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Category: Antiwar crowd

  • Adam Kokesh declares that the terrorists have won

    One of my ninjas just emailed an article from the Guardian, which coincidentally mentions today’s subject Adam Kokesh and his antics on September 11th last week;

    Activist Adam Kokesh is in full flight. He claims the attacks of 11 September had a goal, “and the goal was to make America look like it does today”. Angry whoops from the floor. This is a gathering of people who are extremely unhappy about what America looks like today.

    In other words, somehow we succumbed to the terrorist’s desire to change America. I don’t know what he means, because aside from some increased security measures, nothing has really changed, except for the fact that we don’t have much tolerance for anti-war groups like we had thirty years ago, which only makes sense since we’ve witnessed how the lazy, socialist hippies of the sixties have changed America.

    I suppose he means exactly that…since we all didn’t fall down on our knees and thank our God for the Kokesh candidacy for Congress in New Mexico and pulled together from across the country to stand athwart his path to Washington and his “xanax and gin” campaign.

    He hates TAH and the fact that someone stood outside of one of his whistlestops and passed out hard copies of TAH posts about him, but he’ll never mention how TSO offered to help him unscrew his VA claim for PTSD (an offer TSO has made to several IVAW members, former or otherwise). Is that what he meant by his comment about post-9/11 America? That veterans reach across the political divide to help each other?

    Remembering the attacks of 9-11-2001 is supposed to make us appreciate that we live in this country, that boneheads like Kokesh can stand on a street corner and criticize the country as much as they want without fear of governmental retribution. But just because the government can’t take action against him, doesn’t mean that the rest of us can’t as private citizens.

  • Taking on Ron Paul and his Supporters

    Rurik sends: Larry Bailey under fire. 

    From the linked article:

    Some of Ron Paul’s most avid (some say “rabid”) supporters are not friends of America.  The Marxist group “Code Pink” are frequent and vociferous supporters of the good congressman, as are “Iraq Veterans against the War,” a Soros-funded group that is sometimes violently opposed to any American intervention overseas, no matter how justified it may be.

    Code Pink, headed up by Medea Benjamin, shows up at any anti-American gathering that happens to have media (no pun intended) coverage scheduled.  That organization is frequently joined by IVAW in its pursuit of America-bashing.

    Now, Rep. Paul cannot be held totally responsible for who attends his rallies and who organizes his Iowa Straw Poll effort, but the public should not be kept in the dark about who it is that has become so close to the congressman.

    Rurik is referring to some of the comments there as the ‘fire’.  Larry’s seen much worse so I doubt he’s much moved, but it might be fun to join in if so inclined.

    Coupla caveats: Larry is a friend (as is Rurik) and I’m proud to say that I’m one of the dozen or so who helped pull off GoE-1, so I’ve seen much of what Larry describes. Secondly, much of what Larry discusses in his article is NOT news to regular TAH readers.

    Jonn adds:

    Code Pink supports Ron Paul

    Ron Paul supports Adam Kokesh

    Rand Paul endorses Kokesh

    Adam Kokesh and his upside down flag and IVAW banner at a Ron Paul rally in DC.

  • Brower: When will the madness end?

    Elaine Brower takes the opportunity on 9/11/11 to remember the terrorists’ contribution to her cause of hate mongering and America-bashing.

    My wish for her didn’t come true. And when will her madness end?

    Someone needs to get a refund for those dance lessons;

    How to cram all of your vacuous anti-war talking points into a poem (Strong Language Warning);

    Thanks to one of my ninjas.

  • Gordon Duff, the drooling moron

    In what may be construed as insulting to drooling morons, I have to say that Gordon Duff has crossed over from crackpot to drooling moron this week as he tries to tie Ronald Reagan’s assassination attempt to Reagan’s Vice president in “JSOC (Joint Special Operations Command) Threat: Obama, Biden and Family to be Killed” First notice that the article had another title before Duff edited it. The URL reads Chatter; Obama Sought Arrest Of Bush and Cheney for 9/11 Treason. But his article reads;

    Two elections had been rigged to get Bush into office. 9/11, years in the planning, complex demolitions, radio controlled aircraft, SDI (Strategic Defense Initiative) weapons developments, our biggest weapons secrets, were used on to flatten the twin towers of the World Trade Center.

    This could all have happened years before if the removal of Clinton had been allowed to succeed, attempts to tie him to CIA drug running and then the “Lewinsiki affair.” As early as 1981, the elder Bush tried it too, 69 days into the Reagan presidency, John Hinckley, a mind control (MK Ultra) asset of the Bush CIA had tried to murder Reagan.

    I suppose the Mossad was controlling the CIA at that time, too.

    I guess the reason Bush, Sr. wanted to assassinate Reagan because of the president’s war against drugs because Duff goes off on a tear of how Wall Street and the CIA were in the drug business together – the real reason for invading Afghanistan, so we could get the poppy business restarted. I suppose this makes sense, especially when you look at how much drug addiction costs our government in direct payments for rehabilitation of addicts and how much of the national productivity is lost to drug use. And everyone knows that Wall Street is always more interested in how much they can make today rather than how much they’ll make down the road…well, it’s that way if you’re a drooling moron and don’t understand Wall Street.

    Thanks to TSO for the link.

  • How the Left makes themselves feel better

    I picked up these links from some Facebook Wall Posts from TSO and Blackfive this morning. But first Matty O’Blackfive posted a link from fucktard Paul Krugman, the most intellectually dishonest economist on the planet who tells us that the last ten years have been “The Years of Shame“;

    What happened after 9/11 — and I think even people on the right know this, whether they admit it or not — was deeply shameful. Te [sic] atrocity should have been a unifying event, but instead it became a wedge issue. Fake heroes like Bernie Kerik, Rudy Giuliani, and, yes, George W. Bush raced to cash in on the horror. And then the attack was used to justify an unrelated war the neocons wanted to fight, for all the wrong reasons.

    A lot of other people behaved badly. How many of our professional pundits — people who should have understood very well what was happening — took the easy way out, turning a blind eye to the corruption and lending their support to the hijacking of the atrocity?

    The atrocity WAS a unifying event, until the Left realized that they were losing support when people began speculating how a Democrat president (namely Al Gore) would have reacted to the terrorist attack, which had been in the planning stages during the Clinton Administration. The Democrats tried everything…they even unanimously passed the PATRIOT Act in the Senate…to prove that they were good custodians of our National Security. But given their history, the American people weren’t buying it. So fucktards like the aforementioned fucktard, Paul Krugman, took up the mantle of the intellectually dishonest and did stupid shit like magnifying so-called atrocities, telling the American people that we were better than Guantanamo and taking the fight to the enemy.

    Saddam Hussein issued copies of “Black hawk Down” to his commanders as an instructional tool to show them how to resist an American attack. The left called our wars “occupations” and even they knew it was an innaccurate portrayal of our operations, since we had never really occupied a foreign country. Besides China in the 19th century.

    The link from TSO is to Truthdig’s Chris Hedges, who writes in “A Decade After 9/11: We Are What We Loathe“;

    We have still not woken up to whom we have become, to the fatal erosion of domestic and international law and the senseless waste of lives, resources and trillions of dollars to wage wars that ultimately we can never win. We do not see that our own faces have become as contorted as the faces of the demented hijackers who seized the three commercial jetliners a decade ago. We do not grasp that Osama bin Laden’s twisted vision of a world of indiscriminate violence and terror has triumphed. The attacks turned us into monsters, grotesque ghouls, sadists and killers who drop bombs on village children and waterboard those we kidnap, strip of their rights and hold for years without due process. We acted before we were able to think. And it is the satanic lust of violence that has us locked in its grip.

    Yeah, Chris, it wasn’t the Right or Osama bin Laden that made us that way, it was the Left who has perpetuated this war beyond it’s logical conclusion by giving the enemy moral support, from the moment the “human shields” were posted at Hussein’s critical war assets, from the time three congressmen stood on the roof of Hussein’s palace and declared that Hussein was more trustworthy than our own president. From the moment of the birth of the IVAW. From the first calls from the Veterans For Peace for the impeachment of President Bush. From the time James Webb, an elected Senator, snubbed President Bush in the White House.

    From the first time intellectual midgets like Chris Hedges blamed those who demanded that those attacks never occur again on American soil for the way this war was waged against 10th century throwbacks who behead innocent journalists, throw acid in the faces of preteen girls, murder their own countrymen in droves to make a political point. What we really loathe are dhimmis who are perfectly content to allow Americans to die by the thousands in unanswered attacks.

    Has anyone heard anyone from the Left present an alternative to the way we’ve waged war against Muslim extremists? Other than ending the war abruptly? It’s the left who has taken on the ugly face of revenge and bloodlust since they began calling for a declaration of victory now that bin Laden is dead. It wasn’t about revenge or pay back, the war against terror was about preventing the next attack on innocent Americans going about their daily lives, which it has so far accomplished.

    The blood that is on the Left’s collective hands is that of the American fighting men and women who died because of the Left’s protected right to be vocal retards and undermine our troops’ valiant efforts. Chris Hedges, you are what we loathe.

  • Ideals vs reality. 9/11 version

    Ok, so given that the tenth anniversary of the attacks on September 11th are coming up it is not surprising that people are putting out videos that said that 9/11 would not have happened if we could all just get along. The target of today is the group called Our Journey to Smile.

    If you have not heard of this group they talk a lot about ideals but never have anything about making those ideals happen. Not once.

    Lets go into the video.

    I think that peace is a state of being, that we choose to live in peace, and we choose to live in hate So if you choose to live in peace, it’s contagious If you choose to live in hate, it’s contagious
    So, if you live in hate, other people who are in contact with you will live in hate.

    Uh except that how do you intend to make that work? If it were that easy you really think that issues like gangs and crime would be still here. Yet you expect that phrase to work in one of the most violence countries in the world. Really?

    All of us can feel your pain, because you lost a family member on September 11. All of us can feel your pain because here, it’s like September 11 every day. Every day, Afghans are losing their family members.

    Again, really? You do not think that people in America have not lost friends and relatives to violence before 2011? Or what about the claim that 9/11 happens every day in Afghanistan. Your tying to say that over 3,000 people die in Kabul every day? Because that is what made 9/11 a big deal because of the large number of people who were affected in such as short amount of time. But it sound since despite the fact that it has no truth in reality.

    We can work side by side to end this war, & work for a non-violent solution in Afghanistan.

    By doing what? How are you going to bell that cat.

  • FUBAR!

    I missed this, and it’s in my old stomping grounds too?

    College Threatens to Nix 9/11 Tribute As Too American

    If you thought that something as innocuous as putting up 3,000 American flags on school grounds to pay tribute to those murdered on September 11 couldn’t be controversial, you haven’t been to Marietta College.
    Administrators at this liberal arts college in southeast Ohio are threatening to cancel a 9/11 memorial planned by their students if flags from other countries are not observed in the activities as well.

    This tribute was organized by students at the school. And it get’s worse:

    Meanwhile, Marietta officials are hosting 9/11 events on their own, but those activities pertain to how American Muslims are treated in a post-9/11 world.  On Sept. 13, for instance, the school is organizing a “Pizza & Politics” forum to discuss “how Muslims in the U.S. see/experience freedom of speech.”  The following day, there will be a faculty-led talk “on the misconception of the Arab-Muslim culture in the Western world, and the stereotypes Muslims experience in the U.S.”

     

  • Was Eugene Robinson paying attention?

    Eugene Robinson, the Washington Post columnist who won a Pulitzer prize in 2009 for cutting and pasting Obama campaign press releases, today explains why the war against terror is over in his column “Post-9/11 permanent state of war should have ended long ago“;

    There never was a “war on terrorism.” It wasn’t “terrorism” that crashed airliners into buildings on that brilliant Tuesday morning. The attacks were carried out by a 19-member assault team from al-Qaeda, a terrorist organization then being sheltered by the Taliban regime in Afghanistan. There most definitely was a war against al-Qaeda, and we won.

    Within four months, U.S. invasion forces had routed the Taliban and scattered what was left of al-Qaeda to the four winds. Maybe that was the moment we should have recognized our victory. Maybe it was March 1, 2003, when Khalid Sheik Mohammed, the man most responsible for designing and orchestrating the 9/11 attacks, was captured. Or maybe it was the moment in 2004 when Afghanistan’s fledgling democracy held its first presidential election.

    By the middle of the decade, we had accomplished every rational goal of the war that 9/11 began.

    He goes on to trot the old “Saddam Hussein had nothing to do with 9/11” excuse. According to the belly-aching left, represented by the vacuous Robinson, the war against terror was really a war for revenge…no real strategy other than getting payback for 9/11.

    So was Robinson paying attention when George W. Bush declared war against terrorists and said we wouldn’t differentiate between terrorists and the people/nations who supported them?

    It wasn’t a call to war directed at solely Americans, it was a call to war for the whole world. It was an opportunity for ALL civilized nations to eradicate the vermin who murder innocent people to make a political point. It was a chance for the Spaniards to declare all-out war on the Basques, for Colombia to wipe out FARC, for the world to battle against the Tamil Tigers, the Filipino Moros, the Partiya Karkerên Kurdistan. It was a missed opportunity for the United Nations to outlaw terrorism as a political weapon.

    The majority of the European countries instead wrung their hands and waved their crying towels in hopes that the US would once again do their heavy lifting so they could stay above the fray and pontificate about their purity.

    The left likes to say that Bush squandered the good will we’d earned from the world on 9/11, but it was the world who squandered an opportunity to stand up to the terrorists of the world. An opportunity that may not come around again. And that’s why i can’t feel sorry for the Indias, the Spains, the Indonesias who are continually plagued with terrorist attacks because they blew their chance to end terrorism.

    And linguini-spined hippies like Robinson shied away from the dirty work to be done, preferring to yap about “Bush’s War” and “chickenhawks” instead of recognizing that terrorism’s time was over. Of course, the Taliban and al Qaeda listened and fought for ten long years – ten years after they should have given up their struggle – because nimrods like Robinson gave them hope.

    Al Qaeda in Iraq finally gave up when they anticipated a victory after the 2006 elections but instead faced a “surge” of US troops in spite of the hippies and Democrats’ empty words of support for terrorism. Now al Qaeda is resurgent in Afghanistan because victory is within sight, thanks to our anticipated premature withdrawal.

    So, in reality, Robinson is correct, it’s time for his side to declare victory…for the terrorists. The European hand wringers and American intellectually vacant hippies, the gutless wonders, won it for them. When the next terrorist attack kills scores of Americans they can point with pride at that which they have wrought.