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Kerry aided CommunistsBy Kathleen Antrim | Special To The Examiner
Published on Friday, August 27, 2004
URL: http://www.examiner.com/article/index.cfm/i/082704op_antrim

Storm clouds are gathering over the presidential race. Judicial Watch, the nonpartisan public-interest group known recently for taking Vice President Dick Cheney and the Energy Task Force all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court, filed serious charges against John Kerry with the Department of Defense and the U.S. Navy.

Judicial Watch investigates and prosecutes government corruption and abuse. And it believes that Kerry's actions may be unlawful.

"The crux of the case," said Chris Farrell, director of investigation and research at Judicial Watch, "focuses on Kerry's activities from January 1970 to July 1972." Kerry was still a commissioned officer in the inactive Naval Reserve in that period.

Traveling to Paris, Kerry met with the official delegations from the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (North Vietnam) and the Provisional Revolutionary Government (Viet Cong). According to the Judicial Watch complaint, the Vietnamese Communists eagerly met Kerry and benefited directly from the obvious propaganda victory.

The Judicial Watch filing claims that these acts are clear violations of the legal prohibitions on individual citizens negotiating with foreign powers (18 U.S.C. 953) and the constitutional prohibition against giving support to our nation's enemies in wartime (Article III, Section 3).

"Additionally, (meeting with the communists) as a commissioned officer of the Naval Reserve," Farrell said, "Senator Kerry violated Article 104 of the Uniform Code of Military Justice."

If that weren't bad enough, when Kerry returned from his private negotiations with the Vietnamese communists, he held a press conference in Washington, D.C., at which he advocated a Vietnamese Communist "peace proposal" calling for a U.S. withdrawal from Vietnam and "payment of war damage reparations" to the Communist North Vietnamese government. Kerry advocated on behalf of a foreign power with which we were at war, while holding a commission as an officer in the U.S. Naval Reserve.

Could these allegations lead to serious consequences? Well, the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, Section 3, states: "No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any state, who ... shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against (the United States) ... or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof."

And it doesn't help Kerry's cause that his picture was featured by the Vietnamese Communists in their War Remnants Museum in Ho Chi Minh City as a hero who helped them win the war against the U.S.

This ominous roll of thunder is drowning out such questions as how one receives three Purple Hearts without spending a night in a hospital, or whether the rice implanted in your butt after your own grenade blast constitutes enemy fire. Voters are asking: Who is John Kerry? An antiwar, self-professed war criminal? A self-made war hero? Or an exposed wartime turncoat?

As the skies open up, Kerry's campaign is paddling hard to save his presidential aspirations. But the mud is getting deeper, and one wonders if even his senatorial career may sink. Suddenly Kerry's 19-year Senate record of being anti-military, anti-intelligence and anti-national security seems like the least of his worries.

Kathleen Antrim is a weekly columnist for The Examiner and the author of the political thriller "Capital Offense." For more information on Ms. Antrim, or to see where she'll be appearing next, go to www.kathleenantrim.com.

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Your forgetting the rules are only for republicans. Semper Fi