Kerry endorsed by Communist Party
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| Tue, 07-27-2004 - 9:02pm |
KERRY, THE COMMUNIST PARTY’S CHOICE, MUST REPUDIATE ENDORSEMENT, SAYS AMERIPAC
WASHINGTON, DC—Massachusetts Senator John Kerry, the likely Democratic presidential nominee this year, should reject the endorsement he has received from the Communist Party USA, the president of the American Political Action Committee (AMERIPAC) said today.
AMERIPAC President Alan Gottlieb said Americans, and especially veterans, “should be horrified that Sen. Kerry has been endorsed by the Communist Party.â€
“John Kerry is widely known as the most liberal member of the Senate,†Gottlieb noted, “and even in her endorsement message, Communist PAC Chairman Joelle Fishman fawns that Kerry represents a ‘progressive coalition.’ Perhaps Kerry’s coalition might also like the support of the French Communists, the Taliban, Saddam Hussein’s Baath Party and other enemies of American values.
“The Communist Party USA has organized a ‘Push Bush Out the Door in 2004’ effort,†Gottlieb added. “They have also heaped praise on Democratic congressional candidate Cynthia McKinney of Georgia, Illinois Democratic Senate candidate Barack Obama, and South Carolina Democrat Inez Tenenbaum, also running for the U.S. Senate. If that’s the kind of political company Kerry wants to keep, he ought to be in a padded room, not the Oval Office.
“Kerry has made a big deal out of his service in Vietnam, fighting communists,†Gottlieb stated. “His campaign has repeatedly mentioned the Purple Hearts he received for combat wounds. Maybe those wounds were as superficial as Kerry’s devotion to American values seems to be, because so long as he allows that Communist Party endorsement to stand, he unintentionally telling every American voter just what he thinks about defending our Republic.
“We call on John Kerry to repudiate the Communist Party USA, and walk away from its endorsement,†Gottlieb concluded. “Otherwise, Americans will know that John Kerry’s vision of America has a hammer and sickle waving somewhere over the landscape.â€

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Well at least you plopped liberalism right in with socialism and communism. They should be well understood, just so we can avoid them.
And just so we understand each other I place right-wing conservatism with facism and totalitarianism.
Your entitled to your beliefs....even if they are wrong.
;)
IS THIS AMERICA?
What do Kalamazoo, Evansville, Albuquerque, Stockton, Trenton, Phoenix, Columbia, St. Louis, Knoxville, and Charleston have in common?
All are among the cities where the secret service or police have jailed people for displaying anti-Bush signs during public appearances by his eminence, King George the W. Is this America, The Land of the Free?
That's what Nicole and Jeff Rank asked themselves this July 4th as they were taken away in handcuffs by police in their town of Charleston, West Virginia. What was their heinous crime? They were guilty of not being Bush supporters.
George W's Independence Day trip to Charleston was billed as an official presidential visit, not a campaign rally. Nicole and Jeff –– two patriotic, hardworking, taxpaying Americans –– were in the crowd, quietly exercising their free-speech rights. They wore T-shirts declaring: "Love America, Hate Bush."
They had proper tickets to the event, they proudly sang the National Anthem with everyone else, they were in no way disorderly –– but they were not politically correct, so they were summarily arrested, taken to jail, finger printed... and charged with "trespassing." Others who were there wearing pro-Bush T-shirts and Bush campaign paraphernalia at this public event on public property were not arrested. It seems that the [Bush supporters}define "trespassers" by their political beliefs.
Nicole, who worked for the Federal Emergency Management Agency in Charleston, was promptly told that her services were no longer required. Technically, she wasn't fired, but she was "released" from her job and not reassigned –– meaning she no longer gets paid.
But Nicole and Jeff are still not bowing to King George. Despite the financial hardship, they're fighting Bush's absurd, un-American assault on their constitutional right to dissent. They're not the only ones being denied their right to speak out –– dissenters all across America are being treated like this. To fight this autocratic lockdown, call the ACLU: 212-549-2500.
"We weren't doing anything wrong." By Tara Tuckwiller, The Charelston Gazette, July 14, 2004.
http://www.workingforchange.com/article.cfm?ItemID=17401
Outrageous!
To the Republicans who post here: Is this the country you really want?
What is happening to this "Land of the Free" & the first amendment?
I guess it's 'legal' for Bush supporters to use megaphones at a Kerry rally but illegal to wear an anti-Bush t-shirt.
Heinz Kerry Has Retort for Bush Fans.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35665-2004Aug2.html
A week ago she told a writer from a Pittsburgh newspaper to "shove it," and on Monday night the never-bashful Teresa Heinz Kerry offered up another attention-getting line, saying four more years of the Bush presidency would be "hell" for the country.
Heinz Kerry was introducing her husband, John F. Kerry, at a huge outdoor rally here when a group of Bush supporters, armed with a megaphone, started chanting from a distance, "Four more years! Four more years!"
Without hesitating, Heinz Kerry responded, "They want four more years of hell."
The candidate threw back his head with a laugh, and the partisan, pro-Kerry crowd roared its approval, chanting, "Three more months, three more months," with Heinz Kerry joining in. When it was his turn to speak, Kerry said of his wife, "She speaks her mind, and she speaks the truth -- and she's pretty quick on her feet, too."
On a side note...their Tshirt was distasteful, protected by free speech, but distasteful none the less
Update: Council apologizes to anti-Bush protesters.
http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/07/20/protest.apology.ap/
The Charleston City Council apologized Monday to two protesters who were arrested for wearing anti-Bush T-shirts to the president's July 4 rally at the West Virginia Capitol.
Nicole and Jeff Rank, of Corpus Christi, Texas, were removed from the event in restraints after revealing T-shirts with President Bush's name crossed out on the front and the words "Love America, Hate Bush" on the back.
Trespassing charges were dismissed last week. On Monday, the city council adopted a resolution to apologize.
"If Nicole and Jeff Rank did nothing other than peaceably exercise their right of free speech and expression as guaranteed by our Constitutions, they should not have been arrested or charged with a crime," the resolution states.
"The City does hereby apologize to Nicole and Jeff Rank."
There was no official count for the vote, but it appeared to have bipartisan support.
Mayor Danny Jones, a Republican, backed the resolution written by Councilman Harry Deitzler, a Democrat.
"We support our police department," Jones said. "But we regret this happened, and quite frankly we want to put this behind us."
Trespassing charges were dropped Thursday after a judge determined that city ordinances do not apply to Statehouse grounds.
Jones had earlier said the city officers who filed the trespassing charges were acting under the direction of the Secret Service, but a spokesman for the Secret Service denied the agency was involved in the arrests.
Efforts to reach the Ranks were not immediately successful Monday night.
kerry hasn't gone to a communist meeting and given speeches has he? He hasn't associated with them in any capacity has he? Being endorced doesn't mean he is associating with them, it is the other way around and kerry has no control over that. that is very different than actually going to a fringe group and giving a speech and making an effort to associate with them which is what bush did at bob jone u.
And none were arrested, all is well in democracy as long is the demonstration isn't anti-Bush.
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