Posted on 03/10/2015 7:37:58 AM PDT by Timber Rattler
Picking his way through the Soviet archives that Boris Yeltsin had just thrown open, in 1991 Tim Sebastian, a reporter for the London Times, came across an arresting memorandum. Composed in 1983 by Victor Chebrikov, the top man at the KGB, the memorandum was addressed to Yuri Andropov, the top man in the entire USSR. The subject: Sen. Edward Kennedy.
“On 9-10 May of this year,” the May 14 memorandum explained, “Sen. Edward Kennedy’s close friend and trusted confidant [John] Tunney was in Moscow.” (Tunney was Kennedy’s law school roommate and a former Democratic senator from California.) “The senator charged Tunney to convey the following message, through confidential contacts, to the General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Y. Andropov.”
Kennedy’s message was simple. He proposed an unabashed quid pro quo. Kennedy would lend Andropov a hand in dealing with President Reagan. In return, the Soviet leader would lend the Democratic Party a hand in challenging Reagan in the 1984 presidential election. “The only real potential threats to Reagan are problems of war and peace and Soviet-American relations,” the memorandum stated. “These issues, according to the senator, will without a doubt become the most important of the election campaign.”
Kennedy made Andropov a couple of specific offers.
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The KGB memo in question can be found here.
Teddy earned his spot in hell.
This is EXACTLY why America’s enemies always prefer democrats in our national elections.
I remember when the news broke on this story... This was a classic example of conspiracy with the enemy. But of course, Kennedys never face consequences... at least not of this earth. The afterlife is a different story.
In my opinion, Oswald took out the wrong Kennedy. Teddy’s evil legacy is far more reaching than four more years of JFK would’ve been.
Ted Kennedy did more damage to our country and its citizens than anyone I know of including Obama (probably because he was at it for such a longer time).
Probably his most devastating achievement in hurting our country was the full-court press of lies he unleasshed to prevent Judge Robert Bork, the leading constitutional scholar of his time who stood ardently for the rule of law and against judicial activism, from getting on the Supreme Court. Almost certainly, Roe would have been overturned in Casey (1992) and tens of millions of babies would not have been slaughtered.
I remember when they found this letter. He should have been tried for treason, but instead he kept his seat and the press yawned.
Thanks for posting. People need to be reminded of how much a traitor he was. Many of the Republicans considered him a friend too. I believe Orrin Hatch considered himself a friend of Ted’s.
He could have lined up support from the Romulan Empire.
It still would not have won that election for Mondale.
I think in Ted Kennedy, we got a glimpse of the catastrophe that could have happened if JFK and/or RFK were allowed to continue. All of them, including Ted, were amoral blank slates ready to be written on by political opportunism. Their father, Joe ruled them with an iron hand and was a great supporter of FDR’s socialism. JFK was trained in London by Laski, the director of the infamous Fabian Society.
The Lion Of the Senate was also instrumental in the 1965 immigration reform that passed with the Democrats calling Republicans wrong on their claim that this immigration reform would change the demographics of the country,
How did that work out folks?
Check it out on google
Bork might have potentially been the best Supreme Court Justice ever. Regardless of his personal views, he stood by the principle that a SCOTUS Justice is to rule based not on his own personal moral views, but on a good-faith reading of the test and original understanding and intent of the Constitution. He stood for the rule of law, not the tyranny of the rule of man.
I can’t believe you actually think Leftist Kennedy in his drunken, sexually promiscuous stupor helped our country by touring around and lying through is teeth about Bork. When the Left hates someone that much, that fact alone should tell you there was something good about him. If you actually read some of his books, like The Tempting of America, you’d understand more about what a great Justice he could have been. He would have upheld the right to bear arms because it is in the Constitution.
The result of “Kennedy’s’ best work” was deliberate: unconstitutional Roe v. Wade was not overturned in 1992 and the bloody infanticide has continued with tens of millions more unborn salughtered. This was one major goal Kennedy had in accomplishing “his best work.” Congratulations.
easy Eric- I got it. Eric is not saying it was ‘good’ work. Just his most effective in the evil bastiges crusade to destroy all that is good and holy in the world.
I recall Bork’s campaign. He unequivocally stated RKBA was meant for ‘the militia.†Bork was no friend of individual liberty.
You need not introduce anything else Kennedy did while in office since most on this page are familiar with it.
The subject: Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-HELL).
I must respectfully disagree, that was bad but pails in comparison to the complete and ongoing devastation that is our current "immigration" system.
Teddy was the father of the 1965 immigration legislation that led us to where we are today. Every thing he said about the bill was a lie and had exactly the opposite effect.
In terms of long lasting negative impacts on the country nothing else over the last century comes close.
Well, I disagree that Bork was not friend of individual liberty. I did not always agree with Bork on everything either. That isn’t the point. The point is Bork was a rare breed who believed in interpreting law and the Constitution not based on the personal moral views of the judge, but on a faithful reading of the text and good-faith effort to find the original understanding and intent of the ratifiers.
The ONE legal guardian of our individual liberties is the Constitution, the Rule of Law in America which is the ONLY legal bulwark of individual liberty against the tyranny of judicial activism and the rule of man. Bork was dead-set against judicial activism and believed the judges job was to APPLY the Constitution AS WRITTEN AND INTENDED to the case at hand, regardless of the Justices own personal moral views. That made him a great friend on individual liberty because he was a friend of the Constitution.
I don’t know if you have actual case opinions written by Bork that support what you say were his views on RKBA, but I can tell you that whatever that case opinion was, the reason for his opinion was not political but because he truly believed it was the original intent of the framers and ratifiers of the Constitution. Regardless of anything else, that is the kind of person you want in the Supreme Court - faithful to the Rule of Law of the Constitution as written and originally understood and intended. Whoever does that is the greatest legal friend of individual liberty.
THE KENNEDYS’ TREASONOUS HISTORY
Joseph P Kennedy Sr., the patriarch of the Kennedy clan, was thrown out from England as U.S. Ambassador to the Court of St James due to his public expressions of sympathy for Adolf Hitler. He became very rich on the illegal traffic of alcoholic beverages during the Prohibition. When FDR was criticized for putting him to the head of the Stock Exchange Commission, FDR responded by saying that “it takes a crook to catch a crook.”
Senator Ted Kennedy offered his services to the KGB in the middle of the cold war during the presidency of Ronald Reagan.
John F Kennedy, another Hitler’s admirer, betrayed the Cuban freedom fighters during the Bay of Pigs invasion. Later he betrayed the United States during the October Missile Crisis when, disregarding the Monroe Doctrine, Kennedy approved and pledged to protect, the establishment in Cuba of a Soviet permanent base, an extra-hemispheric enemy power, at 90 miles from Florida.
I’d say the infanticide of the bloody slaughter of 70 million unborn is by far the greatest modern-day tragedy in America - probably in her whole history - I know of no other blunder or tragedy in America that even comes close.
Usually it takes several generations to heal from the guilt and shame of nationally-sanctioned wholesale mass murder like abortion in America or the slaughter of Jews in Germany. That is not to mention the tens of millions of lives that have been slaughtered - irreversibly gone from us forever.
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