Posted on 02/23/2004 5:40:06 PM PST by FairOpinion
Vietnam Veterans Against John Kerry and Vietnamese-American Organizations Coalition Announce Plans For A Protest Demonstration Against John Kerry
Where: New York City, 373 Park Avenue South (between 26the and 27the Streets) across from Kerry's campaign headquarters
Date: February 28, 2004
Time: 12:00 noon
Coalition spokesman:
Jerry Kiley, New York spokesman and demonstration coordinator can be reached at 845-947-3058.
Mike Benge, a US POW in Vietnam for 5 years is available for interviews at 703- 698-8256
Peter Nguyen, General Council of the Vietnamese Community of NY, will be available for interviews at 718-892-9500
Vietnam Veterans Against John Kerry (V.V.A.J.K) has formed a national coalition with Vietnamese Americans for Human Rights in Vietnam. V "We represent hundreds of thousand of American veterans who do not want to see John Kerry any where near the Oval Office," said Ted Sampley, founder of V.V.A.J.K, and a U.S. Army Green Beret and veteran of two combat tours in Vietnam.
Said Sampley, "I have personally dealt with John Kerry on the issue of US POWs left behind in Vietnam. Kerry is not truthful and is not worthy of the support of US veterans. Many Vietnam vets have been duped into thinking Kerry is their friend. He is not. To us, he is 'Hanoi John'"
Dan Tran, a NASA engineer and president of the Vietnam Human Rights Project, said, "John Kerry aided and abetted the communist government in Hanoi and has hindered any human rights progress in Vietnam."
Mike Benge, former civilian Viet Nam POW says, "John Kerry has fought harder for the Vietnamese communists than he fought against them in Vietnam.
"In the Senate, Kerry almost single handedly prevented a Vietnam Human Rights (and religious freedom) Bill from coming to a vote. Mean while the Vietnamese communists continue to wage a war of repression against our former South Vietnamese allies and a war of genocide against the Montagnard ethnic minorities in the Central Highlands of Vietnam."
Chau Nguyen, President of the Vietnamese Community in NY said, Pastors, Priests, and Buddhist Monks are being held against their will and many are beaten close to death on a regular basis"
When Kerry returned from military service in Vietnam he became a national leader and spokesperson of Vietnam Veterans Against the War. In this role, Hanoi John campaigned against the efforts of the United States to contain the spread of communism throughout Southeast Asia. Under Kerry's leadership, VVAW members marched in demonstrations under the flags of the Viet Cong enemy and displayed pictures of Ho Chi Minh. They mocked the uniform of United States soldiers by wearing tattered fatigues, many marked with pro-communist graffiti.
In congressional testimony Hanoi John called the U.S. involvement in Vietnam "a genocide against the Vietnamese people" and referred to his former comrades as "war criminals." The false image and social stigma portraying Vietnam vets as "drug-addicted baby killers and mindless drones" can be traced directly to John Kerry and his VVAW.
"It's one thing," said New York Vietnam veteran Jerry Kiley, "to oppose a war for moral reasons, but it's dishonorable to take that extra step and support the enemy. That's what John Kerry did."
Dan Tran, speaking as a member of Vietnamese Americans Against John Kerry said, "On behalf of tens of thousands of Vietnamese-Americans, we are determined to demonstrate against Senator Kerry all across this nation"
The Coalition plans nationwide demonstrations against Kerry beginning with the New York primary.
www.vietnamveteransagainstjohnkerry.org
I would have gladly given up Constitutional guaranteed rights for a couple of years, say 1968 to 1970, to save the lives of thousands of Americans and allies plus hundreds of thousands of Vietnamese lives.
The Communist expected a popular uprising with the early-1968 Tet offensive. It didn't happen and the Viet Cong was virtually destroyed. I really believe that peace accords would have come years earlier and South Vietnam would have been handed the responsibility, with our material support, to defend against the North if the "anti-war" crowd had been silenced.
Interning the media-dominating "anti-war" crowd chanting "Ho. Ho. Ho Chi Minh the FLN is sure to win," and putting the press on notice that it would be held accountable would have ended the lie that it was an immoral war that interfered in a civil war. Those were the days of Communist "wars of liberation" around the globe. Kennedy was put in the position of making a stand and he chose Vietnam.
Same today. I will gladly give up Constitutional guaranteed rights temporarily to intern the "anti-war" crowds with their attacks on the President, their constant lies, and their "aid and comfort" - from the street all the way up to the DNC, networks, and university classrooms.
How many thousands of lives is this "anti-war" crowd going to cost us? Make Vietnam and Kerry's trashing of his fellow veterans an issue. Let it remind us what can happen. North Vietnam Gen. Giap praised the John Kerrys and the American press for their help.
I have a suggestion and this anti-Kerry rally is the perfect venue for it.
Let's get as many Vietnam vets as possible to run for president. They can urge a write in. They're qualifications for wanting to become CnC of the Armed Forces and leader of the Free World : they fought in Vietnam
By Kerry's own constant words, having fought in Vietnam makes all Vietnam vets just as qualified as Hanoi John to run for president, whether they've ever been in politics or not. They could also mention they have better voting records on defense than Kerry, because if they weren't members of congress they couldn't have voted against the defense bills Kerry did, or wrote all the anti-Second Amendment legislation Kerry's name is attached to.
Sound like a good idea?
EXACTLY. That too, BUMP!
Heck, I want somebody to ask them just when they decided they LOVE Vietnam veterans! THESE are the people who called them "baby killer" and "murderer" when they came home...and before...and Kerry was one of them. They SPIT on returning vets. When did they suddenly change? Where were THEY 30 years ago? They sure weren't supportive of Vietnam vets THEN or since...not unless it was a member of VVAW.
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