Kerry in 1971: 'Our Democracy is a Farce' - Communism did not pose threat to the United States

1 posted on 04/22/2004 2:30:07 AM PDT by kattracks

I wonder if anyone but us, the "choir" ,is listening to this?

2 posted on 04/22/2004 2:35:17 AM PDT by MEG33 (John Kerry's been AWOL for two decades on issues of National Security!)

3 posted on 04/22/2004 2:35:59 AM PDT by MEG33 (John Kerry's been AWOL for two decades on issues of National Security!)

He can't just say he was "young and foolish" when he said these things. First of all, these things he has said are utterly reprehensible, and if he's our President, he will be the first president in history to have ever been that "foolish", at any age.

Secondly, these weren't just political positions he took as a "kid" and then dropped and forgot about. His voting record throughout his entire adult life supports these "young and foolish" words.

He voted for the nuclear freeze.

He voted against the military every chance he got.

He wasn't just "young and foolish" when he called his comrades-in-arms war criminals. He was launching a long leftist career that he continues today.

4 posted on 04/22/2004 2:42:43 AM PDT by samtheman (www.georgewbush.com)

No offense intended toward Gomer .....

5 posted on 04/22/2004 2:43:37 AM PDT by MeekOneGOP (Become a monthly donor on FR. No amount is too small and monthly giving is the way to go !)

6 posted on 04/22/2004 2:44:39 AM PDT by MEG33 (John Kerry's been AWOL for two decades on issues of National Security!)

7 posted on 04/22/2004 2:45:09 AM PDT by MeekOneGOP (Become a monthly donor on FR. No amount is too small and monthly giving is the way to go !)

8 posted on 04/22/2004 2:45:44 AM PDT by MeekOneGOP (Become a monthly donor on FR. No amount is too small and monthly giving is the way to go !)

f'n Kerry has Bill Klinton to thank for his coming crushing defeat. Klinton got away with his sordid past. The voters are too smart to let Klinton II get away with his.

9 posted on 04/22/2004 2:58:50 AM PDT by leadpenny

To: kattracks; tallhappy; Grampa Dave; Alamo-Girl; Cincinatus' Wife

During his speech to Bethany College students, Kerry was quoted as saying that communism did not pose any kind of threat to the United States.

Hillary wrote similar arguments in the 1960s while a student of Saul Alinsky.

Alinsky

10 posted on 04/22/2004 3:19:04 AM PDT by risk

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11 posted on 04/22/2004 3:29:06 AM PDT by kattracks

kerry in 1971...kerry in 2004....there is a FARCE at work here, but it is not "OUR" Democracy!

LLS

12 posted on 04/22/2004 3:41:47 AM PDT by LibLieSlayer (We point out Kerry's record and the facts, and they just THINK it's attack politics.)

Of course he said it, he learned it at his daddy's knee.

Kerry's World: Father Knows Best***"Americans," he writes, "are inclined to see the world and foreign affairs in black and white." They celebrate their own form of government and denigrate all others, making them guilty of what he calls "ethnocentric accommodation -- everyone ought to be like us." As a result, America has committed the "fatal error" of "propagating democracy" and fallen prey to "the siren's song of promoting human rights," falsely assuming that our values and institutions are a good fit in the Third World. And, just as Americans exaggerate their own goodness, they exaggerate their enemies' badness. The Soviet Union wasn't nearly as imperialistic as American politicians warned, Kerry argues. "Seeing the Soviet Union as the aggressor in every instance, and the U.S. as only reacting defensively, relieves an American observer from the need to see any parallel between our use of military power in distant parts of the world, and the Soviet use of military power outside the Soviet Union," he writes. He further claims that "Third world Marxist movements were autonomous national movements" -- outside Moscow's orbit. The book culminates in a plea for a hardheaded, realist foreign policy that removes any pretense of U.S. moral superiority.

Despite its blunt arguments, The Star-Spangled Mirror received little attention. Foreign Affairs greeted it with a 90-word summation in its review section. But the work of Richard Kerry, who passed away in 2000, will soon experience posthumous reconsideration. It won't be because of the renewed relevance of his arguments (although his book does read like a contemporary brief against neoconservatism). It will be because his son is a leading candidate to run U.S. foreign policy. ***

13 posted on 04/22/2004 3:48:39 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife

Sounds similar to his comments that President Bush is exaggerating the threat of terror.

14 posted on 04/22/2004 4:09:48 AM PDT by OldFriend (Always understand, even if you remain among the few)

To: kattracks; jla; Mudboy Slim

15 posted on 04/22/2004 4:16:21 AM PDT by Mia T (Stop Clintons' Undermining Machinations (The acronym is the message.))

To: LibLieSlayer

Kerry's first name should be Richard.

16 posted on 04/22/2004 4:17:39 AM PDT by b4its2late (I don't have a solution; but I do admire the problem.)

Has he since renounced these views or does he still hold them dear? Has anybody asked him?

17 posted on 04/22/2004 4:28:17 AM PDT by Schnucki

Kerry shows up in the weirdest places. Wonder how great a sign this quote would makee? Kinda a welcome back!

Patriot Paradox

18 posted on 04/22/2004 4:30:34 AM PDT by sonsofliberty2000 (In this springtime of hope, some lights seem eternal; America's is. - Ronald Reagan)

i don't get it, why do we keep insulting gomer pyle ... at least he loved what he did? ... why not compare him to hillary, weeping as she leaves the marine corp recruitment office because her eyes were bad?

19 posted on 04/22/2004 4:37:48 AM PDT by InvisibleChurch (I actually did vote for the $87 billion before I voted against it)

To: sonsofliberty2000; MadelineZapeezda

Yikes, I didn't know he came to Bethany (where I live, BTW)! What a useful quote - I think another sign for Kerry's visit to Wheeling on Monday is in order.

20 posted on 04/22/2004 5:13:26 AM PDT by mountaineer

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