Posted on 10/19/2004 5:00:50 PM PDT by wagglebee
For the most part, I support President Bush’s handling of the war on terror and his domestic policy, but that’s not the main reasons why I am voting for him.
My vote for President Bush is as much a vote in opposition to Sen. John Kerry.
Specifically, it is the behavior of Kerry after he returned from four months in Vietnam that makes me angry.
Two days before President Bush’s visit, I shared a "Bloomin’ Onion" at the Outback restaurant in west Lantana, Fla. with a neighbor, a retired police chief.
Jim Corr, now a resident of Palm Beach County, once arrested and handcuffed Kerry, jailed him overnight, and then threatened to put him back in the lockup for a second night.
It’s a story never told by the mainstream media during this campaign, though it was well documented at the time.
A photograph of Kerry surrounded by helmeted Lexington police has been shown on national television countless times but never identified as his arrest.
Corr served on the Lexington, Mass., police force for 34 years, his last 16 as chief. Historic Lexington is where the first battle of the American Revolution was fought.
Kerry had just returned home from Vietnam.
He was an organizer of Vietnam Veterans Against the War. The group wanted to bivouac on the Battle Green of Lexington over the Memorial Day weekend, 1971.
"It is sacred land," Corr told me.
Defiant
Kerry went to the Board of Selectmen (similar to municipal government commissions or councils) for permission to camp on the battleground.
They unanimously turned down Kerry’s request. Trying to be helpful, the board offered Kerry another site.
Defying the law, Kerry and his anti-war friends gathered on the Lexington Green in spite of the board’s refusal of permission.
"That’s when they [the board] called me in," Corr said. "The board directed me to be sure they did not camp out on the common. I had the responsibility of making sure it didn’t happen."
Corr arranged for buses and had them hidden away from the common. Because the city jail was too small, he made arrangements to hold those arrested in an old public works building.
More Jail?
At the specified time, the police announced on loud speakers that everyone was in violation of town laws and asked them to leave or be placed under arrest. None left.
As the arrests were taking place, church bells began ringing throughout Lexington.
Plastic handcuffs secured the hands of every lawbreaker, including Kerry. More than 425 people were arrested. The next morning they all pleaded guilty and were fined.
"They gathered outside the courthouse to march out of town," Corr said.
"Kerry was holding the American flag upside down.
"I told him to put the flag the way it’s supposed to be or you’ll be locked up again."
Unconscionable
I know about the Vietnam War up front and personal. I visited the area during the war with my boss, former U.S. Sen. Jim Buckley, to talk to our troops and chiefs of state.
We also went to the war-torn countries of Laos and Cambodia, where Kerry says he was, maybe he was, or perhaps he just came close.
The overwhelming majority of our troops did not act as Kerry described them in Lexington and before Congress, also in 1971, after his four months overseas.
In my mind, it was unconscionable what he said and did.
It was because of the behavior of Kerry, and the likes of Jane Fonda, that our fighting men and women were treated like dirt when they returned.
I should have started my own 527 committee and purchased television time to report on Kerry’s arrest.
Can you imagine film footage of the man who wants to president of the United States with his hands behind his back in handcuffs, put there, not by the communist Vietcong, like Sen. John McCain experienced, but by a police chief from his home state of Massachusetts?
I would pay ANY amount of money to have this video!
'nuff said.
EXCELLENT REPORT, wagglebee. Thanks.
can we view this film footage??????????????? PLEASE????
Ping for more Kerry antiwar hoopla.
Probably, but I don't think mugshots just disappear.
Is there really film footage of this?
BUMP
Yes we can...because it has been shown on the news....the media is careful not to say what it is.
Now the secret is out even more.
Kerry is a criminal....and a communist.
If there is a John Kerry mug shot they will do a freedom of information request to get it and post it on the web. They have mug shots of Bill Gates and all kinds of folks.
I am sure that a mug shot of John Kerry would make for a great picture in a lot of websites and newspaper ads.
Please contact the following website to see if they will post this. Their email address is......
editor@thesmokinggun.com
thanks
bump
"I'll bet he got that conviction expunged and sealed while he was a prosecutor in Mass."
Isn't it amazing when America's blue blood children get to be treasonous juvenile deliquents and still get to run for President! Then there's old Jane traitor Fonda. Ugh If I pulled such stunts I probably would've been deported to Cuba or worse Iraq.
It sure beats a DUI charge!
I love this cop. And he's now in Palm beach County? hehe. Gee, an area Kerry is dependent on to win Florida. How interesting.
Honest to Heaven, it's amazing that a traitor like that can get anywhere this close to the presidency.
Sure hope to see a picture on Fox, etc... before Nov 2...
There is a still photo from the event which has been posted here--maybe someone has it handy?
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