That giant urine-hoarding freak Geof “Stolen Valor” Millard is hosting a “Demilitarized Superbowl Party at the DC IVAW house on Super Sunday, I guess it’s for people who really don’t like football and don’t have any real friends;
I’m not a big sports guy (after high school and spending half of my military career overseas) but this David Zirin (who apparently writes for The Nation) doesn’t seem like a typical sports journalist. He’s a little flamboyant. But, hey if you’re up for a demilitarized Super Bowl party – I guess this would be the best one to go to.
Just make sure that’s a beer you grab from the fridge and not some of Adam Kokesh’s leftover uranium-tainted urine.
Someone sent me this video of a protest at one of General Petraeus’ speeches. Apparently the only people they can get to go to these protests anymore are nursing home refugees. Most don’t even look like they know where they are, but that lends itself to type of protest – they merely stand and turn their backs on the speaker. No real skill involved.
I expected one of them to start shaking their fist at Petraeus and shout “You young whipper-snapper! Get out of my flower bed!”
Ever wonder how you can call yourself brave without having to identify yourself? Well, James Branum, lawyer to more imprisoned soldiers than anyone else would be proud to represent, has it all figured out. He puts a prospective client on YouTube wrapped up in some really snazzy duds;
Of course, Branum begins the video with a commercial for more money. Probably because he’s run out of people from whom he can leach. This particular person (I won’t call him a soldier because he’s not brave enough to identify himself, so we don’t know if he’s really a soldier or not) tell us that he just returned from Iraq and he’s filing for conscientious objector and a medical discharge.
Here’s some unsolicited advice; If you just returned, apply for CO status now – you don’t even need Branum. You have lots of time to get it approved (if you’re really a CO) so you don’t have to go AWOL the day of the deployment and get tossed in jail like Travis Bishop.
He claims he’s anonymous to avoid retribution – well, if you don’t tell anyone who you are, how are you going to file for CO status? That’s just ridiculous – who is going to attack him? Me? It sounds like Branum is using the Matthew Alexander technique to hide something.
The veil represents all of those soldiers who have come to the realization that our current wars and all future wars aren’t worth human life. The veil covers his conscience. WTF? The veil represents his fear…period. He claims that he speaks for “many” soldiers. So I guess he thinks he’s the only one smart enough and brave enough to hire James Branum to screw up his young life.
The rest of the diatribe of this fellow basically calls the troops racists and murderers – well, not the troops specifically but he blames “the Army” who makes us racist and blood thirsty killer. He says he’d return to Iraq “to make [Iraqis] lives better” – looks to me like we’ve done that and there’s very little fighting going on in Iraq now. So what is he opposed to about our mission there now? Since we don’t know who he is and what unit he “recently” served with, we don’t even know what he’s talking about, do we?
Branum is also using this fellow for raising funds on Facebook, and says the guy is an active duty Iraq Veterans Against the War. More than likely in Fort Hood and a member of the coven of Coffee Strong Under the Hood. The word is that Coffee Strong Under the Hood, and their mentor Cindy Richardson Thomas has swung over completely into the activism camp and their concern for soldiers is over shadowed by the anti-war aspect.
Thanks to Casey Porter for the links. He wanted to write this post, but I couldn’t resist since Branum is so eager to use this as a fund raiser and is so set on screwing this guy to the wall (if he’s a real vet).
My buddy, Bev Perlson, sent this video this morning. Fox News’ Judge Napolitano interviews Adam Kokesh as if Kokesh is just another guy off the street running for office without mentioning that Kokesh was/is a member of IVAW;
If Napolitano had done his research, he’d know that his endorsement of Kokesh’s candidacy is fairly misplaced. Kokesh was busted by the Marine Corps for smuggling an Iraqi pistol back to the States – does that sound like someone we need in Congress? He misrepresented his character of service and continued to call himself something he’s not – and oh, he bullied bloggers.
Is that who Napolitano is endorsing? A chameleon who changes his politics with the direction of the political wind? While the anti-war movement was deteriorating, Kokesh changed horses in midstream to become Paulian and now he’s a Republican candidate in New Mexico. Last March, Kokesh was marching with communists, anarchists and socialists in the ANSWER march on the Pentagon. Today he’s instructing us on his commitment to the Constitution on FOX NEWS as a REPUBLICAN candidate. In just ten months.
I don’t know how Napolitano can call Kokesh a “Constitutional candidate” when IVAW encourages servicemembers to violate their oath to the Constitution.
While Anthony Camerino and some guy who looks like Michael Scott from “The Office” were in the office of Bob Filner the other day trying to get Guantanamo Bay detainee facility shut down, look what the Obama Administration announced according to the New York Times;
The Obama administration has decided to continue to imprison without trials nearly 50 detainees at the Guantánamo Bay military prison in Cuba because a high-level task force has concluded that they are too difficult to prosecute but too dangerous to release, an administration official said on Thursday.
However, the administration has decided that nearly 40 other detainees should be prosecuted for terrorism or related war crimes. And the remaining prisoners, about 110 men, should be repatriated or transferred to other countries for possible release, the official said, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak about the numbers.
So where are the mobs in the street vocally condemning the president for continuing the Bush policy of holding criminals without trials? The only people concerned about it are leftovers from the last decade who don’t know anything else. Do you honestly think that this administration would do something that really that unpopular? Where are the active duty troops that are worried they’re going to be killed by new recruits who fill the ranks of the Taliban and al Qaeda because of the continued operations at Guantanamo?
Of course, Air Force Major (promotable) Anthony Camerino still clings to the atrocities of Guantanamo – that’s his only claim to fame. He’s stuck in the aughts. So is Soltz and his crowd – they have to stay in business and raise money without pissing off their MoveOn masters in regards to their President. Anything they can do to keep Bush Derangement Syndrome on life support helps them.
But on my last foray to VoteVets, they had the guts to call me a “troll with a political agenda”. And the Bush detainee program is beginning to look like the only viable solution to a complicated problem. Camerino and Soltz are just wrong.
I’ve gone on about a guy who pretends to be someone called Matthew Alexander, that guy who spent three months in Iraq interrogating some pretty dangerous guys and doing a good job of it. However he came back to the States, wrote a book and got himself a job with the ACLU and with the Soros Foundation. Ever since, he’s parlayed that three months into an incessant bleating about closing Guantanamo. This week, he’s going to be in DC like the drama queen he is, pleading for the closing of Guantanamo. For what? For his cheesy little ego.
I ran across this video at Vote Vets in which some other cheesy hippie tries to tell us that Alexander has been there and has all of this life threatening experience;
Yeah, well, I’m sick of it all. His name isn’t Matthew Alexander, it’s Anthony Matthew Camerino, he’s an Air Force OSI Major scheduled for promotion to Lieutenant Colonel in June. He has no friends other than his new ones at the Soros Foundation and the ACLU. At this point, I really don’t care about his useless life because he damn sure doesn’t care about mine or my family if he’s going to beat this incessant tattoo about Guantanamo…so fuck him.
Camerino has never been to Guantanamo – so what does he know?
I’d like to thank Keith Olbermann for leading me to his real name.
By the way, you Army OSIs should know that he’s scheduled to augment you guys this year. Duct tape your anuses shut.
Former Bush speechwriter Marc Thiessen sent me this YouTube video of his interview on Chritiane Amanpour’s show yesterday (the confrontation begins at about 5:48);
The Far Left have a protest planned for tomorrow in front of the White House and of course they think they’re way more important and influential than they really are. So important that this doofus decided to warn the others that the dark forces of the evil government (that they put in office a year ago) will be preying upon them during the protest;
Attacking the Peacemakers
As activists mobilize for Peace of the Action, corporate media and pro-war progressives will be mounting attacks on the peacemakers. Led by Cindy Sheehan (a gold star mother), Veterans for Peace, Military Families Speak Out, Iraq Veterans Against War, and other opponents of U.S. imperial adventures, the media will draw on psychological warfare resources at the Pentagon and elsewhere to discredit and undermine the revitalized peace movement.
Homeland Security phone-tapping, e-mail hacking, and peace group infiltration is a key part of the federal government’s repertoire in keeping democracy down. We expect no less from the current White House.
The fact that the peace movement is led by the veterans and military families betrayed by Bush and Obama makes the current conflict more challenging for the secret agencies used to spy on American citizens, but not impossible. As we saw during the Vietnam War, when they can’t take you on directly, they resort to covert ops, using devious means to destroy movement morale by influencing the perceptions of employers, landlords, families, and allies. They will do this again.
It was so important that the hippies be made aware of this potential threat to their personal freedoms, the doofus posted it two more times on different blogs. I remember during the September 2007 protest, the hippies reported seeing tiny mosquitoes with cameras strapped to them flying among the protesters – as if the CIA recognize each and every smelly hippie by sight.
I guess regular marijuana use does make you paranoid.
