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Category: Antiwar crowd

  • FTA: Jane Fonda fundraiser for IVAW

    I read the other day that the anti-war crowd are having trouble raising money because the average anti-war less-whackos are a bit reticent about criticizing the new president’s policies in Iraq and Afghanistan, and less likely to give up their money to fund the more-whackos like IVAW, Code Pink and the old coots at Vets For Peace. So they have to come up with more unique ways of tapping wallets.

    A few weeks ago I found a blurb about the possible return of Jane Fonda to a more active role in the anti-war movement. I sent the blurb to someone who emailed me back a Village Voice article today that verified it;

    How much more proof do you need to recognize that these clowns are trying to relive the 60’s? They’re screening a 37-year-old movie with the 72-year-old actress on hand to yammer about her anti-war antics with some 74-year-old guy who looks strangely like Jack Bauer. I wonder if they’ll have a Depends dispenser in the restrooms for the old coots. But what does all of that have to do with us here at This Ain’t Hell? Well, buried in the short article is this;

    …a portion of the proceeds from the evening will benefit Iraq Veterans Against the War, a nonprofit organization that advocates for ending the war and for providing help to returning service members.

    They left out the third bullet of the IVAW’s demands – that being reparations to the Iraqis for all of the hovels that got leveled and all of the “militants” who were forcibly demilitarized.

    It’s probably a bit of irony that the movie originally was released the year before combat troops were withdrawn from Vietnam and it’s being dusted off as a fund raiser for the Iraq Veterans Against the War the year before combat troops are scheduled to be withdrawn.

    I’m feeling generous today so I caution the IVAW from depending on Fonda for her ability raise money with this from Wikipedia;

    In [1972], Fonda spoke out against the war at a rally organized by Vietnam Veterans Against the War (VVAW) in Valley Forge, Pennsylvania. She offered to help raise funds for VVAW, and, for her efforts, was rewarded with the title of Honorary National Coordinator.
    […]
    Her financial support to VVAW at this time was apparently not significant, as the organization ran out of money within a month, and one of its prominent leaders, John Kerry, was called upon to raise the necessary funds.

    So, if you guys are hoping to get a new club house on Jane’s fund raising abilities, you’d better lower your expectations a bit. Maybe she can raise enough for a down payment on new refrigerator so you can keep your Hot Pockets and your bottles of urine separate.

  • The hypocrisy of the peace movement

    Yeah, it’s a different world. Here’s my latest Code Pink email in which they brag that they had front row seats at the Inauguration last week instead of being plopped into jail for acting up like for the 2004 Inauguration.

    Jon Ward at the Washington Times confirms their front row seats;

    I asked if someone in Congress had given Medea her tickets. She just smiled and said, “We do have friends.”

    Yeah, they do have friends. Jodie Evans, co-founder of Code Pink has bundled donations for Obama up to $100,000. But aren’t they primarily a “peace group”? I mean it’s in their name Code Pink 4 Peace, right? So where do they stand on the rocket attacks into Pakistan last week? Nuthin’. At least I’m not the only one to notice. The Environmental Republican writes what I’ve been saying for years;

    So what can we surmise from this little investigation? How about the left-wing of this country is populated with hypocritical ideologues who not only hated Bush but had a severe dislike for America. Now that they have a leader who they feel a kinship with, well, it’s all good.

    Update: I also failed to mention that the new Obama administration is acting with more secrecy than Bush ever did with regard to military matters:

    But, hey, all of that crap we heard from them over the last few years was good for a few front row seats at the Inauguration. How many American soldiers’ lives did they trade for those seats? Do they care?

  • Too many unanswered questions about Chiroux’ narrative [Jonn]

    I’m sure many of my regular readers remember Matthis Chiroux the guy who made a big deal about being recalled by the Army and his refusing to answer the call. This press conference was at the Congressional Offices on the same day as the IVAW’s Congressional testimony to a portion of the Progressive Caucus;

    In October, Chiroux was arrested at the final Presidential debate. I wondered then why he wasn’t turned over to the Army by the Nassau County police and I called them to ask why. The person in the public affairs office said they couldn’t answer the question, but it got me to wondering.

    So I got our good friends at POW Net to get me FOIA request on Chiroux’ record. Keep in mind, if he was in the IRR, I wouldn’t be able to get his records.


    So, because I was even able to get his records proves he’s been discharged. The only thing I can figure is that he initially came in for two years, and then reenlisted for three more years which would negate his three years Individual Ready Reserve Commitment. His Form 2-1 seems to support this. He spent about 2 1/2 years in Japan and then went to Germany for 2 years. I called a recruiter in the area and she confirmed that’s the only way he could avoid the IRR commitment.

    A month ago, he established his “Matthis Resists” website on which he begs for money for his defense fund promising to keep us updated. So far, nuthin’ in the way of “updates”. In fact, he visited the post I wrote about it and had the opportunity to answer my questions about his service, and he was more interested in how I found a picture of him licking Nick Morgan’s chest.

    Clearly, there’s something wrong with his narrative. Has anyone seen this letter from the Army “ordering” Matthis back into the service? We’ve learned here at This Ain’t Hell that nothing these IVAW folks say can be taken at face value. He’s still wandering around loose, the police have no interest in turning him over to the Army. Although he’s trying to collect money for a defense fund, he doesn’t need money to defend himself against the Army in an administrative dispute. And there’s no word from him on when his hearing is scheduled. I think he’s trying to fleece money from his hairy-legged hippie chick groupies (and shaven legged hippie guy groupies).

    In November, I wrote about Chiroux being waterboarded at the UN building by members of World Can’t Wait, the organization founded by Charles Clark Kissinger, the famous Maoist radical. In the lead up to the actual waterboarding of Chiroux, he shouts that he’s an Afghanistan veteran. Yeah, his records show two overseas ribbons one for a completed tour in Japan, the other for a completed tour in German. Nothing about Afghanistan. He claims he was stationed in the Philippines, too – no record of an assignment in the Philippines, either.

    Chiroux paints an extensive deployment history in his IVAW profile;

    Germany, Japan, Afghanistan, Philippines, Italy, Poland – again his records show only assignments to Germany and Japan. As we’ve pointed out countless times, the only reason Chiroux calls himself an Afghanistan veteran is because he flew into Baghram airbase for six days (give or take a few hours) to write an article for the Army. He never left the base and the Army doesn’t recognize his visit as an assignment to Afghanistan. I suspect the other countries where he claims service are along the same lines as his Afghanistan visit.

    I’ve been on longer drunks than he spent in Afghanistan.

    So after reading this particular lie, we have to ask ourselves if he really was recalled by the Army. Or is this just more of the BS we have to filter out in order to fall for the rest of their message.

    I’ve got inquiries out on the letter that the Army sent to Chiroux and I’ll turn up an answer sooner or later, in the interim, Chiroux can cut this whole thing short by providing me a copy of the letter, or admitting it’s all a scam – before I dredge up the proof.

  • Adam Kokesh; not feeling the hope

    The other day, in DuPont Circle at the Shoe Bush protest, the day before the Inauguration, I saw Adam Kokesh, poster child for everything that’s wrong with IVAW, threaten that he was throwing a combat boot at the 30-foot blow-up doll of George Bush on that day, but that he was saving the other boot for Obama. The threat to Obama comes at the end of this six minute video;

    Not waiting for Obama to screw up, Kokesh named Obama a potential war criminal on his website;

    But the whole reason I video’d Kokesh was to catch him calling himself “Sergeant Kokesh”. To his credit, he has stopped that. Below is Kokesh’s DD214 which proves what I’ve been saying the last few years; he’s not a sergeant.

    kokesh-dd214

    So that puts that issue to rest.

    Along with his DD214, the Records Center sent the evidence against Kokesh that the Marine Corps used to downgrade his discharge at the hearing he was forced to attend when he was trolling the National Mall in his uniform pretending to be on patrol in Iraq (not that he ever went on patrol in Iraq). I found the evidence to be quite satisfying since it was an article in the Washington Post with pictures – the same article I used to prove his guilt.

    I’m guessing the article is included with his records so that if he ever tries to upgrade his discharge, the evidence for the denial still exists.

  • My experiences at Inauguration parades [Jonn]

    I got the idea for this post from one at Ace of Spades wherein Ace reminds us that President Bush’s limo was pelted with eggs at his first Inauguration. In 2001, my first ever Inauguration parade, my wife and I had flown in the night before from my son’s basic training graduation in San Antonio – a pretty wild trip seein’s how every single Texan was headed to DC on the same plane.

    There was so much animosity towards President Bush, Free Republic organized a “Support Bush” rally (can you imagine having to organize a “support Obama” rally?) on Inauguration day in front of the Supreme Court and there were only a hand full of supporters – which gave me the opportunity to chat with David Horowitz and Jesse Peterson.

    After that rally, we went down to stand near the Navy Memorial on Pennsylvania Avenue and wait the three hours for the parade. While we waited there, we were surrounded by hippies and sign-toting anarchists who made frequent trips to a nearby coffeeshop to get themselves caffeined up for the days events.

    Through the crowd, I saw a hippie climbing the flag pole at the Memorial to get the flag there. He finally got it down and a Black man nearby tried to get the flag away from the hippie. He was immediately knocked to ground and beaten by other hippies. An elderly woman tried to stop them, and she, too was knocked to the ground. Several of us tried to force our way through the crowd to stop the fight (and kick some hippie ass), but the little cowards fled, and despite the huge police presence, they escaped without being apprehended.

    In 2005, I went to the parade again. Attendence was up, but mostly because of the increased participation by the anti-war crowd who didn’t hesitate to shout and call names at everyone who didn’t have an anti-Bush  sign. I was pushed and shoved because I wouldn’t take a sign they tried to give me. Of course the little cowards danced away before they could get their complimentary black-eye. Those of us who tried to cheer for President Bush and the First Lady as they drove by the throngs lining the streets were forced to the background by the sign-wielding crowd.

    Can you imagine if any of those events had happened yesterday?

    Oh, by the way, today is the 32d Anniversary of Jimmy Carter’s blanket amnesty for draft dodgers.

  • VFP Geezers and Code Pink at the Newseum

    Dave in Texas writes at Ace of Spades that Nancy Pelosi is considering pursuing the Bush Administration after they leave office for imagined war crimes.

    House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Fox News Sunday says she’s open to the idea of prosecuting Bush administration officials.

    “I think you look at each item and see what is a violation of the law and do we even have a right to ignore it,” the California Democrat said.

    The old coots of Veterans For Peace partnered with the hags of Code Pink yesterday at the Newseum in DC to point their arthritic and unclean fingers at the corporate media for being complicit in the Bush Administration’s imagined crimes. Their spokeman says that the Newseum is the “showpiece of the corporate media” and that’s why they chose it for their theater.

    This is a nine-minute video, you’ll want to scroll through the first 6 minutes to avoid listening to the guy with the horrible Philly accent and get to the part where the protesters begin violating everyone’s right to have a peaceful tour of the museum without screeching harpies mindlessly shrieking empty platitudes.

    So while everyone is looking to the future, Nancy Pelosi and the horse-blindered Left are still steeped in their Bush Derangement Syndrome. Actually, they’re afraid they’re going to lose all of the money they got from the BDS-sufferers to fund their lavish, work-free lifestyles what with The One being in office now. Remember the picture of the Vets For Peace member’s car I took a few months ago at the National Archives;

    Vets for Peace Archives 008
    They still want to impeach President Nixon and thirty years from now they’ll still want to impeach President Bush

  • Playing with MovieMaker

    I was just sitting around reading a copy of a brand new book (yeah, publicity agents send me books to review these days) about Hugo Chavez and decided to make a video for you to watch and listen. It’s some of my favorite moonbat pictures of 2008 set to Santana and Steven Tyler’s version of “Just Feel Better”.

    Turn up the speakers and get a glass of rum and enjoy.

  • VFP begs for coward

    Remember Robin Long? Back in August he was sentenced by a military court to 15 months in jail for deserting and absconding to Canada. Long was the first deserter to be deported from Canada. In November, after the election, Long wrote a long, windy letter to Barack Obama asking for clemency and to avoid the remainder of his sentence, just like he avoided the service he committed himself to when he joined the Army.

    In his letter to the President-elect, he demonstrated his ignorance of laws, both domestic and international by claiming that the war in Iraq is illegal because we didn’t declare war on Iraq using some nebulous steps required by the Geneva Conventions. Typical shit-house lawyering we hear from the Left all of the time.

    A reader in Nevada sent us this opinion piece in the California-based North Country Times written by VFP member Dave Patterson entitled “Do The Right Thing; pardon vet”;

    I take umbrage at the fact that an absconder, out of cowardice, takes flight in the face of his duties, for which he volunteered, and gets to be called a veteran. There are millions more Americans who completed their terms of service without breaking their promises, laid their lives on the line without running to Canada who are REAL veterans.

    An organization that has the title “Veterans” as the first word should be able to understand that.

    Patterson begins the piece tugging at our parental heart strings;

    As parents, we all hope that our children will do the right thing and follow their conscience when the line between right and wrong invariably becomes blurry. We hope that they will have the courage to step away from the crowd, even if that means being ostracized, denounced or even imprisoned.

    Dave, also as parents, we hope our children “cowboy up” and accept responsibility for their actions and honor the commitments they make to society. Oh, and Long was a man when he decided he’d ignore his obligations, not a child. Although, his actions were those of a child.

    A jury of his peers found him guilty of violating laws, just because you don’t happen to like the law he violated, that doesn’t make the sentence any less valid. If President Obama were to give the pile of weeping dung the clemency he desires, the result would be disasterous for Obama and every president after him. Jimmy Carter was able to turn every American veteran against him the day after his term began with a grudge that lasts until today by giving amnesty to draft dodgers. I would hope that President Obama would have a bit more sense, even though his supporters don’t seem to have any sense.