RE: "George W. Bush will be reelected by a margin of at least ten per cent"
Oh I *DO* hope you are correct, but let's not get complacent. (I will be happy to attest to your having 'called it' on September 6, 2004, but personally, I'd prefer to see us all awake and aware until this is done, so that there are NO surprises, so PLEASE keep up the good fight.)
Found this post on another forum. Thought it was pretty well said...
AUTHOR: Marino Sept. 3, 7:13 PM
The Kerry Court-marshal or Trial for Treason?
Should Kerry have been court marshaled for his antiwar activities after he returned from Vietnam?
Some say yes, some say no. Here are the facts, you decide.
John Kerry said himself in his testimony in front of the senate in 1971 that he had met representatives of North Vietnam and the Viet Cong in May 1970 in Paris. The United States was at war with the North Vietnamese and the Viet Cong at the time.
The Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ), a federal law states in article 104 pertaining to Aiding the Enemy:
Any person who:
1- Aids, or attempts to aid, the enemy with arms, ammunition, supplies, money, or other things; or
2- Without proper authority, knowingly harbors or protects or gives intelligence to or communicates or corresponds with or holds any intercourse with the enemy, either directly or indirectly;
Shall suffer death or such other punishment as a court-martial or military commission may direct.
Was John Kerry still under the authority of the UCMJ when he met the Viet Cong representatives in Paris?
Kerry tried to be coy about his service record in the second half of 1970 and the year 1971, the time he negotiated with the Viet Cong in Paris and the time he was a leader of the Vietnam Veterans Against the War. Kerry omitted these months from his official website.
Official military records, quoted in chapter 8 of the book Unfit For Command show John Kerry was a commissioned Naval officer in the Naval Reserve when he met with the enemy in Paris in 1970 and when he was involved with the VVAW.
Conditions for court marshaled were met.
Did Kerry commit Treason?
Treason is defined in the Constitution's Article 3, Section 3, which defines treason as "giving aid and comfort" to the enemy in time of warfare.
You decide if John Kerry and his organization the VVAW are guilty or not.
NOTE: The Constitution's Fourteenth Amendment, Section 3, states, "No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice-President ... having previously taken an oath ... to support the Constitution of the United States, [who has] engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof."
The reason why John Kerry, Jane Fonda and their likes were not charged had to do with President Nixon's wish to calm down the antiwar sentiment, which was beginning to become almost civil war like.
It should also be noted that at the senate hearing in 1971 John Kerry implored the senate to accept the Viet Cong's proposals for peace. In other words, Kerry asked the senators to surrender to the enemy unconditionally.
This is the reason why former Prisoners of War, held in North Korean jails are especially mad at John Kerry.
When John Kerry asked the senate to accept the Viet Cong's proposals unconditionally, he thereby gave up the POW's. The POW's feel Kerry betrayed them.
Apart from this, the POW's were also tortured by the Viet Cong using John Kerry's testimony that American soldiers were raping, murdering and committing other atrocities in Vietnam.
http://speakout.com/forum_view.asp?Forum=John_Kerry&MID=9352&mMID=9352