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Category: Antiwar crowd

  • IVAW is cookin’ up stuff for Fort Hood

    Several people have sent me screen shots and text from several places on the internet about IVAW and Under the Hood Cafe and their plans for a protest this weekend at Fort Hood. This is from an IVAW newsletter;

    That caught my eye because out of a supposed number of 1700 members, they were bragging about “over 20 members” they had on a conference call. That’s pretty weak numbers, guys. That’s 1.1% of your membership. Losing your cachet?

    Of course, the Maoist-founded World Can’t Wait is in on the act, too;

    They’re so confused, they call the 3rd ACR, the 3rd Battalion. There aren’t any line battalions in an Armored Cavalry Regiment. I’m no Cav guy, but I’m pretty sure line battalions are called squadrons. But what do you expect of people who can’t take the time to understand the issue they’re protesting – they’re certainly not going to take the time to get to know the people they’re ostensibly protecting, are they?

    This last bit was lifted from matthis’ Facebook page;

    Attention Activists:

    There are only a few days left before actions kick off at Fort Hood Aug. 22 opposing the deployment of the 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment to Iraq.

    We will be engaging in radical direct action of which optional elements may risk minor legal ramifications. This is a multi-faceted action with various degrees of potential risk, and individuals unable to take on such risks are as needed as those who are. However, we have never won anything without sacrifice. We have never influenced our government by behaving submissively.

    Only weeks after announcing the 2nd “end” of combat operations in Iraq, the U.S. is preparing to deploy a combat unit to Iraq yet again. We know their claims are a semantics game; a rebranding of the same old bloody occupation. This time, however, we say “No More!”

    Thus far, all of our cleverly worded signs and chants have unsurprisingly failed to halt the biggest war machine in history. It is long past time we move beyond protest to resistance. We now ask not only for your signs and banners but for your bodies and your raised fists. Please stand with us at Fort Hood as we engage in direct action to jam the gears of the US Empire’s War Machine.

    There will be a final organizing meeting the evening of Saturday, August 21st at 8pm in the Killeen, Texas, area. Following this meeting, all participants will need to remain in the area for the next 24 hours. Contact forthooddisobeys@hushmail.com with your name, a brief bio and the degree to which you are interested in participating for more information and to learn the location of the meeting. Lodging can be provided on a first come, first serve basis. Contact us now to RSVP.

    This struggle must be waged here in our military community. Marches in Washington and New York can only do so much. Our Soldiers must see us in THEIR streets waging just struggle in the defense of human life. Only then will they find the courage to disobey Fort Hood.

    In Struggle,

    The Disobedient

    The “disobedient” child-followers of the Matthis crowd (mob) are hoping to get arrested. Of course, they’re going to continue to break laws and push the edge of the envelope because no one ever punishes them. How many times have IVAW members been arrested and the prosecutors drop charges? Countless. Of course, now they’re in Texas, and in a military town – things might be a bit different.

    Here’s a hint for those IVAW members who sending their bios to the “hush mail” account…it’s not as secure as you think it is…but, hey, you know more than I know. Go ahead. I’m just an old, ignorant war monger who spreads propaganda and rumors about IVAW. So knock yourself out.

    This has Seth Manzel’s fingerprints all over it – he led the protests in Washington State trying to block the deployment of the Stryker Brigade there. That didn’t work either. But, hey, you guys go ahead and get yourselves arrested for yet another hare-brained scheme of Matthis and Bobby Whittenberg. Of course, their lives are over – they’re the Bill Perry and Ward Reilly of their generation. Go ahead and throw in with them and see where it gets you.

  • Levin assaulted with pastry

    Democrats discover that the Far Left credits them with the war (mLive link);

    A woman identified as an anti-war protester hit U.S. Sen. Carl Levin in the face with an apple pie during the Armed Services Committee chairman’s meeting with constituents in northern Michigan, authorities said Monday.

    The senator took a question near the end of the Monday morning meeting in Big Rapids from a man who said he was a student, Levin’s office said in a news release. The man read a long statement, then [Ahlam M. Mohsen] came up and hit Levin with a pie.

    So I guess Democrats can blame Bush all they want, but since they’ve owned Congress for nearly four years and the White House for a year-and-a-half, they now own the war as well. They also own Katrina, illegal immigration, the economy and everything else. And because the president and Harry Reid want to weigh on the NYC mosque, they own that, too.

  • Ann Wright arms our enemies

    The hard Left doesn’t admit that they arm our enemies with propaganda demonstrations. One of our readers, TD, sent me a series of videos and links of Ann Wright (I wrote about Wright a few months ago). Here are some of the stuff TD sent. Wright recruits for the next Gaza flotilla;

    Wright tells us how scary it was for her to be on a ship in the last flotilla, even though she wasn’t on the boat that was raided by Israeli commandos;

    Yesterday, CNN reported that Ayman al-Zawahiri, reportedly al Qaeda’s #2 man, spoke out to Muslim Turks on the subject of the Gaza flotilla;

    In an audio message released Sunday, a speaker identified as al Qaeda’s second-in-command offers condolences to the Turkish people on the loss of nine activists in a May 31 Israeli raid on an aid flotilla headed for Gaza.

    The incident badly frayed Israel’s once-close relationship with Turkey. The speaker, who was identified as Ayman al-Zawahiri, said in the message the incident underscores the need for Turkey to stop cooperating with or recognizing Israel.

    Of course, that’s the intention of Wright and the organizations to which she belongs. Ann Wright, a former Army colonel and member of Code Pink, Vets for Freedom Peace, Iraq veterans Against the War, World Can’t Wait and who knows how many other organizations which are tied to the Maoist ANSWER and the Revolutionary Communist Party, has no problem providing our enemies with propaganda moments. In fact they see it as their duty to arm our enemies and destroy our fragile coalition.

  • A Department of Peace?

    This all started a few days ago on Facebook. I posted in reply to this video about General Petraeus. It got started with this comment.

    “The general wants more war. Gee whiz.” …which underlines the need for civilian CONTROL of the military, not handing control over to those who want more war, the way the previous, corrupt, criminal mis-administration did (and this administration is doing now)!

    Civilian control? You mean like it is now with the President in charge? What more were you really expecting? In which I got my answer.

    …When there is a Secretary of Peace advising the President at NSA briefings, I would think the civilian control is adequate to balance a Department that funnels billions of dollars to the war industry, which funnels enough of it to Congress to keep it in the war business.

    You mean the department of the Federal Government and Congress? The ones that approve all of the military’s budget? Also before you just view this as a joke there have been several attempts for a bill that would create such a position. It has been submitted in 2005, 2007 and 2009. All as of this posting date have not gotten past Committee. The sponsor of the bill, Rep. Dennis Kucinich has not made any noticeable changes to the bill each time he has submitted it.

    Here is the full Bill, and from what I have read so far most of it if not all is based on the assumption that this will be enforceable outside of conventional methods. But that is not stopping people from trying to raise support for this bill once again.

  • Turning up the heat

    Under the Hood’s den of pirates is cranking up the heat on the Army’s 3rd Armored Cavarly Regiment at Fort Hood by calling nationwide for participants in their protest against the 3rd ACR’s deployment on the 22nd;



    Of course, using the image of soldiers loading on aircraft with missing limbs and wrapped in straitjackets by calling for a halt to deploying “wounded soldiers” is just ridiculous. What use would there be to send crippled and incapable soldiers to a war? It makes no sense.

    I’d like Bobby or Cindy or some other member of the UtH’s Brady Bunch to give me the names and “wounds” of some soldiers who are being forced to deploy with the 3rd ACR.

  • IVAW wants to prosecute Bush Administration

    Taking up the clarion call from Geezers for Sitting on Our Hands (VFP), the Iraq Veterans Against the War, announced that they voted last month to pursue the Bush Administration for their prosecution of the Iraq War. So let’s look at their statement for their justification (Here’s the link, but you’ll have to paste it into your browser because IVAW doesn’t allow traffic from TAH http://www.ivaw.org/node/6087).

    They claim that Bush violated the Constitution by not getting the authorization from Congress.

    Article 1, Section 8 of the U.S. Constitution vests the power to authorize use of military force in the Legislative Branch, not the Executive.

    That’s funny because the October 16, 2002 Joint Resolution to authorize the use of United States Armed Forces against Iraq of the 107th Congress (it’s right there in the name) in section 3, paragraph (a) states;

    Authorization.–The President is authorized to use the Armed Forces of the United States as he determines to be necessary and appropriate in order to– (1) defend the national security of the United States against the continuing threat posed by Iraq; and (2) enforce all relevant United Nations Security Council resolutions regarding Iraq.

    If you’ll remember, Democrats controlled the Senate in October 2002 and it still passed.

    By the way, have you guys ever heard of the War Powers Act of 1973? It says;

    In the absence of a declaration of war, in any case in which United States Armed Forces are introduced– […]

    The President shall provide such other information as the Congress may request in the fulfillment of its constitutional responsibilities with respect to committing the Nation to war and to the use of United States Armed Forces abroad.

    So you see, there’s no requirement to get a declaration of war from Congress to engage troops in combat.

    IVAW also alleges that there was no “imminent threat” from Iraq. Do you mean aside from shooting at our aircraft patrolling the skies over the No-Fly Zone while our aircraft enforced the UN-mandate? Like the three times in ten years that the Iraq Army drove their armored divisions to the Kuwait border and rattled sabers – causing us to deploy troops back to Kuwait?

    Or this;

    And why limit the prosecution to just the Bush administration? The Clinton Administration called Hussein an imminent threat on December 18, 1998;

    Earlier today, I ordered America’s armed forces to strike military and security targets in Iraq. … Their mission is to attack Iraq’s nuclear, chemical and biological weapons programs and its military capacity to threaten its neighbors. … Saddam Hussein must not be allowed to threaten his neighbors or the world with nuclear arms, poison gas or biological weapons.

    The IVAW also writes;

    IVAW further alleges that the Bush administration’s alterations to Iraqi laws were made for the intended benefit of U.S. multinational corporations and are illegal under international law.

    What has the Obama Administration done to correct the supposed changing of Iraqi laws?

    IVAW is just clinging to the last shred of their relevance while trying to avoid pissing off the Democrats.

    It is time for America to hold the officials responsible for this war to account for their decisions.

    Why just the Republican officials?

  • Under the Hood plots harassment of 3rd ACR command

    This appeared on Facebook this weekend. The contention of Under the Hood is that by harassing the command structure of the 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment, they can prevent the Regiment from deploying soldiers they think are “wounded”.

    They go on to list a number of commanders – I won’t do that.

    But, I figure if they think that calling Fort Hood will have any effect, we can prevent them from harassing Fort Hood soldiers (what commander answers his own phone?) by beginning a campaign to harass Under the Hood. Here’s their phone number; (254) 449-8811. Break out your cell phone and start dialing. What’s good for the goose is good for the gander.

  • Code Pink at Quantico

    Well, as you probably know, Code Pink and their assembled freaks from the FAR LEFT were at Quantico yesterday to show their support and beg for the release of Wiki-traitor Bradley Manning. CNN quoted some the hippies;

    “We are here to say that if he, indeed, was the whistle-blower, then we are proud of him,” said Medea Benjamin, founder of anti-war group Code Pink. “In the United States that I know and love, transparency is a positive thing.”

    Yeah, except medea has never known or loved the United States. She just mouths the words to sound main stream.

    Uncle Jimbo was there, too;

    “If Bradley Manning is the one that leaked these documents, he has already put his fellow soldiers at risk,” said Jim Hanson, who writes for the pro-military website BlackFive.

    “I think the military and the government have some things that should be kept secret. The public knows that … There is no ‘right to know’ secret information.”

    Jimbo put one picture of Concrete Bob on Blackfive. One picture. Geez.

    Luckily CNN has video starring Jim and Medea, if you can stand the contrast;

    Jim says they had less than a hundred potesters and several dozen counter-protesters. For all of the press that the protesters had, that was pretty shabby participation. I’ve seen the Left show up with half-again as many on short notice for more ridiculous events. I guess it’s hard to even find people on the Far Left to show support for a traitor on a sunny Sunday afternoon outside of DC.

    ADDED: Someone forarded me this video from Code Pink of the events yesterday. make sure you digest your breakfast before you watch;