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To: Brumar89 who wrote (7986)	3/10/2004 5:00:50 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	Respond to of 20773

Re: Kerry claims to have only found out about his true ethnic heritage now that he's running for Prez. BS! JANUARY 29, 2004 JOHN KERRY'S SECRET COUSIN Does John Forbes Kerry have a French cousin that he doesn't want America to know about? Is the Kerry family so afraid of his electorate's reaction that they prefer to avoid mentioning a French relative, even if it means misleading his voters and misleading everyone of us? According to French TV station TF1, the answer is YES. Below is a full transcription of a report aired on January 28, 2004 on the TF1 evening news. Emphasis is mine. [...] [anchorman] Patrick Poivre d'Arvor: In the United States, John Kerry has reinforced his position as clear favorite for the Democratic Party's nomination in the race for the White House. Last night, he has easily won the New Hampshire primary. And it pleases the Bretons of St. Briac. You are about to understand why with Laure Debreuil and Servanne Adron. Journalist: St. Briac awoke with good news. First the sun came back. Then, a certain John Kerry had just distinguished himself in the race for the White House. But the Democrat candidate is no less than the first cousin of Brice Lalonde, mayor of the town, and this is setting tongues wagging. St. Briac inhabitant #1: I think it is a very good thing. It's great and that's a good thing for St. Briac. St. Briac inhabitant #2: It comes a little as a surprise, indeed. I'm not sure he will come around here after his election. Journalist: Here is the big family house where the descendants of the eleven children of the Forbes couple used to gather during the summer. Thanks to those holidays, John Kerry masters the French language quite well. Brice Lalonde remembers his strong personality: Brice Lalonde: He's a big, strapping, sporting man and he looks like the image you have of Americans. When we were young, he was always the leader somehow. He led battles, organized games. Journalist: Today, the Massachusetts Senator wants to become a big-league player. His lead in the race for the Democratic party's nomination was confirmed yesterday in New Hampshire. The primary was followed passionately by the French clan: Brice Lalonde: He knows the world, you know, and contrary to many other Americans, he has traveled a lot. Hence he has European connections. He is a big supporter of the environment. Journalist: A support committee has been created for John Kerry in Paris. But the family doesn't want to do too much. Asserted connections in France could harm the candidate who's only at the very beginning of his run. This is not a hoax. TF1 is considered, in France, a very serious channel (yes, despite their very biased covering of the war in Iraq), and this report was aired during the 8 pm evening news that are watched daily by millions of viewers. Brice Lalonde, Kerry's alleged cousin, is well known to the French political scene. An ecologist, he ran for President in 1981 and ended with a little less than 4% of the votes. He was Secretary of State from May 1988 to 1990 and Minister of the Environment from 1990 to April 1992. Since 1990, he has been the president of Génération Ecologie, an organization he has created. He has been St. Briac-sur-Mer's Mayor since 1995. In October 2002, in an article for Le Figaro titled "Dodging won't save us", he wrote: (...) It is good form to make fun of George Bush. The axis of evil seems simplistic. Our Prime Minister should wonder about the financing of the mutineers that occupy the north of Ivory Coast, he should keep an eye on the islamic projection in tropical Africa, troubles in Kenya, the sharia in Nigeria. He should take into consideration the support of Iraq to terrorism, the scattering of new weapons after the decay of the Soviet Union, the gasing of kurds villages, the rewards offered to families of human bombs of Palestine. He should check the origin of the funds and trainings of certain humanitarian or cultural associations. He should see the world as it becomes, he should evaluate the importance of demography. (...) Between fascism and resistance, everyone will have to take sides. That is the reason why we should act first, help the democrats of the muslim world, contribute to the well-being of their people, find a solution in the Middle East, but not give up anything to islamist fascism. When an enemy declares war upon us, mobilization is the only priority. Born in 1946, Olivier Brice Achille Lalonde is the son of Mrs. Forbes (naturalized French) and Mr. Alain-Gauthier Lévy. They changed their name to Lalonde after the war. From 1971 to 1977, he was a journalist at the "Sauvage" under the alias of Olivier Forbes. e-nough.hmdnsgroup.com