fortdixlover Master Chief Petty Officer of the Navy
Joined: 12 May 2004 Posts: 1476
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Posted: Thu Oct 07, 2004 3:12 pm Post subject: Now let's get this straight |
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From http://www.cooperforpresident.com/rns/id36.html
After having harped on George W. Bush’s alleged AWOL status in the Air National Guard repeatedly for many, many months the Kerry campaign and the Democratic Party were stunned when the hero image of Senator John Kerry was finally challenged by a group of Vietnam veterans who had known and worked with Kerry in Vietnam.
Although none of these men were professional politicians and many were actually registered Democrats, there are approximately 250 Vietnam veterans who had had some contact with Kerry during their time in Vietnam and who considered him to be a fraud and a disgrace to the military. Although none of them wanted to draw attention to themselves and none of them had any official affiliation with the White House, other than the fact that some of them were registered Republicans, and they were collectively simply exercising their First Amendment right to free speech by publishing a book recalling their Vietnam experience and by being interviewed on television regarding that experience, the Kerry campaign has, in its sheer desperation to hide the truth, demanded that their own political opponent, President Bush, forcibly silence these veterans.
Now let’s get this straight:
The same people who claim that Attorney General John Ashcroft has been trampling upon our First Amendment rights by having access to things like library records are now demanding that our own president trample upon the First Amendment rights of some highly decorated Vietnam veterans for telling us about their experience in Vietnam because it reflects poorly upon Senator Kerry. Once again we have a case of totalitarian thinking at its best. Liberals hold the deep-seated belief that when they speak their opinion on anything they should be accorded the right of free speech, but that if someone speaks an opinion that they find distasteful or contradictory to their own opinion, that those persons should be silenced by the highest government official in the land.
And this silencing, this trampling upon the First Amendment rights of these veterans, has been demanded by none other than John Kerry and John Edwards, who are currently running on the National Socialist, excuse me, the Democratic national ticket for the offices of President and Vice President. Scary, isn’t it? [Special Note: If what the Swift Boat veterans have said is untrue and Kerry’s war record is truly that of a hero, then their claims might be refuted by a review of Kerry’s military records. However, Kerry has steadfastly refused to sign the same Form 180 that Bush has signed to authorize the release of those records.] |
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