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Kerry barred by Constitution
http://www.crushkerry.com/postt328.html ^ | 6/26/04 | "phantom"

Posted on 06/26/2004 10:36:48 AM PDT by griswold3

This is my first time posting. Check out this post on crushkerry.com. I guess it's a matter of interpretation. Discuss amongst yourselves.


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Kerry is prohibited from being a senator, congressman, vice president and president according to the Constitution.

I don't recall a 2/3rds vote removing his disability to serve, in accordance with Amendment XIV, Section 3. For those that would complain that it is an old amendment intended only for civil war veterans and to help subjugate the south during reconstruction, I would have to say I don’t recall a 2/3rds vote rescinding the Amendment as no longer valid.

***AMENDMENT XIV, Section 3. 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, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability.***

Kerry was an officer of the United States, and if his actions with VVAW cannot be characterized as "insurrection or rebellion", his admission of killing civilians including a baby could be, since it was contrary to published orders, if this isn't enough, then he also admitted giving aid and comfort to the enemy, at Paris, offering to assist them in any way possible to help bring about a swift end to the war, before doing just that with is testimony to congress and demonstrations fronting for a group of liars that many of whom where either not vets or never in Vietnam.

1 posted on 06/26/2004 10:36:48 AM PDT by griswold3
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