Posted on 08/20/2004 3:01:11 PM PDT by Faeroe
Kerry takes legal action against Vietnam critics
FORT MYERS, United States (AFP) - Democratic White House hopeful John Kerry (news - web sites)'s campaign formally alleged that a group attacking his Vietnam war record had illegal ties to US President George W. Bush (news - web sites)'s reelection bid.
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In a statement released to reporters, Kerry's campaign announced it had "filed a legal complaint against Swift Boat Veterans for Truth (SBVT) before the Federal Election Commission (news - web sites) (FEC) for violating the law with inaccurate ads that are illegally coordinated with the Bush-Cheney presidential campaign."
The move by the Kerry campaign came shortly after the Swift Boat group released a second ad attacking the Democratic presidential candidate, who was wounded three times while serving on a Swift Boat in Vietnam and decorated twice for valor.
Swift Boat Veterans for Truth have accused Kerry of lying about one of the wounds he suffered and of embellishing his acts of heroism during his four months in Vietnam, charges strongly rejected by the senator from Massachusetts.
Kerry on Thursday accused the Bush administration of using the Swift Boat veterans as a front group to do the "dirty work" of attacking his Vietnam War record.
The New York Times on Friday reported that there is a "web of connections" between the Swift Boat group and the "Bush family, high-profile Texas political figures and President Bush (news - web sites)'s chief political aide, Karl Rove."
So the vets are starting to get under his skin. This poor soul is damned either way! Har! Har! Har! What trash he is. Sedition at the least, Treason if we had a real government- and he aspires to the highest office. I remember those days and I would not go out of my way to spit on him and/or Jane Fonda.
This is a ploy to make it look like they're doing something in the legal arena in order to allow their supporters to claim that they are suing. They don't have anything that they can bring in court without risking sanctions, so they engage in this maneuver, which is purely for show.
1. Contemptuous of those who seek to understand them
2. Does not perceive that anything is wrong with them
3. Authoritarian
4. Secretive
5. Paranoid
6. Only rarely in difficulty with the law, but seeks out situations where their tyrannical behavior will be tolerated, condoned, or admired
7. Conventional appearance
8. Goal of enslavement of their victim(s)
9. Exercises despotic control over every aspect of the victim's life
10. Has an emotional need to justify their crimes and therefore needs their victim's affirmation (respect, gratitude and love)
11. Ultimate goal is the creation of a willing victim
12. Incapable of real human attachment to another
13. Unable to feel remorse or guilt
14. Extreme narcissism and grandiose
15. May state readily that their goal is to rule the world
The above traits are based on the psychopathy checklists of H. Cleckley and R. Hare.
NOTE: In the 1830's this disorder was called "moral insanity." By 1900 it was changed to "psychopathic personality." More recently it has been termed "antisocial personality disorder."
What's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander!
I just donate some money to the Swift Vets. Folks take time and donate. The more we keep the pressure on Kerry the more folks will see him for the fraud he is.
CFR is a farce anyway. McCain is an idiot.
Folks, watch out. The "industry in the business of suing for a living" that is behind Kerry AIN'T going to screw up this late in the game.
My guess is that they have found ONE micro connection or questionable motive with one SBV. One domino they can knock down IN THE MEDIA of course.
Next week the SHOCKING NEWS will be released.
All the talk shows and web pages on the planet can't approach the power of one little mishap or lie by a group on the Conservative side if the big media gets in there. Remember Trent Lott? CBSABCNBCCNNaljazeeraNYTIMESLATIMESHAMSTERPARADEMAGAZINE.
nice logo
Send money to fight Soros and crew!
Why is it off limits?
....and, BTW..your post just made my day :)
Seating Mikey Moore in the Presidents booth with Peanut Boy at that Dem convention seems to me like tacit proof that Kerry and Moore's movie are directly connected.
Yea, I was over at DU earlier today, and several are starting to get worried. Trying to ban the book and the commercials will offend many, even if they like Kerry's politics. History will record this issue with the vets as the tide that turned to election back to Bush. I predict Bush by +100 EC's.
Well, all I can do is relate a couple of little facts. (1) A number of Clintonoids have joined Kerry's staff; (2) he is getting some incredibly bad political advice on this; (3) some bidder named "HRC" just won an ebay auction for a John Kerry voodoo doll (the other bidders turned up mysteriously missing). I dunno, but I can connect the dots.
Remember how Clinton had that elderly couple arrested for calling him a name during a protest? That's how much free speech means to the lying Demonrats.
Yes, Brer Rabbit.
Conservatives are not allowed to have friends ? (Cheney going duck hunting with Scalia--why, that's a scandal!)
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