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Category: Antiwar crowd

  • Harvard expects to bring back ROTC

    Harvard President Drew Faust says she fully expects to revive the decades-gone Reserve Officer Training Corp program to the prestigious institution now that the Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell policy has been rescinded according to the Boston Globe;

    Faust, the daughter of a decorated World War II veteran, said she expects to begin talking with military officials about bringing the program back to campus soon. Faust has repeatedly said that the “don’t ask, don’t tell’’ policy was the final barrier to reinstating the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps.

    “I look forward to pursuing discussions with military officials and others to achieve Harvard’s full and formal recognition of ROTC,’’ she said in a written statement. “I am very pleased that more students will now have the opportunity to serve their country.’’

    A Pentagon spokeswoman said it is too early to say whether the decision could result in a ROTC unit being established on campus, but student interest and the military budget are two potential factors.

  • Duff and Ventura; Cheney blew up the Pentagon

    It was only a matter of time before Gordon Duff glommed on to prime time crack pot Jesse Ventura and his conspiacy theories. Here’s his 43 minute television program in which he comes out as a 9-11 truther, i watched about ten minutes of it – it was all that I could take of Ventura’s persona. He’s an entertainer, not an investigator;

    Notice that Ventura, in his opening statement, says “I was governor. I was a Navy SEAL….” Ventura wasn’t a SEAL, he was in a Underwater Demolition Team that became a SEAL team after he left the Navy. According to Wikipedia, Ventura served in Vietnam, but that he didn’t earn the Navy’s Combat Action Ribbon, so you really have to wonder why he would use that as one of his life experiences to give him credibility. But then, Duff’s Vietnam’s experience was much the same as Ventura’s.

    Ventura proves, beyond any doubt that no airplane every hit the Pentagon. As the video shows, not even a highly trained airline pilot was capable of the maneuvers claimed. Long before, it had been proven that the 757 was incapable of the task, either the maneuvers or the speed and trajectory. The plane would have come apart, there is no disagreement with this and hasn’t been for some time, yet nothing had been done. Why?

    Um, wouldn’t the Democrats expose the Republican administration if there was real evidence that Dick Cheney fired the missile which hit the Pentagon?

    The real crime here is that Ventura has that scraggly-ass ponytail on the back of his bald head. People still do that? I mean, I know it’s the uniform in VFP, but other people still do it?

    Thanks to TSO for the link.

  • Tears for Brad Manning

    Glen Greenwald writes in Salon that Bradley Manning isn’t very happy with the fruits of his treasonous release of sensitive documents to Wikileaks;

    For reasons that appear completely punitive, he’s being denied many of the most basic attributes of civilized imprisonment, including even a pillow or sheets for his bed (he is not and never has been on suicide watch). For the one hour per day when he is freed from this isolation, he is barred from accessing any news or current events programs. Lt. Villiard protested that the conditions are not “like jail movies where someone gets thrown into the hole,” but confirmed that he is in solitary confinement, entirely alone in his cell except for the one hour per day he is taken out.

    Well, Manning’s discomfort is my pleasure. See, he released that information without a thought of lives and families he destroyed or the damage he’s done to our war effort. For something as simple as being spurned by his lover. And I’m supposed to feel sorry for him – the opposite true. I revel in his discomfort.

    He were released into the general population, given a roomie and mingled with the other inmates, he might get his little ass beat. I’m sure there are criminals locked in the Quantico facility who would want to make a name for themselves.

    No sheet or pillow? Poor guy. My only experience in confinement was when I was jailed for kidnapping in Panama (it’s a long story, suffice it to say that I didn’t do it), my bed was a newspaper on a concrete floor, my pillow was my arm and my sheet was another newspaper. I left my cell once a week for a shower, otherwise I was in the cell 24/7. I was released before my trial, because like I said, I didn’t do it. So I really can’t feel much sympathy for Manning.

    Thanks to BooRadley for the link. And for making my night.

  • 100+ protesters arrested says VFP

    The protesters at the White House yesterday, some of whom were veterans can’t get any respect from the media. The protesters reported that over a hundred “veterans” were arrested yesterday in front of the White House. I put the word “veterans” in parenthesis because the only names I saw of arrestees were names like Daniel Ellsburg, Debra Sweet, and Elaine Brower – none of whom are veterans. But this comes from Ward Reilly;

    Apparently, being a veteran means you can break the law with impunity to these clods. If you look at the video I posted yesterday, you can see they forced their way through barriers erected by the police to protect themselves and the White House, they chained themselves to the White House fence and they through postcards over the White House fence. All illegal.

    So, Ward, veterans fought to keep this a nation of laws, not a nation of lawbreakers. Using protester math, though, there were probably a few dozen arrested and Ward extrapolated that to over a hundred.

    Anyway, there’s no mention of the protests or the arrests in the Times or Post this morning, although the Post mentions that one man was arrested on Capitol Hill for assaulting the Capitol police. But nothing about the smelly hippies.

  • Arrests at White House

    The Geezers For Sitting On Our Hands aren’t wasting any time getting arrested today at the White House. Here’s a video of them crashing through the barriers and chaining themselves to the White House fence;

    Ward Reilly has posted a couple of photos of Daniel Ellsburg getting arrested supposedly for the 80th time on his 80th birthday.

    There’s your future, IVAW.

  • Whistleblowers, Truth Tellers & Peacemakers

    I guess Code Pink is running out of things to protest, so they went to give their fellow traveler, communist Bernie Sanders a hug in his office yesterday and tomorrow they’re going to the AG’s office to tell him to prosecute “real war criminals”
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  • Hippie auditions for Hamas Idol

    Someone sent me this video of some hippies in Oakland protesting American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) at the Marriott.

    As near as I can tell they were auditioning for the Hamas version of American Idol. Randy Jackson is sending them to Gaza with a golden ticket. Dog.

  • IVAW in your school

    Their tentacles are extending. That’s Iraq Veterans Against the War member Hart Viges representing a Texas organization called Sustainable Options for Youths, a rather benign title for another anti-recruiter organization. I’d rather see Hart, a combat veteran, in classrooms rather than others we’ve seen. But since the theme was International Human Rights Day, I wonder how much time he spent discussing human rights under the Taliban, Saddam Hussein, or even Castro. Just wondering.

    In regards to the bit I wrote last week about teachers’ reactions to World Can’t Wait’s “We Are Not Your Soldiers” program, some of you called the schools and got angry replies from administrators, but you’ll also notice that the videos have been taken down. Someone told me that the whole organization’s channel has been taken down. So I guess you evil repuglicans are having an effect. Most importantly, you’ve’ve proven that “We’re Not Your Soldiers” can’t withstand a little scrutiny.

    One of you who called told me that one of those teachers, David Strausbaugh, the teacher at Worthington Kilbourne High School Columbus, OH, teaches something called “Radical Politics”. His students can’t speak or write in sentences of more than three words, but he’s wasting the taxpayers’ money by teaching something that doesn’t even exist at most colleges. I hope he chokes on his Noam Chomsky primer.