[Zimphire]

Have You Forgotten The Kerry Committee?

March 3, 2004
by Humberto Fontova

Say what you want about Senator John Kerry, nobody ever called him lazy.
He landed in Congress and immedeatly rolled up his sleeves and spat on
his hands. The Nicaraguan people MUST end up like the Cuban and
Vietnamese! Toward this end the man was tireless. The vision inspired
him to such a staggering work load, energized him to such a frantic
pace, propelled him to such legislative feats, that his colleagues--even
the pinkest-- gaped in envy and awe.

Back then Nicaragua was the pinks' latest City On a Hill, Daniel Ortega
their latest Gallahad. Scores of Kerry's colleagues were content to
flutter their eyelashes at the Communist cutthroat from afar. Others
courted him with a perfumed love letter. "Dear Comandante," it started.

But freshman senator John Kerry insisted on a more intimate approach. So
mere weeks after entering office in 1985 he set off for Managua with
fellow freshman Tom Harkin of Iowa for a chummy face to face session
with the Communist pedophile.

They returned rapt. Cuban and Soviet ties with the Sandinistas? Baseless
rumors, Kerry insisted. Kerry stood before Congress and waved a list of
heart-warming liberal reforms that Ortega promised him were imminent.
("I hold here in my hands!") Actually he called it, "a wonderful new
opening!" The Massachusetts senator insisted that Nicaragua would soon
blossom into tropical Sweden.

Congress swallowed this bilge in one mighty gulp and killed the Contra
aid bill (Kerry's goal all along.) It took a whole week after the
Congressional vote for Ortega to fly to Moscow, flout his Soviet ties
for all the world to see, and return with a $200 million Communist aid
package. Congress, rotten egg dripping slowly off their face, reversed
itself and approved Reagan's Contra aid.

But Kerry was undaunted. Soon he was chairing "The Senate Subcommittee
on Narcotics, Terrorism and International Operations" quickly dubbed
"The Kerry Committee" by his media cronies and soulmates. Soon it was
boasting, "77 instances where the Reagan Administration misled Congress
about its policies in Central America!"( I hold here in my hands!)

Lest we forget, it was here that the famous "Iran-Contra investigation"
actually started. Soon the lurid accusations spawned an "Iran-Contra
Committee "of it's own and Kerry pressed ahead with his.

The Democratic crusade to throttle the Nicaraguan freedom-fight was now
under full steam. One Cuba wasn't enough for these people. They were The
Best and Brightest of a new generation. They'd picked up the torch from
Camelot. The honor demanded that they pledge themselves to creating
another tropical Gulag and slaughterhouse on our doorstep. If Latin
freedom fighters battled desperately in the field against a
Soviet-supplied enemy-- if these freedom-fighters had their backs
against the wall-- if any looked northward through sweat-stung eyes and
blood-drenched bandages for an ally--if hundreds were dying in freedom'
cause with gritted teeth in a desperate and uneven struggle against a
common enemy--then these freedom-fighters MUST be stabbed in back. The
legacy of Camelot DEMANDED it.

Towards that noble goal John Kerry committed himself body and soul. Soon
his Committee was leaking lurid details of a nefarious CIA/Contra drug
smuggling plot with a Cuban-American named Felix Rodriguez as the bagman
and Vice President George Bush as a silent partner. The commie-crackpot
Christic Institute and Institute For Policy Studies served as the Kerry
Committee's advisors.
The latter had arranged his Nicaragua trip.
The freshman senator from Massachusetts was on a serious roll that
summer of 1987. His very own Congressional Committee subpoenaing,
questioning, holding open sessions, closed sessions--and most
importantly, leaking salacious tid-bits of their proceedings to their
cronies and soulmates in the pink media.

As a (sympathetic) Boston Globe article on John Kerry says about his
famous Subcommittee: "Several committee members were wary of Kerry's
reputation for self-promotion; one griped aloud that the senator's staff
was always leaking to the press."

The Kerry Committee finally subpoenaed Felix Rodriguez himself. And
here, my friends, John Kerry finally stepped in it. He started messing
with the WRONG dude.

A little background: As a 19 year-old member of Brigada 2506, Felix
infiltrated Communist Cuba weeks before the Bay of Pigs invasion,
organizing underground freedom-fighters, planning for the sabotage of
key roads and bridges, staying a step ahead of the Castro's secret
police and their KGB handlers and coaches. Almost 70 per cent of his
comrades in the infiltration teams died in front of firing squads, after
torture. Felix knew the odds. He volunteered anyway.

After the Best and Brightest stabbed the Bay of Pigs freedom-fighters in
the back, Rodriguez again foiled the Communist dragnet by slipping into
the Venezuelan embassy and escaping a year later to Florida. After the
Best and Brightest stabbed them again and twisted the blade with the
Kennedy- Kruschev swindle, Rodriguez, along with hundreds of his Brigada
Band Of Brothers enlisted in the U.S. Army.

Later, as a CIA operative, Rodriguez played the key role in tracking
down and capturing Che Guevara in Bolivia and was the last to question
him. "Finally I was face to face with the assassin of thousands of my
countrymen, of hundreds of my patriot friends."

On the day he gained his U.S. citizenship in 1969 Rodriguez celebrated
the honor by volunteering for armed action in Vietnam. "I lost the
country of my birth to Communism," he writes in his book, Shadow
Warrior. "I know freedom must be protected. And I feel I owe it to my
adopted country."

Felix flew over 300 helicopter combat missions in Vietnam, and was shot
down five times. He won the coveted Intelligence Star for Valor from the
CIA and nine Crosses for Gallantry from the Republic of South Vietnam.
Later he battled Communists in El Salvador using a helicopter "mobile
strike unit" scheme he developed in Vietnam. He flew over 100 combat
missions in Central America, captured the FMLF's top commander and
helped crush those Communist- terrorists decisively. All this was
volunteer work.

Castro put a price on Rodriguez' head over three decades ago, and sent
hit-team, after hit-team, after hit-team (including one lent to him by
his chum Yassir Arafat) to murder Felix and his family in Florida. All
were foiled. (Wonder if Robert Redford discussed Death Squads with his
recent host?)

Now a gaggle of grandstanding Congressional paper-pushers presumed to
browbeat and cow this man. I'll quote the heavy metal rockers Judas
Priest here. "They had another THING coming!"
Rodriguez was flying combat missions in El Salvador the summer of 1987
when his wife called to say his name was splashed all over the Miami
Herald as a cocaine smuggler for the Nicaraguan Contras-- and one who
reports to Vice President Bush!

"Forget it," he laughed. "Who's gonna believe such garbage?" But as
always with Liberal slanders, they have a life of their own. The smear
spread through the Beltway media like wildfire. "Our friends are
wondering, Felix," said his worried wife a few days later. "The stories
keep appearing. Our children...our families' reputation is at stake
here. I'm concerned...."

The subpoena from the Kerry Committee finally hit their Miami doorstep.
"Great!" whooped Felix while flying back from the Central American war.
"I'll be happy to tell a Congressional Committee EVERYTHING--but I
insist on OPEN hearings. None of these "closed" hearings.

You see, the very slanders then taking Felix away from the field against
Communists to attempt to clear his name and honor originated at the
Kerry Committee's last "closed" hearing. Here a convicted drug smuggler
sentenced to 46 years in Federal prison (and who later flunked several
polygraph tests) made the outrageous charges against Rodriguez and Vice
President Bush. Next day they were all over the Beltway media.

For The Kerry Committee "closed" meant closed to the press for any
testimony that contradicted the crackpot accusations of Committee's
Christic Institute mentors and it's felon witnessers--but wide open for
any testimony that backed the smear about Vice President Bush as a
Cocaine smuggler for the Contras with Felix as his troubleshooter.
Rodriguez noticed that the Miami Herald mentioned, "unnamed
congressional sources," for it's slanders. Leaks anyone?

And let's not forget the date, summer of 1987. Shortly George Bush would
wage an electoral campaign against Kerry's friend and political ally,
Michael Dukakis( recall that Kerry served as Lieutenant Governor for
this famous tank commander.)

Miami area lawyers, knowing Rodriguez' honorable reputation, tripped
over themselves clamoring to represent him pro-bono during the Kerry
Committee hearings. "I don't want any lawyers!" Felix responded. "If I
need a lawyer to help me explain why I've been defending this country
for the past 27 years--then I'm in the wrong country! I want my
testimony in front of the American people!"

More alarmingly (to Democrats) Rodriguez refused what weasel types call
"immunity."
You can imagine Kerry's forehead furrowing and a few nervous coughs
behind the hand at the news. Nothing so flabbergasts and unnerves a
big-haired, blow-dried Congressional Committee like spunk, courage,
honesty, straight talk. He must have been aghast.

[Zimphire]

So of course Kerry denied Rodriguez' request for an open hearing. If
Rodriguez cleared his name, if he shot down his Committee's cockamamie
accusations--by God, Kerry certainly didn't want it getting any
circulation! The Kerry Committee--and The Kerry Committee alone-- using
leaks to their pinko press cronies and soulmates, would decide exactly
what got in the newspapers and evening news.

"Senator, my name was leaked BY YOUR Committee as being involved with
drug smuggling," Rodriguez started his testimony. "I take that
seriously. It affects my family, my reputation and my friends."
Kerry furrowed his (now) famous forehead and affected a stern look
"You're making serious accusations here...."
"SENATOR! This slander was in every G*DDAMMED newspaper after your
committee's last CLOSED hearing!" Rodriguez shot back, "saying I
solicited drug money for the Contras. THAT, senator Kerry , is a D*MNED
LIE!!"
Kerry's forehead furrowed further. He stuttered. He started loosing it
himself, rambling well off the subject, asking Rodriguez about Che and
why he hadn't fought harder to save his life, etc.
"SENATOR!" an exasperated Rodriguez finally shot back. "It's difficult
for me to answer questions from a man I DO NOT RESPECT!"
Kerry gaped. A northeastern liberal Democrat he'd always been a media
darling, soft-soaped and soft- balled by that feisty "adversarial"
press. Now this Rodriguez guy's tone had him seriously rattled. But
Felix didn't miss a beat --naming dates and witnesses, citing
documents--this upright and gallant man proceeded to demolish every
accusation against him.
"I have nothing to hide," Rodriguez said repeatedly. "I'm not ashamed of
anything I've done. I've battled communism since I was 17. I help the
Contras, I help the Salvadoran government. I do so as a volunteer,
legally and openly. And if you're sincere, senator," he finished up.
"You'll put out a statement to the press about what I said here today. I
INSIST that the American people know about my testimony!"

No such statement ever issued from Kerry's Committee. So two months
later Rodriguez called a press conference in Miami to tell his side.

A full year after leaking the slanders against Rodriguez and after the
treacherous, lying swine who made them failed three polygraph tests, The
Kerry Committee found itself wiping it's brow and coughing nervously
behind their hand again. Now they had no choice. Finally they saw fit to
allow Rodriguez' year-long request for an open hearing. They scheduled
him as the fifth witness at 5 in the afternoon when the Senate chamber
was devoid of reporters and TV cameras. In the near-empty room, Kerry
finally mumbled a half-hearted apology.

But as Rodriguez writes "whether by design or coincidence, allegations
about me and drug smuggling and Vice president Bush kept popping up in
the press right up until election day 1988."

And the Miami Herald kept mentioning those "unnamed Congressional
sources."
The mainstream media still calls the McCarthy Hearings a "Witch Hunt,"
They call Richard Nixon a "red- baiter" and " political opportunist" for
going after Alger Hiss. Yet declassified Soviet documents vindicated
both Republicans.

John Kerry's "Subcommittee on Terrorism, Narcotics, and International
Operations," was run "like a division of the Dukakis campaign," said
Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, who served as ranking Republican on
the subcommittee. Worse, it genuinely smeared innocent and honorable
men, using the commie-crackpot Christic Institute, and convicted felons
for evidence, and in the end--after millions of dollars--turned up
nothing.

Yet I defy you to Google "Kerry Committee" alongside "Witch Hunt" and
come up with anything. Instead you'll find that the Kerry Committee's
slanders against an honorable man who earned the title of patriot a
thousand times over linger throughout the pink media
This is sickening.

To clear his name, Felix Rodriguez was forced to write his own book,
Shadow Warrior. The truth is all there, to the lasting shame of John
Kerry. If you're even thinking of voting for this man, please read it.
If not, still read it. You'll cheer out loud one minute, your throat
will lump the next--then your blood will boil.

Humberto Fontova

[Lerkfish]

right on cue, the Bush Luftwaffe starts dropping propaganda leaflets in bulk throughout the countryside.

[Zimphire]

If you would care to disprove this happenstance I would be more than willing to read it.

[Nicko]

Well, it looks like Kerry did the right thing, whats the problem?

[voodoo]

Originally posted by Zimphire:
If you would care to disprove this happenstance I would be more than willing to read it.

What a biased and surreal article you've posted. I laughed many times while reading it. 5/10 on the creative scale though. Kerry hanging out with communist, dictator, pedophile bad guy. Heard it!

[Zimphire]

Originally posted by Nicko:
Well, it looks like Kerry did the right thing, whats the problem?

Oh jeesh.. someone didn't read the whole thing.

[Zimphire]

Originally posted by voodoo:
What a biased and surreal article you've posted. I laughed many times while reading it. 5/10 on the creative scale though. Kerry hanging out with communist, dictator, pedophile bad guy. Heard it!

Was he not?

Again, if any of you can disprove any of this, I will be more than willing to read it.

[voodoo]

Originally posted by Zimphire:
Was he not?

Again, if any of you can disprove any of this, I will be more than willing to read it.

Well I'm kinda on the opposite end of the pole here. If you can prove any of this I'm willing to learn

[Nonsuch]

I stopped reading after the second reference to "the pinks" ... will someone kindly provide a pr�cis not inflamed by rabid partisan hatreds?

[Nicko]

Originally posted by voodoo:
Well I'm kinda on the opposite end of the pole here. If you can prove any of this I'm willing to learn

If someone can lend me some crack I am sure I can prove this rant incorrect.

[Zimphire]

Originally posted by voodoo:
Well I'm kinda on the opposite end of the pole here. If you can prove any of this I'm willing to learn

LOL! What part are you trying to say didn't happen? Just curious before I go on my small quest.

BTW I asked you to PROVE it wrong knowing it could not be.

I think you know that as well. The reason the rebuttal hasn't been made.

[lil'babykitten]

You got a link to that article, Mr Zimphy?

[Zimphire]

Originally posted by lil'babykitten:
You got a link to that article, Mr Zimphy?

http://www.amigospais-guaracabuya.org/oaghf017.php

[kvm_mkdb]

Bah. This article just tells us that Kerry won't have many friends in Little Habana -- nothing new.

Of course Zimpo has no idea who the real cutthroats in Nicaragua were -- had the contras been islamist (instead of being cutthroat catholic pig-dogs terrorists, as Zimpo himself would call them) it would be a completely different matter...

Never mind all the innocents that were killed, never mind all the coke they sold us, never mind them mining a civilian harbour - oh, wait, that was us! they weren't even men enough to do that themselves.

And never mind us showing the middle-finger to the UN back then and their spineless pinko-commie resolution against terrorism... Contras, al Quaeda: our friends and allies!

[Zimphire]

Originally posted by kvm_mkdb:
Bah. This article just tells us that Kerry won't have many friends in Little Habana -- nothing new.

Yeah lets ignore the witch hunt, and the all out slander.

Of course Zimpo has no idea who the real cutthroats in Nicaragua were --

Because kvm knows what I know constantly forever all the time infinity!

Never mind all the innocents that were killed, never mind all the coke they sold us,

Who exactly are you referring to?

[Zimphire]

Well it's the end of the day, I myself have been looking up any info to debunk this. There is none.

It all pretty much says the same thing.

So unless anyone else has any debunking to do it's fairly safe to assume Kerry really screwed the pooch on this one.

I wonder what other witch hunts he has participated in.