So that’s what Omaha beach looks like this morning, according to our buddy Zombie. It’s supposed to be art by French artist Rachid Khimoune and it’s supposed to “denounce global violence” by demeaning the thousands of soldiers who lost their lives on that beach 67 years ago today as they booted fascism out of Europe. I don’t know what is worse – this bozo who thinks this is art, or the French government giving him permission to set up this piece of shit on Omaha Beach today.
I guess we’d all be better off if the Allies hadn’t invaded Hitler’s Fortress Europe. I know the French would’ve been happier, right?
Yes, he’s finally found an issue that can get him back his former glory which he lost when he quit associating with IVAW. It’s right out of “Footlose” – Adam Kokesh is the new Ren McCormick and Suzie Benjamin will be at his side as the latest Ariel. I wonder if they’ll cast John Lithgow as the Park Police.
Yes it’s an important issue – should ritarded anti-war charlatans be allowed to dance at the Jefferson Memorial? Oh, I found this link, thanks to Bev Perlson who sent it from the Daily Paul – the home of Kokesh lovers and associated with the OathKeepers. Toss in Code Pink and there’s a perfect circle. IVAW, Code Pink, Ron Paul and Oathkeepers.
Here’s Adam Kokesh and Medea Benjamin setting up for their protest at the Jefferson Memorial that Ponsdorf wrote about this last weekend. I think if I had questions about the G8 these are the last three people I’d ask;
Jake Diliberto sounds almost rational compared to Medea and Kokesh.
At about 10:20 into the video, Medea starts telling us that she’s been arrested for doing nothing but standing on the sidewalk. She neglects to tell the audience that she was arrested for standing on the sidewalk in front of the White House after being told to move along by the Park Police.
Here’s a Philadelphia teacher explaining why she thinks it’s so important for her students to hear Matthis’ lies. She explains that her students need to learn about what went on in Iraq…but if she’s waiting to hear from Matthis, she’ll be waiting awhile because he never went to Iraq;
For example, here’s Matthis telling students in a NYC public school just last week that he has an addiction because of what he experienced in the Army. I guess Baskin Robbins ran out of sprinkles for his sundae during his six days at Bagram.
Yeah, an addiction that stems from his experiences. He’s trying to lay the groundwork for some PTSD claim for something that is entirely his fault.
I have screen shots of the teachers on my other computer in the event Brower takes these videos down again.
And here he explains the “Collateral Murder” video – even though he has no experience in the incident or Iraq. He continues on with the story that he was a “nice young man” when the Army took advantage of him when they recruited him. We all know the story about why he was living in a tent when he joined. But for some reason he doesn’t tell the students.
Now he says he’s less of a man because of his military service. I’ll agree that he’s less of a man, but the military had nothing to do with his loss of manhood.
“Is the Taliban still fighting? I spent 2.5 years in Afghanistan. Just because you kill Osama bin Laden does not mean that the Taliban has stopped fighting,” he said. “Now can we fight a little smarter? Absolutely.”
Asked about efforts to curb U.S. involvement, West said, “I would take these gentlemen over and let them get shot at a few times and maybe they’d have a different opinion.”
Think Progress, of course, extrapolates West’s comments to the Gifford shooting in Tucson;
With the tragic shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ) still fresh in Americans’ minds, West’s comments are especially irresponsible.
Can someone explain to me how West suggesting that his peers need a taste of war in order to rationally legislate it compare to Jarod Loughner’s shooting rampage? He’s only asking that they face the same realities their constituents stationed in Afghanistan face every day.
One of my ninjas sent this video by Bobby Anarchy Whittenberg and his intellectually vacant song “We choose anarchy”. In it he complains about living in this country – about everything.
I think it’s damn funny that all of this complaining about how he’s so liberated from the government, but the only money he gets comes from his VA disability check.
It stars Matthis, who at the time he was declaring himself free from the government’s debt, he was getting VA benefits to attend college. Illegally.
Anarchists whose sole source of income is a government check. I don’t know, that sounds a bit hypocritical to me. And, oh since when do anarchists want free universal healthcare?
Well, at least she’s a traitorous bitch during every presidential administration (From CNN);
“I want to say categorically and very clearly that these policies of war … are not what the people of the United States stand for, and it’s not what African-Americans stand for,” she told state TV.
The former Georgia representative also slammed the economic policies of U.S. President Barack Obama and said the government of the United States no longer represents the interests of the American people.
“Under the economic policies of the Obama administration, those who have the least are losing the most. And those who have the most are getting even more,” she said. “The situation in the United States is becoming more dire for average ordinary Americans, and the last thing we need to do is to spend money on death, destruction and war.”
How much of an mega=ass-kisser do you have to be to go on Moammar Gaddafi’s wholly-owned TV station these days?
I’d like to know how many African-Americans admit that the lunatic McKinney speaks for them. And I guess we all know who’ll get McKinney’s vote in 2012.
As Weasel Zippers points out, where’s the mention in the CNN article of McKinney’s party?
Forty years ago, he attempted to pursue a law degree upon his return from Vietnam and rehabilitation in veterans’ hospitals. He’d been through hell, and the last place he expected to face more of it was in academia. But the climate in the late 1960s and early ’70s was often inhospitable to those who had served in Vietnam, even the most highly decorated.
Academia – Then and now?
Because of opposition to the Vietnam War and an antipathy toward those who served, Christian said, the faculty made a circus of his attempt to earn a law degree. “If I got a grade that was marginal, they would release it to the newspapers and news media,” he said.
Christian said certain of the deans had disputed the existence and severity of his war injuries, many of which are not obvious. “I was asked by the administration to disrobe in front of the student body because they didn’t think I was a disabled veteran,” Christian said.
“At the time there was no Americans With Disabilities Act and there was no Privacy Act,” he said. “They couldn’t touch the politicians, but they could touch a war hero.”
He said some faculty members would post lists of purported Vietnam heroes – lists that would include North Vietnamese names.
I haven’t vetted this story, Jonn or someone else with more ready resources can do so. I can personally vouch for the atmosphere in many colleges back then and that’s why I decided to post this. Consider this a history lesson if nothing else.
Update: Thanks to those who filled in the blanks, so to speak. Even I remembered the name, but this IS TAH. So I added the caveat.
