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Category: Antiwar crowd

  • More Chiroux blather

    TSO sent me link to Matthis Chiroux’ latest yammerings about his upcoming hearing THAT HE DEMANDED from the Army. Yes, he demanded it – otherwise they would have just sent him his discharge – but Chiroux, prima donna that he is, sees this as a fund raising opportunity and a chance to strut in front of a new audience;

    First and foremost, the Army has made a motion, “to prevent any discussion in opening statement, questioning of witnesses or in argument concerning the constitutionality of the Global War on Terrorism (“GWOT”), or other Soldiers’, family members’, or Iraqi civilians’ experiences in GWOT.”

    Furthermore, it appears as little surprise to me, the military is reading my website [Hi troops. Resist!], and is planning to use its contents against me in the hearing, which I’m not upset about because it means they’re going to engage me on the issues.

    So we’re going to demonstrate how short sighted that motion is, and then afterward, we’re going to have a Winter Soldier where the veterans and our supporters will resurrect our first casualty of our war which is truth. A truth the Army would rather not hear when it’s Soldiers do what is true.

    It’s an administrative hearing, not a trial. The Army gets to set the conditions of the testimony – especially since Chiroux is forcing the Army to stage this for him. I’ll remind readers what my informer (who, by the way, has since identified themselves to me, and I’ve verified their relationship to Chiroux) wrote to us last week;

    However, I do know that his “duty” in Heidelberg consisted of insubordination to his superiors and smoking pot on a daily basis. As a fellow servicemember, I have to admit his work ethic was terrible. How he was promoted to sergeant is even further beyond me. And, finally, the fact that he boasts about his honorable military service is simply disgusting.

    The last that I’ve heard, Chiroux spent almost his entire endowment on pot and has virtually nothing left to pay the lawyer working on his case. His behavior has become increasingly aggressive toward the people whom he had dubbed his friends. Furthermore, his greatest means of achieving financial aid is by his manipulation of women.

    Now, in his latest post announcing the April 21st hearing date, Chiroux says his last JAG lawyer volunteered to go to Iraq, and that the latest lawyer has promised he won’t deploy. So why is Chiroux begging for money for his defense? JAG lawyers don’t charge for their services, do they? I mentioned this when he first started begging. In his defense missive the other day, he doesn’t mention that his JAG lawyer is free;

    Every dime that has been donated to IVAW for my defense remains with IVAW and will be spent on my hearing as is required by law.

    How will it be spent on his hearing when he’s got a free JAG lawyer? Does he mean that it’ll be spent on some pot before the hearing and buying costume jewelry to tempt some airhead tart to his hotel room?

    Here’s a screen capture of the blog page in case he changes it later;

    TSO sends this video, the message of which Chiroux should keep in mind while he’s defrauding contributors;

    Anyone in the St Louis area should organize a counter-demonstration to the meth-freaks who are sure to show up to support this dork.

  • Amateur phony soldier

    [UPDATE at Bottom from TSO]

    The other day I put this picture up of a guy harrassing TSO and me while we were minding our own business watching and filming hippies. He yelled at us that he “defected” from the Marine. We shrugged and he wandered away.

    Defected Marine

    Well, today one of my workmates got curious about the paper he’s holding, so I blew the photo up and it turns out it’s a certificate of the Delayed Entry Program for the Marines. Here, look;

    So this guy signed up for an enlistment in the Marine Corps, then chickened out and now he carries the little certificate around with him to prove he’s a “defector”. I guess he wears the mask because he thinks the Marines are looking for his pale little chickenshit ass. Of course, flashing a piece of paper around with your name in bold print probably doesn’t help him hide much better – Ryan James Vaughn, in case you didn’t click on the picture.

    If he only he’d showed up for that first day at the reception station before he crapped himself and ran away, he could have joined IVAW. I wonder if he read that last paragraph on his certificate.

    TSO Wrote: On the video tape portion you can hear me yell out to him that I want to see his DD214. The quizzical look he gave me now is a lot clearer. He was no more in the Marine Corps than my neighbors dog was.

    Editx2: If you watch the second video on the post below, you can see this clown college reject come in around 30 seconds.  His first comments are “semper fi, do or die” and then something about the Marine Corps.  Any dipshit that uses a DEP certificate to prove they were in the Marine Corps was quite clearly never in.  It would be like showing an advertisement from your newspaper for an H3 Hummer to prove to your bank that you bought a vehicle.

    Added: TSO sent me a link to DequalS which has a video on it from Russia Today. In it, they talk to Jim Goodnow;


    See under his name in this screeen shot where it says “Vietnam Veteran”? Jim Goodnow was in the Coast Guard and got a medical discharge in 1961 – four years before combat troops were sent to Vietnam. You’d think they’d learn after a while, wouldn’t you?

    UPDATE from TSO: Ms Olga found some more info. Turns out there is a Ryan James Vaughan from Towson Maryland. What makes him all the more despicable is that according to this, (if this is him) his great-grandad was a WWI veteran who belonged to the VFW and the American Legion.

    Ryan is also possibly a Hofstra Grad.

  • Perhaps my last Kokesh post

    In the event you missed it, Uncle Jimbo did an interview with IVAW ‘s Adam Kokesh yesterday (and yes, that’s my signature jiggly camera work);

    TSO thought it was funny that I reminded Kokesh that he endorsed Bob Barr last year for a little while – that I knew his schtick better than he does.

    Well, Raoul reminded me yesterday of the exchange I had with Kokesh here last year about whether he’d ever called himself “Sergeant Kokesh” after he left the Marine Corp Reserves. So I chased down a cached copy of his old blog at the Wayback Machine;

    And that settles the last bit of business I have with Kokesh. So he can go back to Santa Fe without looking over his shoulder and I can find a new person to stalk. I’ve got a couple of ideas already.

  • ANSWER March on the Pentagon

    Since the sixth anniversary of the beginning of the Iraq War was the other day, ANSWER and it’s assorted affiliates of beggars, drama queens and ne’er-do-wells picked today out of the air to hold their March on the Pentagon.

    Brian Becker, the national coordinator for ANSWER said it’s important because it’s the first anti-war protest in the Post-Bush Era. So here’s the photos

    This was the most appropriate thought – a bumper sticker on the back of a coat;
    ANSWER 057

    Uncle Jimbo got some interviews in like this one with Code Pink
    ANSWER 043

    The Socialists are here – and at least one is appealing:
    ANSWER 046
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  • IVAW’s Chiroux responds

    In reference to the post I wrote from someone who knows Chiroux, another anonymous commenter sent me this from Chiroux who was writing in response to another series of posts that were broadcast around the internet from a fellow IVAW member (actually the one that TSO quoted here). Whoever sent it to me, thought that this would absolve Chiroux of charges of wrong doing. Heh, they don’t know me too well, do they? So here’s Chiroux’ email to IVAW;

    My response as well as that of our entire organization should be complete condemnation for whichever member wrote and shared this piece of libel.

    First off, I HAVE NEVER defrauded any of my supporters in any way shape or form. Every dime that has been donated to IVAW for my defense remains with IVAW and will be spent on my hearing as is required by law. As far as donations made to me personally or through my paypal (which have yet to exceed $1,000), the portion I have spent has been on professional expenses only as IVAW has not provided me any compensation for phone, travel or materials since early last fall, which does in fact exceed the amount donated to me by my individual supporters.
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  • Behind the IVAW Music; Matthis Chiroux

    Last night Tankerbabe sent me this link to a blog post about a protest in New York City against “the war” and she pointed out that Matthis Chiroux was there. This morning I find a link from LT Nixon to a New York Times article about the same protest – it also mentions Chiroux.

    Our interest in him goes back to the day that he announced his intention to disregard the letter he supposedly received from the Army ordering him to report for duty from his Individual Ready Reserve commitment. We’ve also checked out his somewhat spotty record and his false claim that he is an “Afghanistan veteran”.

    But there is someone who wants to let everyone know the truth about Matthis Chiroux This person has been in email contact with me intermittently over the last few weeks. Whoever it is claims that they’ve known Chiroux for the last few years since he was stationed in Germany.
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  • The Jurisprudence of Code Stink

    I went to law school, but I’m not quite the legal expert that Code Pink is:

    In December of last year an Iraqi reporter, Muntadar al-Zaidi, was launched into the spotlight for hurling his shoes at President Bush during a Baghdad press conference. As the shoes sailed through the air, he shouted, “This is a gift from the Iraqis. This is a farewell kiss, you dog! This is from the widows, the orphans and those who were killed in Iraq.” He has been in custody since the incident and reportedly tortured. Last week, he was sentenced to three years in prison for assaulting a foreign dignitary.

    On the sixth anniversary of the disastrous Iraq War, Al-Zaidi’s story highlights the reality of the US-imposed democracy in Iraq. One of Bush’s false justifications for the invasion was the need to save Iraqis from a repressive regime and give them the freedom of expression they deserved. Six years later, expressing yourself freely will still get you tortured and imprisoned in Iraq. This is the democracy that over 4,000 US soldiers and over 1 million Iraqis have lost their lives for?

    I totally agree with you Medea. Which is why I am going to exercise my freedom of expression by urinating on you. I am currently going to start hydrating with some Guinness while I watch the NCAAs, and so I should be ready for when I see you on Saturday. Should be an awesome time, no?

    Based on your legal reasoning, not only will you support my right to freely express myself through giving you an unwanted golden shower, but you will take to the streets if anyone does anything towards me. Dude, I think that is awesome.

    OK, gotta go, got a huge bladder to fill!

  • The IVAW Treehouse

    Well, I spent the afternoon with the occupants of the IVAW’s newest digs on Constitution Avenue. They call it “Tower Watch”, but it’s pretty much sitting a few hundred yards from the White House on some lifts in the rain.
    Here’s Kokesh, James Circello and James Gilligan;
    Treehouse 001

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