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In reply to the discussion: JOHN KERRY APPRECIATION THREAD [View all]forest444
(5,902 posts)it was during their 2007 book tour for This Moment On Earth. As the line snaked around Dutton's Books in Brentwood (since closed, I'm sorry to say), the guy behind started me going off about Kerry's membership in Skull-and-Bones and how, consequently, he "can't be trusted."
I reminded him that Kerry has a long track record of standing up (as much as he can anyway) to neocon types and other "parallel state" goons such as the Iran-Cocaine-Contra crowd - whose criminal enterprise Kerry did so much to expose, probably more than any single Senator. I also reminded him that if anything, being a Bonesman probably gives him more influence than a million protesters could ever have - especially in today's exceedingly indifferent and corrupt halls of power. And above all, that public officials should be judged by their deeds.
Matthew 7:16 reminds us that "by their fruits ye shall know them." Thanks for being a peach, Secretary Kerry.