First, let me say that I agree with your opposition to swiftboating any of our Dem candidates and I applaud your valiant service to this nation, fighting heroically in a war you detested. I remember a younger, hard-charging John Kerry who hated the Vietnam war so much, he testified before Congress against it. Yet you still served with distinction and valor!
Follow me under the fold for my response to his diary and my question today for Senator John Kerry. Please holster your tasers until the end of my diary...
Six members of my family also served in that asian war, my dad flying three combat tours in Black Ops[CIA] as a Full Bird Colonel, while LT Bush moved "heaven and earth" avoiding his flight physical, and committing constructive desertion, deliberately disqualifying himself from flight status to avoid any possibility of dodging NVA SAMII's like my dad had to.
The other five members of my family served two and three tours apiece, with my uncle Ivan serving four tours with the 82nd Airborne, detesting that war, but choosing to serve their country anyway, not knowing if they would ever see America, or we who awaited their safe return (on pins and needles) ever again. My uncle, Marine LCPL Marty Gimbert and his whole squad got blown to pieces on January 26, 1969, when their APC hit an IED. My dad is now deceased, but retired holding the rank of Lt. General.
This brings me to the one question that has been gnawing at me since last year, when I first heard of the young FSU student who got tasered right in front of you at your forum last year. Here's the video lest anyone's memory needs refreshing:
Now I know that some people, as well as myself, would like to forget about this most unfortunate incident, and affront to free speech everywhere that occurred in broad daylight, and in front of the whole world--thanks to YouTube--and most especially in front of you, Senator Kerry.
It's an election year and we're all talking about honesty and credibility, so I'd like to get an honest answer from you today, if I might be so bold as to inquire one from you.
My question to you sir is:
Why didn't you intervene on the behalf of this young FSU student and at least TRY to stop the police from tasering him, but you instead continued your forum or lecture as if nothing out of the ordinary had occurred right in front of your eyes?
If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, and this young man's courage to stand before the whole world and ask you some pretty sharp questions, reminded me so much of the young Vietnam war protester of old, John Kerry, I would have thought that you would have at least made some sort of effort, or shown more concern for this young student's fate. I was abhorred by your lack of even acknowledging what had just happened, as I said, right before your eyes.
Please tell us all why you didn't lift one finger to assist this young man, whose only crime was simply asking you one or two simple questions, in a public forum, and in a so-called free society of free men and women. After all, isn't this what all of us who served this great nation, fought and died for? Freedom? The Constitution? The Bill of Rights?
Or is it all just a cruel joke? If it is, I'm not laughing.
