list so I'll try to even it out a bit.
John Kerry: More 'aid and comfort'...
Mark Alexander
Kerry is, indubitably, the Left's most "useful idiot"
(as V.I. Lenin famously labeled Western apologists for
socialist propaganda) in contemporary politics. Ion
Mihai Pacepa, the highest-ranking intelligence officer
ever to defect from the Soviet bloc, said of Kerry's
anti-American activities during the Vietnam War, "KGB
priority number one at that time was to damage
American power, judgment and credibility. ... As a spy
chief and a general in the former Soviet satellite of
Romania, I produced the very same vitriol Kerry
repeated to the U.S. Congress almost word for word and
planted it in leftist movements."
But Kerry's infamous (and unlawful) coddling of
Vietnamese Communists some 35 years ago (see "Aid and
comfort to the enemy: The Kerry Record...") was not
his last rendezvous with the Reds. After his election
to the Senate in 1984 (as Ted Kennedy's understudy),
Kerry spent years dismissing claims by POW family
groups that some Americans were still being held in
Vietnam and Cambodia. And he has, since, given aid and
comfort to plenty of other Red regimes, including some
in this hemisphere.
For example, in 1985 Kerry courted Daniel Ortega and
his Communist regime in Nicaragua, even traveling to
visit his "Dear Comandante" in Managua. Kerry returned
to the U.S., where he advocated a policy of
appeasement rather than continued funding of Ortega's
opponents, the anti-Communist Contras. In 1988 Kerry
attempted to make political hay of U.S. policy in
Central America by using his Senate committee as a
launch-pad to accuse George H.W. Bush of sanctioning a
Contra drug-smuggling operation that was importing
cocaine into California. The unfounded charges were,
not surprisingly, timed to coincide with the elder
Bush's campaign against Massachusetts Governor Michael
Dukakis, under whom Kerry had served as lieutenant
governor.
In 1996, Kerry accepted a $10,000 campaign
contribution in return for arranging a meeting between
Honk Kong businesswoman Liu Chaohying and a senior
Securities and Exchange official in order to get
Chaohying's company listed on the U.S. Stock Exchange.
Chaohying was a lieutenant colonel in Red China's
People's Liberation Army. That same year, Kerry
traveled to Beijing on a "U.S. trade mission." Here
it's worth noting that the ChiComs never forget their
useful idiots; the People's Daily, the official
newspaper of the Communist Party of China, has
endorsed Kerry's presidential bid.
But Kerry's fondness for despotic regimes did not
subside in the '90s. In March of this year, Kerry was
asked on a campaign stop in Florida about his
affiliation with Cuba's Fidel Castro and his
oppressive regime. Given the number of Cuban
expatriates in Florida who fled Castro's slave island,
Kerry answered, "I'm pretty tough on Castro. ... I
voted for the Helms-Burton legislation to be tough on
companies that deal with him." (Would someone kindly
cue the laugh track?)
Helms-Burton, you may recall, strengthened the U.S.
embargo against Cuba after Fidel's fighter jets shot
down two single-engine civilian aircraft over
international waters, killing four Cuban ex-pats. The
small planes belonged to Brothers to the Rescue, an
organization of small aircraft owners who volunteered
their time flying over the waters between Cuba and the
Keys, and alerting the Coast Guard when they came upon
Cuban refugees on makeshift rafts who needed rescue.
However, Kerry voted against Helms-Burton, and he
later clarified his support for Castro by arguing that
the embargo should be lifted. "The only reason [Cuba
is treated differently from other Communist nations]
is the politics of Florida," said Kerry. Of course,
the ever-opportunistic Kerry wasn't campaigning in
Florida at the time of that "clarification."
Indeed, John Kerry has a well-documented record of
anti-American activities, especially aiding Communist
regimes. But the "aid and comfort" he gave to North
Vietnamese Communists in 1971 (while still a U.S.
naval officer, and while Americans were still
fighting, dying, and being held captive by that
regime) is the most grievous of these transgressions.
His treasonous actions in 1970-1971 are the subject of
an indictment that will be delivered to Senate
President Dick Cheney, Senate Majority Leader Bill
Frist and Attorney General John Ashcroft on 12
October. The indictment notes both Kerry's UCMJ and
U.S. Code (18 USC 2381) violations, and it calls for
his disqualification for public office in accordance
with the Constitution's Fourteenth Amendment, Section
3, which states: "No person shall be a Senator or
Representative in Congress, or elector of President
and Vice-President...having previously taken an
oath...to support the Constitution of the United
States, [who has] engaged in insurrection or rebellion
against the same, or given aid or comfort to the
enemies thereof."
http://federalistpatriot.us/alexander/edition.asp?id=277
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