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Kerry's Group Met With The Viet Cong In Paris In 1971
The Winter Soldiers | 1997 | Richard Stacewicz

Posted on 02/19/2004 10:25:55 AM PST by Hon

Edited on 02/19/2004 1:14:01 PM PST by Lead Moderator. [history]

The Vietnam Veterans Against The War (VVAW) sent their own delegation to Paris to meet with the representatives of the National Liberation Front (AKA Viet Cong) in 1971. At this time John Kerry was their spokesman and defacto leader.

This photograph is from the book "The Winter Soldiers", by Richard Stacewicz, page 284:

Caption: First peace meeting between VVAW and the NLF, Paris, 1971.


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 1971; 2004; kerry; kerryparis; kerryrecord; paris; sleazebag; vietcong; vietgate; vietnam; vvaw
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Among other things, I believe it is against the law for private citizens to negotiate with other countries.
1 posted on 02/19/2004 10:25:58 AM PST by Hon
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To: Hon
Who needs Hanoi Jane when you've got the VC?
2 posted on 02/19/2004 10:28:12 AM PST by TomServo ("What a day. I invented Gainesburgers and I didn't even mean to!")
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To: Hon
Can you see Kerry in the picture? I sure hope so. Heheheheh.
3 posted on 02/19/2004 10:29:19 AM PST by EggsAckley ({...................troll patrol........on duty...................})
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To: Hon
Hmmm. Thats funny, I havent heard any mention of Kerrys "Hate America" phase in the mainstream media..
4 posted on 02/19/2004 10:29:23 AM PST by cardinal4 (Terrence Maculiffe-Ariolimax columbianus (hint- its a gastropod.....)
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To: Hon
What other photos are in that book?
5 posted on 02/19/2004 10:29:53 AM PST by Dog
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To: Dog
skunk !
6 posted on 02/19/2004 10:31:13 AM PST by Eric in the Ozarks
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To: EggsAckley
I don't know if Kerry went on the trip. There is very little actual description of the trip in this book or the other book about the VVAW that I am reading, Home To War.

But that one guy does look like Kerry's partner in leadership of the VVAW, Al Hubbard.
7 posted on 02/19/2004 10:32:07 AM PST by Hon
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To: Hon
"I believe it is against the law for private citizens to negotiate with other countries"

Wasn't that part of the original 13th Amendment? That included it being illegal to accept titles and citizenship from other countries? It reules that attornies, as Officers of the Court (a UK title) where ineligeble to also be members of the Legislative (senators & reps etc) or executive branches of govt.

The last school book I have been able to find with reference to the Original 13th amendment was dated around 1950.

"If any citizen of the United States shall accept, claim, receive, or retain any title of nobility or honour, or shall without the consent of Congress, accept and retain any present, pension, office, or emolument of any kind whatever, from any emperor, king, prince, or foreign power, such person shall cease to be a citizen of the United States, and shall be incapable of holding any office of trust or profit under them, or either of them."

http://www.gohotsprings.com/focus/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=685
8 posted on 02/19/2004 10:32:27 AM PST by steplock
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McCain: Testimony by Kerry and others before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee was "the most effective propaganda [my North Vietnamese captors] had to use against us."
U.S. News & World Report 05/14/1973 via newsmax.com


10 posted on 02/19/2004 10:34:31 AM PST by KQQL (@)
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To: Hon
We have already had two(the Clintoons)anti-Americans in the White House. We don't need or want any more.
12 posted on 02/19/2004 10:41:37 AM PST by freekitty
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To: Hon
Met with the VC in Paris --- big deal. These punks met with the frigging KBG every time they looked in the mirror.
13 posted on 02/19/2004 10:42:59 AM PST by Ditto ( No trees were killed in sending this message, but billions of electrons were inconvenienced.)
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To: Hon
More Treasonous Hanoi John stuff:

http://www.vietnamveteransagainstjohnkerry.com/

http://www.25thaviation.org/johnkerry/

http://www.nojohnkerry.org/page2.htm
14 posted on 02/19/2004 10:47:26 AM PST by wadeintothem (www.NoJohnKerry.org - Stop Hanoi John!)
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On my browser the photo at the top sometimes shows up as a red x. If that happens to you, just right click on it and click on "show picture" and it should appear.
15 posted on 02/19/2004 10:47:41 AM PST by Hon
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To: Ditto
"Met with the VC in Paris --- big deal."

I know you are being facetious, but one reason this is newsworthy is because much of the reaction to the Kerry Fonda connection revealed here:

John Kerry At Valley Forge (With Jane Fonda)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1074369/posts

Was to say, so what? Jane Fonda didn't go to Hanoi and consort with the enemy until two years later--and Kerry even spoke against her at that time.

Well, it turns out that Kerry's OWN organization was consorting with the enemy--when he was the defacto head of it.

In fact, this might even be seen as more serious than what Jane Fonda did. She just posed with them and made some speeches. She didn't pretend to be negotiating with them.
16 posted on 02/19/2004 10:50:51 AM PST by Hon
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To: Hon
John Kerry was not dumb enough to meet directly with the Vietcong. He left that to his flunkies.But I'll bet Bill Clinton met plenty of times with commies when he "studied" in the UK and visited USSR. Clinton's blackmail file (by the Russians) may have started back then.
17 posted on 02/19/2004 10:52:29 AM PST by dennisw ("Cuz we'll put a boot in your ass it's the American way" - Toby Keith)
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To: TomServo
In-the-do-not-trust-dept: John Kerry plans to appoint Ms. Jane Fonda as Director of Homeland Securiety after taking office. Ms. Fonda, as part of an efficency effort, will outsource most computer positions to China.
18 posted on 02/19/2004 11:01:02 AM PST by BamaTalker I
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To: steplock
It reules that attornies, as Officers of the Court (a UK title) where ineligeble to also be members of the Legislative (senators & reps etc) or executive branches of govt

Attorneys are members of US courts, so it's not a foreign title. You might as well argue that beauty Queens and high school prom Kings be forever ineligible to serve in governmental positions.

Even if this so called "original 13th amendment was real, this would be a unwarranted interpretation of it. Sort of like something the Supreme Court might do.

19 posted on 02/19/2004 11:01:46 AM PST by El Gato (Federal Judges can twist the Constitution into anything.. Or so they think.)
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To: All
Here is the "People's Peace Treaty" that Kerry and the VVAW and signed on to and which they demanded the US sign with North Vietnam and the National Liberation Front:

Joint Treaty of Peace

Between the People of The United States of America, South Vietnam and North Vietnam

Preamble

Be it known that the American people and the Vietnamese people are not enemies. The war is carried out in the names of the people of the United States and South Vietnam, but without our consent. It destroys the land and people of Vietnam. It drains America of its resources, its youth, and its honor.

We hereby agree to end the war on the following terms, so that both peoples can live under the joy of independence and can devote themselves to building a society based on human equality and respect for the earth. In rejecting the war we also reject all forms of racism and discrimination against people based on color, class, sex, national origin, and ethnic grouping which form the basis of the war policies, past and present, of the United States government.

Terms of Peace Treaty

  1. The Americans agree to immediate and total withdrawal from Vietnam, and publicly to set the date by which all U.S. military forces will be removed.
  2. The Vietnamese pledge that as soon as the U. S. government publicly sets a date for total withdrawal: they will enter discussions to secure the release of all American prisoners, including pilots captured while bombing North Vietnam.
  3. There will be an immediate cease-fire between U. S. forces and those led by the Provisional Revolutionary Government of South Vietnam.
  4. They will enter discussions on the procedures to guarantee the safety of all withdrawing troops.
  5. The Americans pledge to end the imposition of Thieu-Ky-Khiem on the people of South Vietnam in order to insure their right to self-determination and so that all political prisoners can be released.
  6. The Vietnamese pledge to form a provisional coalition government to organize democratic elections. All parties agree to respect the results of elections in which all South Vietnamese can participate freely without the presence of any foreign troops.
  7. The South Vietnamese pledge to enter discussion of procedures to guarantee the safety and political freedom of those South Vietnamese who have collaborated with the U. S. or with U. S. -supported regimes.
  8. The Americans and Vietnamese agree to respect the independence, peace and neutrality of Laos and Cambodia in accord with the 1954 and 1962 Geneva Conventions and not to interfere in the internal affairs of these two countries.
  9. Upon these points of agreement, we pledge to end the war and resolve all other questions in the spirit of self-determination and mutual respect for the independence and political freedom of the people of Vietnam and the United States.

Pledge

By ratifying this agreement, we pledge to take whatever actions are appropriate to implement the terms of the People to people Treaty and to insure its acceptance by the government of the United States.

http://www.davka.org/what/theleft/peoplespeacetreatyvietnam.html

20 posted on 02/19/2004 11:08:26 AM PST by Hon
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