Saturday - September 18, 2004

Your Mission: Behind Enemy Lines

Below is an excellent mission for all of you to tackle this weekend (and you don’t even have to go to Cambodia unless you want to). Your task is to follow all of the instructions below and send John Kerry a message that we want him to clear up all doubts about his service in the Navy in Vietnam. If he has nothing to hide, that is. If you really feel inclined to help Senator Fuckface clear the air we have a copy of Form 180 right here (in Adobe PDF format) that you can forward to the Senator. OK, troops! You have your mission and your weapons. Go get ‘em. OOH-RAH!

Earlier today (Saturday) I gave a talk at a meeting of Chapter 75 (San Diego)Special Forces Association. (I will send a copy of my remarks tomorrow).

One of my major points is that the Internet has proven to be, is, and can be, a powerful tool for spreading truth and making an impact on public policy.

I have an idea to propose.

We begin with the Kerry campaign’s website. On the left (!) column under “resources” there is a button at the bottom for “contact us.” Clicking on that takes you to a screen where, on the upper right corner, is the heading “send us email,” under which is a button for “getting involved.” Clicking on that opens a page entitled “getting involved.”

On that page, there are 9 required entries: email address, confirm email address, first name, last name, state, zip code, country, select your topic (of which, as you’ll see in a moment should be “other"). Yes, for those of you who are counting, that’s only eight, not nine.

I deliberately left the ninth required entry off the above list because it is the most important: “Message.”

“What if” thousands--no, hundreds of thousands--of veterans with Internet access followed the above instructions and sent candidate Kerry a simple message?: “I demand that you sign multiple copies of Form 180, deliver them to The New York Post, The Washington Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, The Weekly Standard, Time Magazine, Newsweek, and Fox News.”

Oh yes, the last item on Kerry’s request for people to “get involved” is a box that can be checked: “I am a veteran.”

“What if” recipients of this email simply cuts and pastes the above quotation into Kerry’s message box?

“What if” every recipient of this email forwarded it to everyone on his or her list, with the request that they pass it on?

There are millions of veterans out there, many of whom served in Vietnam or during the Vietnam Era. If even a fraction of them send Kerry the message that he has asked for, but doubtless does not expect, we may be able to force his hand on the matter of his records.

To that end, I will inform the press about this initiative. I urge all of you with press contacts to do the same. Perhaps in a couple of weeks, some enterprising journalist will get onto the Kerry people and inquire about how many emails they have received demanding that their man sign the Form 180.

HENRY MARK HOLZER
Professor Emeritus, Brookly Law School

(-- Thanks to Renee)

Update: I just did my part. I managed to infiltrate the enemy camp, strike hard and withdraw without any casualties .... except for a scratch on my hand I received when my mouse slipped while scrolling. Where’s my freakin’ Purple Heart, dammit?

Posted by The Skipper     on 09/18/2004 at 10:14 AM   
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