HOW KERRY QUIT VETERANS GROUP AMID DARK PLOT

The New York Sun; Date:Mar 12, 2004 ^ | 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub

[aruanan]

The FBi documensts do not indicate that theplan was voted down at the November meeting, only that it was well recieved and tabled until the Feb. meeting.

Ah, so he's even nuancing this?

[MeekOneGOP]

[SAMWolf]

Bump

[stockpirate]

That's right, the VVAW policy at the time was when something was brought up they would discuss the matter than table it so they could take it back to the membership and return with what the members wanted.

It was only tabled and as the reports indicate it was well recieved and was to be voted on in Feb. of 1972.

But Scott was arrested for kidnapping and some other charges between November and Feb.

[MistyCA]

Yes, they are one and the same.

[MistyCA]

Good work!

[MistyCA]

I am still very interested in the connection between Bill Burkett and Scott Camil. So far I only connect them because they both signed the Call to Conscience letter. If you look at my first post on this thread, you will see some work done by someone on the Galley Slaves site who believes Scott Camil was responsible for the rathergate memos. With the connection to Bill Burkett, it makes that much more likely.

[MistyCA]

Thanks Sam!

[christie]

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Kerry was their spokesperson for months after the so-called resignation, so he was still in the thick of things.

Point is, he has never resigned to this day his intent to bring down this country.

The John F. Kerry Timeline.
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[MistyCA]

Another interesting link here is that Scott Camil worked on the Kuciniche (sp?) campaign.

[Gucho]

Gen. Giap: Kerry's Group Helped Hanoi Defeat U.S. The North Vietnamese general in charge of the military campaign that finally drove the U.S. out of South Vietnam in 1975 credited a group led by Democratic presidential front-runner John Kerry with helping him achieve victory. In his 1985 memoir about the war, Gen. Vo Nguyen Giap wrote that if it weren't for organizations like Kerry's Vietnam Veterans Against the War, Hanoi would have surrendered to the U.S.

[sauropod]

read later.

[stockpirate]

read this article.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 9 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Were John Kerry and the veterans organization he led the real reason the Republicans broke into Watergate in 1972, with information on them the target of the espionage? Was doing so an early onset of Republican political paranoia against his work, a harbinger of the pending campaign against him in 2004?

Bob Weiner, the 1971-72 Youth Voter Registration director for the Young Democrats office at the Watergate headquarters of the Democratic National Committee and recently a Clinton White House staffer for six years, is asking these questions after doing a little research to refresh his memory. Weiner looked in the Senate's Watergate Hearings in volumes held by the Library of Congress and researched Kerry's specific assistance to the Party's '72 effort, a Rhode Island speech supporting youth voter registration, in the Providence Public Library's archives.

Here's what Weiner has confirmed:

James McCord of the Watergate burglars and CREEP (Committee for the Reelection of the President) testified before the Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities on May 18, 1973 and was asked by Senator James Inouye (D-Hawaii) why the break-in was conducted. McCord replied, "Democratic national headquarters staff members" were "working closely with violence groups"... "which involved violence and demonstrations against our committee". When Senators Inouye, Lowell Weicker (R-Conn.), Ed Gurney (R-Fla.), and Howard Baker (R-Tenn.) asked for more detail, in each case McCord repeated the "violence" reference but specifically -- and only -- named the "Vietnam Veterans Against the War", accusing them as "a violence-oriented group" (Hearing pages 180, 200, 201, 223-24 and elsewhere, May 18 and 22 testimony).

Link

[stockpirate]

I think the memos were done by someone inside the Kerry campaign, not Scott Camil.

[stockpirate]

Sorry the best part was the next paragraph.

So what was the actual connection that the national Democratic office had with Kerry? Kerry was the public spokesperson and national chairman of the Vietnam Veterans Against the War. At the request of the Rhode Island Young Democrats, Weiner had invited Kerry to speak, urging youth voter registration, at the Rhode Island Young Democrats' convention in Providence on February 12, 1972. Kerry accepted and spoke as documented in the Providence Journal of Feb. 13, 1972. Kerry also in a news availability there called for Nixon's impeachment as later did the House Judiciary committee by a 28-10 vote before Nixon resigned.

[Gucho]

[Mo1]

SCOTT CAMIL ARCHIVE -- (John Kerry's would-be assassin colleague from the VVAW)

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1102880/posts

[Gucho]

[christie]

Added to timeline.

[backhoe]