Another Swift Boat Vet Going Down (It's Kerry's fault)

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Another Swift Boat Vet Going Down (It's Kerry's fault)

Prosecuting a Real Purple Heart
IRS / Kerry Target Swift Boat Vet

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Now the bullets aimed to destroy Tedd Peck are coming from vindictive prosecutors and not the Viet Cong. This is a war of retribution against him and is being waged by white-collar, renegade, left-wing elements of his own government. He is being charged with numerous counts of filing false tax returns with no evidence whatsoever, except the lie of a CID agent and the totally conjured words from a robotic prosecutor doing what he is ordered to do. Peck, a former Swift Boat Commander during Vietnam, who served in the same unit as John Kerry, prepares for yet another battle of a lifetime. This time not for the security of his country or in a fight against ailing health after suffering a heart attack, but rather for his freedom. Make no mistake, this is a war of retribution against Tedd Peck for leading and winning the charge against leftist John Kerry and his associates in the last Presidential election.

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In �Unfit for Command� Peck is quoted several times regarding the veracity of Kerry's claims to his first Purple Heart and his attempt to recruit Peck into the "Viet Nam Vets Against the War" (VVAW), while they were still on active duty and Peck still a patient, recovering from his combat wounds. Kerry was quickly discovering how dangerous Peck's memory would prove to be. According to a witness, �John Kerry's animosity toward Peck was set into action at the time Peck refused to go along with Kerry's anti-war efforts.�

Other Swift boat veterans including his immediate superiors concurred that John Kerry did not deserve his first Purple Heart, and they have even gone so far as to suggest that all of his medals should be questioned along with the possibility that he was dishonorably discharged. Fighting this immediate threat to his candidacy, Kerry called his old operational commander, Admiral Roy Hoffman, and asked if he would "call off" the swift boat guys. Hoffman's answer was no. Kerry realized months prior to his conversation with Hoffman the negative impact the Swift Boat Veterans and specifically Tedd Peck would have on his Presidential campaign; so had Kerry already contacted an IRS insider to attempt to neutralize Peck? The answer is a resounding yes. According to a confidential source, �There is no question that Kerry contacted an IRS confidant of his to attempt to place Peck in an unfavorable light and therefore make himself more appealing in his political world.�

The following day a grand jury indictment was handed down on Peck and on March 25, 2004 CID agent Karen Fazio arrested him. According to a federal prosecutor, the direction to indict came straight from Washington and although there is no known evidence of wrongdoing or IRS audit conducted, the case is being pursued and Peck has been in limbo since that time with little or no success in obtaining the evidence that was used to indict him. He was told the case is circumstantial and evidently it is secret as well.

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