Posted on 06/10/2002 2:37:22 PM PDT by Tailgunner Joe
With Friday's conviction for the first-degree murder of Martha Moxley, how many women have the Kennedys killed, harmed or maimed?
Let's count:
Back in July of 1969 Sen. Teddy Kennedy drove a car off a bridge, killing 'Boiler Room Girl' Mary Jo Kopechne. By his own admission, he caused her death.
So, that is One Woman Dead.
Then, four years ago, John F. Kennedy Jr. flew his airplane into the Atlantic Ocean off Nantucket, killing his wife and sister-in-law. The Kennedy family has admitted his negligence by settling a multimillion-dollar 'wrongful death' lawsuit threatened by the Bessette family. According to published reports, the estate of JFK Jr. paid the Bessette family in excess of $20 million.
So, with the deaths of those two young women, the Hard Count is three women dead.
Friday's conviction of Ethel Kennedy's nephew Michael Skakel for the first-degree, golf-club, skull-crushing murder of 15-year-old Martha Moxley - and the concerted Kennedy family effort to keep the lid on that crime for 27 years - shows 'America's royal family' for what it really is: more interested in preserving its own fortunes and power than in the lives of young women.
So, the Moxley murder brings the Kennedy Hard Count to four women dead.
Back in the late 1970s, Joe Kennedy, Ethel and Bobby's oldest son, recklessly drove a Jeep on a beach one day with a female passenger. Kennedy - who would go on to become a U.S. congressman - flipped the Jeep and crushed the girl's spine, leaving her paralyzed for life from the waist down.
Of course, Kennedy walked away unharmed.
The Kennedy family settled the case before it got to court; after all, young Joe's political viability had to be preserved!
That brings the Hard Count to four women dead, one permanently crippled.
Then we have the case of Joe's younger brother Michael, who was married to the daughter of football legend Frank Gifford. During that marriage, Michael began an affair with a 15-year-old babysitter. Several years later, this story was made public, causing Michael to drop out of a House race, causing his wife to leave him, and even forcing older brother Joe to abandon his candidacy for governor of Massachusetts.
Michael died not much later when he recklessly skied into a tree in Colorado while trying to catch a football with one hand and videotaping the scene with his other hand.
But he clearly committed statutory rape, bringing the Hard Count to four women dead, one paralyzed and one raped.
Of course, this Hard Count does not include Patricia Bowman, the Palm Beach woman who accused William Kennedy Smith of raping her on the lawn of the Kennedy Compound in 1991. He was acquitted of all charges.
And this Hard Count does not include the never satisfactorily explained death of movie icon Marilyn Monroe. The beautiful actress had had illicit affairs simultaneously with both President Kennedy and Attorney General Robert Kennedy. Many have speculated that they may have had something to do with her death.
Despite such an abysmal criminal record, women's groups continue to support all Kennedys running for office. No one seems to care about all the pain and humiliation the Kennedys' behavior has caused their wives, families and children. And Teddy Kennedy, courted by President Bush for help in passing the education bill, has already dumped on Bush's government reorganization plan by saying, "It sounds like we're rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic."
A similar double cross was evident last year when President Bush named the Justice Department building after Robert Kennedy. At the ceremony, one of RFK's daughters - standing in front of the very president who was generously honoring her father - used the occasion to blast the Bush policies!
Nice, eh?
No, the Kennedys are indeed 'above the law.' No one else - not even Bill and Hillary Clinton - could ever get away with so many crimes and betrayals.
Yes and the same feminist groups supported Clinton when he was raping and abusing women too. The hypocrisy from these people is so obvious and blatant one wonders how anyone in the media can take them seriously.
Oh, I think Willie killed a lot more people than all the Kennedy Klan combined. The Clintons sure carried on the Kennedy work though - kill anyone that gets in the way.
I despise the Kennedys and all they stand for, and believe that Ted Kennedy is at least guilty of negligent homicide in Mary Jo's death. But facts are facts. The Moxley murder was committed by a Skakel, not a Kennedy.
I never bought Patricia "Blue-Dot" Bowman's story. The sex seemed pretty consensual from the evidence at hand and the whole thing sounded like she wished to avail herself of some Kennedy perks. Plus, the prosecution did a miserable job of presenting its case. Including Moira whats-her-name, the prosecutor that found it impossible to believe that Kennedy-Smith had been able to perform twice in the same evening. "What are you, some sort of sexual Superman?" she asked Kennedy-Smith. And then she called Teddy in what must have been the biggest non-event in the history of jurisprudence. From his testimony, we learned that the two of them went drinking that night and that the Kennedy compound has no air conditioning. That's it. Who puts on a witness for THAT!?!?
I'm no Kennedyphile, but the Patty Bowman case was an anomaly to me - a groundless accusation against a Kennedy. Maybe the only one EVER.
Michael
The total membership of all feminist groups is less than the number of FReepers. I betcha.
Was it a fir tree? Maybe he was trying to catch a piece of ash but got confused.
On the other hand, Sonny Bono required his full attention on the matter at hand to accomplish the same thing...
Yeah probably but they sure are loud ain't they? Especially when the politician having women troubles is a Republican.
Simple. Because the media shares their agenda.
It's not hypocrisy if the real goal is socialism, instead of women's rights.
No, he was pining for a bush.
Your point is well taken, though, regarding the hypocrisy of these limousine liberals, who really don't care about anyone other than themselves.
Did you know that studies have indicated that Ted was going 97 MPH when he went off that bridge with MJ? It would have took an impact that big to knock her pantyhose off and for them to land in the glove compartment.
Finally folks, I had a chemistry teacher that had a bumper sticker that said, "More folks have died in the back seat of a Kennedy's car than have died from nuclear power." He told us, "That was before Chernobyl of course."
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