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FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT: KEITH APPELL (703)-683-5004, ext. 112
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 28, 2004
SWIFT VETS AND
POWs BLAST KERRY CAMPAIGN FOR CENSORSHIP TACTICS
Captured Emails From Campaign Officials Show A Clear
Attempt To Deprive Pennsylvanians Of Their Opportunity To See “Stolen Honor”
WASHINGTON,
D.C. --- Swift Vets and POWs for Truth today blasted censorship tactics
employed by the Kerry-Edwards campaign in Pennsylvania that have resulted in
several canceled showings of the POW documentary Stolen Honor: Wounds That Never Heal in the Philadelphia area. The documentary features many POWs who
speak out about John Kerry’s anti-war activities and how it affected them while
they were in captivity.
An email transmission from
Kerry-Edwards Pennsylvania campaign manager Tony Podesta clearly shows the
Kerry campaign is behind the effort to keep the film from being shown. Several Philadelphia area facilities
declined to show the film after threats of pickets and protests.
“The
Kerry-Edwards campaign’s efforts to censor, silence and intimidate POWs, and to
deny Pennsylvanians the opportunity to see this documentary, must stop. What is the Kerry campaign so scared of that
it has to employ censorship tactics?
POWs have earned the right to be heard, but evidently they have no place
in John Kerry’s version of America,” said Dr. Tom McNish, a highly decorated
retired Air Force colonel and POW who was in captivity in North Vietnam for six
years and six months.
“Mr.
Podesta’s tactics insult all Pennsylvanians and all Americans of all political
parties and ideologies. Censorship has
no place in America. For years the
North Vietnamese forced us to produce false statements to feed the lies
propagated by John Kerry, Jane Fonda and their ilk. Now, John Kerry does not want the truth to be told, but POWs will
not be silenced,” McNish said.
Stolen Honor is now available free to the public
on the www.stolenhonor.com web
site. There have already been 200,000
viewings of the film through the web site in the past few days.
To schedule interviews with Dr. McNish,
or other POWs, contact Keith Appell at (703)-683-5004, ext. 112
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