Heroic John Kerry?
Gary Aldrich (archive)
February 12, 2004
If a decorated firefighter becomes an arsonist, is he still considered a hero?
If a dedicated FBI agent leaves his agency, then attacks it – and becomes a professional witness for the defense - is he still a “hero?”
The answers are obvious to any common sense person.
But, if a Vietnam-era soldier comes home, blasts his country, gives aid and comfort to our enemies, and tosses his war medals over the White House fence – in this unique circumstance – then he’s apparently still a hero in the minds of many, including the mainstream media.
No amount of draft-dodging or anti-war activity kept Bill Clinton out of the White House, so why should John Kerry suffer from his anti-war, anti-USA excesses? The answer is, he won’t. In fact, Kerry will prosper, because in the minds of the persons who will support and vote for him, his heroics are not found fighting Communists in the jungle swamps of Vietnam. Rather, they adore Kerry’s “courageous” activism for coming home and standing up to the “corrupted” and hated Nixon Administration.
Those who hate Joe McCarthy love this guy. The Anti-anti Communists flock to Kerry, because he and his ilk had only compliments for the vicious leaders of North Vietnam. How do I know this? I was at many of the so-called “peaceful war protests.” I saw the literature expressing support for the Viet Cong. I heard the speeches spewing hatred for Nixon and our government.
I watched the peaceniks roll over police cars and set them on fire. I saw them throw rocks and bottles at the police who tried hard to maintain order. I witnessed the cops fall, as some of those sharp rocks found their mark, and I heard these peaceful war protesters laugh as the blood began to flow.
They wore red headbands in the best traditions of world-wide Communism. They also waved banners praising the North Vietnamese murderers and held up Mao’s Little Red Book of Communism as their bible and justification.
They hated Amerika – as they called it – and everything about our life here. We mostly tolerated their hatred and overlooked much of their treason and violence, only to realize that our passivity encouraged them to become ever more violent, ever more hateful.
Finally, setting up 50-caliber machine guns around the perimeters of the Department of Justice, The FBI and the Pentagon was the only “message” the protestors understood – and stopped them from storming and burning down these institutions.
Ah, for these peaceful war protestors, rallies were a great place to get high and meet babes. And I am not simply relying on my own observations, as a 24-year-old FBI agent working undercover in their midst. I base my conclusions on the written accounts available to anyone willing to learn more about these terrible times in our nation’s history. Several of these books were written by the leaders of these very movements, and all the facts are there for those who choose to learn the truth.
I’m quite certain Senator John Kerry will be a “hero” to today’s peaceniks, anarchists and any others who hate Amerika. But for the more than 50,000 Vietnam Veterans whose names appear on the Vietnam Memorial, Senator John Kerry is nothing but a skunk.
Let’s see what happens when he brings his medals to the first presidential debate. I’m willing to bet George W. Bush will have no trouble dealing with this coward.
That Kerry is a US Senator from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts – to that I say, so is Ted Kennedy.
Massachusetts may have produced many national heroes. But Massachusetts politics do not favor these – only the anti-heroes and misfits do well there. Both of these US Senators owe the country an apology, each for his own reasons, and no amount of political spin will ever erase the colorful stain on their reputations.
Gary Aldrich is president and founder of The Patrick Henry Center for Individual Liberty, a Townhall.com member group.
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