[Manny Ortiz]

"It started with Jimmy Carter. Carter's first official act as president was the signing of Executive Order 4483 providing general amnesty for draft evaders, war protesters and the other riffraff of that era."

I don't know how many times this is going to be claimed when it simply isn't true. Here is the EO and you can see for yourself that it is only concerned with violations of the Selective Service (draft) laws. When people claim otherwise they don't know what they are talking about.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE                                                   JANUARY 21, 1977

Office of the White House Press Secretary
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THE WHITE HOUSE

GRANTING PARDON FOR VIOLATIONS
OF THE SELECTIVE SERVICE ACT,
AUGUST 4, 1964 TO MARCH 28, 1973
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BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
A PROCLAMATION

Acting pursuant to the grant of authority in Article II, Section 2, of the Constitution of the United States, I, Jimmy Carter, President of the United States, do hereby grant a full, complete and unconditional pardon to: (1) all persons who may have committed any offense between August 4, 1964 and March 28, 1973 in violation of the Military Selective Service Act or any rule or regulation promulgated thereunder; and (2) all persons heretofore convicted, irrespective of the date of conviction, of any offense committed between August 4, 1964 and March 28, 1973 in violation of the Military Selective Service Act, or any rule or regulation promulgated thereunder, restoring to them full political, civil and other rights.

This pardon does not apply to the following who are specifically excluded therefrom:

(1) All persons convicted of or who may have committed any offense in violation of the Military Selective Service Act, or any rule or regulation promulgated thereunder, involving force or violence; and

(2) All persons convicted of or who may have committed any offense in violation of the Military Selective Service Act, or any rule or regulation promulgated thereunder, in connection with duties or responsibilities arising out of employment as agents, officers or employees of the Military Selective Service system.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this 21st day of January, in the year of our Lord nineteen
hundred and seventy-seven, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and first.

JIMMY CARTER          

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Executive Order

 

[Fatalis]

Good work about that E.O. Afree also about Kerry's documented trips to Paris. We know he went once, but may have gone more. The confusion arises from his own campaign's inability to give one consistent story on Kerry's (non-) honeymoon in Paris.