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Category: Iraq Veterans Against the War

  • When the cheese slides off your cracker…

    I was checking out my Facebook page today, I noticed one of my “friends” got married. It was funny because it seems like he’d just announced he was single a few weeks back. So I went over to see what was up with Jesse MacBeth

    salaam my fb fam.today i am going to start off saying to all those people who dont like what i say or get offended.if u cant handle the truth and lack the ability to debate me then stay off my page.i will show no mecy on them white devils.did they show mercy when they raped our women.enslaved us,murdered us in the mill…ions.when they threw women.children, old men,the sick into the ocean when the slave boat was to full

    we are commanded by allah to no eat pork to stay away from the foulness of swine. the nastyness of pig. then why my brotha’s do u stoop lower then a pig and go after the white swine. the white women. who skin is the same color as a pig. who smells the same as a pig. who looks like a pig, and sweats inside like a pig, a…nd most of all who rolls in her own shit like a pig

    today is a good day. today i woke up knowing i was going to take the breath out of same devils to knock the wind from their sails. have u every went to a devil church and watched their service, listen to them chant, see the evil gleam in their eye as they stare at u the lone negro, the sole king or queen amongths devil…s and daemon’s unafraid. if u want to see cult like evil attend their services

    in the bible it say the devil comes in the form of an angel of light. that speaks more truth then most would admit. to me that means the devil is white

    white devils ur world is slowly comming apart. the lies and myths u spread to opressors others are turning back on u the truth that the freed ones have know all along is comming to light

    And the best one;

    come check out my book my brotha’s and sista’s its on sale right now. them devil’s took 74% off my price for the next 2 weeks

    Yup. The white devil cut his book price 74% keepin’ the brother down.

    Actually, the Kindle version is $.99 But it looks like Amazon has high hopes for the book at $19.99 for the paperback. TSO bought the book over a year ago and still hasn’t read past the first paragraph.

    Last time Jesse wrote me, he was trying to organize against the Revolution Muslim, those batshit crazy reactionaries in New York City. It looks like he didn’t resist their message very well and joined them instead.

    Just remember, Jesse, take the detonator down range with you when you’re installing the IED. Or don’t.

  • How’s that Mao thing working out?

    A professor from Hong Kong was able to get unprecedented access to government archives in China from the period known as “The Great Leap Forward” during which Mao Zedong tried to catch China up with the twentieth century by wiping out millions of families;

    Mr Dikötter, who has been studying Chinese rural history from 1958 to 1962, when the nation was facing a famine, compared the systematic torture, brutality, starvation and killing of Chinese peasants to the Second World War in its magnitude. At least 45 million people were worked, starved or beaten to death in China over these four years; the worldwide death toll of the Second World War was 55 million.

    In just four years. Pretty good role model ain’t he? That’s probably why Victor Agosto, of the IVAW admires him (that’s Victor mimicking Mao’s image in the Great Leap Forward poster above). Yeah, the founders of ANSWER and World Can’t Wait were all admitted Maoists – but if we call them communists, we’re “red baiting”.

    Victor says China’s model of communism is “state capitalism”. But, Mao was a Stalinist and used starvation as a weapon against his people just like Stalin and Lenin did.

    The lessons of history are always lost on the Left.

  • Missing the point of 9-11 completely

    So, I was perusing the new IVAW website (which apparently doesn’t block us yet) and I tripped over these droppings from Victor Agosto;

    …the world’s biggest terrorists are the those who will stop at nothing to control land, resources, markets, and people. They are the capitalist ruling class, whose lust for profit cannot be satisfied.

    Victor began this journey as an opponent to the war, and now he’s a class warrior. He never claimed to be a conscientious objector, but I guess he would be now, since all wars that the US fights seems to be a war for our capitalist ruling class…even though we didn’t antagonize anyone rational in the Muslim world to cause the attack on September 11th.

    Well, we did liberate Kuwait, kept Hussein from using his aircraft against Iraqis, stationed troops in Saudi Arabia at the invitation of the government. We kept the Egyptians and Israelis separated from each other for two decades at the invitation of both governments. We gave aid to nearly every country in the Near East – even Afghanistan – before the attack.

    None of that prevented the 9-11 attack. But yeah, it’s all the fault of the capitalists. If you have the memory the same length as a fruit fly’s life span.

    But Victor is a great example of the influence that the International Socialist Organization has on the members of the anti-war movement. A year ago, Victor was just a criminal who avoided his obligation. Today, he mouths the empty words of the class warriors.

  • I thought Johnny Yuma was a rebel

    This is pretty funny, The American Bar Associaton features the Lionel Hutz of the peace lawyers, James Branum, in their Legal Rebels column this issue.

    “I’ve had clients confess to me things that would be war crimes, like having to kill children who came too close to their vehicle when they were in combat,” Branum says. “On the other hand, I hear about soldiers who take tremendous risks to do the right things.”

    Clients, many of whom find Branum on the Internet through Google ads or the blog on his website GIRightsLawyer.com, pay a sliding fee, usually between $60 and $150 an hour.

    A lawyer who is aware of crimes and doesn’t report them? Isn’t that unethical? $150/hour? For soldiers and their familes? I notice he didn’t mention that sometimes he lives with his clients, eats them out of house and home and then when his clients get evicted because they can’t pay their rent, Branum moves on to the next patsy.

    Branum estimates that last year he earned about $20,000, and he is hoping to earn $25,000 this year. An active member of the Joy Mennonite Church in Oklahoma City, he lives in an apartment owned by the congregation and serves as their minister of peace and justice.

    I should apply to be that church’s War and Torture minister so I can get me a free house.

    He also decided a law degree would serve his faith more than protesting and agitating, although he still does that too, often just outside army bases where his clients are detained. “I came to the conclusion that the best thing I could do to make the world a more peaceful place was to help one soldier at a time get out,” he says

    Well, they all get out of the service, alright, after a quick trip through a hoosegow. Speaking of which, Victor Agosto, one of Branum’s clients and a former inmate at Bell County, Texas jail has nothing but praise for Branum, the leech. I wonder if they’re as happy about Branum’s performance as their lawyer while they’re in jail.

  • The rest of the “Freaked out” conversation (Updated)

    UPDATE: I just got confirmation from Jose Vasquez, the executive director of IVAW, that Matthis has finally resigned from IVAW. Jose seemed to be quite distraught. I think there were tear stains on the email.

    Since I’ve had some requests for the rest of the FaceBook conversation, and I see Chris Capps is still camped out on the blog, here’s the remainder;


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  • Freak out

    One of my moles sent me a screen shot of a conversation at Matthis’ Facebook and it’s actually pretty funny. It seems that they all think Army Sergeant is an old friend of TSO and me who we convinced to join the IVAW to spy for us. Their evidence? She was at the wedding last weekend;

    Matthis tries to incite the rabble into believing that all of the records we’ve got came from Army Sergeant because of her unique access to IVAW files. How does he explain the fact that records mostly came on FOIA request forms? Well, he can’t. Because he’s got a case of the ass at IVAW, he’s trying to undermine the organization. That’s fine with me. Undermine away you meth-addled, phony soldier, paranoid freak. Give me a vacation.

    But honestly, Selena hasn’t ever given us any information. She got us into the Winter Soldier thing and that was it. We had a generally cordial relationship which has flared up at times. She’s posted, what, twice on TAH. So have other former members of IVAW – because we’re a big tent.

    They excoriate Army Sergeant for commenting here. Carl Webb has commented here, too – he’s in that conversation with Matthis. He’s made more comments than most of you. What does that prove? Sara Beining commented here – she’s in that conversation.

    But what’s really ironic is that, if Army Sergeant is such a big super spy for TAH, why did I get screenshots of the conversation from someone else? She’s not “friends” with Matthis, so I had to send the screen shots to her. IVAW is shot through and through with spies for TAH. All kinds of people send me dirt on these guys – most of it I don’t even use, because it’s kind of creepy, frankly.

    Actually, the biggest favor Army Sergeant did for TAH was demonstrate that we treat people decently even though we disagree with them. Even Jose Valasquez, the executive director answers my emails. Those VoteVets clowns don’t though.

    But the whole conversation is a good demonstration of how conditioned Matthis’ sheep are to his faux dismay at the betrayal because Army Sergeant didn’t go to the IVAW Man-haters Club meeting. If Matthis hands you a glass of Kool Aid, you’d better not drink it, guys.

    I’ve got thirteen more screen shots, I may post them later if I feel like it.

    Added: My mole wrote to tell me hs’s not a mole…he’s a ninja. Now Matthis has reason to be scared if TAH has a squad of ninjas.

  • The IVAW Board sheds three directors

    I just got a message from the IVAW that they’ve had three members of the Board resign this week;

    Unfortunately, three directors resigned from the board at separate times and for separate reasons on this day. Those board members are as follows: Matthis Chiroux, Geoff Millard, and Cameron White. None of the Board members that resigned have resigned from IVAW at this point and we look forward to their continued contributions to the organization and the movement.

    For those of you who may not know, Cameron White was in the Marines for four years and had two tours of Iraq. TSO supported him in the Board elections last year.

    An anonymous reader sent this message;

    Matthis didn’t exactly resign of his own accord. It happened after being strongly encouraged to step down by the rest of the board.

    Also, after Millard lost his chair seat, he threw a fit, made empty threats to cut his financial ties to the organization(of which he has none) and then quit the board in a huff.

    You can probably verify these facts through the national office. I hope you can get the word out, because although you may not respect IVAW, it should be noted that malingerers, frauds, and megalomaniacs are finally being weeded out.

    So the Board looks like this now:

    Chair Person; Garett Reppenhagen
    Co-Chair; Joyce Wagner
    Treasurer; Jeremy Berggren
    Secretary; Sara Beining
    Assistant Treasurer; T.J. Buonomo
    Assistant Secretary; Adrienne Kinne

    Garret Reppenhagen is a moderate member, Joyce Wagner came out against Matthis’ flag burning episode, Jeremy Berggren is the guy who claims to suffer from PTSD because he didn’t deploy. TJ is the guy who claims 5 years uf military service, four of which were in the Air Force Academy. Adrienne Kinne and Sara Beining are both Far Left socialist nutballs and Matthis supporters.

  • IVAW member still shooting off his mouth in Chicago

    A week or so ago, I wrote about SGT Alejandro Villatoro who was publicly complaining about the fact that he hasn’t trained his troops properly for combat. There’s an article in the Chicago Tribune today that continues his bathering;

    Alejandro Villatoro, 28, is one of about 160 soldiers from across the Midwest in the 656th Transportation Company, based in Hobart, Ind. He said he didn’t want his unit to be unprepared like his was in 2003.

    In Kuwait, Villatoro said, his unit conducted missions with trucks used in the Korean War and trained using Vietnam tactics, like digging foxholes. When his unit invaded Iraq, some soldiers did so with scant bullets.

    Korean War trucks, I’m sure. maybe the design was from the Korean War, but the trucks themselves? Hardly. Everyone needs to know how to dig a foxhole, I don’t care what conflict you’re in. I dug foxholes in Desert Storm in the Forward Operations Base before we launched the Ground War. It only makes sense that soldiers are prepared for any contingency.

    The article goes on to say that Villatoros has complained to Dick Durbin, his senator., and Luis Gutierez his Congressman. I hope he didn’t look too foolish when they discovered that his unit is slated for five more weeks of training before they deploy.

    I understand his concern for his troops, if it’s real, but it appears to me that it’s more of an opportunity for him to protest the war and maybe preclude himself from the deployment. The more he runs his mouth, the more the latter looks to be the case.