SwiftVets.com

[EODARMY]

Good read at frontpagemagazine.com:
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
http://www.frontpagemagazine.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=14982
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
John Kerry, Patriot?
By Henry Mark Holzer and Erika Holzer
FrontPageMagazine.com | September 8, 2004

The people draweth nigh unto me with their mouth, and honoureth me with their lips; but their heart is far from me. -- St. Matthew 15:8

The American phrase “lip service” is derived from this Biblical quotation. It connotes insincerity, or “expressed with the lips, but not acted upon or believed.” Although the current democrat presidential campaign has been rife with lip service on countless subjects, among the most objectionable—often reverentially uttered, mantra-like, not just by democrats, but by reporters, TV talking heads, and, regrettably, even prominent Republicans—is that John Kerry is a “patriot.”

Even the slightest doubt expressed about Kerry’s patriotism will evoke vigorous denial that runs the gamut from raised eyebrows to utter disdain to uncontrollable wrath. As we saw when Kerry appeared at a late-night Ohio rally following the close of the Republican Convention, he is stung even by a non-attack: “They have attacked my patriotism!” Kerry bellowed.

Alas, they had not.

It is one thing for President Bush and Vice President Cheney to remain above the fray on this issue. But former prisoner of war John McCain knows better, the savvy former mayor of New York, Rudy Giuliani, should know better, and democrat Senator Zell Miller, in a fiery oration denouncing Kerry’s senatorial voting record, at least implied that he knew better.

Before independent-minded members of either party, let alone the sought-after bloc of “undecideds,” make up their minds about John Kerry’s alleged patriotism, let them first ponder this definition: A “patriot” is “a person who loves and loyally or zealously supports his own country.” (Webster’s New World Dictionary of the American Language).

Then let them test that definition, as we have, against some damning facts:

A patriot does not flee when comrades are in danger, no matter what the perceived threat.

A patriot does not fake or exaggerate minor wounds in order to garner medals.

A patriot does not “somehow” obtain three different citations for a single medal, the latter two sanitizing the first.

A patriot does not bail out from a one-year combat assignment after only four months, by taking advantage of a loophole in an obscure regulation, leaving his “brothers” to face the enemy.

A patriot does not appear before a committee of the United States Senate looking like a cartoon version of a Vietnam veteran, wearing ribbons on unkept fatigues.

A patriot does not give ghost-written testimony to that senate committee, attacking his country.

A patriot does not take an oath before that senate committee, and then proceed to lie through his teeth.

A patriot does not use his televised testimony before that senate committee to accuse American troops—including those still in the field.

A patriot does not hand our communist enemies such anti-American propaganda, which can be—and was—then used as a tool in the torture of American prisoners of war.

A patriot does not falsely accuse himself of committing war crimes in order to make a political-theater statement against the Vietnam War.

A patriot does not associate with potential murderers, conspiring to assassinate American political leaders.

A patriot does not make common cause with traitors like Jane Fonda, Tom Hayden and Ramsey Clark, and other America-haters who give aid and comfort to our nation’s enemies.

A patriot does not march around the Capitol of the United States of America carrying an upside down American flag.

A patriot does not, during wartime, organize and participate in a sham investigation of American “war crimes” (Winter Soldier Investigation)— paid for by Jane Fonda and designed to spout communist propaganda and undermine and embarrass our military.

A patriot does not organize and participate in antiwar protests, nor march under the communist Vietnamese flag, and defile military medals by throwing them away—especially while Americans are in combat.

A patriot does not act as spokesman for an organization that is a front for the very enemy that the United States of America is fighting.

A patriot does not associate with an organization (Vietnam Veterans Against the War) admittedly in bed with the Communist Party USA.

A patriot does not write a book with a cover that desecrates the American flag, and contents that disparage his country.

A patriot does not, while still a member of the United States Navy, fraternize in Paris with communist enemies whose troops, at that very moment, are killing Americans and torturing American prisoners of war.

A patriot does not urge acceptance of the Vietnamese communists’ proposal to end the war—on their terms, not ours.

A patriot does not vote against virtually every piece of national security and related legislation—laws that would make our country stronger and safer.

A patriot does not refuse to appropriate funds to support American forces, fighting for their country in Iraq.

A patriot does not attempt to suppress a book critical of his military service by putting pressure on its publisher and on booksellers.

A patriot does not unleash his lawyers on TV station managers, threatening them with legal and administrative action should they air advertisements critical of his military service.

A patriot does not allow colleagues and supporters to call the President of the United States a liar, and much worse—particularly in time of war.

A patriot does not denigrate legitimate draft deferments once granted the Vice President of the United States, who later served in Congress, then as Chief-of-Staff to a President, and later as Secretary of Defense during wartime.

A patriot does not silently accept his photograph being displayed in the Vietnam communists’ “War Crimes Museum,” along with others who helped the Vietnamese communists win the war.

A patriot is not willing to surrender American sovereignty to the United Nations under the guise of “multilateralism.”

A patriot does not refuse to make all of his military records public, especially in the face of a loud public clamor.

A patriot does not allow his Silver Star medal to be falsely embellished with a Combat “V” that is unauthorized and possibly illegal.

A patriot does not denigrate America’s National Guard and Reserve forces, who throughout this nation’s history have performed with distinction in our defense.

A patriot does not promise a more “sensitive” War on Terrorism, no matter how “politically correct” that notion may be.

A patriot does not wrap himself in the American flag for political advantage, after spending a mere three months in a combat zone.

When one adds up these facts, one has every right to conclude, as we have, that John Kerry has never been, and is not now, a patriot—and more: that to say otherwise, is merely to pay lip service.

[Scrooge]

Powerful!

Scrooge

[azpatriot]

Yes the Holzers don't cut no corners or pull any punches, too bad we can't get someone like the Major on fox to read this outloud it would be devistating.
_________________
Proud to be an American! and member of the PAJAMAHADEEN
FedEx Kinko's: When it absolutely, positively has to be forged overnight

[neverforget]

Certainly provides information that should be shouted from the rooftops on the leftist media. Oh, they are too busy being Kerry shills.
_________________
US Army Security Agency
1965-1971

[azpatriot]

I'm searching online right now to see who segment on foxnews air's within 30 to 60 minutes prior to the 60 Minutes fiasco if I can get an email addres for that person we all need to send (him or her) emails requesting that they go read this report and concider reading it durring their news segment.
_________________
Proud to be an American! and member of the PAJAMAHADEEN
FedEx Kinko's: When it absolutely, positively has to be forged overnight

[azpatriot]

Ok Shepard Smith is whos on an hour before the 60 minutes episode tonight. But for the life of me I can't seem to find his direct email address at Foxnews does anyone have this?


[Edited change] Forget Shepard send emails to Brit Hume he's on 2 hours before 60 minutes brit.hume@foxnews.com
_________________
Proud to be an American! and member of the PAJAMAHADEEN
FedEx Kinko's: When it absolutely, positively has to be forged overnight

[Otis]

And for all those reasons the Left embraces Kerry. They think spitting at the US, consorting with our enemies and destroying the institutions of freedom is just another form of patriotism.
_________________
"It is not a smear, if you please, if you point out the record of your opponent."
-Murray Chotiner-

[Hammer2]

It is a great article. But there is more than one way to skin a cat. There is a voice from the past who had something to say about honoring a traitor.

April 9, 2001 Minneapolis Star Tribune

Arguments for the Ages: Shakespeare's Antony: 'I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him'

Editor's note: In Act III of William Shakespeare's "Julius Caesar," Mark Antony faces a crowd of plebeians who have just heard Brutus justify Caesar's assassination. Brutus has won the people over by telling them that Caesar had been too ambitious, that his death was necessary to prevent the enslavement of the people of Rome. With the people clamoring for Brutus to take Caesar's place as leader, he leaves, generously insisting that Caesar's friend Antony be allowed to offer a eulogy. By the time Antony has finished speaking, the crowd has turned into a mob, lusting for revenge against Brutus and his fellow conspirators.

Antony: Friends, Romans,

countrymen, lend me your ears;

I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.

The evil that men do lives after them;

The good is oft interred with their bones;

So let it be with Caesar. The noble Brutus

Hath told you Caesar was ambitious:

If it were so, it was a grievous fault,

And grievously hath Caesar answer'd it.

Here, under leave of Brutus and the rest --

For Brutus is an honourable man;

So are they all, all honourable men --

Come I to speak in Caesar's funeral.

He was my friend, faithful and just to me:

But Brutus says he was ambitious;

And Brutus is an honourable man.

He hath brought many captives home to Rome

Whose ransoms did the general coffers fill:

Did this in Caesar seem ambitious?

When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept:

Ambition should be made of sterner stuff:

Yet Brutus says he was ambitious;

And Brutus is an honourable man.

You all did see that on the Lupercal

I thrice presented him a kingly crown,

Which he did thrice refuse: was this ambition?

Yet Brutus says he was ambitious;

And, sure, he is an honourable man.

I speak not to disprove what Brutus spoke,

But here I am to speak what I do know.

You all did love him once, not without cause:

What cause withholds you then, to mourn for him?

O judgment! thou art fled to brutish beasts,

And men have lost their reason. Bear with me;

My heart is in the coffin there with Caesar,

And I must pause till it come back to me ....

But yesterday the word of Caesar might

Have stood against the world; now lies he there.

And none so poor to do him reverence.

O masters, if I were disposed to stir

Your hearts and minds to mutiny and rage,

I should do Brutus wrong, and Cassius wrong,

Who, you all know, are honourable men:

I will not do them wrong; I rather choose

To wrong the dead, to wrong myself and you,

Than I will wrong such honourable men.

But here's a parchment with the seal of Caesar;

I found it in his closet, 'tis his will:

Let but the commons hear this testament --

Which, pardon me, I do not mean to read --

And they would go and kiss dead Caesar's wounds

And dip their napkins in his sacred blood,

Yea, beg a hair of him for memory,

And, dying, mention it within their wills,

Bequeathing it as a rich legacy

Unto their issue.

Fourth Citizen: We'll hear the will: read it, Mark Antony.

All: The will, the will! we will hear Caesar's will.

Antony: Have patience, gentle friends, I must not read it;

It is not meet you know how Caesar loved you.

You are not wood, you are not stones, but men;

And, being men, hearing the will of Caesar,

It will inflame you, it will make you mad:

'Tis good you know not that you are his heirs;

For, if you should, O, what would come of it!

Fourth Citizen: Read the will; we'll hear it, Antony;

You shall read us the will, Caesar's will.

Antony: Will you be patient? will you stay awhile?

I have o'ershot myself to tell you of it:

I fear I wrong the honourable men

Whose daggers have stabb'd Caesar; I do fear it.

Fourth Citizen: They were traitors: honourable men!

All: The will! the testament!...

Antony: If you have tears, prepare to shed them now.

You all do know this mantle: I remember

The first time ever Caesar put it on;

'Twas on a summer's evening, in his tent,

That day he overcame the Nervii:

Look, in this place ran Cassius' dagger through:

See what a rent the envious Casca made:

Through this the well-beloved Brutus stabb'd;

And as he pluck'd his cursed steel away,

Mark how the blood of Caesar follow'd it,

As rushing out of doors, to be resolved

If Brutus so unkindly knock'd, or no;

For Brutus, as you know, was Caesar's angel:

Judge, O you gods, how dearly Caesar loved him!

This was the most unkindest cut of all;

For when the noble Caesar saw him stab,

Ingratitude, more strong than traitors' arms,

Quite vanquish'd him: then burst his mighty heart;

And, in his mantle muffling up his face,

Even at the base of Pompey's statue,

Which all the while ran blood, great Caesar fell.

O, what a fall was there, my countrymen!

Then I, and you, and all of us fell down,

Whilst bloody treason flourish'd over us.

O, now you weep; and, I perceive, you feel

The dint of pity: these are gracious drops.

Kind souls, what, weep you when you but behold

Our Caesar's vesture wounded? Look you here,

Here is himself, marr'd, as you see, with traitors.

First Citizen: O piteous spectacle!

Second Citizen: O noble Caesar!...

All: Revenge! About! Seek! Burn! Fire! Kill! Slay!

Let not a traitor live!...

Antony: Good friends, sweet friends, let me not stir you up

To such a sudden flood of mutiny.

They that have done this deed are honourable:

What private griefs they have, alas, I know not,

That made them do it: they are wise and honourable,

And will, no doubt, with reasons answer you.

I come not, friends, to steal away your hearts:

I am no orator, as Brutus is;

But, as you know me all, a plain blunt man,

That love my friend; and that they know full well

That gave me public leave to speak of him:

For I have neither wit, nor words, nor worth,

Action, nor utterance, nor the power of speech,

To stir men's blood: I only speak right on;

I tell you that which you yourselves do know;

Show you sweet Caesar's wounds, poor poor dumb mouths,

And bid them speak for me: but were I Brutus,

And Brutus Antony, there were an Antony

Would ruffle up your spirits and put a tongue

In every wound of Caesar that should move

The stones of Rome to rise and mutiny.

All: We'll mutiny ....

Antony: Why, friends, you go to do you know not what:

Wherein hath Caesar thus deserved your loves?

Alas, you know not: I must tell you then:

You have forgot the will I told you of ....

To every Roman citizen he gives,

To every several man, seventy-five drachmas ....

Moreover, he hath left you all his walks,

His private arbours and new-planted orchards,

On this side Tiber; he hath left them you,

And to your heirs for ever, common pleasures,

To walk abroad, and recreate yourselves.

Here was a Caesar! when comes such another?

First Citizen: Never, never. Come, away, away!

We'll burn his body in the holy place,

And with the brands fire the traitors' houses.

Take up the body.

Second Citizen: Go fetch fire.

Third Citizen: Pluck down benches.

Fourth Citizen: Pluck down forms, windows, any thing.

[Exeunt Citizens with the body.]

Antony: Now let it work. Mischief, thou art afoot,

Take thou what course thou wilt!

-- William Shakespeare, 1599. ''Julius Caesar.''
_________________
"The price of freedom is eternal vigilence" - Thomas Jefferson
"An armed society is a polite society" - Thomas Jefferson
"The beauty of the Second Amendment is that it won't be needed until someone tries to take it away." -- Thomas Jefferson