Category: Iraq Veterans Against the War

  • Matthis inciting OWS

    Our favorite disgraced IVAW member is trying to incite OWS protesters with his arrogant use of his false military experience again, writing n the Huffington Post;

    These operations do not strike me as random. What the police are engaging in looks like a military crowd control tactic called ‘snatch and grab,’ something I practiced in training on various occasions in the military.

    Yeah, all of you military journalists who did riot control training, raise your hands. Yeah, none.

    But, that’s OK, he’s faking his own importance in the OWS protests, too;

    “Dude, they’re scoping you out,” said a fellow protester, and pointed to a police group in the rear of the police line. A few white shirts… and a few others. One had a camera pointed right at me. I felt pointedly threatened, like they’d recognized me and I’d been marked. When the ‘snatch and grabs’ began at Zuccotti, I knew I couldn’t stick around.

    Yeah, nothing worse than an arrogant chickenshit. I’m sure matthis is just that important that the police want to single him out of a crowd of smelly hippies because he’s such an effective leader…he’s so effective that when they take his picture, he scurries away like a frightened chipmunk and writes a missive to warn everone else.

    If this is the first you’re reading about Matthis, he joined the Army voluntarily to avoid a charge for selling drugs near a school playground, served a tour in Japan, then Germany where he took a TDY trip to Afghanistan for six days and calls himself an Afghanistan veteran. Then he skipped out on his recall to active duty from the IRR and calls himself a “war resister” – he never opposed the war against terror until it was his turn to go. He left the IVAW because they wouldn’t completely sign on to his flag-burning antics while wearing their T-shirt.

    He regularly takes his lies to classrooms and tells high school students what the Army will do to them when he has no idea what military life is really like. He tells about atrocities they commit, although his experiences with war are limited to “no shit” bar room stories.

    He was a military journalist who never took part in riot-control training. the Army doesn’t waste their time training people who’ll never need that training.

    Mattis is a chump who still thinks that basic training was hard because that’s the hardest he had it in his five years of military service. Matthis regularly encourages people to take chances that he would never involve himself in, that’s why he’s telling OWS protesters to stick with the fight while he himself hides out in his girlfriend’s apartment.

    Thanks to a nameless ninja for the link.

  • Scott Olsen’s public press release.

    So is seems that Scott Olsen has made his promised public statement that he was to have presented on Veterans day. I guess the was unable to leave the hospital. But here it is.

    “After my freedom of speech was quite literally taken from me, my speech is coming back but I’ve got a lot of work to do with rehab,” Olsen wrote. “You’ll be hearing more from me in the near future.”

    That is it? I guess I was expecting something more. Oh and seems that he is on Google plus if anyone wants to follow him. Oh and lookes like more of his past is catching up with him.

    Oh and I thought that this little gem was note worthy.

    The spokesperson also said documentary filmmaker Michael Moore had tried to visit Olsen against the wishes of the hospital and Olsen’s family.

    I am sure that Moore would love to explain this. I mean not just “No we cannot let you see him” but a hell no.

    The spokesperson also said documentary filmmaker Michael Moore tried to visit Olsen on Saturday. The hospital said the family has asked for Olsen’s privacy and asked Moore not to try to visit Olsen and the hospital again.

    “We have a very, very polite message to Mr. Moore: Mr. Olsen is not here,” the hospital spokesperson said, “and if you do find out where he is, the Olsen family doesn’t want you to come there either.”

  • The scumbags and Veterans Day

    One of my ninjas trolled the Facebook walls of some of the derelicts this past Veterans’ Day and sent me these screen shots of Doug Zachary and Bobby Whittenburg respectively;

    Zachary was chaptered out of the Marines for his bad behavior, but he makes it sound like he was ‘resisting” – like Ward Reilly’s AWOL stint shacked up in Bavaria with a German chick was “resisting” the war which had ended the year before.

    In the same vein, Whittenburg chooses to honor the military’s shitbirds instead of the people who serve honorably. I think it’s an attempt to justify their bad behavior and to tempt others to follow suit.

    Zachary, by the way is the chief fund raiser for veterans For Peace, Whittenburg left IVAW when they proved to be not as radical as he’d like. Both of them are from Austin, former Marines and friends of Carl Webb.

  • At the intersection of Crazy and Stupid

    Jose Vasquez, the executive director of Iraq Veterans Against the War (what war?) sits down with Cornell Ag School grad, Keith Olbermann, to discuss how IVAW finds itself intermingled with smelly hippies of the Occupy Wall Street movement (it’s a movement in the “bowel” sense of the word).

    I just think it’s hilarious that I get to hear Vasquez talk about “taking an oath to serve the country”. Vasquez decided to become a conscientious objector to the war in Iraq after ten years of service as a medic in the final moments before his unit deployed to Iraq. Vasquez said publicly that if his unit had deployed to Afghanistan instead, he would have deployed to the “just” war, too. Under his leadership, while the Iraq War was winding down, IVAW voted to oppose the war in Afghanistan, so his sense of “taking an oath to serve the country” are somewhat narrowly defined.

    Of course, he has to mention that crank General Smedley Butler…using him as figurehead doesn’t help IVAW. Olbemann and Vasquez agree that veterans give the Occupy movement a measure of credibility. In that, they’re sadly mistaken. As the occupy movement collapses, it proves that no amount of credibility veterans give them will improve their image in the public’s eyes. In fact, I figure veterans’ participation in the display of public masturbation called the Occupy movement with have some splash back on veterans as a whole.

    I call it public masturbation because it does nothing productive, only gives the occupiers a measure of satisfaction and embarrasses anyone else who happens to see it. Kind of like the mutual stroking Vasquez and Olbermann are involved in during this video.

    Thanks to one of my ninjas for the video.

  • The single dumbest thing I have read in a long time.

    Here is another article about the Occupy movement and how the IVAW are taking part. It is titled “At Occupy Camps, Veterans Bring the Wars Home” It gets to the crazy in short order.

    In Zuccotti Park, Army Specialist Jerry Bordeleau, 24, was sitting next to a table of IWW (Industrial Workers of the World) literature. On his sweater were two buttons: an Iraq Campaign metal and one from the IWW. He served two tours in Iraq and now says he’s unemployed and can’t find work for over $10 an hour. And he can’t live on $10 an hour. When I asked him why he’s at Occupy Wall Street he says, “I went and fought for capitalism and that’s why I’m now a Marxist.”

    At Occupy Baltimore, I met 21-year-old Justin Carson, who tells me he served in the Army National Guard in Iraq from 2009 until this February. His nickname is Crazy Craze. He says he has PTSD and is bipolar but won’t “do pharmaceuticals.” Then he told me I should look into the Illuminati since I’m writing an article.

    I had to double check to make sure that I am not reading the onion. Because for a movement that is desperate not to be linked to socialism or communism that Jerry Bordeleau’s comments are exact opposite of this. Not to mention that Justin Carson’s comments are very damaging to the image of veterans today. It is bad enough that Veterans are fighting against the craze war vet meme of old, but worse when people are actively trying to bring it back. This is how you want to open your story?

    At Occupy DC, a painting of Scott Olsen in uniform is draped on the side of a tent. He’s become a symbol of the Occupation Movement — he fought overseas only to be injured when exercising his “freedom” of peaceful assembly at home. His name has become a shorthand to talk about why so many vets are at Occupy Wall Street.

    Ok that is creepy, I thought the picture of him in a stain glass artwork was bad enough but this is just weird. Also considering how he spoke out against the Marine Corps image, but the people have no problem doing for his uniform that he was never suppose to wear in the first place. Also I thought that he had a non-combat MOS. If so how much “fighing” did he really do? Moving on.

    Patterson still sports a military haircut and a bit of the Army swagger. He also has a touch of that telling hyper-awareness war vets sometimes display; he’s a little twitchy, a little intense. He tells me he has PTSD and has been self-medicating with weed. He says it helps. What’s also helped is being a part of this protest movement. “This is the only peaceful solution,” he says. “If this movement doesn’t work, our country is not going to make it … We’re just not going to make it.”

    Great, so your third Vet is a self medicating with illegal drugs. Still trying to push the “Crazy War Vet” meme. Also I promise you that the Country will carry on without your movement.

    Patterson became an interrogator in Iraq straight out of high school. His mother had to sign his enlistment papers. He turned 18 in Basic. “We’re an industrialized nation who’s a third world country. The super wealthy elite pretty much control our democratic process and everyone here is pretty much fighting for scraps and that’s not right,” he says.

    What? Are you kidding? I promise you people who live in real third world nations would jump at the change to live here. Because I promise you that there is a drastic difference between the two.

    I ask him what was the switch for him and when. He explained that it was WikiLeaks. It was the footage of the Apache helicopter gunning down Iraqis released by WikiLeaks in April of 2010.

    This is a dead horse that Doc Bailey has handled nicely. I am sure that he can rehash all the fallacies in anything that follows the statement above.

    He interrogated people who were later put to death in Iraq with no appeals process, he says. It haunts him. He didn’t fulfill his contract so he’s not eligible for the GI Bill. Even if he were, he explains, he still couldn’t afford to go to school without loans. He’d be wracked with debt just like so many other students who are down at their city’s Occupations. “I just want to go to college and teach high school,” he says

    Then stop taking about it and go do it. I hate to break this to you but sooner or later your going to have to take out a loan. Be it for school, house, or car. Also call BS on his Iraq interrogations as well.

    I say again, with this listed above is it any shock that most Veterans do not associate themselves with the occupy movement?

  • Just a reminder

    That is this the person that IVAW is going to champion during this years Veterans day. So I am sure once that his statements have been made public that they will be flooded over the net. So I figured I get a head start now.

    UPDATE: Looks like the press is finally looking his past from his website to his being chaptered out.

    Olsen served two tours in Iraq, working as a technician and earning a handful of service medals.

    Friends say he soured on military life after leaving the service started a now-defunct website called “I hate the Marine Corps” that served as a forum for disgruntled servicemen.

    Olsen received an “administrative discharge” from the service in late 2009, his uncle George Nygaard has said, though the precise reasons for it have not been confirmed.

    Such a discharge can result from any number of behavioral or disciplinary issues.

    Which would lend support that he was kicked out for drug use.

  • IVAW to march for Occupy Oakland again

    So Ouccpy Oakland is going to be marching with IVAW today in protests against Oakland Police Force. It seems that Scott Olsen will be speaking at the event.

    As part of Veterans Day, veterans will be leading a march against police brutality on November 11th, 2011 in Oakland. We will start with a press conference and rally with an update and statement from Scott Olsen at Oscar Grant Plaza starting at 4pm.

    We welcome all veterans of the 99% to lead the way and all supporters to join us as we march the streets. We march not only for injured veterans Scott Olsen, Kayvan Sabeghi and Doug Connor, but for all those who have been killed or injured as a result of police brutality.

    Yea because that is what I think of when I think of Veterans day or IVAW for that matter. Also should be interesting to hear what Olsen is going to say about his past if at all.

    But I am sure that few Veterans would throw in their hat in with the IVAW if they saw photos like this.

    Jonn Added: Here’s the backstory on the toy soldiers picture above.

  • Moonbat mayor skips city’s Vet Day memorial

    Mayor Gayle McLaughlin, the moonbat mayor of Richmond, California decided to skip her constituents’ memorial for Veterans’ Day so she could instead speak at the local Occupy Wall Street rally. Her justification? Well, she’ll be memorializing Iraq veteran Scott Olsen at the hippie convergence. From The Blaze;

    “I choose to honor our veterans, not only on Veteran’s Day, but daily, by supporting an end to military warfare to prevent further fighting and dying in needless wars,” she said in an email. “I am a strong supporter of Veterans for Peace and Iraq Vets Against the War.”

    So she only supports idiots who happen to be veterans. I thought elected executive politicians are supposed to support and represent ALL of their constituents, not just the ones with whom she agrees politically. I must be mistaken. And if she thinks that supporting IVAW and VFP is like supporting all veterans, she had better start asking them for their DD214s, because apparently she doesn’t know what we here at TAH know.

    Honestly, I think veterans in Richmond are better off without the ugly cow at their ceremony, what with her hairy legs and distinctive odor of urine and filth.

    Thanks to Flagwaver for the link.