[Salvation]

Don't know if all of you remember these Kerry antics.

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[Salvation]

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[Hotdog]

This will come out in the wash...good to know ...if it's true

[mass55th]

I just found the following article from a library database:

The Boston Herald, June 1, 1997 p067
Raising specter of 'War' - Criminals threaten world, Kerry warns.

Bob Clark.

Full Text: COPYRIGHT 1997 Boston Herald

"The New War: The Web of Crime That Threatens America's Security" by Sen. John Kerry (Simon & Schuster)

Sen. John Kerry, who was assistant district attorney of Middlesex County way back when, casts a much larger net in "The New War."

Kerry, former chairman and, until recently, ranking Democrat on the Senate Subcommittee on Terrorism, Narcotics and International Operations, warns that while Americans obsess about street crime and random violence, we overlook the far greater threat posed by global criminals and terrorists.

Kerry identifies the Big Five of international criminals: the Italian Mafia, Russian Mafiya, the Japanese yakuza, the Chinese triads and the Colombian cartels. And there are smaller but still dangerous players around the world, including Mexico and Nigeria.

What has changed in recent years, Kerry asserts, is that crime has gone global. The mobs are more organized, violent and powerful than ever, and they often work together.

The global mobs are mixed up in drug smuggling, immigration scams, computer theft and much more. Chemical and biological terrorism are potential threats, and nuclear terrorism is not unthinkable.

According to Kerry's thesis, we are engaged in nothing less than war with global criminals.

"Global crime," he writes, "poses not one but a phalanx of threats to our national security - by eroding confidence, poisoning honesty, depleting revenue; by mocking borders, currencies, passports; and worst of all, by continually succeeding."

What's needed to stop global criminals, Kerry argues, is global cooperation, "a revolution in the way we conceive of every aspect of the law, from jurisdiction to punishment."

That will require sacrifice by everyone. While no nation should give up sovereignty, he believes, we must find ways to establish consistent laws and a consistent system of punishment. We might have to give up a little privacy, for example, to avert anarchy on the Internet.

Beating the global criminals won't be easy and it won't be cheap. Kerry says we can't do it alone but maintains only America has the power and prestige to lead the way.

The most serious task is fighting and winning the war on drugs at home, he asserts. His recommendations, alas, sound familiar: more money for treatment, education, after-hours school programs and early intervention programs.

Losing the war to the global criminals is not a pretty prospect. What's at stake, according to Kerry, "is nothing less than the fate of civilization."

 

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[Dog Gone]

[Dante3]

Kerry is a liar, a guy who pretended to be Irish just to get votes and who threw away someone elses medals (not his own). And then there is his wife.

[Khurkris]

I have seen pictures of him and Danny Ortega together on several seperate occasions.

During the period from 1979-1985 quite a number of leftist politicians in the USA were active fund-raisers, supporters and apologistas- PERIQUACO's- for the Sandinistas.

I am curious if Kerry was a member of this leftist group.

[cwb]

When Kerry was speaking with Greta last night, he refered to Vietnam as Nixon's war. He continued his diatribe by attacking Oliver North...then going on to practically indict the Reagan administrations policy in Central America, as if no such communist threat ever existed. While Senator Kerry voted in favor of the use of force resolution in Iraq this time around, he did not vote for the liberation of Kuwait in 1991. With his recent backpeddling and lack of support for funding the troops, I think it is obvious that Kerry is a standard left-wing liberal who thinks America is too powerful. From his support of policies that have neutered US intelligence to his view that the US should be subserviant to the UN, John Kerry is not a president to be trusted.

[KellyAdmirer]

Operation Dewey Canyon III began on April 18, 1971

I actually was at that rally, as a child and not as a supporter or participant or anything like that. It was a beautiful, warm spring weekend and the protestors were camped all around the Washington Monument. They had the usual veterans burning their medals and raggedy looking bum/protestors everywhere. It gave me an idea of the strength and the limitations of protests, Kerry and his gang really took over the mall area, but then again, outside the downtown area, you would never have known they were there.

[MeekOneGOP]

Here it is ...

[Gritty]

John Kerry is bill clinton without the charm.

[DoctorMichael]

BIG freakin' I'm Irish.......No, I'm Jewish......I'm for the common man so DON'T look at my wife's bank account, Taxatwo$hits lying liberal Bump.

[SamAdams76]

Also, John Kerry had a fire hydrant moved from in front of his house because it was "an eyesore" and his wife was bagged parking in front of it and blocking it.

[waterstraat]

Throw as I say, not as I do: On that same day he led members of VVAW in a protest during which they threw their medals and ribbons over a fence in front of the U.S. Capitol. Kerry later admitted the medals he threw were not his. To this day they hang on the wall of his office.

Now that is hypocracy, and not acceptable, and shameful.

After 30 years, I dont care if you were for the vietnam war, or against it, but you cant have it both ways. Pretending to throw away his medals and then having them displayed in his office is dispicable.

[adam_az]

from the National Park Service Statue of Liberty website
Members of the Vietnam Veterans Against the War leaving the Statue of Liberty, which they had occupied for two days. The demonstrators emerged in response to a court order, December 28, 1971. (Source: Photograph Collection of the American Museum of Immigration, Liberty Island, U.S. Department of the Interior, NPS)



Tim MacCormick of New Jersey and fourteen other members of the Vietnam Veterans Against the War, on the afternoon of December 26, 1971, arrived on Liberty Island by the Circle Line boat along with other tourists. But, when the last return ship to Manhattan sailed that evening, the veterans were not aboard. Instead, just before closing time, they hid among the exhibit partitions, building materials, and storage closets which were lying about the monument's base while work was being finished on the American Museum of Immigration. When NPS personnel made their 7:30 evening check-up of the statue, they found that the veterans had seized control of the landmark and barricaded the three ground floor entrances. The men inside refused to speak to or admit any Park Service people, but on the door they posted a typewritten statement addressed to President Richard M. Nixon:

Each Vietnam veteran who has barricaded himself within this international symbol of liberty has for many years rationalized his attitude to war. . . .We can no longer tolerate the war in Southeast Asia. . . .Mr. Nixon, you set the date [for leaving Vietnam], we'll evacuate. [13]

On December 27, twenty-one National Park police flew to Liberty Island from Washington where they were joined by New York City police and Coast Guardsmen. These security forces stood by while the government attempted to reach a peaceful compromise with the occupiers. They were told that they would be permitted to picket and protest on the island if they would simply vacate the statue, allowing it to reopen to visitors. The veterans rejected the offer, flew the United States flag upside down from the statue's crown, and waited. Law enforcement officers also waited. During that day thousands of disappointed tourists were told at the Battery that they could not go out to the statue. Congresswoman Bella Abzug (Democrat-New York) sent a telephone message of support to the demonstrators.

Members of the Vietnam Veterans Against the War leaving the Statue of Liberty, which they had occupied for two days. The demonstrators emerged in response to a court order, December 28, 1971. (Source: Photograph Collection of the American Museum of Immigration, Liberty Island, U.S. Department of the Interior, NPS)

Meanwhile, United States Attorney Whitney North Seymour, Jr., went before District Court Judge Lawrence Pierce to request an injunction directing the veterans to open the doors, leave the statue except during regular visiting hours, and permit Park Service personnel and tourists to enter. On the morning of December 28 Judge Pierce issued a temporary restraining order, instructing the protestors to leave the statue "forthwith." Two hours later, after conferring with their lawyers, the veterans removed the barricades from the entrances and emerged with "clenched fists raised." They had cleaned up their debris and caused no significant damage to the property. The monument was reopened to the public, with the first ferry-load of visitors arriving at 2:15 that afternoon.

Tim MacCormick issued a statement to the press explaining why they had picked this particular target:

The reason we chose the Statue of Liberty is that since we were children, the statue has been analogous in our minds with freedom and an America we love.

Then we went to fight a war in the name of freedom. We saw that freedom is a selective expression allowed only to those who are white and maintain the status quo.

Until this symbol again takes on the meaning it was intended to have, we must continue our demonstrations. . . . [14]

In April 1974, twenty members of a radical student organization, the Attica Brigade, copied the example of the Vietnam Veterans Against the War. Barricading themselves inside the statue, they protested social injustice in the United States and called for the ouster of President Nixon. They finally left the monument when a force of twenty National Park Police walked toward the barred doors with the intention of breaking in. No one was injured, nor was there any property damage. At a later news conference a spokesman for the protestors proclaimed that the statue is "a facade put up to make people believe that the ideals of democracy actually exist." [15]

Two years after the Attica Brigade sit-in, the Vietnam Veterans Against the War were back. On June 6, 1976, they occupied the statue, and on the following day, when they refused to comply with a court order to leave, NPS police arrested and removed them. Again, the statue escaped with minimal damage. [16]

[CedarDave]

Get as much of this stuff as possible out in public NOW! Come the first week of September, pointing this out in the form of a radio/TV ad is illegal thanks to John McCain, George W. Bush, and the US Supreme Court.

[moonhawk]

Kerry was kicked out of a recreational adult ice hockey league recently for playing too rough and not following the rules-body checking, I think, in a league where that is forbidden.

Source: My cousin's husband, a well known liberal in the Boston area who plays in the same or a similar league.

He is a Dean supporter.

I was told this by him last fall over lunch on a trip back East. I have no reason to doubt it's veracity.

John Kerry: Hockey cheat....

Go figure.

[Inyokern]

After his Iowa victory, Kerry got dressed up and went partying.

[JamesA]

Here is some interesting tid bits about Mr. Kerry. http://www.usvetdsp.com/jf_kerry.htm

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