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Category: I hate hippies

  • Hippies upset that FBI won’t let them support terrorists

    The Washington Post has an article today in which “peace activists” are upset that the FBI has raided their little coven of traitors and political whores tied, however loosely, to the White House;

    The apparent targets are concentrated in the Midwest, including Chicagoans who crossed paths with Obama when he was a young state senator and some who have been active in labor unions that supported his political rise.

    Investigators, according to search warrants, documents and interviews, are examining possible “material support” for Colombian and Palestinian groups designated by the U.S. government as terrorists.

    So who is surprised that Obama cavorted with “peace activists” who “materially supported” FARC and Palestinian groups?

    Several activists and their lawyers said they believe indictments could come anytime, so they have turned their organizing skills toward a counteroffensive, decrying the inquiry as a threat to their First Amendment rights.

    Yeah, ending their support for terrorists violates their freedom of speech.

    And who buys this shit;

    The agents seemed keenly interested in Weiner’s home-based business, the Revolutionary Lemonade Stand, which sells silkscreened infant bodysuits and other clothes with socialist slogans, phrases like “Help Wanted: Revolutionaries.”

    Peace activists who sell revolution on toddlers’ body suits? What’s next? Doctor Dentons with a bomb sewed into it?

  • Spotting phonies is easy if you try

    So I was tooling around the internet today and stumbled on this blog entitled “Left Coast Voices” by clicking on a link about how this lone hippie on the West Coast happened to come upon a former soldier in his local coffee haunt. The soldier happened to have a sticker on his laptop that read “Veteran Against Iraq War” so this particular hippie ventured to start a conversation with the soldier.

    Of course, the soldier wanted to make sure that the hippie wasn’t an undercover government agent – you the kinds that are trolling coffee haunts for disgruntled former soldiers – there are millions of them out there, ya know. Because no veterans are allowed to speak out against the government.

    That’s what made me suspicious of this particular tale told by an idiot.

    But what solidified my doubts were these two lines;

    I asked him if all Iraqis that he met felt this way [didn’t want US forces in Iraq] and he replied no. There are many who see teh [sic] US army as teh [sic] only things standing against the Taliban.

    Yeah, because the Taliban is such a HUGE problem for Iraqis. I’ll bet those Taliban in Iraq are just waiting to get back at regular Iraqis for hanging Saddam Hussein, their leader.

    But, see, it doesn’t matter that this particular soldier made such a HUGE mistake (I mean, anyone who had actually been in Iraq would know there are no Taliban in Iraq, right?), he said things that the jerry Garcia tie wearing toad wanted to hear;

    …the reason the US was so involved in Iraq had to do with oil. He mentioned other countries that are suffering from violence and oppressive regimes to whom we are giving little more than lip service.

    There, see that gives him legitimacy – the war is for oil, and this soldier said it, so he must be the real deal. The same goes for the organization Iraq Veterans Against the War. It doesn’t matter that they’re not really Iraq War veterans, as long as they reinforce what the anti-war creeps want to believe while they wear remnants of some uniform, whether it was their uniform or not…well, that’s all that matters.

  • SPLC back on the right-wing terrorist kick

    The Southern Poverty Law Center is getting back in the Homeland Security Department’s face again about how right wing terrorists are a bigger threat than anyone else;

    The Southern Poverty Law Center this week urged the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to reassess the resources it devotes to investigating non-Islamic domestic extremism. The request came as the SPLC published an interview with a former top DHS analyst who charged that the department effectively dismantled the unit he once headed following the political right’s unjustified criticism of a 2009 report on right-wing terrorism.

    “The department’s work should never be compromised by misguided criticism from any quarter,” SPLC President Richard Cohen wrote in a letter sent this week to DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano.

    Do you mean like criticism from the Southern Poverty Law Center? The same people who called the American Legion a right-wing hate group?

    Daryl Johnson, who headed the DHS unit responsible for analyzing security threats from non-Islamic domestic extremists, was the principal author of the April 7, 2009, report “Right-wing Extremism: Current Economic and Political Climate Fueling Resurgence in Radicalization and Recruitment.”

    The report was intended only for distribution to law enforcement agencies. But after it was leaked to the media, a firestorm erupted among conservative commentators who wrongly claimed it equated conservatives with terrorists. Within days, Napolitano had disowned it.

    Oh, so we weren’t supposed to know about it? Is that the whole problem? Maybe the whole problem was that the report was based almost exclusively on SPLC’s biased research. SPLC…the same people who toss the New Black Panther Party in the mix when they’re adding up the number of new right-wing hate groups.

    Johnson, who was interviewed for the upcoming summer issue of the SPLC’s Intelligence Report, said that following the controversy, the DHS dismantled the intelligence team that studied the threat from right-wing extremists and that the department no longer produces its own analytical reports on that subject. When the 2009 report was written, there were six analysts in the unit, including Johnson. Today, he said, there is one.

    It took six people to cut and paste the SPLC’s report into the headers for the DHS? Then I guess we’re lucky that there’s only one guy now – we saved some money. Looks like Johnson is still cozy with the SPLC;

    “DHS stopped all of our work and instituted restrictive policies,” said Johnson, who has since left the department. “Eventually, they ended up gutting my unit. All of this happened within six to nine months after the furor over the report. Since our report was leaked, DHS has not released a single report of its own on this topic. Not anything dealing with non-Islamic domestic extremism – whether it’s anti-abortion extremists, white supremacists, ‘sovereign citizens,’ eco-terrorists, the whole gamut.”

    Eco-terrorists? Who is he kidding? DHS doesn’t give a furry rat’s ass about ELF or ALF or ATM or whatever they call themselves. And if I’m not mistaken all of the terrorists who’ve been rolled up lately don’t belong to any of those groups. And the fricken Hutarees don’t count. (whatever happened to those guys anyway?)

    “What worries me is the fact that our country is under attack from within, from our own radical citizenry,” Johnson said in the SPLC interview. “My greatest fear is that domestic extremists in this country will somehow become emboldened to the point of carrying out a mass-casualty attack, because they perceive that no one is being vigilant about the threat from within. That is what keeps me up at night.”

    What worries me is that the Homeland Security wienies will take their eyes off the real threat to mollify the left wing pseudo-intellectual nutballs at SPLC.

    head spaz, mark potok gets the laugh line;

    Mark Potok, director of the SPLC’s Intelligence Project, said Johnson’s 2009 report was wrongly maligned and falsely characterized by conservative pundits.

    “The fact is, the DHS report accurately predicted the sort of radical-right terrorism that we’re now seeing across the country,” Potok said. “It’s troubling that the leadership of the Department of Homeland Security would bow to unfounded criticism from the political right.”

    It’s really troubling that the Department of Homeland Security bowed to the SPLC’s unfounded research in the first place.

    Thanks to TSO for the link.

  • No more national anthem at Indiana college

    Indiana has been getting screwier ever since TSO moved there. Goshen College in northern Indiana has decided they won’t play the national anthem at their sporting events because of complaints from students that “the song’s lyrics contain references to using war and military might to defend the country”. Um, “defend” is the operative word here.

    The lyrics were written as one man’s reaction to the “dawn’s early light” which broke over a country which had been the night before under a barrage from an invading nation. I understand the religious freedom which is guaranteed to the Mennonite College, but do they not understand that the guarantee was paid for in blood by men who were willing to sacrifice their own lives for your right to be as a big a pussy as you want to be?

    This country has been under assault to varying degrees it’s entire existence by foreign tyrants from King George to al Qaeda who consider us a threat to their power and influence in the world. That’s why average people flock here in droves while the tyrants of the world demonize us. The ideals upon which this country was founded are worth defending with every measure of our devotion.

    Old Trooper who sent us the link wrote; “The ironic thing is they would all be dead, or slaves, if they tried to pull their crap in many other countries, yet they are free to do as they wish under the blanket of protection provided by those they hate.”

    I was raised a Jehovah’s Witness in the wake of Supreme Court decision in West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette which allowed parents to exempt their children from saying the Pledge of Allegiance in public schools. I always thought it was strange that I couldn’t pledge my allegiance to the country which not only guaranteed my freedom to worship as I pleased, but also guaranteed my right to not pledge my allegiance to that country.

    Kind of like ideological welfare. All of the benefits with none of the sacrifice.

  • Frank Lindh wants his Taliban son back


    The father of John Walker Lindh writes in the New York Times and asks us now that Usama bin Squarepants is in his pineapple under the sea, can he please have his son back;

    ON the evening of May 1, we learned that Osama bin Laden had been killed. The following dawn, I left my house in the Bay Area to catch a bus to Oakland International Airport. I flew to Indianapolis for a scheduled visit with my son, John Walker Lindh, at the federal prison in Terre Haute, Ind.

    I love my son. I enjoy our periodic visits and our weekly telephone calls, but this visit felt different. “If Bin Laden is dead,” I kept thinking, “why can’t John come home?”

    You never really did understand the war against terror did you, Frank? Your son went off and joined up with folks who want to destroy not only our country but the way we lives our lives, what we believe and how we relate to each other. The same people who the rest of us sent our sons to protect us from. Some of our sons will never come home, others are still fiercely locked in combat with your son’s buddies, who, by the way, are still determined to destroy us.

    When we can have all of our sons back, we’ll think about letting you have yours back…but don’t count on it, you selfish, ignorant piece of shit hippie douche-nozzle.

    Thanks to StrikeFO for the link.

  • Stupid hippie tricks

    Daniel sends us a link to some hippie piles-of-shit who want your vote on which billboard they should erect to assault the eyes of DC commuters on I-95;

    I’m happy to see that 224 ignorant assholes have been separated from $14,000 for this worthwhile cause. That’s $14k that won’t get to al Qaeda.

    I’m sure that the billboard will change how America sees the little bone smuggler who had a hissy fit because his boyfriend dumped him and got people killed.

  • Flag burnings at LSU (UPDATED)

    Will sends us links to several articles referring to an unplanned and planned flag burning at Louisiana State university by a dual citizenship student by the name of Isaac Eslava, who by the sounds of it is pleased that his right to free speech is protected in the US, but less so in his other country, Colombia.

    Eslava took down a flag at the University’s war memorial and burned it last week and another student plans to do so once again today in solidarity with the criminal Eslava (Boston Herald link);

    LSU police said a university flag taken from the same pole, a piece of Eslava’s clothing, drug paraphernalia and red and black spray paint were found in a stolen car, and red and black graffiti was sprayed early Monday on apartments north of campus.

    Drug paraphernalia in a stolen car? Whose rights did he violate to express his own?

    From Fox News;

    A student at Louisiana State University reportedly is planning to burn an American flag on campus Wednesday as part of a peaceful protest, the student newspaper reports.

    LSU’s student government president Cody Wells told The Daily Reveille that he and others plan to hold their own counter ceremony an hour after the protest, saying the Pledge of Allegiance and singing the national anthem.

    From a Baton Rouge newspaper;

    Benjamin Haas, communication studies graduate student, will burn an American flag tomorrow at noon on the Parade Ground as part of a peaceful protest, according to Cody Wells, Student Government president.

    Wells said Haas is exercising his First Amendment right to burn the flag.

    Just because you have a right, doesn’t make it proper to exercise it, Junior.

    Isn’t school hard enough that these “students” don’t have more important things to do?

    Crossposted at The Burn Pit

    UPDATE: A link from Ponsdorf; “He Wimped Out”

    Now we’re hearing that it went down this way – there was a huge crowd full of combative folks. Somebody in the crowd read an e-mail with the news above that Haas decided not to burn the flag. Big cheer went up.

    But then Haas was spotted walking across the parade grounds, and he got rushed by some of the crowd. Water balloons were in full flight. Police were everywhere, and Haas was quickly escorted into a cruiser on Highland Road and spirited away.

    You’ve got to appreciate the tactical skill of the crowd.

  • Matthis in your school talking to your kids (Video updated)

    This is from a session Matthis had with high school students in Brattleboro Union High School in Brattleboro, Vermont [(802) 257-7335 131 Fairground Rd, Brattleboro, VT];

    Elaine Brower changed the settings on the original video so we couldn’t watch it, but, thanks to NotSoOldMarine who sent me a copy of the video, I put it back on YouTube and updated the description;

    Notice that he’s still allowing people to call him an “Afghanistan veteran” without correcting them. I wonder what parents would say if they knew a drug-addled, admitted rapist was in their schools trying to influence their children.