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JOHN KERRY'S RADICAL PAST
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| 2/25/04
| Joel Moebray
Posted on 02/25/2004 7:47:04 AM PST by areafiftyone
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To: areafiftyone; Lady Composer; diotima; Howlin; Nita Nupress
This 60's/70's stuff is sooo annoying. I hated that era and don't want to relive it either. Yeah, and the clothes were REALLY bad too and what's even worse, the idiot designers and clothing industry has brought all that stuff back into the stores - ewwwwwwwww! I REFUSE, absolutely REFUSE, to buy my girls "peasant blouses". Yuck!
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posted on
02/25/2004 8:30:20 AM PST
by
NotJustAnotherPrettyFace
(Michael <a href = "http://www.michaelmoore.com/" title="Miserable Failure">"Miserable Failure"</a>)
To: NotJustAnotherPrettyFace; areafiftyone
This 60's/70's stuff is sooo annoying. I hated that era and don't want to relive it either. I hate John Kerry for even bringing that era up!I was JUST thinking the same thing as I read down this thread!
Think of all the horrible people who might get appointments to government positions!
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posted on
02/25/2004 8:32:48 AM PST
by
Howlin
To: NotJustAnotherPrettyFace
What kills me is that the stuff they have now is more slutty trashy then they had in the 60's and 70's. We had ugly fashion then but now its because just plain slutty.
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posted on
02/25/2004 8:33:23 AM PST
by
areafiftyone
(Democrats = the hamster is dead but the wheel is still spinning)
To: areafiftyone
The Kerry Comintern lives again. These commies never give up do they?
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posted on
02/25/2004 8:35:01 AM PST
by
hgro
To: Howlin
Imagine the 60's theme parties at the White House. I wouldn't put it past Kerry to Invite Fonda over for a Lincoln Bedroom sleep over!
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posted on
02/25/2004 8:35:09 AM PST
by
areafiftyone
(Democrats = the hamster is dead but the wheel is still spinning)
To: Howlin; areafiftyone; Miss Marple
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posted on
02/25/2004 8:35:20 AM PST
by
Howlin
To: Miss Marple
I cannot tell you how horrifying this was. If kerry is elected you KNOW these relics of the 60's will be at the inaugural, flashing the peace sign and giving the Black Power salute. And "toking".
Kerrys toke
Sen. John Kerry recently spent 4 days campaigning in Iowa with folk music legend Peter Yarrow of Peter, Paul & Mary. Yarrow, an old friend (they both protested Vietnam together...) traveled with the Senator as his opening act.
This had interesting results at the Story County Democrat event in Ames, IA. Howard Dean attended the event and joined Yarrow and Kerry while Yarrow led the signature song, Puff the Magic Dragon:
As the folk star began his signature song with an unintended double meaning, Kerry mouthed a few words then took his index finger to his thumb, pursed his lips, and feigned a marijuana toke.
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posted on
02/25/2004 8:36:52 AM PST
by
NotJustAnotherPrettyFace
(Michael <a href = "http://www.michaelmoore.com/" title="Miserable Failure">"Miserable Failure"</a>)
To: Howlin
OMG that is even worse than the Clinton Cabinet! And I thought Clinton's was the worst but now that I see this one I think Kerry topped Clinton on that one!
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posted on
02/25/2004 8:38:36 AM PST
by
areafiftyone
(Democrats = the hamster is dead but the wheel is still spinning)
To: areafiftyone
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posted on
02/25/2004 8:39:33 AM PST
by
evets
(God bless president George W. Bush)
To: NotJustAnotherPrettyFace
Kerry mouthed a few words then took his index finger to his thumb, pursed his lips, and feigned a marijuana toke. Oh thats just lovely! Is this guy pathetic or what? He's a freakin Hippy!!!
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posted on
02/25/2004 8:39:48 AM PST
by
areafiftyone
(Democrats = the hamster is dead but the wheel is still spinning)
To: Miss Marple
If kerry is elected you KNOW these relics of the 60's will be at the inaugural, flashing the peace sign and giving the Black Power salute. This is not to be borne. If you know anyone who is even THINKING of staying home or voting for this loser, please, PLEASE do what you can to change their minds. I lived through the 60's once and I do NOT want to do so again!!!!!
Like you, I lived through the 60's early 70's. I can't take an encore of these anti American left wingers in power.
Life in the years under their living legends the Clintoons, 1993 until President Bush was sworn in January 2001 was enough for me.
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posted on
02/25/2004 8:41:21 AM PST
by
Grampa Dave
(John F'onda Kerry has been a Benedict Arnold and legislative terrorist since Nam!)
To: areafiftyone
1960
1960 - The American Vegan Society is formed.
1961 - the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) began the freedom rides to end segregation on buses.
1961 - Amnesty International founded to protect the rights of political prisnors.
1962, Sept. 30--The first convention of Cesar Chavez's National Farm Workers Association (NFWA) is convened in Fresno, Calif.
1963 - . On August 28, 1963, 250,000 men, women, and children assembled on the grounds of the Lincoln Memorial. And the world was blessed to hear the famous "I have a Dream" speech given by Dr. Martin Luther King jr
1963 - Presiden John F. Kennedy is assinated in Dallas Texas Nov. 22.
1963 - Tolstoy Farm becomes the prototype, back to the land, "hippie" commune, with few rules and and open membership.
1964- Drop City commune/artists colony founded in Trinidad, Colorado.
1964 - Mario Savio gets up on a police car at Spoul Plaza at the UC campus in Berkeley, Ca. and sparks the Free Speech Movement.
1964 - The U.S. creates the Gulf of Tonkin incident as an excuse to escalate the war in Vietnam.
1964- Tim Leary writes The Psychedelic Experience
1964 - Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters began traveling around the country in a school bus painted psychedelic colors giving "Acid Tests. " Introducing people to the LSD experience.
1966 Spring-summer --A boycott of the struck DiGiorgio Fruit Corp. forces the giant grape grower to agree to an election among its workers. The company brings in the Teamsters Union to oppose Cesar's NFWA. The NFWA and the Filipino American AWOC merge to form the United Farm Workers and the union affiliates with the AFL-CIO, the national labor federation. DiGiorgio workers vote for the UFW
1966 - National Organization of Women NOW was established on June 30, 1966 in Washington, D.C.
1966 - The Supreme Court ruled that cities must begin to desegregate the schools immediately. In 1971, they approved busing as the primary method of integrating the schools
1966 - in the wake of the assassination of black leader Malcolm X and on the heels of the massive black, urban uprising in Watts, California. Huey P. Newton gathered a few of his longtime friends, including Bobby Seale and David Hilliard, and formed the Black Panther Party for Self Defense.
1966 - Lou Gottlieb declares his "Morning Star Ranch" Land, access to which is denied no one." And starts a legal battle with local authorities to keep Morning Star open land eventually deeding the land to God.
1966 - Mark Lane writes Rush to Judgement suggesting there was a conspiracy to assasinate president Kennedy.
1966 - October 30, -Acid Test Graduation
1967 - Ed Sanders and Tuli Kupferberg of The Fugs, and some SF Diggers lead a mass crowd in the .Excorsism of the Pentagon
1967 - The Summer of Love!!!
1968 - Martin Luther King jr assasinated in memphis, Tenn., on April 4.
1968 - Robert Kennedy assasinated in Los Angeles, Ca., on June 4.
1968 - American Indian Movement starts foot patrol in Minneapolis in response to growing police violence.
1968 - Durring demonstartions at the Democratic National Convention several organizers are indicted and become known as the Chicago 7.
1969 - First Earth Day celebration.
1969 - Woodstock Festival in upper N.Y. draws 500,000 people. Along with 3 days of music, Wavy Gravy and the Hog Farm create an atmosphere of love that transcends the crowd. Woodstock Nation declared.
1969- The Stonewall riots in NYC lead to the birth of the modern Gay Lesbian Bi Transgender movement.
1969 - The people of Berkeley, Ca. take an unused lot from UC and create People's Park.
1970
1970- May 4 , Kent State Massacre occurred when the Ohio National Guard opened fire durring an anti-war demonstration killing 4 students.
1970 - National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML) formed.
http://www.hippiemuseum.org/timeline2.htm 1971 - The ERA is approved without amendments by the U.S. House of Representatives in a vote of 354-24
1971- Greenpeace began in 1971, when a small but determined group of activists boarded an aging 80-foot boat, slowly making their way through the cold North Pacific waters off Alaska. Their mission was to "bear witness" to the destructive nuclear weapons testing planned for Amchitka island. Little did they know they had just created what was to become the largest environmental movement in the world.
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posted on
02/25/2004 8:44:05 AM PST
by
Howlin
To: areafiftyone
I just finished reading
The New Soldier, Kerry's 1971 anti-war polemic. The book contains an excerpt from his now-infamous testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee as well as testimony from anti-war veterans as to atrocities that they allegedly saw or heard about. The book also includes dozens of photographs of "Dewey Canyou III," an anti-war demonstration in Washington by anti-war veterans that took place at the time of Kerry's testimony (it was named for Dewey Canyon I and II, which were military operations in Vietnam).
In writing this book, Kerry did his part to undermine American morale and to establish the negative image of Vietnam veterans that lingers in the public's mind. The New Soldier has become scarce and is fetching beaucoup bucks on the used book market. After reading it, I can see why it is in Kerry's interest for the book to remain hard to find.
To: areafiftyone
Foxnews showing new John Kerry video?
As Folk Singer Supports Kerry, He Objects, Too
John Kerry Report - Excerpts from the Iowa Daily Report - January 1-15, 2004
Kerrys toke Sen. John Kerry is on a 4-day Iowa with folk music legend Peter Yarrow of Peter, Paul & Mary. Yarrow travels with the Senator as his opening act.
This had interesting results at the Story County Democrat event in Ames, IA. Howard Dean attended the event and joined Yarrow and Kerry while Yarrow led the signature song, Puff the Magic Dragon:
As the folk star began his signature song with an unintended double meaning, Kerry mouthed a few words then took his index finger to his thumb, pursed his lips, and feigned a marijuana toke. (1/5/2004)
'Scarborough Country' for Jan. 15
And listen to this.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
SEN. JOHN KERRY (D-MA), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE (singing): ... in the autumn mist in a land called Honah Lee. Puff the Magic Dragon...
(END VIDEO CLIP)
SCARBOROUGH: What in the world is John Kerry thinking?
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posted on
02/25/2004 9:00:27 AM PST
by
NotJustAnotherPrettyFace
(Michael <a href = "http://www.michaelmoore.com/" title="Miserable Failure">"Miserable Failure"</a>)
To: Miss Marple
Oh my God; my thoughts exactly. They were so enthralled with Kerry and bubbly with praise for him. Then they picked up their guitars (I never really realized how much I've grown to hate folk music until they started up this morning) and the first few words I heard were Cesar
Chavez and Rosa Parks, and I couldn't hit the "off" button on the remote quick enough. YECCHH. Now maybe if they picked up electric guitars and sang about Ollie North and Ronald Reagan......
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posted on
02/25/2004 9:09:39 AM PST
by
giznort
To: Miss Marple
Spread the word about Kerry's musical friends. I believe one of them was also arrested for child molestation, if I remember correctly. I think Peter Yarrow, but I may be wrong. You are correct.
Yarrow's Kerry Puff Daddy
JOHN Kerry's presidential campaign strategists are probably hoping his friendship with frisky folk legend Peter Yarrow of Peter, Paul and Mary will go "Puff!" like a certain Magic Dragon.
Yarrow, a close Kerry pal who has been warming up crowds for the Massachusetts senator in Iowa, pleaded guilty to taking "immoral and improper liberties" with a 14-year-old girl back in 1970.
As reported at the time, the girl and her older sister went to Yarrow's hotel room seeking an autograph. Yarrow answered the door naked and made sexual advances that stopped short of intercourse. The 14-year-old resisted his advances but did not call for help. Yarrow served three months of a one- to three-year prison sentence and was pardoned by Jimmy Carter in 1981.
Yarrow is making headlines these days while stumping for Kerry on the campaign trail. The Boston Globe reported that he "planted a major smooch on the cheek of a comely television reporter" while strumming his guitar on Kerry's campaign bus, "The Real Deal Express." Kerry chided his friend, the Globe reported, but a few minutes later Yarrow was "inching toward the newswoman. Kerry's hands then shot up in between her face and Yarrow's, leaving no doubt that the senator's perfect manners include gallantry. 'Peter, enough!' Kerry bellowed."
And at a recent party for supporters in Ames, Iowa, Yarrow may have caused Kerry some embarrassment while performing, "Puff the Magic Dragon." Apparently the silver-haired senator was enjoying the song too much. As reported by the Washington Post's Ceci Connolly, "Kerry lifted his fingers to his mouth for a quick toke on an imaginary joint. You can almost see his thick mane of silver hair returning to the shaggy brown 'do of those days."
When we called a Kerry campaign spokeswoman yesterday to talk about Yarrow, a flustered flack tried to dissuade us from reporting on his past. "What's the point of this story?" sputtered Kerry rep David DiMartino. "Isn't the New York Post supposed to break news, not rehash it?"
When we pointed out that many younger readers might not have heard much about the colorful Yarrow, who is godfather to Kerry's daughter Alex, DiMartino gave us the campaign's official line: "John Kerry has a lifelong friendship with Peter Yarrow."
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posted on
02/25/2004 9:26:29 AM PST
by
NotJustAnotherPrettyFace
(Michael <a href = "http://www.michaelmoore.com/" title="Miserable Failure">"Miserable Failure"</a>)
To: Howlin
Kerry's joint appearance CNN's "Inside Politics" just ran a video clip of John Kerry at a campaign event where Kerry pretends to be smoking a joint. The tape was provided to CNN by the Republican National Committee, Judy Woodruff said. She didn't explain a lot about why CNN chose to run it, nor did she give much background about the tape.
But here's a description of the actual event from the CBS News reporter assigned to Kerry. It took place on Jan. 6 in Iowa, when Kerry was campaigning with his old friend Pete Yarrow of Peter, Paul and Mary.
"... aides were shaking their heads after a Yarrow-inspired scene turned out a little weird. At a house party thrown by Story County Democrats, Yarrow summoned Kerry to the living room where he had just started playing 'Puff the Magic Dragon.' At one point, as Yarrow sang the word 'puff,' Kerry quickly gestured as if he was smoking pot."
Maybe the RNC is worried about Kerry's apparent rise in the Iowa polls.
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posted on
02/25/2004 9:36:11 AM PST
by
NotJustAnotherPrettyFace
(Michael <a href = "http://www.michaelmoore.com/" title="Miserable Failure">"Miserable Failure"</a>)
To: paul51
LOL! I'm not one to spread rumors BUT I have it on good authority that JFKerry is a practicing PolyNamist: a political candidate who has taken several sides for himself on the Vietnam War. And continues to look for new sides every day, as the mood and opportunity presents itself.
To: atomicpossum
"Kerry was in Viet Nam? No kidding?"
I did not know that! He really should highlight his extensive Vietnam combat experience more. I'm sure he has some amazing "stories" to tell.
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posted on
02/25/2004 9:41:13 AM PST
by
Skywarner
(Freedom isn't Free. Remember our WWII vets!)
To: Miss Marple
1970 Mar 26, Peter Yarrow (Peter, Paul & Mary) pleaded guilty to "taking immoral liberties" with a 14 year old girl. (SS, 3/26/02)
Source
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posted on
02/25/2004 9:46:25 AM PST
by
Neenah
("It's Always Something!")
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