Fighting Speech with Speech: Combating Abuses of Section 527 Political Organizations with More Speech, Not Additional Regulation
James H. Oddie · USF Scholarship Repository (University of San Francisco) · 2005
VIETNAM, 1968-A young United States Navy Lieutenant pilots a swift boat 1 through the hostile waterways of the Mekong Delta.One day, while on patrol in the Bay Hap River, the craft comes under heavy enemy fire.A Green Beret named James Rasmussen goes overboard.The young Lieutenant, himself wounded, bleeding, and in a position directly in the line of enemy fire, rescues his fellow serviceman. 2 Or did he?That was the question raised by an obscure political organization in the weeks following the former Navy Lieutenant's nomination for President of the United States at the 2004 Democratic National Convention.The group questioning Senator John Kerry's Vietnam War service, Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, 3 was one of the many independent political organizations that raised and spent millions of dollars during * Class of 2007; M.