Concealed Kerry

Free Hunters magazine (Re-printed in the Oct. 04 issue of 1st Freedom) ^ | Oct. 2004 | Wayne R. LaPierre & Chris W. Cox

[Redcloak]

ELECTIONS 2004 SPECIAL REPORT

'John Kerry is the only man in America who wears blaze orange as camouflage."

Sandra S. Froman,  NRA  First Vice President

Concealed Kerry

Lifelong hunter. Sportsman. Dove Hunter. Con Artist. Don't fall into the trap being set by presidential hopeful John Kerry. A close look at his record--and at his supporters--shows where he really stands on matters near to the hunters heart. A revealing portrait of an accomplished doublespeaker.

By Wayne R. LaPierre & Chris W. Cox

Democratic Presidential Hopeful John Kerry's transparent attempt to absolve his career-long aggression against the Second Amendment by claiming to be a "lifelong hunter" and a believer in what he craftily and narrowly defines as "the right to bear arms" is akin to a serial shoplifter claiming to be a "preferred customer."

The fact that John Kerry poses as a hunter cannot cover his serial attempts to progressively steal Americans' Second Amendment rights--rights inextricably intertwined with the future of our unique hunting heritage.

Since he was first elected to the Senate from Massachusetts in 1984 to serve as an acolyte to Sen. Edward Kennedy, Kerry has voted more than 50 times to diminish the rights of firearms owners and hunters. Fact is, Kerry has more than earned his "F" rating from NRA.

Kerry's spinmeisters, and their enablers in the media who keep repeating the mantra that he is a "lifelong hunter and gun owner," are going for a mental disconnect, selling the bogus notion that gun control-- the progressive erosion of the Second Amendment--has nothing to do with hunters.

Consider the real meaning of Kerry's latest gun control votes, which came in March when he broke his perfect record of Senate absenteeism to make his first votes of 2004-- specifically to kill NRA-backed legislation that would have ended the ongoing plague of purely punitive, malicious lawsuits designed to bankrupt the law-abiding firearms trade in America. Those suits, virtually all of which have been thrown out of court, have cost consumers--hunters--literally hundreds of millions of dollars.

Enactment of that reform, which Kerry and his close allies, Ted Kennedy, Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., and Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif, loaded with poisonous amendments to ban semi-autos and criminalize now-legal private sales at gun shows, is critically important to the future of hunting in America. Kerry, who gets huge financial support from trial lawyers, proudly voted to kill the bill.

The connection between hunting and major lawsuits to kill the firearms industry should be a no-brainer. No firearms, no hunting. No ammunition, no hunting.

These malevolent suits, which seek to make the whole chain of lawful commerce in firearms and ammunition pay the ultimate price for acts of violent criminals, are not just aimed at federally licensed manufacturers, distributors and individual dealers. They are intended to harm consumers.

Think about today's price for a box of ammo or the cost of a hunting rifle. Then think of the hundreds of millions of dollars paid by every element of the lawful firearms chain of commerce for legal fees and court costs. If the consumer didn't share in that cost, there would be no firearms industry.

Hunters Pay the Urban Lawsuit Tax

With All These Lawsuits, the nation's hunters are paying a punitive private tax levied for the pleasure of big city machine politicians, fat-cat trial lawyers and the special interest gun-ban lobbies.

When urban mayors began filing a long list of coordinated attack lawsuits in conjunction with groups like the Brady Campaign (Handgun Control, Inc.), the Violence Policy Center and the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence, there was no question about the end game--a slow death to lawful firearms commerce.

John Coale, Washington, D.C., tort lawyer, bragged to The Washington Post,"the legal fees alone are enough to bankrupt the industry." The Post also noted that, "many smaller manufacturers have been dropped by their insurers and are drowning in legal bills."

And who ultimately must pay those legal bills? Hunters, gun owners, consumers, of course.

The Tampa Tribune, in a March 14, 1999, story on the status of various big city anti-gun-industry lawsuits, forever defined the issue, saying:

"To the mayors and gun control advocates, only good can come of the lawsuits. Handgun Control (Inc.) officials said the companies will either lose in court and pay, or settle out of court and pay... The other option is that the firearms companies fight and, like dying from a thousand cuts, are driven out of business by the cost of the lawsuits."

The paper also quoted Josh Horwitz, executive director of the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence: "There's not a pot of gold at the end of this. There might be a bunch of bankrupt companies."

For hunters and wildlife conservationists, the bankrupting of the firearms industry, which John Kerry voted to sustain, could also represent a "death by a thousand cuts" to the Pittman-Robertson Wildlife Restoration Fund--the most successful federal wildlife conservation and maintenance program ever conceived.

The fund, which has seen nearly $6 billion spent on wildlife conservation throughout the nation, was created by shooters and hunters, who are the sole contributors to its programs through a federal excise tax on every box of ammo and every firearm sold through federally licensed dealers.

Eleven percent of every dollar we spend on firearms, ammunition and accessories pays the sole cost for wildlife conservation. Period. Birdwatchers, hikers, bikers and climbers who don't buy this equipment don't pay a dime.

If John Kerry's political allies among big city mayors, trial lawyers and gun ban advocates get their way and shut down the firearms industry, they will kill the single most important conservation effort in the history of the nation.

John Kerry's vote to embrace the "death by a thousand cuts" lawsuits was a vote against pro-hunting conservation programs funded by shooters and hunters. He can't have it any other way.

Know the Real John Kerry by His Supporters

IF GUN RIGHTS organizations have got his number, so do the animal "rights" (read, "anti-hunting") groups that give him top marks. As a consistent water-carrier for the rabidly anti-hunting Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) and its partner organization, Fund for Animals, Kerry has earned 100 percent ratings. These groups prize Kerry as key among legislators who have, in the organizations' own words, "emerged as animal protection leaders."

Kerry, the HSUS 100-percenter, says he is a hunter. Yet his supporters at HSUS say, "If we could shut down all sport hunting in a moment, we would."

John Kerry--the Fund for Animals 100-percenter--wears a blaze orange vest for a phony media photo-op pheasant hunt in Iowa to create an image as a hunter, but his close supporters at Fund for Animals say, "Hunting is cruel. It is deceitful. It is socially unjustified. It is ecologically disruptive. Fund for Animals opposes hunting in all its forms."

Something just doesn't add up. All of this reveals the truth behind Kerry's pose as a "lifelong hunter."

NRA First Vice President Sandra Froman put it best in her speech at the 2004 Annual Meetings and Exhibits in Pittsburgh:

"Those of us who hunt wear blaze orange in the woods to be seen," Froman said. "But John Kerry is the only man in America who wears blaze orange as camouflage."

Hunting for Publicity, Not Pheasants

NOWHERE IS THE hollow nature of that pose clearer than on Kerry's own Web site, found at johnkerry.com. The site includes a "Sportsmen for Kerry" page. Yet there is no independent Sportsmen for Kerry organization. Sportsmen for Kerry exists only on Kerry's campaign Web site, created by campaign workers to manufacture hunter support for their candidate. Some unions and other groups that boast Sportsmen for Kerry ties simply link back to the Kerry campaign-created Web page and the information provided there.

But there are photos of Kerry from his pre-Iowa caucus media "pheasant hunt"--images that his handlers and spinmeisters have crafted to fool some hunters and outdoor writers into believing that Kerry is just another good of boy, instead of an elitist, extremist gun-banner fully embraced by the likes of HSUS.

All of this follows the smoke-and-mirrors manifesto that another gun ban group, Americans for Gun Safety, developed jointly with the Democratic Leadership Group. Called "Taking Back the Second Amendment," the strategy document lays out a political battle plan under which "progressives need not change their positions ..." but merely, "change the rhetoric they employ." (Emphasis added.)

John Kerry could be the poster boy for this "Taking Back the Second Amendment" strategy.

When he spoke in favor of poison pill amendments to s. 659, The Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act, before voting to kill the firearms industry lawsuit reform, Kerry mockingly said, "I believe strongly in the Second Amendment. I believe in the right to bear arms as it has been interpreted in our country... (Emphasis added.)

Note Kerry does not say "keep and bear" arms. And in the view of most so-called "progressives," the Second Amendment only applies to the National Guard, not to individuals. The constant mantra among Kerry allies like Sen. Dianne Feinstein is that the courts have repeatedly and consistently interpreted the Right to Keep and Bear Arms as not applying to individual citizens.

In the same breath Kerry said, "however ... There is no right to have access to the weapons of war in the streets of America..."

Weapons of war?

If you don't think that statement applies to many "hunting rifles" and "sporting shotguns look no further than Kerry's prime co-sponsorship of s. 1431, a draconian piece of legislation giving the u.s. attorney general carte blanc to prohibit private possession of "any firearm" design which has been "procured for use by the United States military or any federal law enforcement agency..."

All of this comes under the rubric of "assault weapons" and would declare such firearms contraband because the government presumes that, based on military or police use, such firearms are "not particularly suitable for sporting purposes."

The military currently uses the ubiquitous Remington 700 rifles and Remington 870, and Mossberg 500 shotguns. Federal law enforcement agencies have used everything from Winchester Model 975 and Model 945 and Model 12S to the venerable prewar Model 70s. The list of contraband arms with a military procurement would cover '03 Springfields, 1917 Enfields, Mossberg .225, Kimber .22 target rifles. The list is endless.

This is Kerry's notion of "assault weapons." His name is on the bill, and its purpose is in black and white for all to read.

For those who think that the average pump or semi-auto shotgun commonly found afield is safe from government confiscation, look no further than England, South Africa and Australia, where all such arms have been forcibly removed from the hands of licensed owners. And where such bans have been implemented, sport hunting has simply vanished save for a privileged very few--the nobility and the elite.

Outdoor Writers Take the Bait

BUT ALL OF THIS is LOST on some outdoor writers, who seem to have bought into the AGS smoke and mirrors hiding the real John Kerry. All they see is a man in blaze orange saying, "I'm a hunter."

Outdoor writer James A. Swan, in National Review Online of all places, gushed over the man in the blaze orange vest:

"John Kerry caught the attention of hunters when he invited the press to go along on a pheasant hunt in Iowa last November ... By inviting the press along to photograph him as he bagged two birds with two shots, he proved that he was both a hunter and a damn good shot-- and also that he's not afraid of any animal-rights backlash.

"Some hunters also felt an instant kinship with Kerry As Ryan McKinney, the Iowa farmer on whose property Kerry hunted, said,'It feels a little safer if your presidential hopeful isn't going to go after your typical normal shotgun'." (Emphasis added.)

But witness Kerry's name on s. 1431. Read the legislation. Your typical, normal shotgun would be banned.

Kerry and his handlers are hoping for this kind of intellectual short-circuit, where the connection is lost between his constant attacks on the Second Amendment and the future of hunting--a freedom secured by the Constitution and under the wonderfully simple instruction of the Declaration of Independence:

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness."

Every aspect of the exercise of the Second Amendment by more than 80 million Americans-- collecting, shooting, self-protection, plinking and, of course, hunting--is inseparably entwined with Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness. There are 80 million individual reasons peaceable people own guns in America, and hunting is a large part of that Second Amendment exercise. Without that right, the tools for hunting will vanish as surely as they have in Britain and Australia.

John Kerry's run for the presidency threatens that very right--the right to pursue the happiness of the hunt and to pass that tradition down to future generations of American hunters.

[Redcloak]

Don't let a few square inches of blaze orange fool you!

[joesnuffy]

The real camo job is that people believe he walks upright and doesnt have a forked tongue

[ppaul]

The Communists
Behind Kerry's Anti-War Protests

The traitor Benedict Arnold was also highly decorated - John Kerry under arrest at a 1971 anti-war demonstration which desecrated historic Lexington, Massachusetts, where the opening shot of the American Revolution was fired

When Democrat Presidential candidate John Kerry returned from Vietnam, he immediately became a leader, a spokesman and an organizer for massive anti-war demonstrations that were funded, controlled and sponsored by openly Communist groups who explicitly stated that their goal was to enable America's Communist enemies to win the Vietnam war.

Vietnam Veterans Against the War (VVAW) - the anti-American and pro-Communist group that Kerry led - attended numerous demonstrations that were run lock, stock and barrel by admitted Communists.

"Hanoi John" Kerry takes rubbings at the Vietnam War memorial in Washington, DC of men whom he accused before the entire world, while the conflict was raging, of the most brutal war crimes

Kerry himself frequently spoke at these Communist rallies.

"Hanoi John" Kerry greets a fellow "hippie" Vietnam veteran (August 16, 2004)

In 1970 and 1971, Kerry's VVAW co-sponsored rallies with the Vietnam Moratorium Committee, Students for a Democratic Society, the Young Socialist Alliance, the Student Mobilization Committee, the New Mobilization Committee and the Black Panther Party.

Here is a review of Kerry's allies and sponsors from his days as an anti-war protester:

John Kerry's equally radical left-wing sister Peggy - She lives in Greenwich Village, New York - home of the Village Voice, a.k.a. the Village Vice, an infamous left-wing homosexual rag - and works for groups like the U.S. Mission to the America-hating, Jew-hating United Nations; the Planned Parenthood baby butchers; the New York Civil Liberties Union, which after September 11th defended Muslim terrorists under government investigation; and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), which favors abolishing all laws guarding children from pedophiles and pornographers. (The ACLU thinks that sex between pedophiles and children of any age - including newborn infants - is "normal.") Peggy Kerry was the February 2004 keynote speaker of the Village Independent Democrats, a viciously anti-Israel group, when it endorsed her brother for the White House. At that time, she joined with Deborah Glick, the Greenwich Village assemblyman who is the only lesbian in the New York State Assembly, in disputing the notion that John Kerry can never take a firm position on any issue, noting that in a reelection year, he was one of only 14 U.S. Senators to vote against the Defense of Marriage Act, designed to prevent homosexual "marriage."

Vietnam Moratorium Committee (VMC)

The VMC held huge rallies throughout the country from 1969 to 1972 where thousands of demonstrators waved the flags of America's Viet Cong Communist enemies and carried posters of North Vietnamese Communist dictator Ho Chi Minh. "Ho, Ho, Ho Chi Minh! The Viet Cong are going to win!" was the repeated chant of the VMC demonstrators.

John Kerry's sister Peggy was deeply involved as a volunteer for the VMC.

At a VMC rally on November 15, 1969 at the Justice Department in Washington, protesters broke windows, threw paint on the building, lowered the U.S. flag and attempted unsuccessfully to replace it with a Viet Cong flag. After police dispersed the violent demonstrators with tear gas, bands of the protesters roamed the city causing damage to numerous businesses. As a result of the VMC's "peaceful" demonstration, 606 people were injured, including 26 police officers. Later VMC rallies in 1970, 1971 and 1972 were equally violent.

An SDS poster with a whole host of anti-American, anti-Israel statements and symbols - "Smash ROTC" - A North Vietnamese flag and brandished weapons - "U.S. out of SE Asia & Mideast" - "Cops out of ghetto"

Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)

SDS was founded by followers of Chinese Communist dictator Mao Tzedong, who murdered millions of his fellow Chinese during his reign of genocidal terror in China. The SDS platform - adopted at their 1969 convention - openly called for a Maoite Communist takeover of America. The SDS platform also openly called for the destruction of the State of Israel.

Michael Lerner as a dreadlocked America-hater in the 1960s and as a Deformed "rabbi" of today, working for the destruction of little Israel

Many of SDS's founders were self-hating Jews, such as Mark Rudd and Michael Lerner. Lerner now claims to be a Reform "rabbi" who organizes "progressive" Jews to assist the Arab Muslim Nazis in their relentless war to annihilate little Israel. (The Judenrat Lerner is regarded as a perfectly respectable Jewish community leader by Jewish Establishment organizations.)

The treasonous vermin of SDS co-sponsored and prominently participated in most of the anti-war rallies where John Kerry was a speaker.

John Kerry said that the Arab Hitler Yasser Arafat is a "statesman"

Young Socialist Alliance (YSA)

YSA was - and still is - the youth group of the Trotskyite Socialist Workers Party. Devoted to the hideously evil philosophy of Communist terrorist Leon Trotsky, YSA openly called for a Communist takeover of America while it was co-sponsoring anti-war rallies with Kerry and the VVAW.

Hispanic extremists supported Hanoi, too - Communist propaganda glorifying the Latin American terrorist Che Guevara and a poster from a Hispanic group dedicated to the conquest of "Aztlan" (the southwestern United States), equating the peasantry of Vietnam and Mexico

YSA also openly called for the extermination of Israel - and still does to this day. "We call for the abolition of Israel," YSA proclaims on its current web site.

Student Mobilization Committee (SMC)

The SMC was controlled entirely by the Trotskyite Socialist Workers Party (SWP) and the Young Socialist Alliance (YSA). Every SMC office was run from top to bottom by SWP/YSA members.

This is important, since the SMC was one of the leading sponsors of Kerry's anti-war demonstrations.

"MANY THANKS FOR THE WORLD PEOPLE'S SUPPORT"
"Hanoi John" Kerry said that the Marxist butchers of North Vietnam were "full of love"

A propaganda poster (l.) from the Marxist butchers of North Vietnam thanked John Kerry and others like him for backing the Communist dictatorship during the Vietnam War. The Nixon White House staff agreed that Kerry was their most potent enemy in the "anti-war," pro-Communist movement. The Vietnamese Communists long ago placed photographs of him prominently in their Saigon war museum.

Self-hating Jewish Communist lawyer William Kunstler - His clients included the degenerate "comic" Lenny Bruce, the murderous Black Panther Bobby Seale, Malcolm X, self-hating Jewish "yippie" Abbie Hoffman, crackhead Washington Mayor-for-Life Marion Barry and the Arab Muslim terrorists who murdered the saintly Rabbi Meir Kahane in 1990 and perpetrated the first World Trade Center attack in 1993, the opening shots of Islam's war of terror against the American homeland

New Mobilization Committee (NMC)

Most NMC leaders were members of the Communist Party or Communist Party-affiliated organizations. The NMC held meetings with the North Vietnamese and Viet Cong Communist enemies of America in order to receive instructions on how to best coordinate their anti-war protests.

On February 21, 1970, at an NMC rally in Washington, the main speaker was William Kunstler, the late and unlamented self-hating Jewish Communist lawyer who later would defend in court at no charge the Muslim Nazi terrorists who murdered the saintly Rabbi Meir Kahane in 1990 and who bombed the World Trade Center the first time in 1993. Following Kunstler's inciteful speech, NMC demonstrators stoned police and started smashing windows. Over 100 NMC protesters were arrested.

A left-wing poster supporting the criminals behind the bloody 1971 Attica prison riot - still called a "revolt," "rebellion" and "insurrection" by today's left-wing apologists for crime and John Kerry - The black "hero" is imprisoned by an American flag whose stripes are the bars of his cage; silhouetted in the foreground are the baton-wielding "pigs" (police) keeping him "enslaved"

The NMC was a leading co-sponsor of Kerry's anti-war demonstrations.

Black Panther Party (BPP)

The viciously anti-white and anti-Semitic Black Panthers were co-sponsors of most of Kerry's anti-war rallies. The Panthers claimed to be fighting against drug dealers in their communities. Yet most Panther leaders were themselves eventually arrested for drug dealing.

A Black Panther newspaper cartoon - The crude drawing shows the "pig" of "American imperialism" backed onto spikes, with a spike through its eye, a dagger through its snout and riflemen warning it to withdraw from Africa, Latin America, Asia and the ghetto

In 1969 alone, 348 Panther members were arrested for serious crimes including murder, rape, armed robbery, bank robbery and burglary. The Panther newspaper urged blacks to use "high-powered rifles" against police officers with "enough killing force to knock the pig out of his shoes at a distance of three or four blocks." Police uncovered at Panther headquarters 125 machine guns, sawed-off shotguns, rifles and hand grenades, together with thousands of rounds of ammunition. Police also found 47 Molotov cocktails plus homemade bombs, gunpowder, bayonets, swords and machetes.

Most Panther leaders eventually converted to Islam. The Panther newspaper urged active support for Arab terrorists such as Al Fatah in order to murder all "Zionist pigs."

The newspaper concluded, "The only good Zionist pig is a dead Zionist pig!!!"

Black Panthers, Hispanic gang members and self-hating whites turn out for the 1969 Oakland trial of Black Panther cop-killer Huey Newton
The sign reads "Try police, not Huey"

"Do not let them escape!" - A North Vietnamese propaganda poster encourages Communist terrorists to slaughter U.S. soldiers fleeing downed helicopters

Did John Kerry really agree with the Communist, anti-American, anti-Israel and anti-Semitic views of the radical left-wing groups that he worked closely with in the early 1970s?

Whether or not he agreed with these grotesque individuals, the mere fact that he knowingly joined with them, assisted them and made speeches with them must automatically disqualify him to be President of the United States or hold any other office.

If Kerry did not share all of their vile views, but worked with them solely to advance his own career, then he is a traitor who betrayed his country for purely opportunistic reasons.

Thirty-five years ago, to further his political career, "Hanoi John" Kerry accused his fellow soldiers of atrocities in Vietnam - while the war was raging - Now, thirty-five years later, to further his political career, he is trying to convince groups like the Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) that he is no Benedict Arnold

Self-hating Jew Abbie Hoffman (l.) spoke with Jew-hating Black Panthers like Carl Brown

If Kerry did agree with the horrific views of these extremist organizations - or at least with some of their horrific views - then the situation is even worse.

Either way, we have no choice but to hold our noses and vote for George Bush as the lesser of the two evils. Bush is terrible, but Kerry is worse.

In this very close Presidential election, do you want John Kerry's dark past fully exposed?"John Kerry reporting for duty" - to serve the enemies of America and Israel - John Kerry accepts the left-wing Democrat Party nomination for President of the United States (July 30, 2004)

[neverdem]

I think you should repost this a few times as an annoucement, about once a week to Election Day. Good catch, great post!

[Redcloak]

There were two great articles in the same issue of 1st Freedom. I posted the other here. I couldn't find either online, so I made use of our scanner and OCR software.

[Redcloak]

Another for your ping list...

[Travis McGee]

Anybody who can find a huge 12 point buck on Cape Cod has got to be a great hunter!

Or a bad liar.

[Joe Brower]

I'll take door #2.

[Joe Brower]

I've been very busy working on the various GOP campaigns, both statewide and national, so I haven't been hanging around FR like I usually do.

Here is some great info to share with those "undecideds".

[Redcloak]

Perhaps he found it on eBay.

[Travis McGee]

How's the election looking in FL?

[Joe Brower]

Beats me. I'm too busy in the trenches to know if we're winning or losing the battle. The big brains sure aren't bothering to keep the grunts informed. I do know that those of us in the "ground campaign" are very busy keeping on top of the dem's dirty tricks.

Sound familiar?

[Andonius_99]

Perhaps he found it on eBay...

Nah, you just have to sneak up on it while crawling on your belly...

[blackie]

Kerry is wrong on every issue; especially guns ~ vote for:

~~ Bush/Cheney 2004 ~~

[tarawa]

Great articles. Thanks.

[Redcloak]

Kerry isn't merely wrong; he knows he's on the wrong side and he's lying about it. You don't see Chucky Schumer out there trying to pass himself off as an outdoorsman. Schumer does, at least, have the intellectual honesty not to play act at being a "typical gun owner".

[elbucko]

Schumer does, at least, have the intellectual honesty..

No Schumer doesn't! He has lied, cheated and stole on the issue of the Second Amendment, an integral part of a document he had sworn to uphold and defend. Schumer is just as fake as Kerry and just as insidious.

[Redcloak]

To his credit, I've never seen Schumer in blaze orange. He may not be a "true believer" (i.e. it may not be about gun control with Chucky, but rather, people control) but, at least he doesn't insult our intelligence the way Kerry does.

[elbucko]

And in the view of most so-called "progressives," the Second Amendment only applies to the National Guard, not to individuals.

Therefore, since the 2nd. Amendment protects the "right of the people to keep and bear ams", this then protects the "right" of the National Guard to keep and bear arms"? I don't think so. Government does not have rights. Individuals do. Government has powers. And duties. In this case, government is charged with protecting the rights of individuals, not diminishing those that exist, or assuming powers it does not have.

[blackie]

Kerry is a gutless, gun hating girly-man!

~~ Bush/Cheney 2004 ~~