairy host_asserted
“And Bishop led basically a bloodless coup. So Gary had a propensity that when he went out of town, he left killing orders. So if he wanted someone taken out by the mongoose gang, he didn't want to be associated with it. So it was done when …”
▶ Operation Gladio-Grenada 1979-1984 @ 5:02
Eric Gairy headed
United Labor Party host_asserted
“And it's spelled like dairy, only with a G. G-A-I-R-Y. He led a political party called the United Labor Party. And basically, he kind of just assumed the role, but they did have an election in 1976, which even by international standards of …”
▶ Operation Gladio-Grenada 1979-1984 @ 3:03
Eric Gairy founded
Mongoose Gang host_asserted
“Eric Gehry just reinstalled himself. But during the two years from the independence in 1974 to that election in 76, he created a thing. Well, he had created a long time ago, but it came into full scale use after the independence. It was cal…”
▶ Operation Gladio-Grenada 1979-1984 @ 3:34
Eric Gairy ordered_assassination_of
Rupert Bishop host_asserted
“And Bishop led basically a bloodless coup. So Gary had a propensity that when he went out of town, he left killing orders. So if he wanted someone taken out by the mongoose gang, he didn't want to be associated with it. So it was done when …”
▶ Operation Gladio-Grenada 1979-1984 @ 5:02
Mentions (15)
▶ 2:35
And why did that happen? Well, when the UK granted Grenada their quote-unquote independence, they did it in the same way that all of the rest of the European powers granted quote-unquote independence. They did it with someone left behind th…
▶ 3:03
And it's spelled like dairy, only with a G. G-A-I-R-Y. He led a political party called the United Labor Party. And basically, he kind of just assumed the role, but they did have an election in 1976, which even by international standards of …
▶ 3:34
Eric Gehry just reinstalled himself. But during the two years from the independence in 1974 to that election in 76, he created a thing. Well, he had created a long time ago, but it came into full scale use after the independence. It was cal…
▶ 4:30
mongoose game and um maurice bishop the guy who breaks apart and eventually coos um gary was the leader of the new jewel movement while it was part of the mongoose game um so unless gary the uk representative who installs himself as the pri…
▶ 5:02
And Bishop led basically a bloodless coup. So Gary had a propensity that when he went out of town, he left killing orders. So if he wanted someone taken out by the mongoose gang, he didn't want to be associated with it. So it was done when …
▶ 6:31
So, a little bit more about the Mongoose Gang. It started in 1967, and under Gary in 1979, he used it as, well, in 74 when he took over, he used it as his own, and this is what he called it, the Special Reserve Police, or sometimes he refer…
▶ 7:00
These were people who were not in uniform that were assassins, much like Gladio units. And one of their targets during this reign of terror was Rupert Bishop, who is Maurice's dad. And after they murdered his dad, Gary ends up...…
▶ 7:28
arresting Maurice, beating him, and jailing him for a short period of time. So, Maurice has every right to be seeking revenge from this Gary guy. Even MI6, at this point, it referred to this mongoose game as Ruthless Criminal. They didn't d…
▶ 7:58
I already mentioned that the election was a fraud in 76 and that the UN and independent election observers cited intimidation by this mongoose gang as one of the reasons why it was not a legitimate election. And many of you who've been on s…
▶ 41:31
We're going to get to the numbers. We lost quite a few Marines and Army guys. We lost 135 dead Americans for this bullshit. We killed 84 Cubans and we killed 400 Grenadians with this invasion. Just saying. The neutral movement under Maurice…
▶ 48:36
That was my part. The counter coup the ambassador was referring to was Bishop's fear that Eric Gary, in exile in the United States, would put together a mercenary island to come back or a mercenary army to come back to the island. He also, …
▶ 58:28
And it was the same with political prisoners. Most of them were former members of the Gary's secret police. The government was afraid to release them. So that was another charge that there were people being held by the government. But they …
▶ 1:07:31
Well, it's all part of the Cold War scare-mongering and justification of all of our actions. Obviously, that's the case. We've always known that. Yes. I just wanted to know if there are actually Marxist roots or not, and so I did the homewo…
▶ 10:27
now rolled in and delivered the bomb loads on the mountain. And I don't think this guy has the whole hit, what actually happened right there, because it's much more specific, but we'll just continue. So they started bombing it. And there we…
▶ 17:56
conventional manners and it quickly outgrew the approved black budget in the CIA so of course what are we going to do oh we're going to sell drugs so that gave birth to and it's not like it gave birth to it basically the whole reason we wer…