John Kerry moves to censor Sinclair Broadcast
Gerard Jackson
Despite the lying propaganda that the John Kerry campaign and its media lackeys are spreading the Sinclair documentary did contain dissenting views. After all, Sinclair is not run by the Democratic likes of Mark Halperin, Dan Rather, Mary Mapes or Michael Moor. What isn't made clear is that these 'dissenters' are all linked to the Kerry campaign.
There is Richard Klass, a Vietnam vet and President of the VISD (Veterans Institute for Security and Democracy), is a classic example of the double-dealing treachery that now defines the Democratic Party.
Klass is a pathological Bush-hater who has expended, without success, an enormous amount of time trying to smear President Bush's National Guard record. As for Kerry's record of smearing American troops as war criminals, Klass has nothing to say. Nor is he interested in getting hold of Kerry's service records.
Far from being an independent organisation serving the interests of veterans the VISD is nothing but a leftwing front that spends part of its time sliming groups like Vietnam Veterans For Truth and the Swift Boat Vets.
Wayne Smith is the group's president. He is also a member of the John Kerry campaign. Klass is a rabid Kerry supporter who addressed a DNC Press Conference in which he launched a baseless attack on Bush's National Guard record.
General Tony McPeak is a rabid Kerry supports who appeared in a Kerry campaign commercial. He also addresses the DNC. This is the same Gen. McPeak that endorsed Dean.
Apparently McPeak believes the US has a moral imperative to prevent genocide — but not if the president is a Republican. Furthermore, in his scheme of things US forces are not to be used to advance US interests. Needless to say, he has the reputation of being an intellectual.
Last August McPeak was questioned about Kerry's senate record on defence and intelligence spending. He refused to answer the question. Instead, he argued that those who did not serve in Vietnam had no right to question Kerry's record.
Yet McPeak approved VISD attacking the right of veterans to state their case against Kerry on Sinclair Broadcast Inc. I guess what McPeak really means is that only Vietnam vets who agree with Kerry and him have the right to be heard.
VISD boasts David Cline as an advisor. Now Cline is the VVAW's (Vietnam Veterans Against the War) Current National Coordinator. The VVAW is a pro-communist organization that acted as a front for Hanoi during the war and spread phoney atrocity stories. As a demonstration of its support for Hanoi it barred the American flag from the offices. Just as well, when one thinks about it
Two weeks after the 9/11 atrocity these patriots issued a press release declaring damning the "use of massive military power will only escalate the cycle of violence, spreading more death and destruction to more innocent people with no end in sight. ... We see many parallels between Vietnam and Afghanistan." In other words, let the terrorists and their supporters go.
So what gives with these former generals? Being a generous folk, Americans are inclined to give people like these the benefit of every doubt. I mean, after all, didn't they once wear their country's uniform.
This is a very naïve attitude. Wearing one's country's uniform doe not necessarily make one a patriot.
These men remind me of the so-called Generals for Peace group that was founded in the early 1980s and its leadership consisted of retired NATO generals. (I do hope this is beginning to sound familiar). Gerhard Kade was the organisation's first administrator.
He was also a KGB agent. We now know that half the generals were working for the Kremlin and the organisation was receiving huge funds annually that the KGB funnelled through the STASI (East Germany's KGB).
General Gerd Bastain, best remembered for his liaison with Petra Kelly, another half-witted lefty, was a prominent member of the organisation. However, there was another side to him: he was also a paid STASI agent who did everything in his power to prevent President Reagan and Prime Minister Thatcher from standing successfully challenging the Soviet installation of SS 20s in Eastern Europe. Fortunately for freedom Bastain failed and like the Soviet Union he is no longer with us.
Speaking of Bastain brings to mind Admiral LaRoque. When he left the US Navy he teamed up with the Marxist-Leninist Washington-based Institute for Policy Studies which, during the Cold War, acted as a front for the KGB, even having KGB officers openly frequent its headquarters.
LaRoque relentlessly promoted the interests of the Soviet Union while striving to slash US defence spending, cancel military projects and defeat President Reagan's anti-communist policies. (As I recall, didn't a young Massachusetts senator do very same thing?).
I honestly believe that there was no a single communist regime that LaRoque objected to. Unfortunately he is still with us and still opposing American interests, even in the war on terror.
So what are these former generals and their friends doing on the Kerry campaign and what does this tell us about Kerry? It sure as hell tells us that Kerry and his pals are lying when they say that Sinclair has acted unfairly.
The Kerry campaign also recommended Robert Muller, Vietnam War veteran who was also one of the leaders of VVAW. What more can one say. Muller also wants to silence these former POWs.
Finally we come to George Butler, a truly nasty piece of work and director of the documentary Going Upriver: The Long War of John Kerry. Naturally, Butler left out anything that might embarrass Kerry or reveal his true personality. This allowed Butler to claim that no one can find a single lie in his film.
Not exactly. Regardless of what this Hollywood poseur thinks, avoiding direct lies by carefully selecting facts to support one's cause is still lying.
This fervent defender of the First Amendment is threatening to sue Sinclair because it gives a one-sided view of Kerry's anti-war activities. This is the same as accusing those vets, especially the former POWs, of being a pack of Republican liars. It goes without saying that Butler never criticised Michael Moore, ABC, CBS, CNN, NPR, etc., for being one-sided against President Bush.
Butler is apparently basing his case on an alleged breach of copyright by Sinclair. Baloney. It's time this lying leftwing celluloid intellectual returned to Treasontown.
The vicious assault on Sinclair is an attack on free speech, and one that the media is complicit in. Censorship is a leftwing cancer in American society that needs to be destroyed. That John Kerry and his goons are behind the current campaign to silence honourable Vietnam vets tells us what a bunch of red fascists Kerry and his thuggish campaigners really are.
It also tells us that when we get down to it, Kerry really ain't much of a man.
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Monday 25 October 2004