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[ 31-07-2000 ]
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[Different people, different rules
By R. CORT KIRKWOOD-- Ottawa Sun
July 30, 2000
If young Rep. Patrick Kennedy of Rhode Island is anything, it's a chip off the old block. The block is his father, the senior dipsomaniac from Massachusetts, Ted Kennedy, although the No. 1 Son didn't make the news recently because of an alcohol problem.
Like his uncle, he's a crusader who has inherited a trait found in the genome of most liberals, particularly the clan from Hyannis Port; that is, hypocrisy.
Young Kennedy is head of the Democrat Congressional Campaign Committee, the fundraising arm of the Kennedy political party. His job is to keep the campaign cash flowing to Democrat candidates, but he has also used his expertise at money grubbing to file racketeering charges against another member of Congress, Republican Tom Delay, a conservative from Texas. The Kennedys do not like conservatives.
Kennedy accuses Delay, of "laundering" campaign funds through tax exempt organizations, and says Delay trespassed the U.S. RICO law. RICO is the Racketeering Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, a statute created to prosecute mobsters.
Readers unschooled in RICO need to know liberals use the law to prosecute Republicans and conservatives whose policies they don't like. The abortionists and their feminist friends, for instance, have filed RICO claims against anti-abortion protesters, arguing that picketing abortion clinics amounts to "racketeering."
But back to Kennedy. The WorldNetDaily website reports that he lives in a glass mansion. He has been involved in some rather notorious fundraising rackets that have sent a few big Democrat backers to the slammer.
Maria Hsia, the campaign-finance felon, organized an Oct. 5, 1996, campaign event for Kennedy at the Buddhist Hsi Lai Temple outside of Los Angeles. "Hsia arranged for $5,000 in temple funds to be laundered to the campaign of Rep. Patrick Kennedy," WND reports, quoting the U.S. Senate's report on 1996 campaign crime. One of Hsia's convictions dealt with the Kennedy fund-raiser, and Kennedy didn't return the money until after he won re-election.
In 1997, Kennedy was forced to return $3,000 to a pair of fundraising criminals caught giving $36,000 in funny money to Sen. Ted Kennedy, and last year, the high-minded liberal boy asked the godfather of fundraising criminals, Johnny Chung, for donations.
Another case of Kennedy hypocrisy, however, is even more enlightening and amusing. Kennedy is denouncing fellow Democrats, the Washington Times, reports, for scheduling a fundraiser at the Playboy mansion of Hugh Hefner.
"This totally contradicts what our party stands for in terms of equal rights, civil rights for all people and respecting the human dignity of every individual," he said. "That's why I will not be attending. Nor will I be encouraging any of my colleagues to attend. And in fact, I'll be discouraging them."
That was good to hear from the Ted Kennedy's little boy, considering the family's history of sexual shenangians. The problem is that he really doesn't have much problem with porn money. He has not only partied at porn queen Christie Hefner's home but also accepted $26,000 for the DCCC from the Playboy porn empire.
Needless to say, the porn magazine's spokesman is a little confused about the boy's remarks, especially considering the high-octane sex life of John F. Kennedy. "It's a pretty gratuitous comment on the part of Mr. Kennedy," a spokesman told the Times. "We don't want to make any reference to some of the members of his own family and their history," he added, referring to the family members and their history.
Miss Hefner was "hurt," we are told, and "very, very, very surprised at what Patrick Kennedy had to say because she hosted him and his party in her home."
We're all sorry Miss Hefner's feelings were hurt, and we certainly wonder what went on at the Hefner party besides philosophical banter. But the real point is that Kennedy, like all liberals, including his father, has a bad habit of doing exactly what he accuses of others of doing.
An apple doesn't fall far from the tree.
Kirkwood writes on U.S. affairs for the Sun. Letters to the editor should be sent to oped@sunpub.com.
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