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Swift Boat Veterans Vow to Continue
NewsMax ^ | Dec 17, 2004 | Limbacher

Posted on 12/17/2004 8:57:22 AM PST by Tumbleweed_Connection

Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, the group that John Kerry's campaign mismanager blames/thanks for the Democrat presidential nominee's defeat, promises that it won't go away.

Recently enlarged and renamed Swift Boat Veterans and POWs for Truth, it is keeping an eye on Kerry, who has thrilled Republicans by saying he might run for president again in 2008.

William E. Franke, who runs the organization's day-to-day operations, pointed out to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch that the group was need because the media establishment failed to report adequately and accurately on the admitted war criminal Kerry's past.

"They have called us rag merchants and liars and scum and every name under the sun. But what he has never done is respond substantively to our accusations," Franke said.

Swift Boat Veterans and POWs for Truth has grown to "a substantive organization" with a donor list of 150,000, he said.

He said the group might help distribute the documentary "Stolen Honor: Wounds that Never Heal," which NewsMax aired on television nationwide after left-wing groups censored Sinclair Broadcast Group's attempt to show it.

Franke noted that it was an injustice that the Bush-hating film "Fahrenheit 911" could be shown so widely by the same types who muzzled "Stolen Honor."

"One thing I suspect we may do is join in an effort so that the POWs are able to get their message out," he told the paper.


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KEYWORDS: franke; stolenhonor; swiftboat; swiftboat08; swiftboatveterans; swiftboatvets; swiftees; swiftvets; williamfranke
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1 posted on 12/17/2004 8:57:23 AM PST by Tumbleweed_Connection
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To: Tumbleweed_Connection

Ping


2 posted on 12/17/2004 9:02:01 AM PST by VNam68 (Merry Xmas to everyone!!!)
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To: 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub

Swift Vets Ping


4 posted on 12/17/2004 9:02:38 AM PST by Calpernia (Breederville.com)
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To: Tumbleweed_Connection
Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, the group that John Kerry's campaign mismanager blames/thanks for the Democrat presidential nominee's defeat, promises that it won't go away.

They are Divinely inspired. I feel they have a mandate from G-d.

5 posted on 12/17/2004 9:04:38 AM PST by Lazamataz ("Stay well - Stay safe - Stay armed - Yorktown" -- harpseal)
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To: Tumbleweed_Connection

Think I will do a little SwiftGloating today.


6 posted on 12/17/2004 9:13:22 AM PST by ORECON (Condi Rice/Ann Coulter - 2008)
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To: Tumbleweed_Connection

In the last couple weeks, I've seen Mike McCurry and Kerry's campaign flak Chad [Somebody] refer to the "lies" of the SWIFTvets. McCurry called their efforts "the most dishonorable thing I've ever seen in politics."

Yet I cannot recall one single event or instance in which anything the SWIFTvets said was refuted or corrected. Even the WashPost article on the Bay Hap incident effectively came up with nothing (and it was the only careful and thorough reconstruction of the incident).


7 posted on 12/17/2004 9:18:02 AM PST by angkor
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To: Tumbleweed_Connection; armyman; Arrowhead1952; darkwing104; txradioguy; Long Cut; Jet Jaguar; ...

There is no need to impeach Hanoi Kerry from the US Senate

He is there illegally!

Hanoi Kerry is in violation of

US Constitution 14th Amendment Section 3

http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/data/constitution/amendment14/

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.

Violation of 18 USC 2381

http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/html/uscode18/usc_sec_18_00002381----000-.html

Treason
Whoever, owing allegiance to the United States,
levies war against them or adheres to their enemies,
giving them aid and comfort within the United States or elsewhere,
is guilty of treason and shall suffer death,
or shall be imprisoned not less than five years and fined
under this title but not less than $10,000;
and shall be incapable of holding any office under the United States.

Violation of 18 USC 953

http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/html/uscode18/usc_sec_18_00000953----000-.html

Private correspondence with foreign governments
Any citizen of the United States, wherever he may be, who, without authority of the United States,
directly or indirectly commences or carries on any correspondence or intercourse
with any foreign government or any officer or agent thereof,
with intent to influence the measures or conduct of any foreign government
or of any officer or agent thereof, in relation to any disputes
or controversies with the United States, or to defeat the measures of the United States,
shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than three years, or both.
This section shall not abridge the right of a citizen to apply,
himself or his agent, to any foreign government or the agents
thereof for redress of any injury which he may have sustained
from such government or any of its agents or subjects.

Violation of UCMJ Section 904. ART. 104.

http://www.au.af.mil/au/awc/awcgate/ucmj2.htm

AIDING THE ENEMY
Any person who--
(1) aids, or attempts to aid, the enemy with arms, ammunition, supplies, money, or other things; or
(2) without proper authority, knowingly harbors or [protects or gives intelligence to or
communicates or corresponds with or holds any intercourse with the enemy, either directly or indirectly;
shall suffer death or such other punishment as a court-martial or military commission may direct.

Petition to Investigate and Indict
Hanoi Kerry for acts of treason

http://patriotpetitions.us/kerry/

Timeline of Hanoi Kerry

http://www.archive-news.net/Kerry/JK_timeline.html

VVAW, FBI files and John Kerry,
What stockpirate has found

http://www.freerepublic.com/~stockpirate/

Viet Nam Vets are NOT going away
until Hanoi Kerry is removed from office!

212 LINKS to Anti Kerry sites
News reports,
Viper's Vietnam Veterans Page

http://members.aol.com/ga1449ga/links/links.html

Contact your current
senators and representatives

and main stream right wing media

and find out why Hanoi Kerry still is in the US Senate.
Demand that this traitor is removed from the US Senate now!

Don't be like the silent majority in the 60's and 70's
and turn your back on America and cave in to the anti war minority.
Speak up for America today!

Distribute these url's!

EXPOSE HANOI KERRY!

Full details on these url's!

http://tonkin.spymac.net/hanoikerry1.html

There is a backup site
if the 1st url is unavailable.

http://stophanoikerry.150m.com


8 posted on 12/17/2004 9:50:44 AM PST by 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub (US Senate AND Main Stream Right Wing Media READ US Constitution 14th Amendment Section 3)
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To: Tumbleweed_Connection

Big Swifties ~ Bump!


9 posted on 12/17/2004 9:52:20 AM PST by blackie (Be Well~Be Armed~Be Safe~Molon Labe!)
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To: 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub

bump!!!


10 posted on 12/17/2004 9:56:36 AM PST by Soaring Feather
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To: angkor

Mike McCurry calling the Swifties dishonorable?

I think that when you look up 'irony' in the dictionary, this is the definition.


11 posted on 12/17/2004 9:57:54 AM PST by andie74 (Proud Resident of Fly-Over Country)
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To: 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub

BTTT!!!!!!!


12 posted on 12/17/2004 10:00:09 AM PST by E.G.C.
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To: Tumbleweed_Connection

"it is keeping an eye on Kerry, who has thrilled Republicans by saying he might run for president again in 2008."

If anybody truly believes that Kerry will run again (or at least that he'd be nominated again), I've got a couple of bridges...


13 posted on 12/17/2004 10:03:10 AM PST by Gone GF
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To: 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub

The Swift Boat Veterans and Free Republic will NEVER relent.


14 posted on 12/17/2004 10:06:36 AM PST by international american (Generation Jones: "I need, I need someone to set a pick for me at the free-throw line of life)
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To: Tumbleweed_Connection

as for Fahrenheit911, we tried...at least we got the word out.


www.pabaah.com

join us!


15 posted on 12/17/2004 10:20:09 AM PST by Jon Alvarez
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To: Tumbleweed_Connection

Swifties bump


16 posted on 12/17/2004 10:27:34 AM PST by GOPJ (M.Dowd...hits..like a bucket of vomit with Body Shop potpourri sprinked across the surface--Goldberg)
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To: Gone GF
If anybody truly believes that Kerry will run again (or at least that he'd be nominated again), I've got a couple of bridges...

You may want to watch those bridges a little more closely. With Teresa's cash, and if Kerry is willing to move far enough left to satisfy the DU/Moveon types, he could easily win the nomination.

The Democrat Party nomination process is firmly in the grip of the 'wing nut" left factions and unless they change their primary rules in the next 4 years to allow less radical party pros a say, Kerry could have it again if he wants. In addition, four years from now, what remains of the Mainstrean media will have even less influence among Rat primary voters than they have now with Republicans. The mainstream is done from a King Making standpoint and you will see the "grass roots" driving the bus.

It will boil down to what Kerry wants to do.

17 posted on 12/17/2004 10:41:50 AM PST by Ditto ( No trees were killed in sending this message, but billions of electrons were inconvenienced.)
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To: angkor
Kerry never responded substantively, and neither did the MSM. One day the NY Slimes simply announced the Swiftees had been "discredited" and that became the MSM mantra.

The only things in the book that I've seen contested substantively are that the guy Kerry shot to get his silver star may have been wearing pajamas instead of a loin cloth and Rassman's claim (from the bottom of the river) that Kerry was being fired upon when he came back from him in the Bronze Star incident. I'm not aware of anything else that's even contested. For heaven's sake, Kerry's own account of the Silver Star incident conflicts with the citation.

18 posted on 12/17/2004 10:47:48 AM PST by colorado tanker (The People Have Spoken)
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pajamas instead of a loin cloth and Rassman's claim (from the bottom of the river) that Kerry was being fired upon when he came back

The pajamas claim was from the VC in Ca Mau, who gave differing answers to Nightline and to the AP reporter who interviewed them a month or two earlier. The Vietnamese Communists are notorious liars (and I say this as the husband of a S. Vietnamese woman who grew up on the Delta).

As for Rassman's claim, I'll cut him slack and say that he confused friendly fire for enemy fire in the heat of battle. All the other SWIFTees say he's wrong.

19 posted on 12/17/2004 11:07:56 AM PST by angkor
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To: angkor
I thought Nightline taking the word of VC over American veterans was especially vile.

I cut Rassman slack too. He struck me as a pretty naive guy who was seriously being taken advantage of by Kerry's handlers.

20 posted on 12/17/2004 11:14:09 AM PST by colorado tanker (The People Have Spoken)
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