Posted on 03/24/2004 5:04:40 AM PST by GailA
John F-ing Flip-Flop on Death Penalty
February 4, 2004
In the audio link below, I rolled you John Kerry on Larry King Alive. Guest host Jeff Greenfield asked Kerry if his positions on issues such as opposing the death penalty for terrorists mean "he's not going to make any inroads into the traditional blue-collar, more conservative Democratic base." Kerry responded, "I am supportive of the death penalty for terrorists," then claimed that the Bush people "know it, and they'll try to distort it, but it is a fact."
Note his words: "I am supportive of the death penalty." The Weekly Standard reports that the senator's stand on the death penalty has "evolved." Quote: "For years, Kerry opposed capital punishment in all cases. In 1996, during a debate with Massachusetts governor William Weld, who was challenging Kerry for his Senate seat, Kerry said Weld's support of capital punishment for terrorists 'would amount to a terrorist protection policy.' Kerry's position, on the other hand, 'would put them in jail.'"
In 2002, Kerry flipped again, telling Tim Russert: "I am for the death penalty for terrorists because terrorists have declared war on your country," but cautioned he opposed it "in the criminal justice system because I think it's applied unfairly." Time magazine reports: "'John Kerry never met a side of an issue he didn't like,' says Dean spokesman Jay Carson. And it is true that some positions have changed...." Expect Kerry to keep changing his positions, and then say, "They know I'm for this." That's what he's going to have to do, because he cannot stand on his voting record.
Kerry's going to have to come up with a slithery way to explain some of those votes, and he'll do so by saying he's "changed his mind." He'll probably say, "Well, since I'm now running for president, I'm not just a senator, and I have to look at these things a little differently. They know what I'm thinking out there. They know what I'm going to do. They're going to try to distort this." This is going to be his typical modus operandi. You wait and see.
Listen to Rush...
(...roll, and expose as a contradiction, Kerry's latest death penalty position)
KING: I've done a lot of shows recently dealing with the death of little children. A person who kills a 5-year-old should live?
KERRY: Larry, my instinct is to want to strangle that person with my own hands. I understand the instincts, I really do. I prosecuted people. I know what the feeling of the families is and everybody else.
But we have 111 people who have been now released from death row -- death row, let alone the rest of the prison system -- because of DNA evidence that showed they didn't commit the crime of which they were convicted.
After spending -- I myself worked to get a person out of jail who had been there for 15 years for a murder that person did not commit.
Now, our system has made mistakes, and it's been applied in a way that I think is wrong.
Secondly, I don't believe that, in the end, you advance the, sort of, level of your justice and the system of your civility as a nation -- and many other nations in the world, most of the other nations in the world, have adopted that idea, that the state should not engage in killing.
(APPLAUSE)
Because they have very bad memories of what happens when the state engages in killing.
Hanoi John has flipped flopped on every issue of importance, last year he was against the death penalty for terrorist who kill Americans. Now he's for it.
One thing he had been steadfast on is his stance on the death penalty. He says he supports a moratorium on the death penalty at the federal level. Which means there would soon be a national moratorium on the death penalty, because of the liberal social engineering judges and Supreme Court Justices he'd appoint.
Hanoi John says he's now for the death penalty for terrorist, but he's declaring a moratorium on the death penalty at the federal level thus negating it's use against terrorist. This is much like his vote on the $87 billion that would have provided body armor for our troops. "I actually did vote for the $87 billion before I voted against it," Kerry says. Straddling the fence once again to gain a vote.
He is OPPOSED to the death penalty for non-terrorist who would murder an American child, even a 5-year-old.
As the mother of a murdered 16 year old son, Jeremy Peter Flachbart, who was brutally murdered by a sociopath wanting to see what it felt like to kill, I am alarmed and APPALLED by this man who would be our president soft attitude toward crime, who would eliminate a form of punishment for a horrific crime. Jeremy
He says HE FEELS MY PAIN.
Horse Feathers! he can't feel my pain, he hasn't had a child brutally murdered. He only was a junior prosecutor from 1976-78. He didn't loose a Loved One to a sociopathic killer.
There is a hole in my heart and in my life created by the brutal murder of my beloved child.
To me he is soft on crime just as Mike Dukakis who furloughed that brutal killer Willie Horton was.
Presumptive Democratic Presidential nominee Kerry was irresponsible in blindly accepting the fraudulent claim that 111 innocents have been released from death row. As has been repeatedly proven, this innocent claim is a fraud pushed by the anti death penalty movement.
This does not speak well to his ability to be responsible on major policy issues.
"Kerry say 111 were found innocent from death row via DNA. If so, that is even more absurd. It is 12." But, for solid evidence of actual innocence, my evidence and that from others indicates its from 17-30. I use 30 to be on the safe side." Dudley Sharp, former Resource Director with Justice For All.
Sincerely,
In memory of Jeremy Peter Flachbart
Gail Keasling
Millington, TN
You are being too kind.
You are fighting the good fight Gail and I admire you for your perseverance.
Good post.John Kerry only cares about gaining political power, and that's it.
He'll say to voters what he thinks they want to hear at the time.
So, Senator the F in your name stands for Foreign, as in John Foreign-anything-is-better-than-American Kerry. Got it.
Whereas, Bush is Texan, and in Texas they barbecue pigs.
Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether this nation shall be perverted by the invertebrates of Kerryoptera.
I know not what course others may take, but I'm voting Hell No.
Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness--we are endowed these by our Creator--not some pretentious, patronizing, efffete elitist ass.
Imagine, this putz is playacting for a propagandist butt buddy that he would strangle the murderer with his own hands.
As if. As if he ever harmed anything tougher than the Vietnamese mother holding her child, or the wounded enemy combatant he assassinated.
We prefer a leader who uses deeds not words, who has gone after those who threaten us and killed or captured them.
Who believes in the death penalty--if the perps make it that far.
You are the absolute best Phil. No one says it better than you.A big AMEN to that ! ...
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