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Vietnumb

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Here are some follow-ups to the editorial I posted about Kerry’s 1971 “exaggerations”.

Fellow vet blasts Kerry’s antiwar comments
Democrat’s campaign to release military records
Thursday, April 22, 2004 Posted: 9:39 AM EDT (1339 GMT)

“WASHINGTON (CNN) — A man who served in the same Navy unit as Sen. John Kerry denounced on Tuesday charges the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee made as an antiwar protester that he and other U.S. troops committed atrocities in Vietnam.”

Kerry’s 1971 testimony on Vietnam reverberates
Vivid words alleged atrocities by soldiers
Friday, April 23, 2004 Posted: 1:26 PM EDT (1726 GMT)

“(CNN) — The strong, vivid words John Kerry uttered 33 years ago continue to ring through time.”

Kerry blasts ‘phony controversy’ over medals
Bush adviser: Democrat ‘pretended’ to throw away medals
Monday, April 26, 2004 Posted: 9:25 PM EDT (0125 GMT)

“WASHINGTON (CNN) — Sen. John Kerry on Monday rejected as a ‘phony controversy’ questions about whether he had misled people about a symbolic Vietnam War protest he participated in 33 years ago.”

Church and State

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I had an debate a few hours ago about the nature of the separation of church and state and the role of religion in politics. This First Things article sheds an interesting light on that dialogue.

Publick Religion: Adams v. Jefferson

“The civic catechisms of our day still celebrate Thomas Jefferson’s experiment in religious liberty. To end a millennium of repressive religious establishments, we are taught, Jefferson sought liberty in the twin formulas of privatizing religion and secularizing politics. Religion must be ‘a concern purely between our God and our consciences,’ he wrote. Politics must be conducted with ‘a wall of separation between church and state.’ ‘Publick Religion’ is a threat to private religion, and must thus be discouraged. ‘Political ministry’ is a menace to political integrity and must thus be outlawed.”

Over the Top

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Some may wonder why I am so hard on John Kerry. Am I a Bush fan? Absolutely not. Right now "anybody but Bush" is a very popular voting slogan. I just want to show that the lesser of two evils is still evil. That, and I think he's an appallingly poor excuse for a Catholic.

BTW, this editorial reeks a bit of propaganda. However, I am loathe to believe that it was entirely fabricated.

THE SLANDER THAT MADE JOHN KERRY A STAR
Fri Apr 23, 2:15 AM ET

"Thirty-three years ago today, a young, unknown political activist named John F. Kerry sat down before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and unleashed a bitter verbal broadside against the war in Vietnam – and, with particularly harsh invective, against the young Americans who were fighting it."

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Dawn of Patriot Act

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'Twould seem the greatest court in the land got duped – and we're paying the price.

How the Death of Judy's Father Made America More Secretive
Sun Apr 18, 7:55 AM ET
By Barry Siegel Times Staff Writer

"In a box delivered by rolling handcart on the morning of Feb. 26, 2003, the U.S. Supreme Court received 40 copies of a petition so unusual a clerk decided he couldn't accept it for filing. First, though, he turned through its pages."

"In a preliminary statement, he read these words: Three widows stood before this court in 1952. Their husbands had died in the crash of an Air Force plane. The lower courts had awarded them compensation. But the United States was bent on overturning their judgments, and — to accomplish this — it committed a fraud not only upon the widows but upon this Court."

A Daughter Discovers What Really Happened

"[…]To this day, U.S. vs. Reynolds represents the Supreme Court's only substantive examination of the state secrets privilege. Law professors consider Reynolds the judicial foundation of national security law."

Update 09/28/06: The most recent action taken in this case seems to be a petition to the US Supreme Court for a writ of certiorari made on December 21, 2005.

Good Catholics or Poor Historians?

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The Church has NEVER supported contraception. A quick glance at early documents, like the Didache, makes that obvious. So how do these idiots figure good Catholics should use condoms? Good Catholics should keep Captain Winky in the pants until marriage.

"We believe in God. We believe that sex is sacred. We believe in caring for each other. We believe in using condoms."

How about this shorter version? "We believe in heresy."

Catholic Group Says Good Catholics Use Condoms

"WASHINGTON, Nov. 28 /U.S. Newswire/ — 'Good Catholics Use Condoms' is the message of a new global public education effort to counter Vatican misinformation on condoms, beginning December 1, 2003, World AIDS Day. The campaign, a new phase in the Condoms4Life campaign, kicks off in Washington, D.C., with provocative and eye-catching ads appearing in dioramas in the most highly traveled Metro stations throughout the United States capital. Then, on a rolling basis, the campaign will move worldwide throughout 2004 with newspaper and billboard ads, Internet action alerts, and educational materials all geared to reach Catholics at risk of HIV/AIDS with the truth about condoms."