[dpwiener]

Even the people who have stated that JK was at the KC meeting have said that he argued (apparently successfully) against the assassination plan. That's why I think this issue is a non-starter.

This is about as lame an issue as I can imagine. Even if Kerry attended this meeting, he opposed any assassination plan and he then resigned from the organization. Which was the correct thing to do.

It's really, really reaching to argue that Kerry should have contacted authorities. As long as he thought the assassination plan was dead, there was nothing to report.

Anyone trying to make this into an attack on Kerry should be thoroughly embarrassed. It's so pathetic that it makes Kerry look good, since it implies that there are no better issues to go after him on. It's exactly the kind of reflexive and sophomoric attack which Bush-haters like to unleash on the President.

[Texasforever]

It's really, really reaching to argue that Kerry should have contacted authorities. As long as he thought the assassination plan was dead, there was nothing to report

Not true. Just because it was "voted" down the entire meeting was a criminal conspiracy. You do not get together and vote on whether US Senators are to be killed. Everyone at that meeting should be coming up for their first parole hearings about now.

[wingman1]

You may be right, but I keep coming back to Kerry's claim that he quit VVAW at the STL meeting. There has to be a reason why and that is, he is aware of the dangers posed by being placed at the KC meeting where conspiracy to commit murder was discussed.

Also Kerry quitting the group did not remove the threat of a plan still being carried out. If anything, one less moderating voice would increase the likelihood of the group going off the deep end.

It is also important to recall the times we lived in back then - when several assassinations took place, as well as violent protests and bombings.

[Arthur Wildfire! March]

A member of that group later did commit a political assassination. And, Kerry later made a public assassination joke about a vice president. You might want to factor those points in. How does all of that added in make this issue turn out?

[mware]

It is not a lame issue if he knew about the vote to assassinate senators and did not report it.