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September 14, 2004 | John Lunt

Posted on 09/14/2004 6:06:10 PM PDT by jdluntjr

GET INVOLVED NOW!

A few days ago, I recommended a unified effort to use letters to the Editor to fight this fight. See original post Link to Original Post

The first issue set deals with Mr. Kerry's foriegn policy. The material is only suggested. If there's other issues you want to tackle, do so, but please make sure you're doing something. This election is too important for us not to be involved.

Go to the link below. The Freep United site has links for finding the email address for the letter to the editor section of your newspaper. It contains a few tips, It also has the first set of issues, with source quotes and a few example letters to the editor.

Get Involved Now!

Each week we'll add another set of issues and example letters. We'll als put together some special issues. One of them will be coming in the next day or two. We'll be pulling togehter all the information available that destroys the DAN RATHER LIEFEST...

Thanks


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
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1 posted on 09/14/2004 6:06:11 PM PDT by jdluntjr
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To: jdluntjr

Mrs. Heinz-Kerry and her connection to The Tides Foundation is not ‘new‘ news. The Tides Foundation’s connection to moveon.org isn’t breaking news, either. Nor is moveon.org’s connection to Texans for Truth. What is lesser known is the Communist Party’s willingness to back Kerry in this election. They’ve encouraged their members to vote for him instead of their own candidate. Their sole reason? Getting rid of President Bush. The W.W.W.P. (The Socialist Party) openly brags of infiltrating the unions. They brag about having Party members placed in positions to negotiate contracts for union memberships. Many of the people who give money to these organizations and political parties are common to all of them as financial endorsers - except for The Tides Foundation. They’ve created a loophole. It’s called the Tides Center. Many of these individuals and organizations also finance International A.N.S.W.E.R., Greenpeace, and other such political activism. CBS has some members of the Communist Party employed in rather high places as well. A comparative analysis between “The Communist Manifesto” and the current mission statements of several known groups and political parties is also in order. Pop Quiz: Guess whose philanthropic trust is financing, in part or in whole, all of these rabidly anti-American groups, lobbyists, PAC’s, and parties? Hint: The AFL-CIO is technically not a trust.


You don’t have to believe me. Do your own research.



A CBS connection:
http://www.wethepeople.la/cockburn.htm
http://www.fact-index.com/a/an/andrew_cockburn.html



http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1091961/posts

http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/pacepa200402260828.asp

http://www.politics1.com/parties.htm

http://exposingsatanism.org/Forum/lofiversion/index.php/t65.html


find out who is connected with who...

http://www.cpusa.org/

http://www.internationalanswer.org/endorsers.html

http://www.workers.org/

http://www.infoshop.org/texts/wwp.html

http://www.laweekly.com/ink/02/50/news-corn.php

http://www.greens.org/s-r/31/31-09.html

http://www.sp-usa.org/labor/

http://www.socialistparty.org.uk/Links.htm

http://www.gp.org/links.html

...and follow the money: http://www.opensecrets.org/parties/index.asp

http://www.activistcash.com/
Pay particular attention to moveon.org...and its connections...

Much of the money is coming from out of the country. Follow it, if you dare.

I do recommend that one does one's own research into these matters.

Bones





http://www.americanthinker.com/articles.php?article_id=3778

http://25thaviation.org/johnkerry/default.htm

http://home.nycap.rr.com/pwcarter/the%20kerry%20page.html


http://justoneminute.typepad.com/main/2004/04/john_kerrys_dat.html

http://www.vnsfvetakerry.com/War%20Criminal.htm

http://www.command-post.org/2004/2_archives/cat_kerry.html

I put this next one in here because I thought it was interesting.

http://www.slobokan.com/index.php



http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2004/9/3/110242.shtml


http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=40272


http://www.netwmd.com/articles/article694.html


http://www.nationalreview.com/kerry/kerryspot.asp

http://ice.he.net/~freepnet/fbifiles/100-HQ-448092/Section%2015/Section%2015.pdf


http://home.nycap.rr.com/pwcarter/the%20kerry%20page.html


http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1062437/posts


http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/Printer&cid=1094279634083&p=1006953079865


This one is more about Bush than kerry, but answers questions concerning the President's NG service.
http://www.washtimes.com/op-ed/20040831-094211-3678r.htm

http://www.twincities.com/mld/twincities/news/editorial/9576373.htm?1c

http://hail.he.net/~danger/kerrylied/staticpages/index.php?page=20040711225111152#cont

http://www.vnsfvetakerry.com/INDEX%20PAGE.HTM


http://kerrywaffles.net/reynolds.html

http://www.suntimes.com/output/elect/cst-nws-novak271.html

You just gotta like folks from Iowa...
http://www.iowapresidentialwatch.com/KerryTales/KerryAmmo.htm




Warren "Bones" Bonesteel
columnist and author
"Morning Coffee"
P. O. Box 1413
Rapid City,SD 57709
(605) 388-3005
wrbones@rap.midco.net
http://morningcoffee.net/index.php




"The virtues of men are of more consequence to society
than their abilities, and for this reason, the heart
should be cultivated with more assiduity than
the head." -Noah Webster

http://morningcoffee.net/index.php

http://www.jump2net.com/stuff/button.gif


http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1196878/posts

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1199225/posts

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A29821-2004Aug24.html

http://www.grassboots.org/DNC-MoveOn.htm

http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/08/25/wed/index.html

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1198958/posts
http://www.spectator.org/dsp_article.asp?art_id=7032


* Harold Ickes Is A Member Of DNC's Executive Committee And Head Of The
Media Fund And Chief Of Staff To America Coming Together. Ickes "Admits That
He Occasionally Tells The Kerry Camp What He's Up To, And He Insists It's
Perfectly Legal."
(Jim Drinkard, "'Outside' Political Groups Full Of Party Insiders," USA
Today, 6/28/04; Paula Dwyer, "Why 527 Is The Dems' Lucky Number,"
BusinessWeek Online, 7/28/04)



* Bob Bauer Of Perkins Coie Is Legal Counsel To Both Kerry Campaign And
America Coming Together (ACT).
(Jim Rutenberg And Kate Zernike, "Veteran's Group Had GOP Lawyer," The New
York Times, 8/25/04)



* Kerry Campaign Paid Bauer's Law Firm, Perkins Coie, $360,244.28 For Legal
Services And Other Expenses.
(Federal Election Commission Records, http://www.fec.gov, Accessed 8/5/04)



* Joe Sandler Is General Counsel To DNC While Serving As Legal Counsel To
527s MoveOn.org And Moving America Forward.
(Jonathan Groner, "Power Punch," Legal Times, 4/26/04)



* Erik Smith Is The Media Fund's Executive Director And Worked With Steve
Elmendorf, Kerry's Deputy Campaign Manager, On Dick Gephardt's Presidential
Campaign.
(Jim VandeHei, "Kerry Expected To Emerge From Battle Stronger Than Ever,"
The Washington Post, 3/3/04)



* Minyon Moore, A Kerry Campaign Consultant, Serves On Executive Committee
Of America Coming Together.
(Glen Johnson, "Kerry To Press 'Environmental Justice,'" The Boston Globe,
4/22/03; Lisa Getter, "Kerry Aided By 'Illegal' Soft Money, GOP Claims," Los
Angeles Times, 4/1/04)



* Media Fund Ad Consultant Bill Knapp Hired By Kerry Campaign.
(Thomas B. Edsall, "Shifting The Money So The Votes Will Follow," The
Washington Post, 5/11/04)



* Kerry's New Mexico Caucus Director, Geri Prado, Is Leading ACT's GOTV
Effort In That State.
(Michael Finnegan, "Kerry's Low Profile May Cost Crucial Latino Votes," Los
Angeles Times, 5/3/04)



* The Dewey Square Group Provides Political Consulting Services For Both
Kerry Campaign And America Coming Together (ACT).



* Kerry Campaign Has Paid Dewey Square Group $194,936.48 For Political
Consulting And Other Expenses.
(Federal Election Commission Records, www.fec.gov, Accessed 8/5/04)



* America Coming Together (ACT) Has Paid Dewey Square Group $51,808 For
Political Consulting And Other Expenses.
(Political Money Line Website, www.tray.com, Accessed 8/5/04)



* At Least Four Kerry Advisors Are Associated With Dewey Square Group:
Michael Whouley, Jill Alper, Minyon Moore And Joe Ricca.
(Glen Johnson, "Kerry To Press 'Environmental Justice,'" The Boston Globe,
4/22/03; Dewey Square Group Website, http://www.deweysquare.com/, Accessed
2/5/04; Peter Grier, "How Kerry Turned The Corner," Christian Science
Monitor, 2/5/04; Glen Johnson and John Aloysius Farrell, "Kerry's New-Look
Campaign Relies On A Few Key Players," The Boston Globe, 1/9/03)



* Michael Meehan, Now A Communications Advisor To Kerry, Was Hired By NARAL
In 2003 To "Oversee Its Vastly Expanded Soft-Money Operation." His Hiring
Was "Billed As A Two-Month Leave From His Job As Political Director Of
NARAL."
(Carol Beggy and Mark Shanahan, "Names," The Boston Globe, 11/21/03; Chris
Cillizza, "NARAL Plans Big '04 Effort," Roll Call, 5/8/03)




http://www.democrats.org/wvc/weekinreview/200305120002.html Open admission
to affiliation with moveon.org.

http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=14836

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1091961/posts

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1202498/posts

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1207686/posts


http://washingtontimes.com/upi-breaking/20040908-025244-1548r.htm

http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=11504

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1205510/posts

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1205828/posts

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1211288/posts

http://www.netwmd.com/articles/article704.html

http://newsmax.com/archives/ic/2004/9/2/185315.shtml

http://www.californiarepublic.org/archives/Columns/Gamble/20040903GambleMoveOn.html

http://www.soros.org/initiatives/justice/focus_areas/justice_fellows/guidelines/media

http://www.baltictimes.com/art.php?art_id=10786

SOROS LINK! http://thecollege.wlu.edu/grants/soros.asp

Grants and Fellowships
Soros FellowshipThe Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans
provides opportunities for continuing generations of able and accomplished
New Americans to achieve leadership in their chosen fields. All applicants
must be either resident aliens (e.g. hold a Green Card), naturalized U.S.
citizens, or children of two parents who are both naturalized citizens.

The Soros Foundation annually awards thirty scholarships of $20,000, plus
half of the tuition owed to the graduate school program of the applicant's
choice, for a period of two years. A Fellow may pursue a graduate degree in
any professional field (e.g., engineering, medicine, law, social work, etc.)
or scholarly discipline in the Arts, Humanities, Social Sciences, and
Sciences. The Fine and Performing Arts are included.

Applications are due from seniors in early November, and candidates should
expect to participate in an interview as the vetting process transpires.

Liaison Officer: Professor Robert Strong (Politics) or Associate Dean Bent

Consult the program website at http:// www.pdsoros.org.


http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1197027/posts

http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a39eab7333557.htm


Lobbying may now be considered a Daschle family profession. The Senator and
Mrs. Daschle's son Nathan was a lobbyist for the American Federation of
State, County and Municipal Employees before taking a position at the
Washington lobbying firm of Covington and Burling. Covington and Burling
represents Microsoft, Merck, and the Washington Post among others.
The Daschles' daughter-in-law, Jill Gimmel Daschle, has started her own
lobbying firm, JD Consulting, which will lobby with Sullivan & Baldick. Jill
was a finance director for the 2000 re-election campaign of Sen. Ted Kennedy
(D-MA). She moved on to New Hampshire Gov. Jeanne Shaheen's 2002 senate
campaign as a fundraiser.

>
>
> http://www.politicalaffairs.net/
>
> http://uslaboragainstwar.org/links.php
>
> http://www.pww.org/article/articleview/5637/1/143/
>
> http://www.publicintegrity.org/527/search.aspx?act=com&orgid=648
>
> http://www.publicintegrity.org/527/docs/460450996-8872-0012.pdf
> http://dbease.argusleader.com/dbEase/cgi-bin/go_get.pl
> http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/2001/0201.mencimer.html
> evidence of duplicity.
> http://www.mensnewsdaily.com/archive/a-b/adamo/2004/adamo090204.htm


2 posted on 09/14/2004 6:16:06 PM PDT by wrbones (For further details, read my published works...uh...work...uh...works...)
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To: wrbones

Big Bump!


3 posted on 09/14/2004 6:39:43 PM PDT by MACVSOG68
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To: MACVSOG68

I fergot to mention.

Ol' Tom Daschle is tied up in there too, but I haven't had time to sort through it all yet.


4 posted on 09/14/2004 6:45:09 PM PDT by wrbones (For further details, read my published works...uh...work...uh...works...)
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To: wrbones

I've been following the links from Kerry 2004 to the various left and ultra left sites. Concentrating on the cpusa (though they do not directly endorse Kerry) and the Democratic Socialists of America who have formally endorsed Kerry. There is so much material there that letters must be selective but powerful. Will work on it tomorrow.


5 posted on 09/14/2004 6:55:33 PM PDT by MACVSOG68
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To: MACVSOG68

Some of what I'm finding is absolutely chilling.

In the larger picture, Kerry is just a shill.


6 posted on 09/14/2004 6:57:07 PM PDT by wrbones (For further details, read my published works...uh...work...uh...works...)
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To: jdluntjr; All
I THINK

ANOTHER VERY HIGH PRIORITY MAY NEED OUR EFFORTS EVEN MORE.

PLEASE, WRITE OR PHONE THE CHURCHES IN YOUR AREA AND GET THOSE WITH BUS MINISTRIES--EVEN VANS--TO DEVELOP A PROGRAM

TO USE
THEIR BUSSES
AND VANS
TO GET

AT LEAST

THEIR PEOPLE
TO THE POLLS.

It might be possible to coordinate loosely with the GOP or some other group--CAN LEGAL EAGLES TELL US?--TO GET CONSERVATIVE VOTERS TO THE POLLS.

I think that getting conservatives to the polls is a super high priority.

Blessings,

7 posted on 09/14/2004 7:25:45 PM PDT by Quix (PLEASE EMAIL ZELL MILLER AND OTHERS INSISTING HE SPEAK OUT LOTS)
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To: jdluntjr
People also need to make contact with their local Republican party organization and volunteer for any campaigns in their area. I'm not doing enough, but I've been making some phone calls for candidates here in Louisiana. I've also given a great deal to our US Senate candidate.

Bill

8 posted on 09/14/2004 8:41:56 PM PDT by WFTR (Liberty isn't for cowards)
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To: jdluntjr

Bump for action!


9 posted on 09/14/2004 9:03:15 PM PDT by nomad
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To: jdluntjr

Now that we have the attention of Congress lets keep up the pressure, bump for action. Lets nail Dan Blather to the wall.


10 posted on 09/15/2004 3:22:25 PM PDT by nomad
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To: jdluntjr
I'm working on this one right now. Anyone interested can pick and choose for their own letters. I know it needs work.

Editor,

Polls across the nation continue to show that the war on terror and security are key issues that Americans will take with them into the voting booths this November. And paramount to the handling of these issues will be the foreign policy that the next president develops for our nation. We know how President Bush has and will likely continue to use foreign policy as a tool to fight world terrorism as it attempts to humble nations, kill indiscriminately and work towards the creation of an extremist Islamic empire.

But how will John Kerry formulate and utilize a foreign policy that will not take us back to September 10, 2001? We can only look at what Mr. Kerry has said and done during his Senate career, and to those who are supporting his candidacy. Based on his own votes over his 19 years in the Senate, Mr. Kerry appears to be formulating a foreign policy and a national security plan without the benefit of a strong military, or a strong and effective intelligence network. For in both of these areas, he has consistently voted to reduce spending almost indiscriminately. He has voted to:

· Kill the Defend America Act of 1996,

· Cut or eliminate almost every major military program including submarines, light infantry units, tactical fighter wings, the Navy's coastal mine-hunting program,and a significant forced retirement of 60,000 members of the armed forces.

· Slash military spending including pay raises on several occasions.

· Cut or eliminate almost every major military development program, including the B-2 Bomber and missile defense programs.

· Halt programs that would place or continue trade restrictions on nations such as Cuba, China, and Vietnam.

· Slash the budgets of intelligence agencies.

And while Mr. Kerry continually favored communist states including Nicaragua, Cuba, North Vietnam and later Vietnam, he has voted against US military efforts including Kosovo, the 1991 Gulf War, and voted against funding for our troops in Iraq, in a conflict that Mr. Kerry himself voted to authorize!

So, it should come as no surprise that Mr. Kerry now receives direct support in his presidential bid from such renowned organizations as the Democratic Socialists of America. Other leftist organizations such as the Communist Party of the US, Progressive Labor Party, the League of Revolutionaries, and International A.N.S.W.E.R, a communist backed anti-war organization, openly push for the defeat of President Bush, for they understand that John Kerry, not George Bush is a step toward the achievement of their totalitarian goals.

So as you enter the voting booth in November, keep in mind the importance of a strong and determined hand in the war on terror. Both of these candidates have established records to compare. Before you cast that ballot, ask yourself who would better prosecute and ultimately win this war.

11 posted on 09/15/2004 5:35:30 PM PDT by MACVSOG68
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To: jdluntjr
I just received an e-mail from newsmax that the following site wishes to buy a full page ad in USAToday slamming Dan Blather for his instigation of the Rathergate forged documents scam, check it out at RathergateAd
12 posted on 09/16/2004 3:07:12 PM PDT by nomad
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To: jdluntjr

Bump


13 posted on 09/17/2004 11:02:58 PM PDT by nomad
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To: jdluntjr; wrbones

See post 11 on this thread. Just got that letter in today's Aiken Standard, a local paper here in South Carolina.


14 posted on 09/19/2004 8:52:38 AM PDT by MACVSOG68
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To: nomad

Thanks! Mebbe I can put my tinfoil hat away...if I ever find it again...


15 posted on 09/19/2004 9:44:07 AM PDT by wrbones (Where'd I put my tin foil hat....)
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To: MACVSOG68
Hooooya....

Great news. We need more ---many more. Looks like the Kerry campaign and the media are ramping up on Iraq. Because of the recent large scale bombings they think Bush is weak... We can answer that very effectively, but we have to answer.

I tried registering for the online edition of the Aiken Standard, but I don't know if I'll be able to access the letters to the editor there or not. I hope I can.

John
16 posted on 09/19/2004 1:02:30 PM PDT by jdluntjr
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To: jdluntjr
I tried registering for the online edition of the Aiken Standard, but I don't know if I'll be able to access the letters to the editor there or not. I hope I can.

It's the only letter they printed today. Hope you can get on. I wish there was a way for us on FR to organize a better letter writing campaign, but the threads die too quickly.

17 posted on 09/19/2004 1:06:23 PM PDT by MACVSOG68
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To: MACVSOG68

The threads do die quickly, but we'll get it going. One of the things I'm thinking of is that as letters are published, we get copies of them and post them with the authors permission of course while keep directing people to information sources for writing their own. I don't know what the circulation of the Aiken Standard is, but I'll be your letter was read by hundreds if not thousands of uncommitted voters. That's what we need. You had the only letter printed and on Sunday as well. The liberals didn't have anything out there in the letter section. You're setting a tone in your community. That's critical.

Thanks for the great effort. We're not giving up. People are writing. It's just a few now, but it will get bigger.

John


18 posted on 09/19/2004 1:19:30 PM PDT by jdluntjr
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To: jdluntjr; Peach
Thanks John, I'll try and keep up my end of it. It would be nice if FR itself had a letter section that somehow didn't die, because I would bet that there have been quite a few we've not even heard about. Peach has had several letters published and they were excellent. Maybe a weekly thread linking to all the other threads would work. Not sure, but someone more directly involved with FR might have some thoughts.

You are right though, we all need to get those letters cranked up.

19 posted on 09/19/2004 3:01:01 PM PDT by MACVSOG68
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To: wrbones
Its time to take down the liberal Lame-Stream Media, with Danny boy leading the way.
20 posted on 09/19/2004 5:43:53 PM PDT by nomad
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