To: American Spirit who wrote (2915 ) 7/29/2004 3:17:29 PM From: JakeStraw Respond to of 4965 “Hanoi John Kerry” And His Special Friends July 29, 2004 by Bob Newman As I write this column, John Kerry is on a boat in Boston Harbor, in view of the Old North Church where my revolutionary ancestor, church sexton Robert Emerson Newman, hung the lanterns for silversmith Paul Revere. Were Sexton Newman alive today, I suspect he might stroll down to the waterfront and ask “Hanoi John” some difficult questions. For example, he might ask Kerry if he was proud when he traveled to Ho Chi Minh City (once Saigon) in 1993 to accept the praise of Comrade Do Muoi, then General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam. The city’s War Remnants Museum had asked Kerry to come and bask in the glory of being recognized as a hero of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam. Kerry’s photo and bio decorate a wall in that museum. Kerry was clearly honored for being so privileged. We lost 58,000 men in Vietnam. Kerry says many of those men were war criminals. Kerry has a long history of receiving support from socialists and communists. His campaign has recently received endorsements from not only the Democratic Socialists of America, but Communist Party USA. Oddly, there’s no mention of these endorsements on the Kerry campaign’s website. I wonder why. Sexton Newman might ask Kerry why he is trying to keep those endorsements quiet. And if you think those supporters are a tough crowd, they’re nothing compared to the violent mob of Kerry supporters who set upon a lone dissenter on the first day of the Democratic National Convention. That poor soul had the nerve to disagree with the politics of Kerry’s wild-eyed henchmen, who surrounded him, brought him to his knees with their threats, and then became so maniacally enraged that the man had to be escorted to safety by the police before the crazed crowd took the next step. Kerry said nothing about this grim incident. My ancestor might ask Kerry why his supporters are so vicious and willing to strip their fellow American of his right to free speech. Of course, Kerry is also the first choice of such organizations as al Qaeda, Hamas, Hezbollah and the al Aqsa Martyrs Brigade, who want George Bush out of the White House and John Kerry in. Infamous mass murderers like Kim Jung Il of North Korea, Bashar Assad of Syria, Yasser Arafat of the PLO, and the wanton thugs who form Iran’s terrorist government, all want Kerry to be the next American president. The Kerry camp is keeping all this very quiet, of course. Sexton Newman might query John Kerry as to why savages like these want him to be president. Robert Emerson Newman was a revolutionary who understood how dangerous men of Kerry’s ilk can be. As I did with mine more than two centuries later, he put his life on the line to defeat tyranny. Now tyrants spanning the globe are calling for Kerry to be installed as the most powerful man on the planet. As someone who first got into the counterterrorism business in the 1970s, I can assure you that terrorists first look for one trait in a leader they hope to target: a lack of resolve. In 2002, Kerry said Saddam Hussein had to be removed from office because he might empower terrorists like they have never been empowered before. In 2003, Kerry said we should have waited for this, that and the other thing before removing Saddam, such as getting France’s permission to do so. And in 2004, Kerry says America was wrong to free Iraq and is wrong to be fighting the war on terror in so aggressive a manner. Now you know why tyrants and terrorists everywhere want John Kerry in the White House. He is their dream president.