August 26, 2009
What They Won't Mention About Ted Kennedy: Treason
I don't like to use the word "treason." It is tossed around so casually these days by overly-inflamed people on both sides, and as a result, its use as an epithet has lost much of its sting.
I regret this today because it make sit that much harder to communicate the great disservice Edward Kennedy do to this nation years ago, as he conspired with our country's greatest enemy in an attempt to undermine a sitting President.
A third Kennedy boy who made it to the U.S. Senate and had his eyes on the presidency was Ted, who was politically to the left of his brothers, especially with regard to the Cold War and the Soviet threat.Once Reagan was President, he found himself at odds with the latest Sen. Kennedy. Reagan ideas such as deploying intermediate-range nuclear forces (INFs) in Western Europe and the Strategic Defense Initiative infuriated Ted Kennedy, who, according to a highly sensitive KGB document discovered by reporter Tim Sebastian of the London Times (which ran an article on the document Feb. 2, 1992), was motivated to do something quite unusual:
On May 14, 1983, KGB head Viktor Chebrikov sent a message of "Special Importance" with the highest classification to General Secretary Yuri Andropov. The subject head to the letter read: "Regarding Senator Kennedy's request to the General Secretary of the Communist Party Y. V. Andropov." According to Chebrikov, Sen. Kennedy was "very troubled" by the state of U.S.-Soviet relations. Kennedy believed that the main reason for the dangerous situation was "Reagan's belligerence" and particularly his INF plan. "According to Kennedy," reported Chebrikov, "the current threat is due to the President's refusal to engage any modification to his politics."
The fourth and fifth paragraphs of Chebrikov's memo held out hope that Reagan's 1984 re-election bid could be thwarted. But where was the President vulnerable? Chebrikov stated that Kennedy had provided a possible answer. "The only real threats to Reagan are problems of war and peace and Soviet-American relations," wrote Chebrikov. "These issues, according to the senator [Kennedy], will without a doubt become the most important of the election campaign." According to Chebrikov, Kennedy lamented that Reagan was good at "propaganda," whereas statements from Soviet officials were quoted "out of context" or "whimsically discounted."
Soviet PR Campaign
Chebrikov then relayed Kennedy's alleged offer to Andropov: "Kennedy believes that, given the state of current affairs and in the interest of peace, it would be prudent and timely to undertake the following steps to counter the militaristic politics of Reagan." The first step, according to the document, was a recommendation by Kennedy that Andropov invite him to Moscow for a personal meeting. Chebrikov reported: "The main purpose of the meeting, according to the senator, would be to arm Soviet officials with explanations regarding problems of nuclear disarmament so they would be better prepared and more convincing during appearances in the USA."
Second, wrote the KGB head, "Kennedy believes that in order to influence Americans it would be important to organize in August-September of this year [1983], televised interviews with Y. V. Andropov in the USA." He said the Massachusetts senator had suggested a "direct appeal" by Andropov to the American people. "Kennedy and his friends," wrote Chebrikov, would hook up Andropov with television reporters such as Walter Cronkite and Barbara Walters. Chebrikov said that Kennedy had suggested arranging interviews not merely for Andropov but also for "lower-level Soviet officials, particularly from the military," who "would also have an opportunity to appeal directly to the American people about the peaceful intentions of the U.S.S.R."
In essence, Chebrikov reported that Kennedy offered to help organize a Soviet PR campaign, which would "root out the threat of nuclear war" and "improve Soviet-American relations" (and also hurt Reagan's 1984 re-election prospects). "Kennedy is very impressed with the activities of Y. V. Andropov and other Soviet leaders," explained Chebrikov.
The tale is not new, but people will try to forget or gloss over Kennedy's faults and crimes as character flaws or some other trivial, forgettable, and forgivable offense. But Ted Kennedy is not a great man with easily dismissed faults. He did this country a great wrong, conspiring with an enemy against our President.
Sadly the media and politicians will try to lionize him in his passing, never being honest enough to admit that despite some of the good things he accomplished while in office, he was in word and deed often no better than a jackal.
8/27 Update: Forbes decides to cover the same ground.
Ted Kennedy was also a supporter of Terrorism (the IRA in Ireland). So-called freedom fighters using improvised explosive devices to kill civilians and soldiers. Sound familiar?
Posted by: Dave at August 26, 2009 12:25 PMFor now, just be glad that American and the world are notably safer than they were yesterday. There will be plenty of time for retrospectives later. The most important thing is that the Left does not somehow Weldstone this and pass Obamacare as a monument to Teddy, fitting though that might be.
Posted by: Tregonsee at August 26, 2009 12:28 PMWhen health insurance reform finally comes to America, as it surely will eventually, you can be sure that Senator Kennedy will be honored as an ardent and long standing proponent.
Posted by: Dude at August 26, 2009 01:33 PMHere's a little MSM piece from ABC News on Kennedy's indiscretions:
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/story?id=8212665
Granted, it's only 4 pages long. I suppose that proves without a doubt the left leaning bias of the MSM.
Posted by: Dude at August 26, 2009 03:46 PMSince adulter Newt Ginrich isn't dead we won't have a report about his indiscresions, nor Rudy 9-11 Guiliani's nor Senator's Ensign, Vitter etc. The original "Chebrikov memo" is 'conveniently' locked away in an old Soviet archive, safe from the prying eyes of the liberal msm.
The other letter allegedly written by Kennedy and delivered to Leonid Brezhnev in 1979 would be interesting document, if in fact it actually existed; shockingly, however, it does not appear in the Mitrokhin Archive itself, nor does Mitrokhin himself discuss it in hisbook, The Sword and the Shield
Yeah, dude, it would have been nice if those obumble crotch-suckers had managed to write about the little peccadilloes of that murderous, treasonous, drunken, whore-dog while he was alive.
And Joe, you could probably add up total conquests of all the womanizing repubs together and that number wouldn't come close to the number reached by ANY of the brothers Kennedy.
Oh, and you will excuse me if I point out that there was probably a great deal of information in those files that Mitrokhin didn't cover.
Posted by: emdefl at August 26, 2009 07:54 PMThe larger, more important, and impactful treason that Kennedy committed was his 1965 immigration reform which drastically damaged and changed America although it took decades to infiltrate our formerly cohesive society, and the full effects are yet to come, but have exploded on scene after scene of the new Americana.
Posted by: Jayne at August 27, 2009 12:37 AMAnd Joe, you could probably add up total conquests of all the womanizing repubs together and that number wouldn't come close to the number reached by ANY of the brothers Kennedy.
What if you add in all the Republicans that like boys?
Posted by: Mike at August 27, 2009 01:13 AMAll the Republicans "that like boys" have not had nearly as much boy sex as Barney Frank.
The larger, more important, and impactful treason that Kennedy committed was his 1965 immigration reform which drastically damaged and changed America although it took decades to infiltrate our formerly cohesive society, and the full effects are yet to come, but have exploded on scene after scene of the new Americana.
Yes mam, I can remember how cohesive our society was back in those days before immigration reform ruined it all. It was wonderful and everyone got along just fine, as long as certain folks knew to stay in their place. Then, Ted Kennedy and others had to go sticking their noses where they didn't belong. Shame on them!
Posted by: Dude at August 27, 2009 08:37 AMIf it's treason to "Undermine a sitting President", isn't it about time to tell the Birthers to stop committing treason with their crazy-talk that _President_ Barack Hussein Obama is some kind of foreign-born Muslimchurian agent?
Posted by: Consumer Unit 5012 at August 27, 2009 11:42 AMSo-called freedom fighters using improvised explosive devices to kill civilians and soldiers. Sound familiar?
Why, yes, it does. Reagan sold a bunch them millions of dollars worth of weapons. Illegally. In exchange for American hostages. And he started the program by subverting the elected government of the United States.
Posted by: NotAnExpert at August 27, 2009 06:26 PM@treegonsee:
You must have worked hard to formulate a statement so completely devoid of intelligence. The world is notably safer today? That's just dumb.
Posted by: teh mann at August 27, 2009 07:26 PMThere is no way in hell that this traitor should be buried in Arlington. His older brothers, yes, both heros but neither he nor Robert should be there.
Posted by: tjbbpgobIII at August 27, 2009 08:07 PMThere is no way in hell that this traitor should be buried in Arlington. His older brothers, yes, both heros but neither he nor Robert should be there.
Perhaps you should write a letter to your Congressman and Senators, explaining in detail and at great length your displeasure of Senator Kennedy's burial in Arlington. Surely, they will give your letter appropriate consideration.
Posted by: Dude at August 27, 2009 08:47 PM
Yes that's right, grasshopper Dude. The U.S. immigration policy since the 1920's was designed to maintain the proportion of ancestry in the population. Blacks needed fuller integration into the middle and upper classes which if we had adhered to the MLK method of increased awareness and peaceful protest the races would find common ground, the good people (the majority) of America would continue to encourage and welcome black achievement and slowly but surely change and full integration would come about. The way it turned out was due to Democrats realizing that if they made themselves champions of the poor victims of a perpetually unjust society they could ensure a power base from which to get elected so in addition to keeping blacks on their plantation, Teddy rewrote immigration law and a virtual flood of people from various parts of the globe descended on America only to be swept up in the Democrats net of "you can't make it without us, here's where and how to vote". Now we have the spectacle of just last November seeing the New Black Panthers standing outside a polling place with billy clubs and the current administration refusing to prosecute the obvious voter intimidation. We also have blacks voting 90% Democrat. In addition we have had millions of immigrants driving down wages and carving out their own little victimology niche and the balkanization of America. We were much more cohesive prior to the radicals taking over in the mid 60's.
Jayne, Can you provide us with some concrete examples of how our society was "much more cohesive prior to the radicals taking over in the mid 60's."?
Posted by: Dude at August 28, 2009 07:58 PM"teh mann"
It requires little effort, other than basic knowledge and judgment which do require effort, to state the simple truth. When Teddy's life, both personal and professional, is examined, the harm far outweighs the good. Ranging from immigration, to his part in the end of the VietNam War and the resulting megadeaths, to the the end of the Cold War, to the most basic national defense, he was consistently on the wrong side. Every time. With his consistently pernicious influence ended, the world is significantly safer, though no doubt others will try to fill his shoes. So please, think before you post.
Treg
