I don’t consider myself a fuckstick, but I imagine if I was a fuckstick, I’d write some stupid shit like this;
From time to time I take a break from maritime affairs to focus on the the potential toll the “winking-at-anti-government-violence” rhetoric that is, for some milkook blogs, their stock-and-trade.
Why do I scorn milblog armchair revolutionaries? Because I think the “community” they foster encourages their desperate and dumb members to turn to violence.
Milblogs should worry. Sometimes the perpetrator is a veteran. But, almost every time, the victims are law enforcement officers–a community where veterans are highly represented. Let’s think about them, and tone down the anti-government, pro-violence rhetoric.
The above quote is taken from the virtually unknown blog Next Navy; Future Maritime Security and written by Craig Hooper. Now this “expert” who, as far as I can tell draws his expertise from reading books at Harvard and no real military service. So, I’m sure his vision of the future Navy are real relevant and include big parties with lots of requests of the Village People songs – but he probably knows more about the Navy than i do. I’m convinced it involves a lot of water and I learned that in my two weeks at the Navy’s Amphibious Warfare School at Little Creek, VA over three decades ago.
That’s why I don’t comment much about the Navy. Hooper should take a lesson from my example, but I figure it’s too late. See in the post I quoted from and linked above, Hooper is trying to make the case that milblogs are somehow responsible for a career criminal to strap on body armor, steal his Mom’s handguns and have a street shoot out with LEOs.
Of course, there’s nothing to connect this felon to milblogs, but because he was headed to his local ACLU office, who else but milblogs could have influenced him? In the comments, Hooper names names;
I don’t have great hatred for blackfive and the others. (Where’s your concern for, oh, extremist blackfive guy Jim Hanson “Uncle Jimbo”. That guy goes and spams blogsites he is ideologically opposed to! The this ain’t hell guys call people they disagree with all kinds of names and heap all kinds of nastiness upon em…so, I think they’re a bit less tolerant.) But do I scorn them? Yes. Hold ‘em in slight regard? Check. Hate ‘em? No. They’re countrymen, after all.
I checked the two posts we wrote about Hooper and in neither did TSO call him any names. Although TSO did suggest that Hooper should eat a steaming bag of dicks. But no names.
And it’s not just people with whom we disagree – I call all of you names when I see a zero count on my blog ads for the day. You mostly agree with me, but you’re a bunch of dicks when it comes to making me rich.
But back to Hooper; in the comments he complains mightily that Hanson along with us disparage his home town – the SF Bay Area. I’ll give him that one – San Francisco, San Jose, Oakland and Berkely suck. There I did it again.
But anyway, in his initial post Hooper says that the violence that milblogs incite was really brought home to him in the aforementioned shoot-out between a career felon and LEOs because it happened blocks from where he USED TO LIVE! Oh, goodness. Mercy! He could have been caught up in the shoot out if he’d been walking his dog miles from his house and the shooter had decided to do his dirty deed years sooner.
Fucking dork! THAT’s why you get called names, Hooper. Not because you disagree with us (hell, I’ve never read your blog so I don’t know if we disagree or not) but because you’re SUCH A FUCKING PUSSY! (That’s not name calling, it’s an adjective – what, you find a better one)
“Oh, Matt Burden is mean to Michael Yon”. “Oh, Jim Hanson wants to talk nasty about San Francisco”. “Oh, TSO, says I should eat a steaming bag of dicks”. “Oh, Jonn Lilyea says I’m a vagina.”
Fuck you, Hooper, stick to writing what you know…of course, you may starve given such narrow parameters.
So, Craig “buttRanger” Hooper has proof that the felon was a Vet, and or a reader of Balckfive and TAH; how? I guess I’m inclined to lump him in with those other intellectual midgets like Janeane “stinky” Gawdawfalo and Mark “buttcrack” Potok, who have tried their very best to slap the violent tendencies label on all Vets.
Just when I think I can’t possibly love you anymore, Jonn, you go and use adjectives in a perfectly poignant manner.
He’s from San Fran and is involved in the Navy, I thought he would want a steaming bag of dicks.
(There, I insulted SF, the Navy, Gheys and Dicks all in one sentence. Worship me oh haters, worship me.)
How this asstard got a PHD is truly beyond me. He does to logic what Tiger Woods did to monogamy.
PHD = Phlaming Hot Dicks
If those are accurate quotes, dude needs someone to send him a copy of Strunk and White.
“Spamming blog sites” = extremism? I’d like to know precisely what incident Hooper is referring to.
Leave it to somebody that has never served to not be aware of the 10% rule.
BTW, what’s that old saying…… “Those who can, do. Those who can’t, teach.” OK, so he TAUGHT at the Naval Postgraduate School… BFD!! I find it reprehensible that he’s photoshopped his pic into an aircraft carrier flight deck scene. It makes me wonder just how much flight deck time this ‘tard has actually seen??
Hey, TSO, you could have left the Navy out of it…… 😉
USN(ret) sends…
“Desperate and dumb members”?
What happened to this guy, exactly, that made him think God died and left him in charge?
SO do you get paid per click or only if we actually buy something?
Jonn, we’re just trying to help you stay out of a higher tax bracket.
He might have taught at the NPS, but he doesn’t get very good reviews from Navy Bloggers, or those concerned with actual Maritime Security issues.
The difference between him and, say, Tom Clancy, is that Clancy admits he writes fiction. Clancy also knows what he is talking about.
That’s my opinion, anyway. YMMV, of course.
TSO, that is a classic line — I may have to steal it. 🙂 Meantime, thanks to you and Jonn for taking on this douchebag extraoridnare. Factually challenged, logically deficient, and intellectually overdrawn — that’s par for the course for Craig Hooper.
TSO, about your “classic line”:
“We’re not worthy, we’re not worthy!”
(Is my age showing yet? Don’t answer that…)
I just have to ask, has Hooper ever seen the comments on huffingtonpost.
I made a comment today in regard to the misrepresentation in an article on AWOL stats in the Army and was attacked by over a dozen people as being a product of the machine. This is not surprising because studies show that people on all blogs are apt to be more insulting and confrontational due to the anonymous nature of the web so what do you expect.
I have never seen any action on this site pertaining to bringing violence against anyone. Hooper is just an idiot on this.
Hooper is to Navy what Matthis is to combat veteran.
The guy Photoshop’s his picture over a picture of a carrier deck??? Seriously? The least he could have done was actually go on a carrier when they are in town for Fleet Week.
What a douche.
#5 John, I’m not sure anyone even KNOWS what strunk and white IS at this point. 🙁
Re #9– what’s the word, Jonn? just click?
Crap! Now I need to reign in my readers from my subliminal hits on DQ for raising the cost of Blizzards! They’re on to me!
What makes this guy an expert on maritime security? His PhD is in infectious disease and immunology. His post-doc was something about non-proliferation which doesn’t really follow. If you want experts in maritime security, I know some guys who wear/wore a trident who actually know stuff.
Cmon maritime security is easy, it doesn’t take a Piled Higher and Deeper to figure it out. Just shoot anything suspicious and let Davey Jones sort them out.
I suspect I have more time sitting on a shitter at test depth than this “maritime expert” has at sea. My advice to him is to go teach advanced douchbaggery at Berkley. It’s all he appears qualified for.
He’s such tough guy, this Hooper wanker, that he’ll only come out to play on his own turf.
Jonn, I’ll click, goddamnit, I’ll click!!
Ray–I’ve always love that expression. Right up there with, “I’ve squeezed more saltwater out of my socks than you’ve sailed over.”