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John McCain: First Amendment Control Commissar By: Christopher G. Adamo Every decent American ought to be thoroughly outraged by what has transpired in response to the ads being run by those Swift Boat veterans contesting John Kerry’s accounts of his heroics during Vietnam. Rather than merely refute their claims, dark forces are working to suppress their efforts to speak out on this subject. Unfortunately, with too few Americans understanding the threat posed by those who would forcibly subdue others with whom they disagree, the reaction to this infuriating episode has been minimal. A previous assault on the rights of citizens,...

This is my first post, so bear with me.....long time reader. I just tried to access the Swift Vets site and it appears to be hacked.

========================================================= To: Newsmedia Organizations i.e. the New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe, Houston Chronicle, CBS, NBC, CNN, FoxNews, ABC, etc. ========================================================= In February of this year (2004), film-maker Michael Moore, soone echoed by Terrence McAuliffe, chairman of the Democratic National Committee, and other prominent Democrats, charged that President George W. Bush went Absent With-Out Leave (AWOL) while serving with the Texas Air National Guard thirty years ago. The largest news organizations in the country, from print media organizations such as the New York Times, Washington Post and Los Angeles Times, to television broadcast media organizations such...

Accepting the Democratic nomination for vice president, John Edwards said of John Kerry, "If you have any question of what he is made of, just spend three minutes with the men who served with him then." The Democratic National Committee is trying hard to keep you from spending a minute with most of the sailors who served with Kerry during his abbreviated tour in Vietnam, because they have unflattering things to say. The DNC is threatening to sue television stations which run a commercial produced by the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth. Of the 23 officers who served with Kerry...

<p>This book is insanely great! PLEASE...Buy it, read it, and then post your review at Amazon and elsewhere on the net. All you have to do to realize that the enemies of truth are hadr at work is look at majority of the reviews already posted at Amazon on the page for Unfit for Command.</p>

On the 5th I posted an article title The Media is the Real Enemy - Watch Media Reaction to the Swift Boat Vets Story and be Convinced!. After observing what has happened since and in particular the performance typified by Crossfire and Hardball tonight, is there any question remaining that our primary activism objective needs to be defeating the media hegemony that nourishes the beast? I've been involved in FReeper activism beginning way back with the March for Justice in '98. I now believe my energies have been nothing but shadow boxing. Every single action that we have undertaken against...

snipMedeiros is on active duty in the U.S. Army as a staff sergeant -- he's helping to train National Guard units on their way to Iraq at Ft. Bliss, Texas -- and cannot directly endorse any candidates. But he and his crew mates showed up on stage with Kerry last month at the Democratic Convention in Boston.snipKerry's boat happened to hit the shore right in front of an enemy soldier holding a grenade launcher. The soldier started running, maybe to get enough distance to be able to fire his weapon at the boat, Medeiros said. Kerry's forward gunner managed to...

FOUR major charges have been levelled against John Kerry by a group of Vietnam war veterans opposed to the Democratic presidential challenger. Charge One: Kerry is lying when he said he was sent, illegally, into Cambodia, on missions that made a mockery of official US claims that American forces were not in Cambodia, a neutral country. According to a forthcoming anti-Kerry book, Unfit for Command : "All the living commanders in Kerry's chain of command... indicate that Kerry would have been seriously disciplined or court-martialled had he gone" to Cambodia. Steven Gardner, the gunner's mate on Kerry's boat, has denied...

Apparently David Alston was not wounded in head on January 29 when Lt. Peck was wounded.

On June 24th of this year, ABC ran a story on the action that gained John Kerry a Silver Star. ABC's Jake Tapper spoke at length with Kerry's crew members, including David Alston, who is quoted at length in the narrative. Alston makes it clear that he participated in this action, which took place on February 28th, 1969: Since Kerry will not talk about the day he killed a man, four of Kerry's crewmates from the Navy Swift boat he commanded sat down with Nightline to try to explain what happened, though not one was eager to revisit the events...

For those of you who have not been fully following the Swift Vet's story, one of Kerry's traveling entourage (David Alston) claimed he was under Kerry's command on a PBF and found Kerry to be a great leader. He even gave a speech to that effect at the Democratic National Convention, where he said the following: I know him from a small boat in Vietnam, where we fought and bled together, serving our country. There were six of us aboard PCF-94, a 50-foot, twin-engine craft known as a "Swift Boat." We all came from different walks of life, but all...

(CNSNews.com) - Newly released FBI files reveal that presumed Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry attended a second meeting with North Vietnamese communists in Paris in the early 1970s. Kerry has previously admitted to meeting only once with the North Vietnamese delegations in 1970.According to the FBI files, Kerry met with representatives from the North Vietnamese government in Paris in 1971 in an effort to secure the release of captured American prisoners of war. Kerry has previously acknowledged meeting "both delegations" of Vietnamese communists in Paris in 1970, but has said nothing of the 1971 meeting. Researcher and author Jerry Corsi,...

Post-Intelligencer cartoonist David Horsey is away on vacation, resting up for his trip to the Republican National Convention in New York City. But as P-I editors this week sorted through readers' mail (and substitute cartoons), it became clear that for many the wounds of the Vietnam War remain fresh. There is the whole swift-boat episode and the various accounts about John Kerry. Some describe him as a hero, others as a liar. But boil it down and the gist of the complaint has nothing to do with the war itself. The complaints come from those who say Kerry wasn't a...

Fox news just reported there are questions now about where Rassmann actually was. He said he was on Kerry's boat when it got ambushed, but Kerry's web site says Rassmann was on the boat behind his. Just more questions about kerry's seemingly faulty memory.

Another FReeper, The Bandit, has raised the question about this photo and those appearing in it with Kerry. Definately go to that threadhttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1189173/posts?page=1 for full details. This post is to examine the picture itself. What is going on with this picture? It seems the shadows are from different sun angles. Does anyone have an explanation for this? (The top picture has had dark lines added to it to show the shadows in question. Bottom pic is as pulled from the other thread) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1189173/posts?page=1

A Vietnam veteran with ties to San Antonio has entered a minefield of controversy with a new book that questions John Kerry's war record, his three Purple Hearts and his ability to lead the country. John O'Neill, a 1963 graduate of Central Catholic High School and a Houston lawyer, co-wrote "Unfit for Command," a scathing critique of Kerry's military service, which O'Neill says has been highly exaggerated and in some cases fabricated. "I think it's important the country have the facts about John Kerry so that they can reach a reasonable decision," O'Neill said recently. Among O'Neill's charges: that two...

... On Monday ... Mr. Kerry ... acknowledged he would still have voted for the October 2002 Iraq war resolution even if he had known we wouldn't find WMD -- but only as a way to give the President more clout to negotiate. [H]e would have wanted the authority to go to war but without any intention of actually fighting it. How this admission will make the Kim Jong Ils and Ayatollahs of the world more pliable is hard to fathom. ... Mr. Kerry is now talking openly about bringing U.S. troops home from Iraq: ... "we're going to get...

Thirty-five years ago when his swift boat on patrol in Vietnam was under heavy fire from the shore, John Kerry turned his craft right into the fire, beached the boat, chased down the enemy, and killed him. Now, Kerry ... is under a different kind of attack. ... (A) group calling itself Swift Boat Veterans for Truth (SBVT) has taken to the airwaves in three battleground states with an ad claiming that Kerry lied to get his first Purple Heart and his Bronze Star." snip Now, any political consultant worth his retainer would say that for any candidate--much less a...

**Exclusive** TOUR OF DUTY author and John Kerry historian Doug Brinkley is rushing a piece for the NEW YORKER: to set-the-record-straight on Kerry's Christmas in Cambodia tale, the DRUDGE REPORT has learned. Kerry has turned to author Brinkley for a "modification" after it was exposed that Kerry was not in Cambodia during Christmas of 1968, as he once claimed from the Senate floor. The Brinkley piece for the NEW YORKER will now say that Kerry was not in Cambodia during Christmas, but rather in January, publishing sources tell DRUDGE. MORE Since the early 1970s, Kerry has spoken and written of...

  Call sign: Boston strangler [Editor's note: Now that John Kerry's Swift Boat service has become a major political issue (albeit still ignored in the Bigfoot media), The American Thinker is pleased to feature military historian John B. Dwyer's path-breaking expose scooping the national media, published on this site on May 13th, 2004] Thomas Wright was one of John F. Kerry's fellow Swift boat officers in Vietnam.  Since Wright outranked Kerry, he was Kerry's sometime boat group Officer-in-Charge, so Wright had occasion to observe Kerry’s behavior and attitudes, and the circumstances surrounding his early departure from the war zone. The intervening...