Posted on 09/18/2004 9:39:20 PM PDT by Time4Atlas2Shrug
For years it was said that Jane Fonda committed treason when she went to Vietnam in July 1972. In the late 1990s, with increasingly widespread use of the Internet, the charge became a staple of discussion by conservatives and veterans. However, their belief in Fonda's criminality was not substantiated. We undertook to do just that, and laid out the definitive case against her in our 2002 book, "Aid and Comfort": Jane Fonda In North Vietnam.
A current parallel has arisen in connection with the presidential candidacy of John Kerry. For the past several weeks, the Internet has been ablaze with charges - as yet unexplained, let alone legally substantiated - that by travelling to Paris for meetings with the North Vietnamese communists and their Viet Cong allies in 1970, Kerry violated American criminal statutes. Indeed, one well-intentioned group Patriot Petitions, has disseminated a petition to President of the Senate Richard Cheney, Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, and Attorney General John Ashcroft, seeking Kerry's prosecution.
Just as Fonda's critics turned out to have been correct about their gut feelings regarding her treasonable actions in North Vietnam, so, too, Kerry's critics - who feel strongly that his trip violated the law, without quite knowing why - are correct.
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My private thoughts are that the charges are correct.
My public position is that it won't fly, and would be counter productive to persue; and, if persued, would fizzle like the Clinton impeachment.
My inner dream is to see him sitting next to Milosivic at The Hague.
Truth, achievability, and fantasy; you are right, we have to keep them seperated.
I'll settle for ignominiously defeating him so bad that he also loses his senate seat; and hopefully loosens his bowels in his pants around 11PM EST, 11/2/04.
Are you fro, Ducks Unlimited?
Just being "neighborly"
Not that I know of.
Have you done a google image search?
I'd bet my bottom dollar that the Swift Vets are, in their classy way, going to tell the American public that Mr. Kerry is indeed guilty as charged.
Also, in Unfit for Command it is shown that Kerry did not quit VVAW immediately after the November 1971 meeting in Kansas City where a vote was taken to assinate U.S. Senators. He continued giving speeches for them until April 1972. Kerry says he quit, but (huge understatement coming next) you have to consider the source.
Besides, I do not think the Swift Vets will demand that Kerrry be charged, They just want the public to know the truth. Then Kerry can spend the rest of his days in the same existential torment as does Mr. O.J. Simpson.
Unfortunately, he will not be defeated if no one works to defeat him. He will not lose on "flip-flops" alone. John O'Neill and his fellow swift boat veterans set out to clobber him so he would not occupy the office which commands the soldiers he spit upon during the Vietnam era. I think exposing his criminal actions will not only fly, but will astound many potential voters due to the fact that the MSM refuses to challenge any of the senator's ficticious claims about his service.
While President Bush is entitled to take the "high road", I, personally, will do what I can to let the truth be heard. I will happily act as a surrogate to discuss the dirt that the candidate may not find to be politically secure territory. No offense, but I do not believe in gentille politics, except as an affront to what is actually being said (be polite; fight really hard).
Kerry is a criminal. He is running on his Vietnam War record and, therefore, his actions during that period are fair game. He calls the president a liar and compares his service to that of draft-dodgers and then ass-kisses and vote-mongers before the servicemen and women of the National Guard just the other day.
He admitted to committing war crimes and attempting to negotiate with the enemy during wartime. There is nothing politically dangerous about the facts unless they are not on your side!! We cannot wait for the senator's pathetic campaign to sink itself.
Courage (anchor voice)
Sinkpur- Not only is the man a criminal, you are for supporting the invasion of illegal aliens. You yourself should be deported because you don't deserve the benifits of our predicecor's sacrifices.
If this man did commit this crime which he freely admits, why should he be forgiven just because he's running for an office.
The truth will never backfire.
With any luck....after Kerry is slaughtered in the election....some group will get togther and go after Kerry...Kerry's life is toast...just not his election chances....
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