Posted on 08/28/2009 11:49:53 AM PDT by rottndog
Why oh why is Ted Kennedy, someone who committed treason against this country by dealing with our mortal enemies the Soviets, being buried in the sacred ground of Arlington National Cemetery??? As an American Patriot I am completely disgusted and outraged by this travesty...this desecration of the resting place of so many of America's true heroes.
The real question is: Will that fat, drunken blob require two spaces?
From what I understand members of Congress qualify to be laid there. That law should be changed but since it pertains to them I don’t think it will be.
Dog, you really need to re-read 1984 and refresh your memory about Big Brother, Doublethink, Newspeak, the Memory Hole, the Ministry of Truth, thoughtcrime, and the Two Minutes’ Hate television program. You are not supposed to have unauthorized questions about things like this. This was a GREAT MAN and no one is allowed to question it.
According to ask yahoo, Ted is not eligible to be buried at Arlington.
According to the official Arlington National Cemetery site, any active-duty member of the U.S. armed forces or American veteran retired from active service is eligible for burial there. Veterans who are retired from the reserves are eligible for burial in Arlington if they served in active duty, reached the age of 60, and drew retired pay.
[Kennedy most certainly did not retire]
Also, any former member of the armed forces who was discharged honorably for medical reasons and rated 30% disabled or more prior to October 1, 1949, can be buried in Arlington.
[Not rated 30% disabled and did not even serve till after 1949]
Any former member of the armed forces who received one of these decorations is eligible: Medal of Honor, Distinguished Service Cross, Distinguished Service Medal, Silver Star, or Purple Heart.
[No such decorations. But this leads to an interesting situation. Kerry is qualified but Kennedy is not. Ouch, that is got to hurt]
In addition, all former presidents of the U.S. are allowed an Arlington burial (only two are currently buried there — William Taft and John F. Kennedy).
[Thankfully No]
The spouses, minor children, and certain adult children of all those eligible may be buried at Arlington. Spouses of members of the armed forces who were buried at sea or missing in action are also eligible, along with those whose military spouse was buried in an U.S. military cemetery overseas.
[Nope]
So this begs the question. By what right does Kennedy qualify to be buried at Arlington?
That’s some catch, that Catch-22. :(
Back during the Korean war, Edward Morris Kennedy was a washout from college, and he came home to face old Joe. Joe demanded that “Teddy” volunteer his name for the draft, to sort of wipe this stain away (a little), so off Teddy went, to serve in a military liaison office in Paris, France, at some light duty as a PFC. He spent weekends skiing in the Alps and shagging various young ladies in and around Paris - except for the duty of wearing a uniform, he was pretty much free to do as he wanted.
When other men’s sons were going to Korea, he was in a totally sheltered location. Much more so than even Al Gore.
Read the rules - anyone who has served honorably in the armed services (as evidenced by receing an honorable discharge) is eligible to be buried in Arlington. It is not necessary to ever have been in combat.
Opps ... spoke too soon. Here is the provision:
Any former member of the Armed Forces who served on active duty (other than for training) and who held any of the following positions:
1. An elective office of the U.S. Government
2. Office of the Chief Justice of the United States or of an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.
3. An office listed, at the time the person held the position, in 5 USC 5312 or 5313 (Levels I and II of the Executive Schedule).
4. The chief of a mission who was at any time during his/her tenure classified in Class I under the provisions of Section 411, Act of 13 August 1946, 60 Stat. 1002, as amended (22 USC 866) or as listed in State Department memorandum dated March 21, 1988.
Kennedy smears President Bush and our troops on the US Senate floor:
He described the Iraq war as a fraud “made up in Texas” as part of political strategy — accused the President of the US of “telling lie, after lie, after lie”, in order to go to war in Iraq.
Kennedy smears Judge Alito...Mrs. Alito in tears:
“In suggesting that Samuel Alito had belonged to a racist conservative group, Massachusetts Democratic Senator Ted Kennedy relied heavily on an essay published by the organization that sounded like a bigoted rant. The essay, titled ‘In Defense of Elitism.....But the magazine’s editor at the time says the article was pure satire, a send-up of what liberals think conservatives think. He added quote, ‘I think left-wing groups have been feeding Senator Kennedy snippets and he has been mindlessly reciting them,”
Sen. Edward Kennedy Smears the Nation
“On March 19, 2004, President Bush asked: ‘Who would prefer that Saddam’s torture chambers still be open?’ Shamefully, we now learn that Saddam’s torture chambers reopened under new management — U.S. management.”
A speech on the Senate floor, May 10, 2004.
Kennedy’s smear of Judge Bork on the US Senator floor:
“Robert Bork’s America is a land in which women would be forced into back-alley abortions, blacks would sit at segregated lunch counters, rogue police could break down citizens’ doors in midnight raids, schoolchildren could not be taught about evolution, writers and artists could be censored at the whim of the Government, and the doors of the Federal courts would be shut on the fingers of millions of citizens for whom the judiciary is — and is often the only — protector of the individual rights that are the heart of our democracy....”
Kennedy betrays President Reagan:
May 14, 1983 document from the KGB archives reveals that Senator Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.) reached out to the General Secretary of the Soviet Union’s Communist Party, Yuri Andropov, to propose a kind of public relations strategy to counter President Reagan’s defense policy initiatives toward the Soviet Union, policies that Kennedy felt were too aggressive.
To give you an honest answer, it is because he wasn’t a traitor in any legal sense of the word. He was legally speaking, a sitting U.S. Senator in good standing.
It is my understanding that because of space limitations, current policy is that only KIAs and those who serve with significant distinction are allowed burial there. An honorable discharge is simply not enough anymore.
He may be eligible being a senator, but that doesn’t make it any more right.
Again, the question was really rhetorical in nature. People should think carefully about and remember this travesty, and how this really is a desecration of the sacred grounds of ANC and all that ANC represents for America.
Because Ted volunteered for military service.
Despite our curses on him what he is receiving today we cannot even bear to hear or see on earth and in hell.
Don't watch it.
Make sure the TV ratings are low.
Mary Jo might disagree, but she's never been able to defend herself, even from the media who blames her for Teddy's ruined reputation.
By the current rules, he gets in. It sucks, but there ya go.
So then what did Jackie O do to get in?
You are correct...ultimate judgment is not for us. I have faith that Now-Dead-Ted will have to answer for his sins, in a setting in which there is no filibuster.
And don’t worry, I won’t be watching ANY news coverage of the drunk one’s burial.
Teddy served 2 years in the army during the Korean war. BUT OF COURSE: he mistakenly signed up for 4 years and needed his father to pull strings to get the hitch changed to two. He spent those years several thousand miles from Korea—no doubt just coincidence, not influence! HE left the service—a PRIVATE!!
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