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Category: Antiwar crowd

  • Nobel Peace Prize Huh?

    It is quite apparent our current CINC is developing a curious track record?

    James Taranto notes with a certain irony:

    We are not the first to make this observation. “For a president who promised to end the gunslinger ways of his predecessor, Barack Obama has proven himself comfortable with the use of lethal force,” the Los Angeles Times reports. The paper counts Gadhafi as another “notch” on Obama’s “lethal-force belt,” along with Osama bin Laden, Anwar al-Awlaki and others. “All told this year,” the report adds, the president “has sent U.S. troops into action on land or in the skies of seven countries on two continents.”

    A New York Times “news analysis” describes Gadhafi’s death as “vindication, however harrowing,” of Obama’s “carefully calibrated response” in which “a reluctant commander in chief put strict limits on American military engagement and let NATO allies take the lead in backing the rebels”–a far less catchy way of saying “leading from behind.”

    Toss in the de facto (tacit?)  support for The Arab Spring and we have a foreign policy that is hardly Peace oriented.

    I’ll file Taranto’s closing paragraphs under “wish I’d said that”.

    One difference between Obama’s foreign and domestic policies is that the former are conducted in a relatively economical fashion. National Journal reports that “according to the Pentagon, [this] was the cost to U.S. taxpayers for Muammar el-Qaddafi’s head: $1.1 billion through September, the latest figure just out of the Defense Department.”

    At that rate, you could knock off 400 dictators for $440 billion–still less than Obama wants to waste on Stimulus Jr. That’s the best illustration yet of just how skewed this administration’s priorities are.

    Hey OWS… I think ya missed this!

  • WTF?!

    Ok this was going to be about a photo that looks like 100% poser. Take a look.

    Ok with the many fakes like Jessie Macbeth, Rich Duncan, and James Morriss to name a few. So now with this new guy the trend continues. Has this happened to people above? Yea. But considering the anti-war history of lying and creating fake war veterans that you really thing think that a nameless guy wearing headgear that is linked to all people that wanted to kill him. But he support the OWS movement so that is a automatic pass. If that was not crazy enough I just got this story.

    A married mother of four from Florida ditched her family to become part of the raggedy mob in Zuccotti Park — keeping the park clean by day and keeping herself warm at night with the help of a young waiter from Brooklyn.

    “I’m not planning on going home,” an unapologetic Stacey Hessler, 38, told The Post yesterday.
    “I have no idea what the future holds, but I’m here indefinitely. Forever,” said Hessler, whose home in DeLand sits 911 miles from the tarp she’s been sleeping under.

    Hessler — who ironically is married to a banker — arrived 12 days ago and planned to stay for a week, but changed her plans after cozying up to some like-minded radicals, including Rami Shamir, 30, a waiter at a French bistro in Cobble Hill, Brooklyn.

    She swears she’s not romantically involved with her new friend.Yesterday was a typical day for the pair, who woke up at 8 a.m. on their little patch of paving stone near the communal kitchen and dashed off to Trinity Church to wash up.

    Hessler emerged an hour later, her brown hair in dreadlocks, wearing a T-shirt depicting Han Solo and Princess Leia kissing, and bearing the slogan “Make Love Not War.”

    She got coffee and a granola bar from the protest kitchen before sorting laundry for two hours.
    The unemployed Long Island native compared her decision to abandon her family to Americans serving in the armed forces.

    “Military people leave their families all the time, so why should I feel bad?” a defiant Hessler said. “I’m fighting for a better world.”

    Yea. Just remember if any one says that the support Occupy Wall Street that this is what kind of people that that sympathies with.

  • Shamar Thomas: Adam Kokesh’s heir apparent.

    It seems our newest military street performer has hit facebook and doing his best follow the road taken by Adam Kokesh when he did fake patrols to protest the Iraq war.

    So in addition to the video that I talked he has been busy being a perfect photo prompt with Micheal Moore and Keith O’brien. Yep quite the busy guy.

    Also just like Kokesh, Thomas is admin according to Marine Online. Listed as 3051 which is listed as a Warehouse Clerk. Unlike Kokesh he has yet to be arrested, not for a lack of trying.

    Theatricals, that is all it is. Only with the next guy in line.

  • Hippies on Stolen Valor

    John Glaser, one of those smelly, limp-wristed hippies who writes over at AntiWar.com, celebrates his right to free speech by denigrating the recent American reawakening of the value of those who defend Glaser’s free speech rights. he takes up the case of Rick Strandlof;

    Colorado resident Rick Glen Strandlof also “faced criminal charges for falsely claiming to have been awarded the Purple Heart for wounds and the Silver Star for heroism in the battle of Fallujah during the Iraq war,” and for using an alias when he established a group called the Colorado Veterans Alliance.

    Glaser doesn’t mention that Strandlof also was a member of Iraq veterans Against the War, in fact he was their head mental health counselor to treat PTSD episodes at Winter Soldier II in Silver Spring ,Maryland. Also, Strandlof made advertisemnts for Democrat candidates with his anti-war message – so apparently, some anti-war types place some value on medals and war stories. But not Glaser;

    …we are living in such a culture of honor, so subservient to militaristic symbolism and emblems of primordial brutishness, so reverent for the acclaimed sacrifice of those who devote themselves to violence at the order of the state, that such a violation of the human right to speak without harm to his neighbor can be passed unanimously in our legislature. This law, especially if it is upheld by the Supreme Court, is indicative of just how deeply sunk are Americans’ fondness for a martial culture, placing it even above the equally arbitrary religious pieties so prevalent here (since I don’t believe it’s against the law to declare yourself the messiah).

    Yes. we’ve elevated our soldiers above the son of God, you clucking pusillanimous pullet. by not mentioning that Strandlof pulled his wool over the eyes of the anti-war crowd, he nearly avoids pointing how Stolen valor is actually fraud who harms us all. Even the numbnuts who don’t believe in valor.

  • It is not hard to impress hippies.

    Yes seems that once again people flock to street theater as some how showing up “the Man”. In out lates one shows a guy claiming to be a Marine Sgt with two tours in Iraq braving shouting at Police nearby.

    United States Marine Corps. Sgt. Shamar Thomas from Roosevelt, NY went toe to toe with the New York Police Department. An activist in the Occupy Wall Street movement, Thomas voiced his opinions of the NYPD police brutality that had and has been plaguing the #OWS movement.

    Thomas is a 24-year-old Marine Veteran (2 tours in Iraq), he currently plays amateur football and is in college.

    Thomas comes from a long line of people who sacrifice for their country: Mother, Army Veteran (Iraq), Step father, Army, active duty (Afghanistan), Grand father, Air Force veteran (Vietnam), Great Grand Father Navy veteran (World War II).

    Yea cause I am sure that the Police were not simply acting professional and not falling for you antics at trying to be a martyr for the cause. Nothing like a Rodney King incident to fill the coffers for the protest. I guess that this was the back up plan since the original one failed.

    Here is a screen shot in case the video disappears. It shows a CAR so that should qualify for Stolen Valor. Is there anyone in the Marine Community that can check to see if this guy is a poser?

  • The phonies at the VFP and IVAW

    One of my ninjas sent me these photos that they found on the internet. The first is tracey harmon, former girlfriend of Adam Kokesh. Now, harmon never deployed, she was in the California guard or Reserves. Her IVAW profile was full of love and understanding. the same kind of love and understanding that she took with her when she visited Iraq last year with Antiwar.com.

    I guess peace, love and understanding aren’t so glamorous.

    Speaking of dipshits, if you saw this guy, you’d think he was a Vietnam veteran, wouldn’t you?

    Well, that’s Doug Zachary, he’s not a Vietnam Veteran, he was chaptered out of the Marine Corps before he could be deployed. he’s doing what those clowns at IVAW are doing these days, wearing the T-shirt and not buying a Harley.

    So I wonder how many of hese cumbubbles fit in the same category?

    I see Ward Reilly, the phony Vietnam Ranger on the far right. the only real Vietnam veteran I see is portly Bill Perry, wearing his shower shoes . Perry was with the 82d in Vietnam, but then came back and joined John Kerry at VVAW and then lied about an ambush from which he hid out while his platoon was shot up. Perry finally admitted to me that he lied at Winter Soldier a few years back. He said his story was total “bullshit” to use his word, and that he only told it to get laid by the hippie chicks. But it’s Perry’s Vietnam service that gives creds to Reilly and Zachary. just like the actual Iraq War veterans get their service stolen by pople like Tracy Harmon.

  • Useful Idiots

    I’ve made a fairly earnest effort to understand ANY point the OWS folks are trying to make. One of the oldest rules of warfare is “Know Your Enemy” after all. Simply pointing and laughing, although fun, is a dangerous tactic once the numbers reach a sort of critical mass. A herd made up of a couple of hundred clowns can trample you if they stampede.

    It’s rather obvious that one faction is using The Saul Alinsky Playbook, and some others are anarchists. However, the vast majority are simply useful idiots. Although I’m loathe to cite WND for anything more than Chuck Norris articles there IS a good precis on that subject by Ellis Washington over there.

    One analogy might be a gay man supporting the Islamists Arab Spring movement.

    But… I’m thinking martyrdom, or cannon fodder. NB, I am NOT using hyperbole when I suggest that the leaders of OWS will be seeking REAL violence. Something well beyond Kent State, in fact.

    So I’ve come to pity most of the OWS crowd.

    ETA: Perhaps I’ve communicated poorly? By saying “well beyond Kent State” I’m referring to a major earthquake. Think martial law type stuff. One governor has already joked(?) about calling off elections. YMMV

  • Who do you think you’re fooling?

    ROS sent us this video last night. It’s two Marines supposedly at Occupy Wall Street. The one on your right, wearing captain’s bars, makes the statement that he’s burdened with student loans. When asked about the GI Bill, he claims that he only got enough to cover books.

    We all know he’s full of smelly shit. According to the VA website;

    For resident students at a public Institution of Higher Learning (IHL) all tuition & fee payments are reimbursed.
    For private and foreign IHLs tuition & fee reimbursement is capped at $17,500 per academic year.
    For students whose tuition & fees exceed $17,500 per academic year who are attending a private IHL in AZ, MI, NH, NY, PA, SC or TX and have been enrolled in the same program since January 4, 2011 schools will be reimbursed either the actual cost of the program or the maximum in-state tuition & fee reimbursement rate for the 2010-2011school year, whichever is greater.

    So, dickmunch is saying that his books cost $17k? You need to find another school, “Captain”.