Kerry vs Article 14 Sec 3 of U.S. Constitution

Jeffrey Mazella
Center for Individual Freedom
26 Sept 04

While it has not been at issue for many years,
probably not since the Reconstruction, Article 14
Section 3 of the US Constitution provides that any
person who has taken an oath of office, as an officer
of the United States, and thereafter gives aid and
comfort to an enemy of the United States, may not
thereafter be or become a civilian or military officer
of the United States.

If John Kerry's virulent anti-war activism circa 1971
constituted the giving of aid and comfort to North
Vietnam (as seems to me self-evident), and if his
recent declamations that America's war in Iraq is "the
wrong war, at the wrong place, at the wrong time," and
that the Bush administration lied and is incompetent
and the war is a disaster, etc., constitutes the
giving of aid and comfort to the Jihad (as seems to me
self-evident), then he is barred from the presidency
by Article 14 Section 3.

I would urge that CFIF, perhaps in cooperation with
the Vietnam Veterans Against John Kerry and the
Swiftboat Veterans for Truth, should forthwith file a
lawsuit in federal court against the FEC to compel the
FEC to disqualify Kerry from the presidency pursuant
to Article 14 Section 3.

This should be done before the election. Kerry may
not be elected, but if he is, the filing of this
action by anyone at any time during his presidency
would throw his presidency and perhaps the conduct of
any military and / or diplomatic operation into
turmoil, it would be at least as divisive and
disruptive as Watergate, perhaps more so. And, if
successful, would result in the presidency of John
Edwards, a one-term senator with little or no chance
of re-election and with no military, national, or
foreign policy experience, who even according to John
Kerry's standards ("he never served in Vietnam") is
not qualified for the presidency.

Whether the court should ultimately rule that Kerry
is, or is not, disqualified by 14 / 3, the issue needs
to be raised and made a prominent part of the public
debate before the election, not after Kerry's election
or inauguration.

Raymond S. Kraft


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