posted on June 4, 2004 12:34:57 PM new
And you demo's want for president a man known to consort with communist & sell out American soldiers. Shame on you!
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FBI Files Show Kerry Met With Communists More Than Once
By Marc Morano
CNSNews.com Senior Staff Writer
June 04, 2004
(CNSNews.com) - Newly released FBI files reveal that presumed Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry attended a second meeting with North Vietnamese communists in Paris in the early 1970s. Kerry has previously admitted to meeting only once with the North Vietnamese delegations in 1970.
According to the FBI files, Kerry met with representatives from the North Vietnamese government in Paris in 1971 in an effort to secure the release of captured American prisoners of war. Kerry has previously acknowledged meeting "both delegations" of Vietnamese communists in Paris in 1970, but has said nothing of the 1971 meeting.
Researcher and author Jerry Corsi, who began studying the anti-war movement in the early 1970s, believes Kerry is hiding key aspects about his anti-war past from the public as he seeks the presidency.
"Kerry has admitted to one meeting with Madam Binh. Now we have reason to believe there was a second [meeting], so let's press them to admit the second [meeting]," Corsi told CNSNews.com.
"Kerry needs to explain to the American people why he directly went into negotiations with communists," Corsi added. Corsi has written an essay on Kerry's dealings with the Vietnamese communists on the Internet site, WinterSoldier.com.
According to Gerald Nicosia, a Kerry supporter and the author of the book Home to War: A History of the Vietnam Veterans' Movement, Kerry's second visit to Paris to meet with emissaries of the North Vietnamese communist government is documented in redacted FBI files from the era.
"The [FBI] files record that Kerry made a second trip to Paris that summer (1971) to learn how the North Vietnamese might release prisoners," Nicosia wrote in an essay in the Los Angeles Times on May 23.
"After deciding not to run [for Congress] in 1970, he and his new wife, Julia Thorne, traveled to France in May to meet Madame Nguyen Thi Binh and other Viet Cong and Communist Vietnamese representatives to the Paris peace talks, a trip he now calls a 'fact-finding mission,"' Nicosia wrote.
Nicosia noted that, "Kerry had tried to distinguish between his own trips to meet with the Vietnamese in Paris, which he considered necessary to fight through the lies of his own government, and actual negotiations with the enemy, which Kerry knew were illegal."
Kerry told the New York Times on April 24 that his first meeting with the Vietnamese communists in 1970 was "not a big deal."
''People were dropping in (at the Paris Peace Talks). It was a regular sort of deal," Kerry explained to the New York Times.
But Corsi believes it was a very big deal.
"You had (Former Nixon aide) Henry Kissinger there (in Paris) trying to negotiate formally with the Paris peace delegation and then these guys (from Vietnam Veterans Against the War) are off on their own side show, establishing back channels to the Vietnamese communists; all of this is against the law," Corsi said, referring to U.S. code 18 U.S.C. 953, which declares it illegal for a U.S. citizen to go abroad and negotiate with a foreign power.
"Exactly who was Kerry ... to have arranged these trips? He had to be in discussion with some link with the communist party of Vietnam in order to establish these trips and meetings," Corsi explained.
Kerry also may have had plans to go to South Vietnam in 1971, according to a June 16, 1971 article in the communist Daily World newspaper.
"Former Navy Lt. John Kerry is planning a three-week trip to South Vietnam in July to report on 'what is really happening' to the GI's there, he told newsmen here," read the article, written by the Daily World's Ted Pearson. Kerry was attending an event in Chicago with Jesse Jackson, who at the time was head of the organization, Operation Bread Basket.
It is unclear whether Kerry ever made the trip to South Vietnam in 1971 and Kerry's campaign did not return several phone calls seeking comment for this article.
Nicosia has criticized Kerry in the past for not being more open about his anti-war past.
"I am in kind of an awkward position here. I am a Kerry supporter and I certainly don't want to do anything that hurts him. On the other hand, my number one allegiance is to truth. So I am going to go with where the facts are, and John is going to have to deal with that," Nicosia told CNSNews.com back in March when the contents of the FBI files became public and caused Kerry to revise his past statements on a series of issues dealing with his past.
"I am having some problems with the things he is saying right now, which are not matching up with accuracy," Nicosia said in March.
"I think [Kerry] may be worried or the people around him may be worried that his association with VVAW (Vietnam Veterans Against the War) is a very negative thing and they want John to back away from it," he added.
Kerry's anti-war activism and his meetings with the communists had a big impact, according to Corsi.
"Vietnamese communists would not have won the war without John Kerry. They were cultivating his protest activity with the VVAW," Corsi said.
Corsi said the Vietnamese communists have shown their gratitude to Kerry by displaying a photo of him at Ho Chi Minh City's Protestors Hall of the War Remnants Museum. The photo of fellow anti-war activist and actress Jane Fonda also appears in the Women's Museum in Saigon.
"As soon as [Kerry] came onto the seen, [the Vietnamese communists] latched on to him like bees on to honey. [The communists] said 'This is a guy who tells our story, it will undermine the sympathy for the war in America,'" Corsi added.
U.S. code 18 U.S.C. 953. "A U.S. citizen cannot go abroad and negotiate with a foreign power,
TITLE 18 > PART I > CHAPTER 45 > Sec. 953. Prev | Next
Sec. 953. - 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
"The Secret Service has announced it is doubling its protection for John Kerry. You can understand why — with two positions on every issue, he has twice as many people mad at him." —Jay Leno
posted on June 4, 2004 01:45:29 PM new
"I am having some problems with the things he is saying right now, which are not matching up with accuracy," Nicosia said in March.
So are a lot of other people.
But notice the lack of concern by kerry supporters here about kerry giving support to our enemies at that time....they're willing to overlook any involvement kerry had during the post-Vietnam days....as he is their only choice...and no matter what kerry has done/hasn't done....they MUST win back the WH.
BUT they sure want you to take note of his 'bravery' in the four months he served in VN.
sad....very sad. I'm a dinasour I guess, but I'll NEVER forget what he and Jane Fonda did to our Vets while they were held captive and still fighting the enemy.
posted on June 4, 2004 01:50:21 PM new
What the hell are you two talking about. Consorting with the enemy? Giving support to our enemies?
Am I the only one that was able to read this line? Maybe you missed it because it was not bolded
According to the FBI files, Kerry met with representatives from the North Vietnamese government in Paris in 1971 in an effort to secure the release of captured American prisoners of war.
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If it's really "common" sense, why do so few people actually have it?
[ edited by fenix03 on Jun 4, 2004 01:50 PM ]
posted on June 4, 2004 01:50:41 PM new
I wanted to mention that there's a possibility kerry's 'second' trip could have been around the time when he was negociating some deal with the government there.
While reading about kerry's relationship with McCain before the search for MIA/POWs started....when McCain still felt kerry hurt the POWs by his anti-American statements....there was a story about kerry being in VN to make a deal for a business venture for someone in his family. I believe a cousin of his...but can't swear to that. But it was reported that kerry was successful in making a business deal ....which some found questionable...especially since he'd sided with them against his own governments position.
posted on June 4, 2004 01:53:17 PM new
Linda - once again I finf myself asking did you actually read the article? Unless you are coming up with a third incident this meeting took place in Paris which unless my geography is really off - is not in Vietnam,
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If it's really "common" sense, why do so few people actually have it?
[ edited by fenix03 on Jun 4, 2004 01:53 PM ]
posted on June 4, 2004 02:34:26 PM new
Consorting: As in giving aid and assistance
One entry found for consort.
Main Entry: 3con·sort
Pronunciation: k&n-'sort, kän-', 'kän-"
Function: verb
transitive senses
1 : UNITE, ASSOCIATE
2 obsolete : ESCORT
intransitive senses
1 : to keep company <consorting with criminals>
2 obsolete : to make harmony : PLAY
3 : ACCORD, HARMONIZE <the illustrations consort admirably with the text -- Times Literary Supplement>
"Kerry needs to explain to the American people why he directly went into negotiations with communists,"
According to Gerald Nicosia, a Kerry supporter and the author of the book Home to War: A History of the Vietnam Veterans' Movement, Kerry's second visit to Paris to meet with emissaries of the North Vietnamese communist government is documented in redacted FBI files from the era.
these guys (from Vietnam Veterans Against the War) are off on their own side show, establishing back channels to the Vietnamese communists; all of this is against the law," Corsi said, referring to U.S. code 18 U.S.C. 953, which declares it illegal for a U.S. citizen to go abroad and negotiate with a foreign power.
"As soon as [Kerry] came onto the seen, [the Vietnamese communists] latched on to him like bees on to honey. [The communists] said 'This is a guy who tells our story, it will undermine the sympathy for the war in America,'"
Fenix maybe you missed THIS PART
U.S. code 18 U.S.C. 953. "A U.S. citizen cannot go abroad and negotiate with a foreign power,
"The Secret Service has announced it is doubling its protection for John Kerry. You can understand why — with two positions on every issue, he has twice as many people mad at him." —Jay Leno
[ edited by Bear1949 on Jun 4, 2004 02:42 PM ]
sad....very sad. I'm a dinasour I guess, but I'll NEVER forget what he and Jane Fonda did to our Vets while they were held captive and still fighting the enemy.