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Posted on 09/25/2004 7:16:14 PM PDT by CHARLITE
Questioning Kerry's patriotism Judson Cox April 26, 2004
John Kerry has accused Republicans of questioning his patriotism. Why not question Kerry's patriotism? Should not a candidate for the Presidency of the United States be patriotic? Should he not love and be loyal to the land he hopes to lead? I say yes, and I will question Kerry's patriotism.
Sen. Kerry has a record of engaging in activity that falls just short of treason; he has aided and abetted enemies of the United States.
Kerry has falsely maligned U.S. soldiers as war criminals:
"They told stories that at times they had personally raped, cut off ears, cut off heads, taped wires from portable telephones to human genitals and turned up the power, cut off limbs, blown up bodies, randomly shot at civilians, razed villages in fashion reminiscent of Genghis Khan, shot cattle and dogs for fun, poisoned food stocks, and generally ravaged the countryside of South Vietnam..." (Vietnam Veterans Against the War Statement by John Kerry to the Senate Committee of Foreign Relations, April 23, 1971.)
Kerry's speeches were used by the Viet Cong to demoralize American soldiers held as prisoners of war:
"Paul Galanti learned of Kerry's [1971] speech while held captive inside North Vietnam's infamous 'Hanoi Hilton' prison. The Navy pilot had been shot down in 1966 and spent nearly seven years as a prisoner of war...During torture sessions, he said, his captors cited the antiwar speeches as 'an example of why we should cross over to [their] side." (Los Angeles Times, Feb. 17, 2004)
Kerry allied himself with enemies of the United States and took part in demonstrations in which American flags were desecrated and American soldiers denigrated:
John Kerry headed the Vietnam Veterans Against the War, described as "revolutionary Communists" by the Boston Herald Traveler, which reported an "abundance of Vietcong flags, clenched fists raised in the air, and placards in support of China, Cuba, the USSR, North Korea and the Hanoi government. (John F. McManus, "Kerry Postures as a War Hero," May 5, 2003, The New American.)
"Under Kerry's leadership, VVAW members mocked the uniform of United States soldiers by wearing tattered fatigues marked with pro-communist graffiti. They dishonored America by marching in demonstrations under the flag of the Viet Cong enemy." (Chuck Noe, "What You Don't Know About John Kerry," January 20, 2004, Newsmax.)
Kerry's book, The New Soldier, displayed VVAW members mocking the marines at Iwo Jima and holding an American Flag upside down. "These people spit on the flag, they burn the flag, they carry the flag upside down, [and] they all but wipe their noses with it in their efforts to show their contempt for everything it still stands for." (John F. McManus, "Kerry Postures as a War Hero," May 5, 2003, The New American.)
Kerry's statements show contempt for America:
"Our democracy is a farce; it is not the best in the world." — John Kerry in a 1971 speech at West Virginia's Bethany College
Sen. Kerry met with the Viet Cong government to negotiate a peace settlement without the authorization of our government:
"I have been to Paris. I have talked with both delegations at the peace talks, that is to say the Democratic Republic of Vietnam and the Provisional Revolutionary Government and of all eight of Madam Binh's points it has been stated time and time again, and was stated by Senator Vance Hartke when he returned from Paris, and it has been stated by many other officials of this Government, if the United States were to set a date for withdrawal the prisoners of war would be returned." (Vietnam Veterans Against the War Statement by John Kerry to the Senate Committee of Foreign Relations, April 23, 1971.)
Logan Act
(1799), U.S. legislation, passed during administration of John Adams and era of tension between U.S. and France; essentially forbids private citizens from involving themselves in making foreign policy; resulted from efforts of George Logan, who met with French government officials in attempt to stave off war; meeting called treasonous... (Encyclopedia Brittanica)
US Code
TITLE 18 > PART I > CHAPTER 45 > Sec. 953.
Any citizen of the United States, wherever he may be, who, without authority of the United States, directly or indirectly commences or carries on any correspondence or intercourse with any foreign government or any officer or agent thereof, with intent to influence the measures or conduct of any foreign government or of any officer or agent thereof, in relation to any disputes or controversies with the United States, or to defeat the measures of the United States, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than three years, or both.
Sen. Kerry dismisses his lack of patriotism by noting his service. It would be beyond folly to forgive Kerry's actions on the basis of the four months he served in Vietnam. Had Kerry been the greatest war hero our nation has ever known, he would still be capable of holding unpatriotic beliefs and engaging in seditious activities. The most famous traitor in our nation's history, Benedict Arnold, was also one of our nation's greatest war heroes. In a saner period of history, Sen. Kerry would be tried for treason, not running for President.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Judson Cox is a political columnist from the mountains of North Carolina. He is quickly gaining recognition as one of the most popular and influential voices of his generation. As a college student, and a young entrepreneur, he has a unique perspective on matters of politics, economics, and culture. Judson is Director of Information for the Foundation for Conservative American Values.
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© Copyright 2004 by Judson Cox http://www.renewamerica.us/columns/cox/040426
John Kerry may have very strong patriotic feelings. Unfortunately, that patriotism is not directed toward support of and love for the same America that I hold in great patriotic sentiment.
A replication of the Euro-nanny state kind of country, of unctuous pronouncements of how we "should" and "must" restrain our behavior, and an almost unnatural earnestness in trying to please those who only despise us, is not a recipe for a healthy love of country. America is what it is BECAUSE of unfettered and unrestrained permissiveness, that only slaps on limits when real self-destructive behavior sets in. Our greatest advances have come because some of our most outrageous dreamers being given free rein.
Imperious orders and official demands cannot elicit the kind of free-wheeling thinking that builds new paradigms and opens new lines of thought. If one person dreams of a new vision, and communicates it, the rest of us can share in and help fulfill that vision.
So far, John Kerry has not given us too much of a vision.
The following are my thoughts, and mine alone, I speak for no one else.
The DNC and Kerry are as to Al Qaeda in Iraq, what their counterparts, Sinn Fein and Gerry Adams are as to the IRA in Ireland, they are both nothing more than political mouthpiece wings for terrorist groups.
Having been exposed as they were during the Vietnam era, the DNC and Kerry have now shed their last cloak of patriotic deceit about winning the war on terror in Iraq, It is back to hate America, hate our military. The DNC and Kerry are working in orchestrated coordination with Kofi Annan and the UN, repeating almost verbatim the United Nations resident terrorist prophets of doom and gloom press releases, spieling perfectly the speeches of defeatism from that viper's nest housed there on the Hudson.
Kerry's agenda is first to demoralize America, followed by appeasement, then, surrender to the terrorist enemy's terms in Iraq, he has no intent of winning there, he will use his same scum bag (Momma-T's terminology) anti-war policy from over 30 years ago, CUT and RUN. I do not think it is a matter of him not having the will to fight the terrorists, it is much more profound, he prefers that enemy to win, not Iraq, not America, not the coalition, but the terrorists.
He damned over three million (3,000,000) souls to horrible deaths when he and his hate America cohorts accomplished their betrayal of South Vietnam and consequent pull out from all of South East Asia. Kerry and his Jane Fonda ilk have no regrets whatsoever for their planned actions during those turbulent times, they are proud of their complicity in humiliating America and that 58,000 of our brave troops died there. Even today, as they repeatedly love to say adnauseam, for a mistake.
Listen and pay heed to the DNC and Kerry's rhetoric, pay very, very, close attention, they are really telling America exactly what they are going to do. Abandon the Iraqi people to the tender mercies of insane murderers, as those 3,000,000 decades ago they abandoned, to be slaughtered by their commie filth soul mates in Vietnam and Cambodia.
"O'Reilly called Kerry a patriot. Kerry has admitted that he committed war crimes in Viet Nam. Kerry radically opposed the Viet Nam war when he returned home by joining the VVAW who voted to assassinate congressional leaders. Kerry's voting record for nearly 20 years as a US Senator shows that he was against every defense system that would be used to protect us. How anyone, O'Reilly included, can label this opportunistic pathological liar a patriot is beyond me?"
True - It is a sad state of affairs when a man (TRAITOR) such as Kerry runs for U.S. PRESIDENT.
If it wasn't for the internet and a couple news media stations, Kerry would be 80-20 ahead in the polls.
As would all of The Left, and apparently, the majority of Americans.
The campaign of demonizing GWB has succeeded beyond even The Left's wildest dreams.
This will tell you everything you should know on this!!!
None of these facts, however, becalmed him. His book has a young man's brash, polemical tone. The Star-Spangled Mirror is a critique of moralism in America's foreign policy -- and, more than that, it is a critique of America's national character."
"O'Reilly is a DUNCE.
Dam Rather is a Thief.
John Curry is a Frenchman.
Koffi is Ugly.
George W. Bush is George Washington's Prodigy."
OK
Why not question that which is demonstrably deficient?
All along the Watch Tower
A wild cat did growl
Two riders were approaching
And the wind began to howl.....
That is so bloody pretentious for a 20 something to assume that he has all the wisdom after a couple of meetings.
I don't question his patriotism at all. I don't have to question it. I know he is a traitor. Simple as that. A spade is a spade. He is an anti American traitor.
This American calls a "spade a spade" and a traitor a traitor, John Kerry has no allegiance to this Republic.
of COURSE the words treason and sedition are still alive and kicking - they just get applied exclusively to republicans :)
Maybe we should send this article to the gal at FOX who refuses to run the latest Swift Boat ad because it talks of "treason" .. although all it says is Kerry betrayed his country.
John Kerry has no patriotism to question.
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