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Woodrow Wilson threw Eugene Debs, a former presidential candidate, in prison just for demonstrating for peace negotiations with Germany during World War I. No court overturned his imprisonment. He had to receive a pardon from President Harding.

It is starkly evident that we have SERIOUSLY lost our moral compass.
1 posted on 10/13/2004 7:26:00 AM PDT by gunnygail
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To: gunnygail

Let's see if this reaches beyond the NY Sun. Keep posting it and keep sending it to your lists.


2 posted on 10/13/2004 7:27:36 AM PDT by sarasota
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To: gunnygail
Did you glance at the Breaking News column or do a search first?

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1243544/posts

3 posted on 10/13/2004 7:29:10 AM PDT by Cultural Jihad
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It's about time!


4 posted on 10/13/2004 7:29:13 AM PDT by martian_22 (Who tells you what you are?)
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This is the third time I've seen this article today ... same title each time.


6 posted on 10/13/2004 7:33:51 AM PDT by BluH2o
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The article says "There is one odd coincidence that gives some weight to the possibility that Mr. Kerry was dishonorably discharged." Technically incorrect.

Unless the law was very different in 1972 (and I doubt it was), an officer like Kerry could not have been "dishonorably discharged." He could have been "dismissed" (the functional equivalent of a DD), but only pursuant to a court-martial. I see no indication that he was ever court-martialed, and since courts-martial are a matter of public record, we would all know about it if he had been.

On the other hand, he could have received an involuntary administrative discharge, which could have been characterized as "honorable," "general," or "under other than honorable conditions (UOTHC)."

These may sound like technical points, but unlike the MSM, we need to be accurate and credible. A DD (or dismissal) implies a criminal conviction. An administrative separation does not.


9 posted on 10/13/2004 7:39:42 AM PDT by CaptainVictory
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Eddie Slovik was executed for less.


10 posted on 10/13/2004 7:41:50 AM PDT by Westlander (BzzZZZ Pffft Gone)
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Please use the Search tool or look at the sidebar. How many of these threads will there be? It's just too hard to try to read them all. It's much better when you can just go to one thread to see the discussion.


14 posted on 10/13/2004 7:50:42 AM PDT by MineralMan (godless atheist)
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Generally, by 11:00am, stories like this have been posted at least 15 times. This one was quite active when I checked at 7:30.


16 posted on 10/13/2004 7:57:45 AM PDT by js1138 (Speedy architect of perfect labyrinths.)
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Lurch, if this less than honorable discharge story is true, you're too stupid to be President.


October Surprise?


19 posted on 10/13/2004 8:31:10 AM PDT by trentk (trentk)
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To: gunnygail
mystery discharge
21 posted on 10/13/2004 9:56:43 AM PDT by A.A. Cunningham
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Also not available at Kerry's web site are the December '68 and January '69 spot reports.

The February and March ones are posted.

It's easy to figure why. The December report, in Kerry's own words, would blow away the "christmas in Cambodia" claim. The January one would evidence his bs about shooting up the sampan.

As for the March report, it blows away the third purple heart story, but in a way that requires much decipherment. It was Kerry's ticket to bug out under the supposed "3ph" rule.

Kerry's contemporaneous report attributes his shrapnel injury to the "mine incident" - which would qualify as enemy action in the heat of battle. But he, and Rassman, later admitted the injury came from a foolish fragging of a rice bin earlier in the day, self-inflicted and NOT in the heat of battle. Kerry lied to get home. Many did, but didn't years later claim their acts heroic and a qualification for political office.


22 posted on 10/13/2004 11:12:11 AM PDT by Shermy
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Any comments from Rush or Hannity today?


28 posted on 10/13/2004 12:30:53 PM PDT by IM2MAD
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