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Category: Antiwar crowd

  • The mud-puddle-deep intellect of the Left

    TSO sent me a link yesterday which was some pussy on Firedoglake complaining that Washington Post’s Dana Milbank was making fun of him for standing naked in the street near the State Department (for some reason) in support of Bradley Manning.

    Milbanks writes;

    Now it’s time for Manning’s fans to accept that he’s not necessarily the champion of freedom they have made him out to be. It’s one thing to demand his right to partake of the Fruit of the Loom. It’s another thing to make him into a martyr.

    Logan Price responds;

    Our military has sent so many of my peers – idealistic young Americans – to die painful and horrible deaths or come home wounded and traumatized from a war founded on lies.

    Rather than pursue the criminals who lied over nine-hundred times to get us into Iraq, the Obama administration is bent on taking it all out on Bradley — a shy young private who may have been the only person courageous enough to give us anything close to the full truth about these horrible wars.

    First, Junior, you have no peers in the military – they’re all better people than you. Secondly, standing naked in the street only makes you look ridiculous, it doesn’t make any coherent statement. Especially when you support a creepy little perv like Manning.

  • Kokesh and guns

    One of my ninjas sent me this video of IVAW’s Adam Kokesh showing off with semi-auto shotgun. I’m glad he’s progun, eveyone should be, however, the shot patterns look a little tight…he couldn’t have been more than ten feet from the water jugs.

    It’s been a while since we’ve talked about Kokesh since he lost the primary in his Congressional race. I thought you’d like to know he’s still alive and kicking.

  • A Moonbat Weekend

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    March 19th is the 8th anniversary of the beginning of the war in Iraq, so you know the moonbats have worked themselves up into a frenzy. They have a big weekend planned according to Washington Peace Center;

    Friday Mar. 18

    7-9pm: Walter Reed Vigil at Walter Reed Hospital, 7150 Georgia Avenue, NW (at Horseshoe, between Dahlia and Elder)

    A weekly vigil to raise awareness within our community and the media that our injured soldiers are brought to Walter Reed Hospital and we must not forget them. Fund the wounded, not the war! (The right wingers will be out in force so let’s support!)

    The Vigil began in March 2005 following the second anniversary of the invasion and occupation of Iraq, and has continued every Friday evening regardless of rain, sun, snow, ice, or right-wing hooligans.

    Yeah, and a fearsome group they’ve been;

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    I guess this will be attended by IVAW, too. This is how they plan on helping the wounded…by taunting them while they come back from the war. Good call, Jose and Geoff.

    Saturday March 19
    12 noon: Veterans for Peace Rally and Action at Lafayette Park and the White House

    Resist the War Machine! Put your body on the line for peace and help make this the largest veteran-led civil resistance to the war machine in recent history! For more information, email stopthesewars@gmail.com.

    Rally at 12 pm at Lafayette Park, H and 16th Streets NW
    Speakers: Elliott Adams, Chantelle Bateman, Brian Becker, Medea Benjamin, Zachary Choate, Ryan Endicott, Ayesha Fleary, Chris Hedges, Kathy Kelly, Mike Malloy, Michael McPhearson, Caneisha Mills, Ralph Nader, Debra Sweet, Ann Wright, Kevin Zeese

    Civil Resistance at 1 pm, White House

    Civil resistance means they’re going to try and get arrested again, because that means something…or something. Matthis won’t be there – he’s going to be on a panel in New York City with Debra Sweet talking about how Obama is a bigger war criminal than Bush was.

    Sunday, March 20

    2 pm: Bradley Manning Action at Quantico Marine Base (VA)

    Exposing war crimes is not a crime! Support accused WikiLeaks whistle-blower Army Pfc.Bradley Manning who has been held in solitary-like conditions for six months.

    Click here to buy bus tickets to the Rally. Only $10 rountrip.

    This event is endorsed by the Bradley Manning Support Network, Veterans for Peace, Courage to Resist, CodePink, and many other groups.

    Now, if you’re inclined to attend, you won’t be alone. Toothless Dawg says Free Republic will be there at three events;

    MARCH 18,2011 (Friday) WALTER REED

    WHERE: Main gates of Walter Reed, Georgia Avenue and Elder Street, NW. Plenty of street parking and also park in the lot. Entrance off Elder Street.

    WHEN: Friday, 6:45 PM to around 9:30PM when we cheer a bus load of Wounded Warriors and their families coming back from their weekly dinner. The dinner is sponsored by The Aleethia Foundation, founded by a wounded Vietnam Vet. They could also use some donations.

    The DC Chapter of FReeRepublic will have flags, banners, posters, snacks and drinks.

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    MARCH 19,2011 (Saturday) FREEDOM PLAZA

    ANSWER, Code Pink, IVAW, and others of their ilk are still protesting against our troops. We need to continue supporting our troops and defending their honor. We need to be a voice for them. Our soldiers still need the support we gave them in March, 2007 during the first Gathering of Eagles.

    WHERE: Washington, DC — We have permitted FREEDOM PLAZA (Main gathering point) at 14th and E Streets, NW. Blue and Orange FEDERAL TRIANGLE Metro Station is closes station

    DATE: Saturday, March 19,2011

    WHEN: Gather at 10AM at Freedom Plaza, then at 11AM we will go to Pennsylvania Avenue in front of the White House till we are no longer needed to support our troops.

    The DC Chapter of FReeRepublic will have the Walter Reed MOAB, flags, banners, and posters. At FReedom Plaza we will also have snacks and drinks.

    The moonbats will be gathering at Lafayette Park at noon and will protest in front of the White House after their speeches damning and disparaging our brave troops.

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    March 20, 2011 (Sunday) Quantico MCB Main Gate

    The information I have read is that Code Pink and other skanky organizations will be gathering to free the Manning whiner. Their buses will arrive around 2pm at the intersection of Rt-1 and Rt-619 (Joplin Rd) at the Iwo Jima Memorial. They will then march the 100 yards to the main gate of Quantico.

    The Marines have stated their intention to close the main gate for several hours and expect around 500 protesters.

    Construction in the area is going to make parking very tight.

    I’ll be at the Saturday protest in Lafayette Park after I drive back from stumping with DanNy for David Bellavia. So if you don’t see anything here on the blog this weekend, it’s coming.

  • IVAW is OK with the Taliban

    TJ Buonomo, a long-time meber of the Iraq Veterans Against the War, but not an Iraq veteran, writes on their website;

    On 8 March 2011, IVAW requested that Senator Diane Feinstein, Chairwoman of the Senate Select Intelligence Committee, request declassification of intelligence reports on the Taliban and Al Qaeda. To date there has been insufficient public debate within Congress on whether the defeat of the Taliban is vital to the protection of the American people from terrorist attacks and numerous prominent national security commentators have made compelling arguments that this is not the case or at the very least that this assumption should be re-examined.

    I has an hours long conversation with TJ back in 2009 and I got the impression that he thinks he’s a pretty smart feller, but this missive proves otherwise. Everyone on the planet knows that the Taliban protected and at least provided minimum logistical support to al Qaeda. And before 9-11, no one on the planet thought for a second that goat-roping Stone Age shepherds were a threat to the American people.

    So why is Buonomo trying to end the war against the Taliban? He did the same thing before the “surge” in Iraq. It’s so scary to them that we might actually be successful in a war against our enemies, they’re willing to let an entire country fall under the iron sandals of the Taliban again.

    If Buonomo had read even the slightest bit of history from before 9-11, he could answer his own questions. His contention that there has been “insufficient public debate within Congress” proves he hasn’t been listening. But that’s Buonomo’s favorite tactic – it’s only rhetorical flourishes for the sake of discussion.

    On a similar note, the anti-war hen house formerly called “After Downing Street” has renamed itself “War Is A Crime“. Doesn’t that, in turn, mean that the troops are criminals? Haven’t these dolts learned anything in the last forty years?

  • Keeping Goldilocks Manning happy

    CBS Baltimore writes about the Marine Corps jumping through public relations hoops to keep the traitor Bradley Manning comfortable while he awaits trial in Quantico, VA;

    The Marine Corps says it has issued a suicide-proof sleeping garment to the imprisoned Army private suspected of giving classified material to WikiLeaks.

    Col. Thomas Johnson said Thursday that Pfc. Bradley Manning was given the smock Monday as a substitute for clothing that is removed each night from Manning’s cell at the brig in Quantico, Va.

    Manning says in a memo to base commander Col. Daniel Choike that the clothing-removal order on March 2 was punitive. He says the bulky smock is uncomfortable.

    Maybe they should give him big-eared bunny pajamas complete with warm little feeties. Would that make the big pussy happy. You can remember that he complained when issued blankets were too scatchy, then he complained that sleeping naked chilled his tiny bones, and now the smock is too bulky.

    I can only imagine Manning’s complaints about his too hot/too cold porridge.

  • Harvard brings back ROTC to campus

    Associated Press reports that Harvard University and the Navy Secretary will sign an agreement to formally acknowledge the Navy’s presence on campus.

    As part of the agreement, a director of Naval ROTC at Harvard will be appointed, and the university will resume funding the program. Harvard cadets will still train at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, as they have for years

    Harvard and several other prominent schools, including Stanford, Yale and Columbia, had kept the Vietnam-era ban in place following the war because of what they viewed as a discriminatory military policy forbidding gays from serving openly.

    Yeah, big damn deal. For decades Harvard has taken GI Bill money while not “formally” recognizing the presence of an ROTC detachment on campus. So what’s changed besides the University acting magnanimous and the Navy kowtowing.

    And that bullshit about keeping the ban in place because of the military’s (Congress’) policies against gays – I was teaching ROTC when universities decided to use the gay issue as an excuse – 14 years after Saigon fell. Do you seriously think that anyone cared about gays in the military in 1975? No, I remember when that light bulb came on in the late eighties.

    Harvard banned ROTC in 1969, then defunded the program in 1995, saying “don’t ask, don’t tell” violated its non-discrimination policies.

    Yeah, so why had they kept ROTC off-campus between 1975 and 1995?

    Screw Harvard. Who needs them.Arrogant, pompous shitbags. Making the services grovel for them is unforgivable. I’m sure they’ll think up another excuse to blackmail Cadet Command soon enough. However student reaction to this announcement should be priceless.

  • IVAW in WI

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    TSO sent me a link from the Iraq Veterans Against the War website to a report from Wes Davey, the Herbert the Pervert of IVAW. Here’s the video;

    And Davey’s report;

    I was in Madison on Saturday when Iraq Veterans Against the War group was invited to speak. The crowd went crazy when we filed into the rotunda of the Wisconsin State Capital that evening, all of them cheering our small group on.

    As we each took a brief turn speaking, the entire crowd roared its approval and the sound was deafening; you could’ve heard the noise miles away from the rotunda. Except for the RNC protests, I’ve never witnessed this kind of approval of our message before.

    Driving home that night, I felt that the crowd response was a validation of all that we had been trying to do since IVAW was formed too many years ago, a repudiation of the past where we had been accused of being unpatriotic, and that people finally got our message. And it felt good.

    It’s nice to see that IVAW can keep it’s focus on veteran issues and not get mixed up in something that has absolutely nothing to do with veterans. Oh, wait, I got that backwards.

    Speaking of IVAW, Zedechek sends us a photo of Robynn Murray on the red carpet of the Oscars the other day;

    Robynn Murray

  • Manning faces 22 more charges

    Rurik sends us this MSNBC link which announces that the Army has charged Bradley Manning, the 23-year-old former Private First Class with 22 more crimes.

    The charges filed Wednesday include 16 specifications of wrongfully causing classified material to be published on the Internet and knowing that the information would be accessed by the enemy; theft of public property or records; transmitting defense information and computer fraud.

    He was also charged with “information assurance” and “security program” violations.

    “The new charges more accurately reflect the broad scope of the crimes that Pvt. 1st Class Manning is accused of committing,” said Capt. John Haberland, a legal spokesman for the Military District of Washington.

    While conviction on the charge of “aiding the enemy” could result in the death penalty, military prosecutors recommended that he be sentenced to life in prison if convicted on that charge alone.

    I love the smell of frying bacon in the morning.

    Of course, MSNBC can’t report on Manning without stirring up some sympathy for the little traitorous turd;

    Coombs, Manning’s lawyer, has complained that his confinement conditions — in maximum custody under a “prevention of injury” watch — are unduly harsh and undermine his right to a fair trial. Manning has been confined in a 6-by-12-foot cell with a bed, a drinking fountain and a toilet for about 23 hours a day, Coombs has said.

    Anti-war groups, a psychologist group as well as filmmaker Michael Moore and Pentagon Papers whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg have called for Bradley to be released from detention. Amnesty International and other human rights organizations have condemned the Obama administration’s imprisonment conditions.

    Dude. He has a bed, a drinking fountain and a toilet? When I did my time in prison in Panama, my bed was a newspaper spread out on the concrete floor, my toilet was a one-quart milk carton, and the only time I got to drink water was at meal time. He’s got it sweet.

    And I’m sure that the Army will release him to Amnesty International and Michael Moore. Ten seconds after he is released, they’ll smuggle him to some sympathetic country in the folds of Moore’s belly fat. Since the charge of “aiding the enemy” could bring the death penalty, they ought to keep his little monkey ass in the lock up.