This ain't Hell, but you can see it from here

Author: Sporkmaster

  • Motion to Amend?

    Yea it seems that this is the newest thing going around Facebook.

    We, the People of the United States of America, reject the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling in Citizens United, and move to amend our Constitution to:

    Firmly establish that money is not speech, and that human beings, not corporations, are persons entitled to constitutional rights.
    Guarantee the right to vote and to participate, and to have our vote and participation count.
    Protect local communities, their economies, and democracies against illegitimate “preemption” actions by global, national, and state governments.

    Ok, so giving money to a cause you support is not freedom of speech by using money to buy fake awards and medals is. There is the question of human beings having right protected under the Constitution then who do they think makes up the different corporations? Participation count? Meaning what that your vote has a effect in a solid red or blue State like California or Texas? The last statement is advocating isolationism flat out. But this is something that you cannot put back into the bottle. But the comments about it are just odd.

    Reply 1The rich will strive to establish their dominion and enslave the rest. They always did, they always will. They will have the same effect here as elsewhere if we do not, by the power of government, keep them in their proper spheres. –Gouverneur Morris (in a letter to James Madison)

    Reply 2: The monied corporations, banks and large businesses should not be allotted the same rights as individual citizens. This country was founded to protect the citizens from the abuses of a ruling aristocracy. Now we are busy giving that protection away in favor of a new aristocracy.

    Reply 3: The government of the people, by the people and for the people, means that we are all equal. The decision in Citizens United made some people (lobbyists, big money) more equal than the less affluent citizenry. Citizens United is a shameful power grab by the new aristocracy.

  • POW.net asking for help with IDing Poser CSM

    Ok, looks like it is that time again, this is new about a week ago that a person was spotted at a VFP event.

    This is what we know about him at this time.

    A man in U.S. army fatigues walked by the crosses, and said he was ‘observing’.

    He asked not to be named for security reasons, but said, ‘All memorials are good. People may get a better understanding of war’.

    The man in fatigues said he had served three months in Afghanistan, but that he was currently serving civilian duty locally.

    According to POW.net someone emailed them concerns about the “Solider” in question and got this reply.

    Hi. Thanks for reading and for writing. Your email is very interesting. I don’t have any more details about the gentleman in question, he wouldn’t give me his name or any other details. He actually did tell me that he was purposefully not wearing proper unit patches in order to keep anonymous. I don’t know if he was telling the truth or not.

    Yea if that is not a major red flag right there. But seeing someone like that and you still have doubts about him being fake?

    Jonn added; The first thing I do when I want to be discrete on the beach is wear an Army uniform with my name tag and dog tags showing;

    Jonn added again: I tried “Danenberg” in AKO and got nuthin’, so I tried Dannenberg and got this;

    None of them are in California.

  • Stolen Valor/Identity (updated)

    It seems like when ever there is a poser, another one tries to out do him. Before we had people steal photos from service members. Now it seems that this person has taken a real photo and pasted his face over it. See below.

    Fake Vet Jhon Kerwin Williams

    The poser in question goes by the name Jhon Kerwin Williams who claims to be a Lt in the 101st (2006-present). Oh he is a pilot too along with another faker by the name Keith Underson.(2005-present) Who also is claiming the same unit, rank and job. Both do not show anything on AKO.
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  • Requesting assistance and info on Specal Forces Poser.

    Ok it’s that time again with this one being from June of this year from POW.net. We have a William Timothy Dorsch that is claiming to be prior service Marine, joined the Army and Became SF.

    Lets see what what wrong in this photo beside the person in it. We have the CIB, standard poser issue. Purple Heart always a regular. An Army Soldier’s Medal at the very bottom of the stack. Kuwait Liberation Medal (Kuwait Version) is in the top tier. Lets not bring in the jump wings (off centered)or the Cavalry Branch items he is wearing.

    But what is more interesting is what you do not see. Like the missing National Defense Medal(with Service Star for the South West Asian Service medal) or the Army Service Ribbon. The two awards that everyone that has entered the Army since 2001 has received he is missing. But he has a GWOT service medal that states that his imaginary service date that entered 2001.

    So lets get the word out and see if we can add another kill mark to the busted tally.

  • Words and slogans are more important then action.

    One group that I have been following by the name of“Journey to Smiles” . When I first started to watch them I had some hope that it may turn into something useful. But as of the past year or two, all they produce is Hallmark type videos with cliches and naive slogans.

    Now it is full fledged propaganda.

    We send you our love through our friends on the US Boat to Gaza sailing with the Freedom Flotilla 2.
    A fortnight ago, there appeared a remote possibility that two of us would be considered for travel on the Mavi Marmara. It gripped us that we may have been able to share each other’s pain at a closer distance, for a little while. The people of Mavi Marmara and the other flotilla boats have opened up the seas of our hearts. Afghanistan needs a flotilla too, but you would know that Afghanistan has no sea.

    We imagine the blue seas. Imagination helps friends not to worry about whether they’re available for each other ALL the time, or whether they will ever see each other face-to-face.

    20-year-old Skye Miller was our friend for a brief moment, introduced to us by Kathy Kelly, one of our dear activist friends on the US Boat to Gaza. Skye was dying from cancer in a hospice and Kathy had passed her a blue scarf from our silent, peace walk in Kabul this spring.

    We sent a message to Skye, ‘Mohammad Jan, Abdulai and I are typing this email feeling a sadness, and feeling that life must be more than just what we see. It is meaningful for us to give you our small ‘salams’ through Kathy and through the visions of peace colored in blue. Thank you Skye! ‘

    Not to be out done Rethink Afghanistan is claiming that it is gaining ground that three Senators are calling for the withdraw of Afghanistan. They even have a Republican. But it kinda loses it impact once you see it is Rand Paul.

    The senators are right. We need that money here at home, not wasted on a war that drags out for another 3 years. Get them home!

    Once again it is all about the money and the troops a after thought. But he slogans sound nice.

  • The Hypocrisy of Rethink Afghanistan in regards to the Officer Corp.

    In the past two years Rethink Afghanistan has been actively seeming to go after any General that seeks to combat the Taliban and al qaeda in Afghanistan. They have called for the firing of General McChrystal for complaining about not getting the support that was requested.

    McChrystal should have been fired for any number of reasons: his disrespect for the civilian leadership of the U.S., his working of the media to limit President Obama’s political space to adopt strategies in Afghanistan that didn’t include major troop surges, for his role in the Pat Tillman cover-up, etc.

    Remember that part because they sure do not remember it. Enter a nameless Colonel that does the exact same thing, except that the Officer sent in a letter directly to the Media. But surely that such a act would have the same reaction from Rethink Afghanistan by such comments. Right?

    TIME Magazine’s Battleland blog features an email from an active duty colonel ripping the war wonks at D.C. insider think tanks for pushing more militarism as the answer in Afghanistan. For those that aren’t familiar: there’s a whole cottage industry of think tanks and non-profits pushing for more war, often funded by those with deep ties to the war industry.

    Yea I am sure that they are more then willing keep this mystery Officer nameless considering how the last Officer that was used to attempt to get another General fired turned out to be a bust. But that has not stopped them from going after General Petraeus.

    The once-seemingly untouchable General David Petraeus is seeing his brainchild roundly rejected in Afghanistan. Counterinsurgency, the doctrine pushed by Petraeus and his protege, General Stanley McChrystal, as the “new” strategy for Afghanistan, has suddenly become the target of fierce criticism within the administration and without. And it’s about time, too: thanks to this failed strategy, U.S. taxpayers are being charged $2 billion a week for a war that’s not making us safer.

    Yea and we are the ones that are being accused of yellow journalism.

  • Right on Cue

    As soon as I read Jonn’s post about the draw down I knew that Rethink Afghanistan would not pass on it.

    NOT GOOD ENOUGH: President to announce withdrawal of fewer than 10 percent of troops from Afghanistan this year. According to various news reports, President Obama plans to withdraw fewer than 10 percent of U.S. troops from Afghanistan this year, despite promises to make this drawdown “significant.”

    So I figured that I would hear something about concern about the troops or the families of those deployed. But what do they open up with?

    Under this plan, the U.S. would continue to charge taxpayers roughly $2 billion per week for this war for years. That’s unacceptable.

    So that is what it comes down to, money. The same theme that it has always been. It cost too much and that all our woes are the results of the conflicts abroad despite evidence suggesting otherwise. But lets move on.

    This war isn’t making us safer, and it’s not worth the human or economic costs.

    Even when they try to sound sympathetic those that are affected in Afghanistan or even Iraq it still comes back to money. The reason why I think that the first two statements are token is because it is the exact same phrase over and over like a planned script. Then they expect people to believe this is real concern since they are more then happy to speak for the fallen who have died since the SEAL mission. Really I mean do you know the views of each and everyone on that list? But hey why need to know that when using them in your articles. I know that if something happened to me and you used my name like that I would be pissed. But don’t worry because you mentioned the “Human Cost” totally means that you “care”.

    Facing a war-weary public, President Barack Obama is expected to call for a major withdrawal of American troops from Afghanistan Wednesday night, with roughly 10,000 coming home to the U.S. in less than a year.

    Yea, were are so “War Wary” as a population that the we are shunning anything to do with War in our daily lives. Oh wait were not? Or those tough rationing and products restrictions, oh wait not that ether. Or it must be having to deal with being called up at any time to got to war. No, not that too. So exactly what is the reason that entire country outside the military community is affected? Really I mean how is the conflicts have drastically changed the daily lives of the general community of this country? I can wait.

    We need those troops and those dollars home, now.

    Like is said, all about the money.

    Oh Rethink Afghastan still thinks that those in Command who question or complain about the President should be fired. Unless that they agree with your own view point.

  • Rethink Afghanistan; The Mayors are Revolting against the Afghan Wars.

    According to Rethink Afghanistan the United States Conference of Mayors is calling for a immediate ending to the Afghanistan War.

    “The United States Conference of Mayors calls on the U.S. Congress to bring these war dollars home to meet vital human needs, promote job creation, rebuild our infrastructure, aid municipal and state governments, and develop a new economy based upon renewable, sustainable energy,” the resolution said, noting that the United States pays $126 billion a year to support the wars that have killed more than 6,000 U.S. troops.

    Yet I have to wonder what happened to the money from the stimulus bill. Because according to Rethink Afghanistan spending one Trillion dollars in one year was not enough.

    And here’s the big picture: “Local governments shed 28,000 jobs last month, the Department of Labor reported, and have lost 446,000 jobs since employment peaked in September 2008.”

    These wars are killing our people, they’re killing our economy and they’re killing our communities. They’re not worth the costs. They’ve got to end.

    Or perhaps it as more to do with what happened in shortly after September of 2008. Now what could that be?

    ADDED Sporkmaster: Oh and guess who have been helping behind the scenes.