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Category: I hate hippies

  • Taliban threatens Code Pink group traveling to Pakistan. (Updated)

    Some of you may or may not know but it seems that Code Pink is sending a thirty plus group to Pakistan to join a protest at the use of drones in a areas suspected of hiding Taliban groups. Also photos from them suggest that they are already have arrived.

    Today the full CODEPINK delegation to Pakistan will arrive in Islamabad to begin a week of activities to express their opposition to US drone strikes in Pakistan. A pre-delegation group of American activists has been on the ground in Pakistan for several days meeting with think tanks, human rights organizations, and military and academic institutions.

    The response from Pakistanis has been overwhelmingly positive and welcoming, and many plan to join the CODEPINK contingent as it marches to South Waziristan to protest US drone strikes on October 7th. “We are already receiving an outpouring of support from Pakistani people who are heartened to learn that there are Americans with a conscience who are willing to come all the way to Pakistan to show solidarity and apologize for the drone strikes that have brought so much death and destruction to the impoverished people of north Pakistan,” said CODEPINK cofounder and delegation leader Medea Benjamin.

    Well not everyone is feeling the love. Nor the idea of a peace parade through Pakistan.

    U.S. diplomats Friday warned a group of American peace activists not to attend a rally against U.S. missile strikes scheduled for this weekend, saying terrorists have threatened to attack the demonstration.

    Separately, the Pakistani Taliban warned Friday that they oppose the rally, which is being led by Imran Khan, an internationally famous cricket player who has become one of Pakistan’s most popular opposition politicians largely on the basis of his outspoken criticism of the U.S. role in Pakistan and Afghanistan.

    The demonstration, which has been organized by Khan’s political party, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf, is scheduled to leave Islamabad Saturday and hopes to enter South Waziristan, part of the militant-plagued tribal area that is considered a no-go zone, on Sunday as a protest against the use of unmanned drones to attack suspected al Qaida and Taliban militants.

    What will happen in the next few days is anyone’s guess, but I have a feeling that this could end badly since the Taliban is threatening to bomb the protest.

    On Saturday, a statement from a Taliban faction said to be based in Pakistan’s eastern Punjab province warned that militants would welcome the protesters with suicide bombings.

    “We ask the brave people of Waziristan not to side with the gang of Jews and Christians – otherwise their fate will be terrible,” the Punjabi Taliban said in the statement.

    UPDATE: It seems that they have been spotted and interviewed by CNN in Pakistan.

  • Hippie thinks she’s funny

    The family of Private First Class Caleb Killian proudly submitted an article to their local “alternative newspaper”, the Madison County Crier announcing his graduation from boot camp. The hippie who owns the newspaper took liberties with article and published her own “alternate” version of what would make the article sound sweeter to her drug-ravaged ears;

    So, of course, her incessant yapping caused an uproar in the community. As is the wont of hippies, Frances Madeson reveled in the attention and then spends hundreds of words lecturing the community on how she’s smarter than they are.

    I wanted to establish the practice that if you send me stuff (and I hope that you will, the more challenging the better), I’m going to use it creatively to promote thought, even critical thinking.

    There’s that “critical thinking” bullshit excuse that hippies use every time they’re wrong and piss off the community. It was a simple announcement that gets published in small newspapers across the country every day, but this drug-adled spaz had to make a big deal out of it.

    Luckily for her, the family are more rational than she ever was on her best day and responded thusly;

    “We as a family are extremely proud of our son and his accomplishments. He has always been an exceptional and driven individual. Caleb had other opportunities, yet chose to join the USMC. We respect him for that decision. The current situation concerning the Madison County Crier and its editor, Frances Madeson, has become extremely convoluted. Our community coming together in support of one of their own has been incredible. The dialogue that is currently taking place is equally as incredible. There have been many articulate views expressed by those in the community insulted by her actions (and follow-up responses). While she has now written hundreds of words further criticizing the community, she has yet to write the three simple words everyone, especially my son, deservedly needs to hear, “I am sorry”. If her desire is to see change, then perhaps she should begin with humility.”

    Thanks to karlen for the link.

  • IDF not responsible Rachel Corrie’s death court rules.

    Well it looks like the court in Israel has ruled that the IDF’s D-9 Dover Driver is not criminally responsible for her death in 2003. I have talked a lot about this because the unit I was deployed with had D-9s. So I had some first hand experience about how dangerous the lumbering cumbersome beasts can be. But some people still think that driving a D-9 is just like driving a car.

    “We believe that Rachel was seen,” Cindy Corrie said. The heavily armored Caterpillar bulldozer may have had limited sight lines, the Corries acknowledge, but in addition to a driver, a second soldier was also in the cab, and conflicts in their assorted statements have never been reconciled.

    May have? Try completely and with all the noise you are really driving blind. Also just because there is a second person in a vehicle with limited does not stop making it a vehicle with limited vision. That is why there are ground guides to help the driver see/hear things that he would normally not be aware of, to include people. Even with a ground guide it can be dangerous.

    A Marine convoy departed its base of origin in the late evening, enroute to another base in Iraq. Upon reaching its destination,the driver of a 7-ton dismounted to serve as the vehicle ground guide. The A-driver of the 7-ton (a licensed driver) would be the driver while it was offloading supplies at the convoy’s destination. The A-driver was providing the driver an opportunity tostretch his legs after being on the road for several hours.

    After moving several feet forward, the A-driver attempted to apply the brake. However, the driver had left his helmet on the floor of the vehicle, and it now interfered with the ability to stop the vehicle. As the A-driver bent down toward the accelerator and brake to remove the helmet, the 7-ton moved forward and crashed into the rear of another parked 7-ton. At this moment, the A-driver realized that he could not see his ground guide. He opened the door and yelled for the Marine, then backed the 7-ton several feet to find the Marine slumping between the two vehicles. The driver acting as ground guide had been fatally crushed.

    Several critical errors led to this unfortunate incident. The driver acting as a ground guide placed himself between the vehicle and an immovable object, the other 7-ton. The Marine also left his helmet in the vehicle on the floor, near the accelerator and brake. Before applying the brake, the A-driver operating the 7-ton allowed the ground guide to leave his field of vision.

    But that does not seem to phase Corries’ supporters showing a photo of her looking at a D-9. I guess that they assume that if you can see the D-9 that they can see you. Oh and to preempt any questions about my views that this is flaws logic I ask this. Would you apply this logic (of if I can see them, they can see me) towards eighteen wheelers? But I digress.

    An Israeli military bulldozer, manufactured by Caterpillar, crushed the 23-year-old Corrie to death as she and her fellow members of the International Solidarity Movement lived among Palestinian civilians in Rafah, in an area whose houses were slated for demolition for Israeli military needs. They tried to remind the Israeli army that it was operating among what was, first and foremost, an occupied civilian population.

    It continues with the flawed logic how the driver could have seen her.

    Witnesses told the court she clambered up to the top of a pile of earth as the bulldozer advanced towards her, wearing a bright orange, hi-visibility jacket, and carrying a megaphone.

    OK the front of the D-9 is a major blind spot. So regardless of what you are wearing the drive will still have a very hard time seeing you. Two the engine is VERY loud and radio communications is next to imposable. Communications with the Dozer is done with hand signals in the clear position which is about the 9 and 3 o clock position. So that being said do you really think that a bull horn would do anything? And from what I understand that there was not a ground guide due to the risk of snipers and recent enemy contact.

    He also noted how high tensions were running in the area at the time, with IDF forces attacked by Palestinian fighters just hours before.

    But according to a witness this is what happened.

    Fellow activist Tom Dale told the court: “The bulldozer went towards her very slowly, she was fully in clear view, straight in front of them.

    “Unfortunately she couldn’t keep her grip there and she started to slip down. You could see she was in serious trouble, there was panic in her face as she was turning around.

    “All the activists there were screaming, running towards the bulldozer, trying to get them to stop. But they just kept on going.”

    Again according to who? Also if you have trouble hearing the person next to you, how can you hope to hear anyone outside the Dozer?

    But the court said what Corries’ supporters will never acknowledge.

    But Judge Oded Gershon ruled the driver had not seen her, and that any reasonable person would have moved herself out of the way of the bulldozer. He said the original investigation had “no mistakes”.

    “This was a very unfortunate accident and not an action undertaken with intent.

    “She put herself into a dangerous situation and stood in front of a large bulldozer in a place where the operator could not see her.

    “Her death is the result of an accident she brought upon herself,”

    Oh and noticed the photo of her burning a American flag has the flag cut out? And no mention of it on her Wiki page.

  • Occupy Obama Campaign

    It looks like the far-Left isn’t happy with Obama either. In a link sent to us by GI Jane and Claymore, a few dozen occupied Obama’s Portland campaign headquarters to protest the treatment of Breanna Manning who is being tried for releasing thousands of classified documents.

    Scott Olsen seems to have been there, although he left before the voluntary arrests began. “Once bitten…”, but not before he quipped that he sure would like to urinate in a police car.

    Yeah, I said “voluntary arrests”. If you’ve ever been to a protest in recent years, the hippies coordinate with the police as to who will be arrested and when. We’re so civil here in the US.

    The local news was a little more sympatico with Olsen when they said;

    Some of the seven protesters sitting inside wore t-shirts reading “Iraq Veterans Against the War,” including Scott Olsen, an Iraq War veteran seriously injured by a police projectile during an Occupy Oakland protest on Oct. 25.

    I’m not sure that it was ever determined to be a “police projectile” Was it? I mean determined in the way rational people determine things…like not taking the word of hippies.

    But, it sure is nice to see IVAW doing things to help injured veterans like they did for about a minute sometime last year. Obviously, they’re back on the fund raising train and linked to Veterans For Peace, those lying pretenders;

    Many of the Oakland protesters claim to be associated with Veterans for Peace, a prominent fixture in the institutional left’s anti-war movement.

    Well, we can certain that if the IVAW and the VFP are involved there are few, if any, real veterans of the current wars, or any other war, for that matter at the protest.

    The protesters said in a statement that they were demanding that President Obama apologize for statements they said he made regarding Manning’s guilt, that the president ensures soldiers are free from pre-trial punishment, alleging that Manning was held in long periods of isolation, and that Manning be pardoned.

    Ain’t that precious? They think that taking over a campaign headquarters will impact the Manning trial. Little naive dicks that they are.

  • Return of Occupy to DC

    Radar sends us a link from the Washington Post which reports that they have risen and they’re back to destroy McPherson Square weeks after they were removed and the damage they did was repaired at a more than $8000 price tag to the tax payers;

    Protester Nancy Munoz, of the District, said that they had returned to the park for an ongoing protest and handed out pamphlets that said, “Action: Restoring McPherson Square The Occupation Will Not Move!”

    “We are committed to stay here and educate the public about capitalism, exploitation and, most of all, the importance of reclaiming public space,” Munoz said.

    Yeah, because the Occupation worked so well last year, right?

    It seems that DC residents of the K Street area aren’t all that pleased that the zombie-piers are back;

    Across the street, staff members at Georgia Brown’s restaurant — who had endured weeks of noise, rats and crowds during the winter protest — watched the goings-on from the restaurant’s terrace with barely disguised dismay. “They’re reoccupying!” one woman said frantically, into her cellphone.

    I guess winning hearts and minds isn’t on their agenda.

  • Peacenik: US out of…Australia?

    Marine_7002 sends us a link from the Marine Times which reports that some hippie turd, Graeme Dunstan, in Australia has made it his life’s mission to boot the US Marines from Australia because he “abhors American arrogance” in the region;

    “I’m for armed independence, armed neutrality in the Pacific,” he said. “Australians fear this is an occupation. … This is our sphere.” China, the principal target of this new U.S. defense posture, “is our biggest trading partner here in Southeast Asia, the reason for prosperity,” he said.

    He’s disappointed his government caters to the U.S., driven by a World War II-era alliance that’s “gone toxic.” That alliance, he contends, is to blame for lost lives, including 300 troops and $7 billion for the war in Afghanistan, money “that could have been spent in Australia on a lot better things.”

    I guess he’s forgotten about the 88 Australians whose lives were lost in the Bali bombing in 2002 and how the war in Afghanistan kept terrorists so busy that they don’t have the time to strike at Australian citizens again.

    To call the presence of a few hundred US Marines in Australia, an occupation is hyperbole. I’m sure that it would take more than a couple companies of Marines to “occupy” that country.

    The Peacebus is outfitted with loudspeakers and colorful banners proclaiming “Troops out of Afghanistan! No more US wars!” and “Shut the Darwin US Marine Base.” Dunstan wants the Pacific to demilitarize, a view that falls in great contrast to what President Obama has set out to do with an expanded military presence across the Asia-Pacific region.

    I think it New Zealand, Australia’s neighbor that sought to disband it’s military just before the war against terror began and the Bali bombing altered the course of that brainstorm. But no one has ever accused hippies of having a sense for history.

  • Hippie discriminates against Guardsman

    Daniel sends us this link to the Boston Herald‘s article about a veteran of Guantanamo, Iraq and Afghanistan who was discriminated against by a landlady who is a peace-activist based on his military service;

    Sgt. Joel Morgan, 29, said the two-bedroom $1,220-a-month Savin Hill apartment that property owner Janice Roberts, 63, showed him in April was perfect. But he claims Roberts told him in an April 9 voicemail that renting to him would be a conflict, saying, “We are very adamant about our beliefs.”

    “It just is not going to be comfortable for us without a doubt. It probably would be better for you to look for a place that is a little bit less politically active and controversial,” Roberts told Morgan, according to his complaint.

    Well, I’m sure SGT Morgan wouldn’t be comfortable living next to Roberts, but that’s not the point is it? Roberts is a member of some idiot organization called “Garden of Enlightenment”, I can’t find it on the internet so I can’t comment on it’s goals, not knowing anything about it. But, suppose, just suppose that SGT Morgan was a member of some racial minority group and Ms. Roberts was a member of some racist group and made a relatively similar remark, but in regards to her beliefs and SGT Morgan’s particular racial group. The feds would be all over Roberts for discrimination. So what’s the difference here?

    Morgan is taking her to court, but I don’t think that will solve the problem – Ms. Roberts bias which she probably wouldn’t tolerate in another instance, but applies to her own business – and she has no problem putting it into words with the intended victim of her bias.

    Of course, being a conservative, I think Roberts has the right to rent to whomever she wants and to deny her apartment to whomever she wants, but the hypocrisy, in this case, is just too blatant to ignore.

  • OWS/Black Bloc Hippies Show “Courage”

    Coming to us yesterday from the the Chicago Sun-Times is a story about our brave intrepid hippie warriors who decided they’d blow off a little steam between throwing “I was there” medals, plotting to blow up shit, and generally being worthless malodorous dickheads to attack some unarmed, innocent diners:

    Police call the melee at the restaurant a targeted assault by a mob that Winston said wielded metal batons and hammers. Ten diners were hurt in the attack, and three of those were hospitalized.

    Tinley Park police had five suspected assailants in custody, and Winston said 18 young men, all wearing hooded jackets and obscuring their faces with scarves and other coverings, stormed into the restaurant.

    “They came running in the door single file,” said Winston, who owns Ashford House, 7959 W. 159th St., and the adjacent Winston’s Market.

    Winston, and police, said the men knew who their targets were, and that the attack wasn’t a random act of violence. Winston said the mob “targeted” a group of 20 diners, all of whom were from out of state.

    Now I’m just gonna go out on a limb here and make a little observation. As of a few months ago when WI went from no-issue to shall-issue, this leaves Illinois as the only state in the nation which does not allow concealed carry.

    Anyone here want to guess as to whether or not they’d pull this shit in a place where CCW was 1–allowed, 2–likely?

    Those little hooded shitbags might have come into the restaurant single-file, but even with their hoodies, masks, hammers, and police batons, as soon as they found themselves facing some pissed off patrons willing to dump a couple of hundred grains of P+ .45 hollowpoint into their sorry meatsack carcasses, they sure as hell would be piling over each other in a mad rush to GTFO before they were carted out in rubber bags.

    YMMV.