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Category: Antiwar crowd

  • Left redefines adversity

    Yesterday, I read about Uncle Jimbo at Blackfive being refused service at the Hawk and Dove pub on Capitol Hill because he was wearing one of his famous Dou-Che` T-shirts

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    Uncle Jimbo is a pretty big dude (he has a reputation for being somewhat unstable while imbibing in adult beverages) and I’m surprised someone named Edgar would take a chance at pissing off someone of his impressive stature and unbalanced nature.

    Barely related to Uncle Jimbo story, at Babalu Blog, Ziva points us to a story about the wonderful world of ANSWER LA where they celebrated the 55th Anniversary of Castro’s opening salvo against the Batista Administration in Cuba. I hinted at this twisted bit of propagandizing the other day when I asked where the anti-war clowns were going to protest the Russian invasion of Georgia.

    But the communists in LA are still enraptured with the Castro revolution. It seems that 300 Communists turned out for the event…and the article calls that a “huge turnout”. In Los Angeles, the largest city in the nation, if not the world, 300 is not huge, guys. There are 300 people lined up behind every urinal in LA at any given moment. Nonetheless;

    The huge turnout to celebrate Cuba’s revolution showed that the struggle for a better world is very much alive in the hearts and minds of people in Los Angeles and far beyond. We will continue undeterred to celebrate Cuba and to defend its revolutionary gains.

    Undeterred, because of unanimous and unrecorded bomb threats and threats of violence that always seem to happen when the Left has an event…but strangely enough nothing ever happens. Just like the death threats we hear about from the right-wing nuts…no one ever gets killed, but still the Left likes to pump up their self-importance with these imagined dangers.

    The success of the evening in the face of adversity was a clear victory for the pro-Cuba organizers and attendees.

    So brave these revolutionaries…just like Che and Fidel, aren’t they? No, not really. being a Communist in Los Angeles isn’t brave at all. There was no inherent adversity in 300 people going to a Castro love fest in the furthest Left (politically) part of the country. The Left has pushed the envelope so far that being a communist is passe` – even Hugo Chavez is losing his cachet.

    If you want to see brave, watch Uncle Jimbo wear his Che` shirt in DC where the people voted 90% for John Kerry in the last presidential election. Of go to a Freedom Works counterdemonstration against MoveOn in DC. That’s bravery. Not being just another communist in a city full of communists.

  • A new resource for IVAW watchers

    I know most of you readers discovered this blog during the IVAW’s Winter Soldier theater and one of the reasons that you continue to come back here is because of our IVAW coverage. Well, until recently we used a NetVibes page that the IVAW members themselves built to keep track of what was being said about them around the internet (which is how most of them found their way here). They shut it down or moved it recently because most of the blog listings were coming from this blog and The Sniper.

    Last night, TSO asked me if I could come with something similar and I fiddled with the NetVibes widgets for a few hours last night and finally came up with a fairly complete page of links to all things IVAW and VFP. I named it IVAW Watch and put it in our blogroll under Special Attention so it’s always there for those interested in what’s being said about the IVAW. I might add Code Pink to it next month or so.

    You’re all welcome to use it and if you see something interesting that one of us didn’t catch, please bring it to our attention. We depend on your participation…otherwise we’d just be emailing each other. Thanks for your continued interest and I hope this helps.

  • Anti-war vets grasping at straws

    Since no one is paying attention their outrageous blather about their mythical exploits in Iraq, Veterans for Peace and Iraq Veterans Against the War have decided that they’ll just complain about anything. An article last month in Sir! No Sir! (the same rocket scientists who think that Robin and I are one and the same are now ConLaw experts) decries a local Army commander’s publishing pictures of DWI arrestees on his post;

    One of the bedrock principles of our criminal justice system is the presumption of innocence. This means that when someone is accused of a crime he or she has the right to try to prove their innocence by challenging the prosecutor’s evidence and offering their own witnesses and/or evidence to rebut the charges before a jury of their peers.

    Commanding General Michael Oates has undermined this fundamental right by publishing the photographs and identities of Ft Drum soldiers who’ve been arrested for drunk driving in the four most recent issues of the base newspaper, “The Blizzard.” The paper has carried photos and news notes about each Drum soldier who’s been arrested for drinking while driving. Oates has told reporters that he is doing this to combat a growing tendency among soldiers to drink and drive. He apparently believes that by humiliating those accused of drunk driving others will be deterred from this behaviour [sic]. He also hasn’t stated whether the newspaper will publish retractions or apologies for those soldiers who are eventually acquitted of DWI charges or have their convictions overturned on appeal.

    Well, when you put it like that…but wait. Don’t thousands of local papers across the country do the same thing in their “police blotter” features? Like my hometown paper, the Wayne County Times, coincidently in a county near Fort Drum, which, in the paper edition publishes pictures of the suspects in all of their inebriated, disheveled glory. So this commander is doing nothing that other communities have done to combat this dangerous behavior. So what’s the beef?

    Members of the Iraq Veterans Against War (IVAW) at Ft Drum noted that many of the 48 soldiers who had their photos printed in the first Blizzard story, had returned from Iraq combat last November with the Second Brigade. “When you return to the base after a month or so of leave, that’s when PTSD often starts to kick in,” commented Sp/4 Eli Wright.

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    Citizen Soldier attorneys have been researching the possiblity of a federal lawsuit to challenge Oates’ policy as an unconstitutional abridgment of due process rights. They are also discussing the problem with the New York State Civil Liberties Union, based in Syracuse.

    Ahh, now I see…it’s an affirmative action and employment drive for local attorneys. The Left is always demanding that soldiers be treated as civilians in matters like fraternization, but not when it’s used as a crime deterrent. This is just the VFP and IVAW trying to undermine the order and discipline of the military.

    The article says “many of the 48 soldiers” who were included in the first publication of the blotter report had just returned from Iraq. It’s been my experience that “many” in the IVAW actually means “few”. If there were indeed “many” we’d have seen a real number, but since there weren’t enough to be convincing of their argument, we don’t get to see an actual count. How about praise for the hundreds of others who returned from Iraq and didn’t drink and drive? Now that’s “many”.

    The VFP and IVAW claim that they’re only concerned with the mental health of the troops, that the rise in alcoholism is a symptom of their PTSD. Well, I’m no medical professional, so I have no opinion on that subject. What I do know, after living in the Fort Drum community during and after my military service is that alcoholism has always been a problem at the remote post located near Canada (where the drinking age is 18) and where were these activists when Fort Drum deployed 50% of it’s population every day for the Clinton years – when every soldier on that post was either deployed or preparing to deploy for the entire time I lived there (from 1992 until 1999)?

    Fort Drum is sorely in need of better medical facilities, but that need has been there since the post became an active post in 1985 – where have these “advocates” been for the last 23 years?

    All I’m asking for is consistency.

  • So, where’s the peace-loving Left?

    While Vlad Putin finishes what Stalin started in Georgia, one is left to wonder where the peace-loving Left is. After all, they were protesting worldwide months before the first American soldier set foot in Iraq.

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  • West Chester, PA getting more bitter

    Some of you may remember that TSO and I ventured into the hinterlands to West Chester, PA back on Flag Day to spend the day with the Sheepdogs and Skye.

    I like this picture of Skye, so this gives me chance to post it again;

    Since they can’t stop the pro-victory movement from showing up against their “peace vigil” every Saturday, Skye writes in the Free Republic that the aged hippies are trying to use legal (or extra-legal means) to silence them. Below is the letter that  Rich Davis, the founder of the movement in West Chester, received (you can click the letter to make it larger, if you need to);

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  • Iran begging for “it”

    Offered “a very generous” set of incentives to discontinue their pursuit of nuclear weapons, Iran has unsurprisingly rejected the UN’s plan to mediate the crisis. Thus, causing the UN to get scary stern;

    Spokesman Gonzalo Gallegos said there was consensus in the group that Iran’s latest reply to the offer was “very disappointing” and “a stalling tactic” that had left the group with no option other than to seek new sanctions.

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  • It’s come to this (Updated)

    Last April 15th, at the first Ron Paul rally, Hooper (from Age of Hooper(The)) and I comisserated about how lame protests have become this year and how terrible it has been for guys like us who depend on protests. Little did we know it was about to get worse.

    I came across this protest for Food Not Bombs back in May which was scheduled for June 28th. When I went, they weren’t there, but luckily, the protest against Guantanamo was going on instead so I cut my loses and it turned out pretty good, blogwise, not protest-wise. So I got back home and checked the website again – they’d changed the date.

    We are very sorry about the change in date. Problems with the food and logistics. If Bush starts bombing Iran before August 6th we plan to start the Tent City two days later.

    So, I patiently waited until today. Since TSO works near Lafayette Park, he graciously agreed to do a good infantry recon before I committed logistics and communications to the mission at hand. Well, he called me several minutes ago and reported no hippiesque activity not discernable from normal tourist operations. I called the phone number on the website and the mailbox is full.

    So the only picture I have of this protest is this one;

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    Well, no one ever said hippies were dependable, did they? But, it’s like TSO said when he called; it’s getting so you can’t believe anything you read on the internet anymore.

    TSO sends this picture of himself looking for the hippies in Lafayette Park;

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  • Duplicitous Democrats

    Remember when Congressman Kanjorski admitted what we all knew, that Democrats knew they couldn’t end the war yet they promised their voters they would if only those voters would put them in the majority? Well, all of those suckers did so well, that the Democrats are going to try it again with their energy policy.

    From Baldilocks;

    As it turns out, the Speaker of the House of Representatives has instructed House Democrats whose seats are hotly contested this November to publicly oppose her stance on domestic/offshore drilling in order to get elected. One presumes that said representatives would resume opposition to drilling after they’ve successfully hoodwinked their constituents been re-elected.

    This shows that Pelosi knows that she’s going against the will of the People. She does not care, however, because she has a “higher calling”; in her own words, she’s “trying to save the Planet.” Apparently the messiah syndrome is quite the contagious disease.

    Yeah, yeah, I know…they all do it. That’s your excuse for every bonehead vote you Democrat koolaid drinkers cast. But, it’s not true. The only ones who break their promises to their constituency is Democrats. Republicans hold their candidates accountable – that’s how Democrats won in 2006. That’s how Clinton became President in 1992. And that’s why Democrats don’t feel a need to accomplish anything – ya’all don’t hold them accountable. That makes you complicit in their scam.