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mtboone
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 Posted: Fri Jul 14, 2006 9:23 pm Post subject: Suit dropped against VVLF and Carlton Sherwood |
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This was just passed on to me by a fellow Swift Mate.
July 14, 2006 -- Just as the Vietnam Veterans Legacy Foundation attorneys were preparing to depose key VVAW "winter soldiers" to ask them about all those war crimes, the VVAW's Kenneth Campbell has abruptly dropped his twin lawsuits against the VVLF and Stolen Honor producer Carlton Sherwood. VVLF attorney Robert Clothier thinks the surprise decision "suggests a great trepidation about what would come out at the depositions." No kidding.
Perhaps the VVLF's lawsuit against John Kerry and Anthony Podesta will prove more successful at getting a few of these "winter weasels" on the record, under oath.
See Still Battling by Shannon P. Duffy of The Legal Intelligencer Online for all the details.
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NortonPete
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| Posted: Fri Jul 14, 2006 11:33 pm Post subject: Truth trumps Lawsuits |
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| Quote: | | “The last-minute withdrawal of the lawsuits on the eve of these depositions suggests a great trepidation about what would come out at the depositions,” Clothier said. |
Ok this looks better but we can't drop our guard.
Keep the K-9 sentrys on the perimeter. |
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Tom2
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| Posted: Sat Jul 15, 2006 1:13 am Post subject: |
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I rarely give money these days because I have two daughters in college. But I gave to this effort and hope my small contribution helped.
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Me#1You#10
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| Posted: Sat Jul 15, 2006 2:38 am Post subject: |
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That's GREAT news Terry...thanks for the heads-up.
Congrats to Mr. Sherwood, the VVLF and Newsmax.com...and rasberries to Kerry and his minions.
Here's the VVLF posting...
| Quote: | Still Battling
by Shannon P. Duffy, The Legal Intelligencer Online
(7/13/2006)
A controversial documentary titled Stolen Honor: Wounds That Never Heal, about Sen. John F. Kerry’s anti-Vietnam War activities in the 1970s that was released just before the 2004 presidential election sparked at least five politically charged lawsuits.
Now there’s only one.
In recent weeks, lawyers for the plaintiffs have dropped three libel suits brought by anti-war veterans who said they were falsely portrayed in the film made by journalist Carlton Sherwood.
Sherwood was also hit with a copyright infringement suit in New York that accused him of unfairly including clips from another film and photos from a book. But that case was dismissed last year.
Now the only remaining suit is a defamation and civil rights suit brought by Sherwood himself against Kerry and his Pennsylvania campaign manager, John Podesta, that accuses them of conspiring to stop the film from being shown.
Vietnam Veterans Legacy Foundation - cont'd |
Thus far Google searches fail to produce any hits. |
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rhv5862
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Location: Massachusetts
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| Posted: Sat Jul 15, 2006 11:36 pm Post subject: Suit dropped against VVLF |
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That is great news. Now all we need is for the voters in Mass to
stop voting for him.
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homesteader
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| Posted: Mon Jul 17, 2006 3:29 am Post subject: |
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| Anyone want to bet the Plame/Wilson suit will not be dropped in the same way when the defense team begins to ask some pointed questions? And where are all those suits Lurch was going to file to clear his name after the election? Cockroaches scurry for the darkest corners when a light is turned on. |
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fortdixlover
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| Posted: Mon Jul 17, 2006 2:53 pm Post subject: Re: Suit dropped against VVLF and Carlton Sherwood |
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| mtboone wrote: | This was just passed on to me by a fellow Swift Mate.
July 14, 2006 -- Just as the Vietnam Veterans Legacy Foundation attorneys were preparing to depose key VVAW "winter soldiers" to ask them about all those war crimes, the VVAW's Kenneth Campbell has abruptly dropped his twin lawsuits against the VVLF and Stolen Honor producer Carlton Sherwood. VVLF attorney Robert Clothier thinks the surprise decision "suggests a great trepidation about what would come out at the depositions." |
Typical for cowards and leftists. However, it shows they have something to hide. Now it's time to go on the offense to find out what it is, exactly, they're so afraid of revealing to the light of day. (Not that we don't already know.)
Thank god for the fortitude of the VVLF.
-- FDL
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Me#1You#10
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| Posted: Mon Jul 17, 2006 10:46 pm Post subject: |
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Picked up by AP and the Globe...
| Quote: | Vietnam veterans drop suit over 2004 anti-Kerry film
By Maryclaire Dale
Associated Press Writer
July 17, 2006
PHILADELPHIA --Several Vietnam War veterans who sued over a documentary about Sen. John Kerry's anti-war activities have dropped their libel suits, leaving just one lawsuit pending over the controversial 2004 film.
Filmmaker Carlton Sherwood says the outcome shows the suits were frivolous complaints filed by Kerry operatives to try to block the film's release in the final weeks of the presidential race.
"We've always believed that Kerry controlled these lawsuits," Sherwood said Monday. He said the suits were dropped as depositions got under way. "We also felt we were getting a tad too close to the truth about Kerry."
The 42-minute film, "Stolen Honor: Wounds That Never Heal," charges that Kerry's actions as an anti-war activist after his tour in Vietnam harmed American POWs, and questions the veracity of the U.S. atrocities that some veterans reported.
Boston Globe - cont'd |
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Me#1You#10
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| Posted: Mon Jul 17, 2006 11:06 pm Post subject: |
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and Bruce Kesler is taking no prisoners...
| Quote: | Kerry Group’s “actionable libel”?
A very experienced attorney with deep knowledge of the details tells me that the defend John Kerry organization, Patriot Project, may be approaching “actionable libel” by implying Admiral Roy Hoffman and possibly Admiral Bud Schacte of $100,000 payoffs from the Swiftees for their speaking out against John Kerry’s exaggerations and fabrications of his Vietnam service.
James Boyce writes at the Huffington Post, “How Much Is That Admiral In The Window?”This past February 6, 2006, the Swift Boat Veterans For Truth made a $100,000 payment to Admiral Roy Hoffman one of the key defamers of John Kerry….
With money like this being paid to anyone who is willing to follow orders and lie on cue, is it any wonder that this past May another Admiral who was involved in the Swift Boat lies, Admiral Bud Schachte of Charleston, South Carolina, a man who claimed he was dragged into the Swift Boat mess against his wishes, came out and did a newspaper article ready to "re-engage John Kerry" in the Swift Boat debate.
After all, with his fellow Admiral clearing a solid six figures a year on top of his Naval pension, Bud Schachte certainly wasn't going to let opportunity, or should I say $100,000, pass him by. Boyce concludes by promising more revealtions:I spoke with John O’Neill of the Switees this morning. O’Neill calls the charge a “complete makeup.” Response is to be expected from the Swiftees.
Who is James Boyce, to make this charge? Boyce’s bio at Huffington Post shows him as a longtime activist working for John Kerry, and himself now profiting.James was also an unpaid Senior Advisor to the Kerry Campaign in 2004 - taking a year's leave of absence from his company. He worked on a variety of projects including organizing surrogate and Kerry Family fundraising - raising over $18 million. James also visited over twenty states during the campaign while traveling extensively with John Kerry and his brother Cam, and more.
Currently, James is President of EKTOS, a strategic communication consultant group specializing in branding and corporate turnarounds based in Boston. Patriot Project is one of his clients. I can’t find even a website for EKTOS. Its “contractor” status for the Patriot Project may be a matter to examine, or is Boyce even more a legal “employee”? Its “turnaround” specialization is suited to John Kerry’s efforts to turn around the exposure of his fantasy life. Boyce’s accusations, as the contractor of the Kerry Patriot Project, may open him and it to further exposures.
The Patriot Project may be hoisted by its own petard.
The Patriot Project states its mission as:The Patriot Project will defend any man or woman, regardless of party or affiliation, who is attacked or defamed and whose patriotism is questioned simply because they exercise their rights as Americans. The falseness and hypocrisy of this Kerry effort to rehabilitate himself by defaming others should come home to roost. Indeed, by the Patriot Project’s own avowal of purpose, it should be more legally aware of defamations that may be laid at its doorstep.
The sheer audacity and hollowness of the Kerry legal campaign against those who unmasked him in the 2004 campaign was expressed in the series of lawsuits launched against prize-winning journalist Carlton Sherwood (whose film exposed the Kerry-led Winter Soldier prophearings of 1971) and against the Vietnam Veterans Legacy Foundation charging false portrayals of the Kerry-led Vietnam Veterans Against the War members. They sought to thuggishly use expensive lawsuits to impoverish Kerry’s opponents. Facing discovery proceedings, however, which would actually further expose the truths about Kerry, these suits were withdrawn and dismissed. A good summary of the legal wrangling can be found in this article from The Legal Intelligencer.Now the only remaining suit is a defamation and civil rights suit brought by Sherwood himself against Kerry and his Pennsylvania campaign manager, John Podesta, that accuses them of conspiring to stop the film from being shown. The lawyer who was defending Sherwood in the libel suits, Robert C. Clothier of Fox Rothschild O’Brien & Frankel, is declaring victory, saying that plaintiff Kenneth Campbell’s sudden decision to drop his two lawsuits came on the eve of a series of depositions of his key witnesses. “The last-minute withdrawal of the lawsuits on the eve of these depositions suggests a great trepidation about what would come out at the depositions,” Clothier said. You can say that again, Mr. Clothier. The Sherwood suit, IMHO, may turn out to be a public exposure of blithe perfidy by Kerry on the order of the Hiss trials.
Not that that stopped Hiss. And doesn’t seem to be slowing down Kerry and allies from digging their hole deeper.
— Bruce Kesler | Bnksd1@aol.com | Jul. 15, 2006 | 12:13 PM
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Navy_Navy_Navy
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| Quote: | | Boyce’s bio at Huffington Post shows him as a longtime activist working for John Kerry, and himself now profiting. |
"Projection." Isn't that a word that's been kicked around quite a bit right here on this bulletin board? 
You don't need any spies to know the strategies of the left - you just look at what they're accusing their opponents of doing.
I hope it's all for naught - that everything that they're trying to hide by dropping these suits will come out in the action by VVLF.
Not that that would make any difference to the huff-and-puff-ingtons of this country, but reasonable people will "get it."
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Me#1You#10
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| Posted: Tue Jul 18, 2006 6:28 pm Post subject: |
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| Rush Limbaugh commenting on the dropped Kerry lawsuits at 14:28 EDT! |
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JN173
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| Posted: Tue Jul 18, 2006 7:03 pm Post subject: |
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So that's 3 down and 1 to go. 
Boys and girls, ladies and gentlmen, the VVLF still needs our financial support to make it a clean sweep. Let's keep those dollar$ rolling in.
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