The New Soldier & eBay

eBay ^ | John | Kerry

[wow]

While you can buy your very own copy of the New Soldier for as much as $500 on eBay, this eBay listing is kind enough to show some of the more sought after photos in its item description. Good lifting.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3593124975&category=26182

[P8riot]

Remember this is Kerry's account, and you know how much that is worth.

[lonerepubinma]

What's so hard about getting this book ? I went online two weeks ago on my local libraries web site,reserved and read the book. My friends in other states have done the same thing.
Who ever does buy the book will be disappointed, it's garbage, not worth the time to even check it out.

[FreedomFarmer]

Dang.

I saw eBay and Soldier, and assumed this was about the rising cost of military gear on eBay...

I've 'adopted' a couple of soldiers in the ME, and send them the latest and greatest survival and tactical gear money can buy.

I wish I'd had a sugar daddy doing the same, way back when.

[Interesting Times]

Who ever does buy the book will be disappointed, it's garbage, not worth the time to even check it out.

No, no, it's a remarkable book, with lots of amazing and hard-to-find photos. This auction represents a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to own a piece of history. The successful purchaser will bid aggressively and without stinting.

Remember, time grows short -- even as we speak, Kerry operatives are roaming through the stacks of public libraries armed with indelible markers.

[Paleo Conservative]

Freepers should buy one very good copy. That copy should be scanned, OCR'd and converted to a searchable text PDF. That PDF should be copied onto servers located around the world. There should be numerous links to those copies posted on Free Republic, other bulletin board sytems, blogs, and other high volume sites on the web. Obviously if copies are selling in the $500 range, there is too limited a supply. I'd like to see John Kerry try to enforce his copyrights.

[Check_Your_Premises]

How do you go about adopting a soldier?

[FreedomFarmer]

The local unit was called up, and a place where I do a lot of business has a couple of employees in the outfit.

Started out with Leatherman Waves and phone cards; have sent high grade body armour and ceramic inserts, generation V night vision and lots of Litton batteries, poly underclothes, better boots, mattresses and down bags, better rucks, better weapon mags, gps, LED lights, and creature comforts galore.

Capri Sun (sp) drinks are called 'bug juice', and are a big hit with kids.

[Sender]

I linked over to WinterSoldier.com and read the Kerry testimony from 1971.

I especially liked these paragraphs, spoken by Senator JW Fulbright to John Kerry that day:

Fundamentally you said that the people can bamboozle their constituents; they can fool them. Of course, that is quite true of any system of a representative nature. The solution to that is to inform the electorate itself to the extent that they recognize a fraud or a phony when they have one. This is not easy to do, but it is fundamental in a democracy. If you believe in a democratic system, the electorate who elect the representatives have to have sufficient capacity for discrimination. They have to be able to tell the difference between a phony, someone who simply puts pieces in the record, and someone who actually does something, so that they can recognize it in an election, if they are interested.

Now if they are apathetic, as you say they are apathetic, and don't care, then democracy cannot work if they continue to be apathetic and don't care who represents them. This comes back to a fundamental question of education through all different resources, not only the formal education but the use of the media and other means to educate them. Our Founding Fathers recognized that you couldn't have a democracy without an informed electorate. It comes back to the informing of the electorate; doesn't it? That is not a structural deficiency in our system. You are dealing now with the deficiencies of human nature, the failure of their education and their capacity for discrimination in the selection of their representatives.

Well, can the US electorate spot a phony today or not?

[BooksForTheRight.com]

http://www.alibris.com/
has John Kerry's book The New Soldier on CD for about $25!
Do a search on title:

[XHogPilot]

How this book continues to be suppressed is beyond me. We should demand John Kerry release The New Soldier to print again. I want to know what the Democrat presidential candidate thought was so important to put into print 30+ years ago...

[Siouxz]

Thank you for taking good care of our guys!

[Travis McGee]

Good plan.