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AZVet61 · Posted: Sat Oct 09, 2004 4:18 am Post subject: Dr. Jack Wheeler on John Kerry

The following is an article by Dr. Jack Wheeler. It was sent to me via the net--and isn't taken from his website, "To The Point", an excellent site.
TIGERS AND TREASON
Behind The Lines
Dr. Jack Wheeler
Thursday, September 30, 2004

Perhaps the most extraordinary summer of my life was when I was 17 years old. It was 1960, and I spent it in the jungles of South Vietnam hunting tigers. I was by myself with a Vietnamese hunting guide named Ngo Van Chi, and I was after one tiger in particular. He was a man-eater. He had killed and eaten so many people – over 20 – that he had a name: Ong Bang Mui, “Mr. Thirty,” the number associated with death.

This was in the Central Highlands of South Vietnam, inhabited by tribespeople collectively known as Montagnards (mon-tan-yards), French for mountain people. They are Malayo-Polynesian, not Mongoloid Oriental, who first populated these mountains thousands of years ago – long before the Vietnamese came, whether the Tonkinese in the north or the Annamese in the south.

The Montagnard people I was with were known as the Co Ho. They had no modern weapons, only spears and cross bows. So when Ong Bang Mui leaped into one of their villages and dragged off a villager to be eaten, they had little defense. They had little defense also from the Communist Viet Cong. The sight of a village in smoking ruins and dead babies stuck onto sharpened poles is a sight one never forgets.

The Co Ho and other Montagnard tribes were such peaceful, gentle people. It was impossible for anyone who got to know them, such as I and so many American soldiers, not to develop a deep and abiding fondness for them. They welcomed me into their huts, most always built on stilts, and were always gracious and kind – although I must admit they loved getting me way too drunk on their rice wine.

In the 29 years since the North Vietnamese conquered South Viet Nam, the Montagnards have been defenseless against the genocide perpetrated upon them by the Communist regime in Hanoi. The Montagnards fought as best they could against the Viet Cong and NVA (North Vietnamese Army), and the Hanoi Communists have been exacting revenge ever since. There were over 3 million Montagnards three decades ago, and now there are less than 700,000 – a Communist genocide of well over two million of the most benign human beings on our planet.

In September 2001, the House of Representatives passed the Vietnam Human Rights Act by a vote of 410-1. The act would have greatly restricted any US aid to the Communist government of Vietnam until the Montagnard pogroms ceased and the basic human rights of the Montagnards were protected. One single Senator blocked the bill from a vote in the Senate, thus preventing it from becoming law and allowing the Hanoi regime to continue the genocide.

That Senator was John Kerry.

This summer, on July 19, 2004, the House again passed the Vietnam Human Rights Act, by a vote of 325-45. And again, Kerry of Massachusetts is blocking its passage in the Senate.

This Saturday, October 2, from 10am to 5pm, there will be a demonstration in front of John Kerry’s Washington home, organized by Vietnamese-Americans for Truth, to protest Kerry’s sabotage of the Vietnam Human Rights Act.

The address is 3322 O St. NW, Georgetown, Washington DC 20007.

Just as John Kerry betrayed his fellow soldiers by lying to Congress that they perpetrated war crimes, just as John Kerry betrayed his country by attempting to negotiate its defeat with Hanoi Communist representatives in Paris, so John Kerry betrayed the Vietnamese and Montagnard people. Treason and betrayal indelibly soil his soul.

Please consider joining me at the Kerry Sabotage demonstration this Saturday if you live anywhere near the Washington area. I hope to see you there.

And yes -- I did get Ong Bang Mui.

Mod: Edited to add link. Scroll down for reference to this article on his website
http://www.tothepointnews.com/

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Anker-Klanker · Posted: Sat Oct 09, 2004 4:26 am Post subject:

It just gets worse and worse and worse, the more we learn about him. I'd complain about the MSM/OIM failing in its responsibility again, but what good would that do?

I guess we do have to make some effort to "vet" this story. For example, I'm having some trouble figuring out how one senator could block a bill.

Nomorelies · Posted: Sat Oct 09, 2004 4:27 am Post subject:

Fascinating story. I wish it would get more air time on the net. Perhaps some other bloggers will pick it up.

Nomo
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Stevie · Posted: Sat Oct 09, 2004 6:37 am Post subject:

tugboatphil · Posted: Sat Oct 09, 2004 1:13 pm Post subject:

I don't remember much from Civics Class (I don't remember much of anything these days), but before any bill goes for a floor vote, it has to be approved by the appropriate committee. If Kerry was Chair of that committee, he could easily block it's transit to the Senate floor for a vote.
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Anker-Klanker · Posted: Sat Oct 09, 2004 2:18 pm Post subject:

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Tom Poole · Posted: Sat Oct 09, 2004 2:35 pm Post subject: Dr. Jack Wheeler on John Kerry

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Anker-Klanker · Posted: Sat Oct 09, 2004 6:27 pm Post subject:

Folks, I've been doing some searching on the issue, and this is the REAL DEAL!

For the Act, as passed by the House, go to:

http://ngothelinh.50megs.com/HR2833.html

For more background, go to:

http://www.hrw.org/wr2k2/asia11.html

and:

http://www.house.gov/apps/list/press/nj04_smith/Vietnam.html

This article confirms that Kerry blocked the Act in the Senate:

http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewForeignBureaus.asp?Page=%5CForeignBureaus%5Carchive%5C200408%5CFOR20040831a.html

And according to the Vietnam Veterans Against Kerry, it appears that Colliers International connections was the reason Kerry blocked the Act:

http://www.vietnamveteransagainstjohnkerry.com/ker_beng_wt.htm

If you do a Google search on "Vietnam Human Rights Act" you will get hundreds of hits. I've only included a select few.

ranch hand · Lt.Jg. Joined: 24 Aug 2004 Posts: 108 Location: Florida

Anyboby have a list of names who voted against this?

Anker-Klanker · Posted: Sat Oct 09, 2004 7:30 pm Post subject:

Apparently there was only one vote against in the House (don't know who it was yet) the first time it came up. The 45 votes against it the second time looks like something else to investigate (like why only one opposed the first time, and 45 the second).

In the Senate it never made it to the floor for vote (either time).

srmorton · Posted: Sat Oct 09, 2004 7:51 pm Post subject:

I think this is one of the most disgusting things that has come to
light about Kerry. Where is the MSM? Oh, I remember. They
are falling all over themselves telling us how Kerry "won" the
debate last night - or that at best it was a draw. What about all
the lies and contradictions? If it were not for the MSM proping
him up, he would be ten points behind!
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shadowy · Posted: Sat Oct 09, 2004 10:48 pm Post subject:

How can a man so utterly oblivious to human beings and so utterly focused on self-interest appeal to anyone?
He doesn't. People who don't like him or respect him are going to vote for him because of blind hate.
He's exactly what they deserve for it. Too bad we can't afford to let them have him.
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It's downright brilliant the way he's reserving his devastating intellect to spring it on us at exactly the right moment.