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Category: Antiwar crowd

  • VFP: Gravity causes enlistments

    A local chapter of Geezers for Sitting on Our Hands in Wisconsin has their panties balled up over a planned parachuting demonstration at high school pep rally conducted by Army parachutists;

    VFP member Buzz Davis of Stoughton said, “Schools are required by federal law to allow military recruiters recruit in the schools. But this is going too far. The parachute drop Wednesday is designed to impress students with soldiers’ braveness and toughness. It is unfair that the students, who believe we should work harder to create peace than we do to fight wars, will be forced to sit through a pro-military display of power designed to encourage youth to join the military. Citizens should call the school district and demand the jump be canceled.”

    It’s great that VFP doesn’t give students or their parents credit for being halfway smart or able to make their own decisions based on commonly accesible information. It’s not like recruiters are going to be rounding up students from the bleachers and shipping them off to Afghanistan straight from the pep rally.

    I just wish the media would scrap it’s pracice of calling the Geezers For Sitting On Our Hands “Veterans” like they’re someone rational we should pay attention to – like real people.

  • IVAW board member Kindlinger on the skids

    So, I got some intel last night that IVAW Board member Michael “Trey” Kindlinger is one of those homeless veterans you’re always reading about. He was complaining that it’ll cost him money to get a copy of his teacher credentials so he can’t get a job. Of course, being a member of the International Socialist Organization, he blames capitalism for his woes. Kindlinger.

    You may remember Kindlinger was one of those IVAW members who has never been to Iraq. He was a nine year veteran of the Navy who suddenly had an attack of conscience, applied for CO status and was discharged. All the while his wife stayed on active duty, though.

    It gets worse, though. Now that he’s without a job and living in a shelter (probably with his wife and kids) the people who run the shelter assault him with terrible gospel music. Kindlinger is supposedly a born-again Christian and got out of the Navy for religious reasons, but somehow the gospel music offends him. I wonder how he balances the ISO with the church since the two seem at odds with each other.

    Kindlinger is broke now, but last August he had enough money to go to Fort Hood from his home in Maryland to protest the imprisonment of Travis Bishop in Fort Hood, Texas. here he’s interviewed by our favorite lawyer, James Branum;

    It looks to me that “Trey” is just a run of the mill bonehead who lets his dumbassery make his life hard. And it’s all capitalism’s fault.

  • Kokesh loses primary bid

    Several months ago, Adam Kokesh, IVAW icon, lost a pre-primary bid for the New Mexico 3rd Congressional district’s Republican spot on the ballot in November with only 19.5% of the vote. Since he needed 20% of the vote to appear on yesterday’s primary ballot, he contested the New Mexico law to get his spot. Republicans conceded to the cry-baby and allowed on the primary ballot.

    Well, predictably, he lost yesterday according to the Farmington Daily Times;

    San Juan County petroleum engineer Tom Mullins defeated Santa Fe war veteran Adam Kokesh in the Republican primary battle for the U.S. House.

    Mullins will face incumbent U.S. Rep. Ben Ray Luján, unopposed in the Democratic primary, in the Nov. 2 general election.

    San Juan County voters overwhelmingly chose Mullins, who received more than 80 percent of the vote with 96 percent of precincts reporting in San Juan County.

    Funny how this primary has the same results as the last pre-primary. Of course, being the gracious guy he is, Kokesh blamed an out of touch Republican Party, typical reaction from the Ron Paul candidate;

    “It was clear that he had the leadership of the party behind him,” Kokesh said. “The Republican Party, the leadership is out of touch with it’s own base. Our own leadership in our party is corrupt.”

    Is the party’s leadership 80% of the Republicans in the 3rd district? Of, course, John Kerry lost his first Congressional bid, too. So Kokesh bears watching over the years.

  • Jesse MacBeth leads the New World Order

    Jesse MacBeth sent us this link to a BlogTalkRadio link to an interview with some serious doofus who calls himself “Rev J”. Now Rev J must’ve been living under a rock for the past five years because he brought MacBeth on his show to talk about MacBeth’s service and his views on the Iraq War. I listened to the 45 minute broadcast, so you don’t have to;
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  • Rethink Afghanistan really needs to get a clue.

    I mean ever since I found out about the group from Derrick Crowe I have disagreed with most everything that they have put out. But more and more the statements seem to be more about wanting money for their own projects rather then any concern for Afghanistan. (Also I do not know why DC still is a member the IVAW on Facebook with links to “notyourSolider” on his Word Press page”)

    But stories like these really show where the priorities are for these groups.

    A trillion dollars is a baffling amount of money. If you write it out, use twelve zeros. Even after serving in Congress for over a decade, I, like most Americans, still have a hard time wrapping my head around sums like this. (Yet the Stimulus Bill was passed this year and she does not seemed as phased by it)

    This month, we mark the seventh anniversary of President Bush’s declaration of “mission accomplished” in Iraq, yet five American soldiers have been killed there in May alone. Iraqis went to the polls nearly three months ago, but the political system remains so fractured that no party has been able to piece together a coalition. There are some indications that sectarian violence is again on the rise.

    Or another one with the same theme.

    What could we have purchased with this $1 trillion? Today, we might be enjoying the fruits of a green economy, spurred by New Deal-like investments in wind and solar. Perhaps we would have created a single-payer health care system and used this $1 trillion to provide health security to every man, woman, and child in the United States for an entire year. Or, we might have made the smart investments in our domestic law enforcement capabilities and homeland security apparatus to provide true protection from Al Qaeda and others who would wish us harm. Sadly, we’ll never know, because our political leadership never explored alternative means of achieving peace, such as emphasizing rigorous regional diplomacy, and instead overextended our military forces abroad.

    If sacrificing progress at home wasn’t bad enough, it is now clear that the injection of our troops into a 35 year civil war is actually fueling the insurgency in Afghanistan and further destabilizing the region.

    Because in all of it it comes down not on if our efforts are helping, not on what will happen to the population when we leave, but how “cost effective” it is. I mean it is really all about the money.

    I know that I will still have disagreements on what should be done with DC and Our Journey to Smile who is working over there right now. But at least they seem to care about the Afghanistan people there. But these are the people that are going to be left high and dry to the Taliban. That is one of the reasons that I stopped watching OJS videos of the people of Afghanistan because I have a bad feeling that these people are going the be killed or worse.

    In the end if we leave this issue unfinished we will be dealing with it again in twenty years from now. Oh and the reason we will have lost it because “We” did not care because they were brown people.

  • Matthis: I’m less of a man

    This is a video of the talk that Matthis is giving to our school-age children as part of his anti-recruiting efforts entitled “We Are Not Your Children”. As I demonstrated yesterday, Matthis never deployed to war, but in this video (at about 2:15) the video introduces him as an “Iraq War Veteran” – you may want to remove sharp objects from your reach as you watch this;

    The purpose of this whole (long-winded) speech is to convince Americans to stop supporting Matthis’ “brothers and sisters” in the military. He claims he’s less of a man because of what the military took from him – he’s less of a man because he continues to lie about his service.

    There are rumors I’ve heard that there are a few members of IVAW who plan to leave the organization because of this video, so watch the video while you still can – the leadership of IVAW tends to cover up their missteps than deal with them.

  • Filthy Hippie Hands Across the Generations in Canada

    TSO found this article in USAToday that highlights how two generations of cowards in Canada found a reason to sing Kumbayah together;

    Deportation, court martial and prison are imminent threats to Hart and about 200 other U.S. troops seeking sanctuary in Canada. Despite being members of an all-voluntary military, some oppose the war in Iraq so strongly they are willing to leave their country behind — much like Americans of an earlier generation who crossed the border in the 1960s and ’70s to avoid serving in Vietnam and built new lives here.

    Some of the draft dodgers and deserters of the Vietnam era, most of them now graying Canadian citizens, are helping the young deserters fight legal battles and find work and housing.

    Of course, that 200 number, like every other number the Left likes to repeat is only an estimate jerked out of someone’s ass during the Bush years and remains a part of their myths. Some of the filthy hippies remain there despite the fact that Jimmy Carter gave them all amnesty as his first official act of his presidency – the day after his inauguration.

    Charlie Diamond was 23 when he fled to Canada from Connecticut in 1968 to avoid going to Vietnam. By then, the war was unpopular in both countries. Americans were marching in the streets in protest and young men were burning their draft cards.

    Now 64 and a Canadian, he is reciprocating for the welcome he found here.

    “I want my country once again to be a refuge from militarism,” says Diamond, who has joined others who refused to fight in Vietnam — they prefer the term “resisters” — in the War Resisters Support Campaign.

    I prefer the term “goat raping coward” for them myself. Every time the conservative government denies permission for the goat raping cowards to stay, the courts block deportation. You’d think that Canadian tax payers would be tired of supporting the absolute ritards we’ve inflicted on them.

    Like Corey Glass – the last we heard, the Army says they’re not looking for him, yet he keeps applying for refugee status. Or Kimberly Rivera, the welfare queen who joined the Army, spent her enlistment bonus on a leather couch and then absconded to Canada with her lazy husband and a litter of kids – and then started procreating on Canada’s dime. Or the literature-ati of the Iraq war generation Joshua Keys, the guy TSO eviscerated several months ago.

    Oh, and don’t forget Bethany Smith/Skyler James whose main complaint is that the Army DIDN’T boot her for Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell when her number was up to deploy.

    You just can’t make this shit up. Hey, it’s your money, Canada.

    Some guy named MOTHAX at the Burn Pit does a better job with the stars of the article.

  • Matthis plays combat veteran again

    Someone sent me this link to the Times Herald Record yesterday about the protest that happened outside of West Point while the President was speaking yesterday. Apparently Matthis was there spreading his usual bullshit;

    Matthis Chiroux of Brooklyn said he agreed to enter the Army as an alternate sentence after “being busted selling mushrooms in Alabama,” but now regrets that choice.

    “I messed up,” he told a crowd of about 90 to 100. “I committed a crime when I went to Afghanistan.”

    Which crime would that be, Matthis? Did you take two scoops of sprinkles from the ice cream bar at the DFac?

    The truth is that according to the Army, Matthis was never stationed in Afghanistan;
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