This ain't Hell, but you can see it from here

Category: I hate hippies

  • I agree. Let them stay.

    Those Canadians hippies are sticking their noses in our business again. They think that US deserters who have absconded to Canada should be allowed to remain there;

    On Thursday, Nov. 18, people from both sides of the border met at the Guild Hall to form the War Resisters Support Campaign of Niagara, Ontario. Joining concerned local residents were members from the Toronto-based War Resisters Support Campaign, including war resister Kimberly Rivera, as well as three members of the Buffalo Chapter of Veterans for Peace. We met in the Guild Hall in Port Colborne, Ontario as guests of Anglican Minister Rev. Rob Hurkmans, who, along with Fort Erie minister Rev. Mark Gladding, has been offering help to Iraq resister Jeremy Brockway and his family, now residents of Port Colborne.

    I agree, let them stay. They’ve been bad US citizens, let them live in Canada for the rest of their lives and do nothing for their new homes, too. Those Canadian hippies want to feel good about themselves and stick their collective finger in the eye of US imperialism, let them support these derelicts and their families. Especially deserters like Kimberly Rivera, the baby machine, Corey Glass who isn’t even wanted by the Army, Joshua Key, who makes up stories about the war, Bethany Smith, the lesbian who complains that the military WON’T boot her for DADT.

    You’re welcome to ’em, Canada. Why would we want to feed and clothe them for their year in prison. Who needs ’em?

  • VFP’s Veterans’ Day battle

    Every year, we get to listen to the Geezers For Sitting On Our Hands (also known in less informed circles as Veterans For Peace) whine about how they can’t get in traditional Veterans’ Day festivities because they’re a political organization. Their defense of course, is that they’re a Veterans’ group not a political organization;

    Over 75 members of Boston area chapters of Veterans for Peace and supporters marched behind the Veterans Day Parade through downtown Boston Thursday. The veterans have tried for years to convince the parade organizer – the American Legion – to allow them to march with signs critical of recent US military interventions while chanting anti-war cadences. Without success. Supreme Court precedent allows private groups that get permits for public events to decide who participates and enforce rules for participation; so the Veterans for Peace and allied organizations once again marched behind the American Legion’s parade rather than not march at all.

    Yeah, it’s horrible that the American Legion gets to choose who is in their parade in Boston, huh? Who even wants to be seen in public with these burned-out relics of days gone by?

    So like the immature little twits they are, the VFP marched behind the American Legion’s parade this year carrying signs to prove that they have no interest in turning the event into a political discussion;

    In Ann Arbor, Michigan, they completely lost sight of the fact that Veterans’ Day is to recognize living veterans while they’re still alive and the VFP chapter there made an “Arlington West” out of rows of crosses. Writes the reporter of the event;

    The memorial was just one of thousands set up across the nation to replicate the crosses at the Arlington National Cemetery.

    Yeah, except there are no crosses at Arlington to replicate. Small detail I know, but proof these pencil-dicked morons don’t know what they’re doing.

    “This is not a protest march in any way, shape or form,” said [Bob Krzewinski of the Michigan chapter].

    I guess that because they keep repeating that phrase, it’s made so.

  • “Veterans” to march against White House for Peace

    A group of anti-war veterans have signed on to march against the White House to demand peace on Thursday, December 16th, probably hoping to avoid counterprotesters who have jobs and can’t show up on a Thursday. They compare themselves to the Bonus Marchers of the last century who marched after World War One for their benefits;

    In the early thirties, WW1 vets descended on Washington, D.C., to demand their promised bonuses, it being the depths of the Depression. General Douglas MacArthur and his sidekick Dwight Eisenhower disregarded President Herbert Hoover’s order and burned their encampment down and drove the vets out of town at bayonet point.

    We are today’s bonus marchers, and we’ve coming to claim our bonus-PEACE.

    Well, here are some of the people who’ve signed on to the above statement and whom we’ve discussed over the past few years.

    Brian Becker, National Coordinator, ANSWER Coalition; as you can imagine, Brian isn’t a veteran, just a Maoist bomb thrower. He runs ANSWER along with his brother also not a veteran.

    Medea Benjamin, Co-Founder, CODEPINK for Peace; yeah, she’s not a veteran either – yet there she is listed with veterans.

    Elaine Brower, Anti-war Military Mom and World Can’t Wait; She’s not a veteran, but her son was deployed to the GWOT three times – voluntarily. She’s fond of calling soldiers “baby killers” and “murderers” but exempts her son from such caricaturization and throws her son’s service in the face of her detractors at every opportunity.

    Scott Camil, Veterans For Peace; Camil was known as Scott the Assassin during the Vietnam War days because it was his idea to assassinate politicians who didn’t oppose that war. He was also one of the Gainesville Eight who plotted to disrupt the 1972 Republican National Convention in Miami by attacking the police, disrupting utilities and firebombing stores. The plot was foiled by the FBI. He was also shot once while trying to sell drugs to the DEA.

    Matthis Chiroux, Iraq War Resister Veteran; What can I say about Matthis you don’t already know. He’s not a veteran of GWOT.

    Bill Perry, Vietnam Veterans Against the War; Bill Perry was one of the original VVAW members who testified at the first Winter Soldier hearings. He admitted to me last year that his testimony at those hearings was “bullshit” to please the hippie chicks and John Kerry.

    Mike Prysner, Co-Founder, March Forward; Mike ran for office in the Party for Socialism and Justice. He ran for the Board of IVAW even though he’d left the organization to form March Forward because IVAW wasn’t radical enough for him.

    Ward Reilly, Veterans For Peace; Ward is a big fake. he walks around in boonie caps and tiger stripe uniforms to give the impression that he’s a Vietnam veteran, but his entire tour in the military was spent in Germany during Vietnam. He wears a Ranger tab on his boonie cap to give the impression that he’s a Ranger even though he’s never been to the school and wouldn’tmake a pimple on a real Ranger’s ass.

    He once questioned me on how I could justify my CIB since I earned it in Desert Storm. He was wearing a Ranger tab at the time. Hypocite.

    Cindy Sheehan, Founder, Peace of the Action; Not a veteran, just an old hag in the final throes of her fame.

    David Swanson, author; Swanson is professional crybaby. He founded AfterDowningStreet which has morphed into an Arrest Bush and Cheney organization. Mostly he whines that the Left isn’t Left enough. He’s not a veteran.

    Debra Sweet, National Director, World Can’t Wait; Sweet is everywhere a lame protest erupts. Lately, she’s taken to following Matthis around NYC-area schools. She’s not a veteran.

    Col. Ann Wright, Veterans For Peace; she famously resigned from the Bush State Department to protest the invasion of Iraq. She’s a liar, when it suits “the cause” and she alternates between Code Pink and Vets For Peace. You can see her service record at the link.

    Doug Zachary, Veterans For Peace; Zachary was booted from the USMC before he could be deployed to Vietnam, but, like Reilly, he plays the part of a Vietnam veteran. Imagine how screwed up you have to be to kicked out of the Marines in 1968. Zachary loots every anti-war cause he can get his grubby paws near.

    There are more signatories, most of whom I don’t recognize by name. I only saw a few IVAW members on the list, but I’m sure they’ll be there.

  • Rag Blog; a memorial to the fallen of the Global War on Terror is a waste of money.

    There were many reasons that I stopped reading the Rag Blog, this is one of them.

    GWOT LOVE

    By Marc Estrin / The Rag Blog / November 14, 2010

    BURLINGTON, Vermont — I hear on the news this Veterans Day that our thankfully exiting governor — cynically known as Governor Scissorhands for all his ribbon cutting — will be dedicating a new memorial to our Vermont dead in Iraq and Afghanistan.

    The “Vermont Global War on Terror Memorial,” planned and funded by the families of “Vermont’s 36 Fallen Global War on Terror Heroes” to the tune of $350,000, is aimed at “marking both the sacrifice of those who served and the heartbreak of the loved ones left behind.”

    A memorial to oneself?

    Yea I mean spending money on something that honors those who have giving everything when you cannot even be bothered to give a damn. But here are a few things from people that do.

    America paused to honor its veterans Thursday. And Vermonters gave a special tribute to its fallen heroes with the unveiling of a new memorial.

    From all across Vermont they came, flooding the entrance to the Randolph Veteran’s Cemetery. They came to honor the 40 Vermonters who have given their lives in the global war on terror.

    Paula Chapin came for her husband. Master Sgt. Chris Chapin was killed in Iraq in 2005.

    “It’s quite beautiful,” Paula Chapin said. “It’s a little overwhelming.”

    Gregory Murano came for his friend and fellow Wilmington Police Officer. Lt. Mark Dooley was also killed in Iraq in 2005.

    “It’s important that we take time to remember all those who have stood up for our country and fought for our country and for what we represent,” Murano said.

    But of course the fringe see it otherwise.

    It is hard to know where to begin reacting to all this. I cringe at the language — bathetic, maudlin, soupy, cloying, schmaltzy, large-P Patriotic — but the sentiments inscribed in this language are more problematical still.

    A guy stopped by at our peace vigil last night and said, “My nephew got back from Iraq and blew his brains out. He couldn’t deal with the stuff he had done — killing civilians and all that.”

    Great huh? I mean it going for broke on those stereotypes. I mean trying to label all Vets as crazy war criminals that are just a trigger pull from committing suicide. Not to mention trying desecrate the dedication of a memorial to the fallen on Veterans Day. Oh and the fact that the person saying this is namless, and impossible to track. Kinda like the story at McDonald’ that a mystery “Danny” that the Rag Blog was trying to push.

    If there was any doubt about this I leave you with this last quote.

    In any case, the language of the Vermont Global War On Terror Memorial is tired, empty, and ever less to any point. It perpetuates a sentimental, obscuring cloud-of-unknowing over the realities we currently face and must radically change.

    ADDED Yea it seems that the guy what was voted off of the Rag Blog island for his behavior has this little gem to add.

    richard jehn said…

    That is a tired (and false) argument. Sadly, the right wing doesn’t care about facts.

    The US is a hegemonic, invasive nation. If all we ever did was defend our own soil, rather than act as the world’s cop, what you say might have some truth to it.

    ADDEDx2 Speaking of not caring about the facts by Dennis Cunningham

    They are not defending our freedoms (such as they are). they are engaged in a gigantic war crime and crime against humanity, “the paramount international crime” under the Nuremburg Laws, and all the people they kill are murder victims. our country has no business putting armies and fighting wars all over the Earth; and you know it’s only for the sake of those who get rich from the way it’s done.

    Eighteen veterans a day commit suicide, why do you think? they cant forget what they did and saw being done to innocent people;     they know it’s all wrong, and their lives were ruined by it; better to end them.

    Our country is sliding down a moral chute into a sewer of barbarism, destitution and repression. Public indifference to torture and war crimes, and indulgence of the burgeoning police state, prepares the way. If you cant yet ‘throw your body on the gears, at least get off the fence…

  • That time again.

    The semi-annual gathering of protesters of the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation closing off one of the main gates for a weekend. The SOA watch host these protests on regular dates. Also it seems that they get upset when people react to the protests that cause the gates to be closed. The God Bless Fort Benning Day is used as a counter protest to these guys showing up. It is interesting and not surprising to know that many of the SOA protesters try to get free food at the God Bless Fort Benning day event. My wife had to explain to a few of them that trying to close of both gates would be bad considering that many people live on base and need to get out to buy items not found on post.

    Over the seven years we’ve been doing the Friday nonviolence trainings, we’ve had to take into consideration a number of situations. The police have set up fences, increasingly restricting access to adjacent property. One year Fort Benning blasted “patriotic” music at us, attempting to drown out the speeches and music from our stage. “God Bless Fort Benning Day” has become a counter-event which has also grown over the past years. Fort Benning has also become a major base for soldiers going to and returning from Iraq, raising local people’s opposition to the presence of demonstrators.

    Or how about the punishments that they complain about when they try to enter the base they hey have done in the past.

    Trainings also take place to prepare people for roles such as Peacekeepers and Legal Observers. For those who engage in civil disobedience, sentences have been from 3 to 6 months. Therefore a strong support system has been created for those considering that risk ,to help them through the discernment process and during and after their time as prisoners.

    But of the mention about the concern about violence from the usual suspects.

    The 2nd Annual God Bless Fort Benning Rally got underway at the old fairgrounds Sunday, across from the Port Columbus National Civil War Naval Museum. The event features food and entertainment and is designed to counter the message of the SOA Watch protest at Fort Benning.

    Mayor Bob Poydacheff spoke to News Leader 9’s Jo Giles at the event and said he was pleased with the effort and the turn-out. He also indicated that event organizers did the right thing by relocating their rally away from the massive protest.

    Fears of violence or confrontations with “fringe groups” forced that relocation. Organizer Miriam Tidwell told News Leader 9 in a live interview that she didn’t want to risk any confrontation with the protestors that might result in injury to any of the people or children attending her event.

    There have been increased fears of possible violence surrounding the SOA protest this year, not because of the regular crowd of thousands of SOA Watch marchers but because of additional “fringe groups” attending this year’s event.

    But really the only people that really win are the people that rent parking spaces and sell food near the Victory Drive area.

  • But, but, but…we’re the ones with the guns

    1stCavRVN11B sends us a link to Gateway Pundit who links to Verum Serum in which loony Leftist Ted Rall calls for a violent revolution against those of us who are sitting at work and at home enjoying life;

    A war is coming. At stake: our lives, the planet, freedom, living. The government, the corporations, and the extreme right are prepared to coalesce into an Axis of Evil. Are you going to fight back? Will you do whatever it takes, including taking up arms?…

    Oh, I’m scared. A bunch of stick boys swarming over us in their Priuses reeking of Starbucks scones. I’m shaking in my boots. How cartoonish.

    The millions of partisans who follow Fox News, Rush Limbaugh, and right-wing televangelists happen to be the best-armed people around, and they despise just about everyone who doesn’t think and pray like them.

    Yep, that’s pretty much me – especially the “best armed” part. My smallest caliber handgun is 10 millimeter. And I pretty much despise anyone who hasn’t spent a day in uniform…or married to someone who was in uniform. The religion, Rush Limbaugh and Fox thing doesn’t take up too much of my life, but I’ll defend myself and my family against anyone who thinks I need killin’ because those are the reasons I’m the way I am.

    They will act to stop teenage sluts from getting abortions, teach n*ggers a lesson, and slaughter those spics, dots, and everyone else who doesn’t fit into their vision of what and who is right…

    I don’t even care about those people, so why would I want to teach them anything?

    I want to kick people in the ass.

    Better bring your lunch, Rall, cuz you’ll be kicking my ass all day.

    I want you to see that revolt is a good idea, and that it has never been more necessary.

    It’s not necessary, but bring it on, man. We’re ready. By the way, you can’t legally buy a weapon if you have a recent drug conviction. Or if you’ve been declared legally insane…so you might want to stop and think about your revolution for a moment.

    Here’s the big pussy Rall on MSNBC;

    When the stick boys come for us, Rall is mine.

  • More Matthis lies

    Someone sent us this link to a World Can’t Wait propaganda piece about yet another anti-recruiting campaign at some unknown school during which Matthis;

    …talked about being given a choice of jail or the Army at age 17, seeing the world as an Army journalist and telling the story the Army wanted told, before successfully refusing orders to Iraq and becoming an anti-war activist.

    Yeah, we all know that Matthis was a high school graduate when he was arrested for selling mushrooms near a grade school playground when he was given the option of going to trial or joining the Army. He was 19 at the time, not 17. The difference of course is that he was supposed to be more of a grown up than he tries to relate to the easily-influenced children in the high school. This time, he was facing a real pound-you-in-the-ass prison stint instead of just the previous basketball games at the juvenile detention center.

    The WCW article continues;

    …a couple of students said to their classmates that they aren’t going to sign up for the military, after hearing about the reality of these wars of occupation.

    How did they hear about the “realities” of the wars? From Matthis? That’s a joke. How could he tell the realities of the war from his perch in Germany and Japan?

    Someone else wrote to me that the Left acts like the wars have ended because of their inactivity lately. I wrote back that this is their hibernation period every year. Since the old hippies depend on the participation of college students, those students are more focused on their Thanksgiving and Christmas breaks than wars just now.

    They’ll gear back up in the Spring when the anniversary of the Iraq War rolls around.

  • Code Pink to protest Jon Stewart tomorrow

    I guess Stewart’s “Restore Sanity” rally tomorrow got under Medea’s skin. The Code Pink hags are planning to protest there;

    It’s good that the Left is being protested by the Left. So which group do you want to be identified with? The folks who get their news from the Comedy Channel or the crowd who is still living in the 60s and gets their news from the al Jazeera?