DEAD KENNEDYS: Holiday in Cambodia
History of the Discordian Resistance Front’s making of the DK hit, ‘Holiday in Cambodia’: This note is to resolve the continuingly surfacing bullshit arguments made by new fish attempting to aggrandize themselves through their own commentary on this popular film clip. It has been pointed out that SOME of the clip does not take place physically in Cambodia proper. This is a straw man argument put forth by glib know-nothings of the Indo-Chinese conflict, officially known as ‘The 100 Years’ War of National Vietnamese Liberation: 1875-1975′ by the Communist state of Vietnam and ‘Year Zero’ as instituted by the Cambodian Communist Party in Kampuchea. As portrayed fictionally in the film ‘Apocalypse Now’, and shown in the intro of the clip (which was filmed in the Philippines), the US war effort in Vietnam spilled over into a secret, but massive, bombing campaign of Cambodia ordered by President Richard Millhouse Nixon. ‘Operation Menu’ was the codename of a covert United States Strategic Air Command (SAC) bombing campaign conducted in eastern Cambodia from 18 March 1969 until 26 May 1970, during the Vietnam War leading to the deaths of at least 50000 Cambodians. The supposed targets of these attacks were sanctuaries and Base Areas of the People’s Army of Vietnam (PAVN) and forces of the National Front for the Liberation of South Vietnam (NLF or derogatively, Viet Cong), which utilized them for resupply, training, and resting between campaigns across the border in the Republic …