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Category: Iraq Veterans Against the War

  • IVAW board member Kindlinger on the skids

    So, I got some intel last night that IVAW Board member Michael “Trey” Kindlinger is one of those homeless veterans you’re always reading about. He was complaining that it’ll cost him money to get a copy of his teacher credentials so he can’t get a job. Of course, being a member of the International Socialist Organization, he blames capitalism for his woes. Kindlinger.

    You may remember Kindlinger was one of those IVAW members who has never been to Iraq. He was a nine year veteran of the Navy who suddenly had an attack of conscience, applied for CO status and was discharged. All the while his wife stayed on active duty, though.

    It gets worse, though. Now that he’s without a job and living in a shelter (probably with his wife and kids) the people who run the shelter assault him with terrible gospel music. Kindlinger is supposedly a born-again Christian and got out of the Navy for religious reasons, but somehow the gospel music offends him. I wonder how he balances the ISO with the church since the two seem at odds with each other.

    Kindlinger is broke now, but last August he had enough money to go to Fort Hood from his home in Maryland to protest the imprisonment of Travis Bishop in Fort Hood, Texas. here he’s interviewed by our favorite lawyer, James Branum;

    It looks to me that “Trey” is just a run of the mill bonehead who lets his dumbassery make his life hard. And it’s all capitalism’s fault.

  • Kokesh loses primary bid

    Several months ago, Adam Kokesh, IVAW icon, lost a pre-primary bid for the New Mexico 3rd Congressional district’s Republican spot on the ballot in November with only 19.5% of the vote. Since he needed 20% of the vote to appear on yesterday’s primary ballot, he contested the New Mexico law to get his spot. Republicans conceded to the cry-baby and allowed on the primary ballot.

    Well, predictably, he lost yesterday according to the Farmington Daily Times;

    San Juan County petroleum engineer Tom Mullins defeated Santa Fe war veteran Adam Kokesh in the Republican primary battle for the U.S. House.

    Mullins will face incumbent U.S. Rep. Ben Ray Luján, unopposed in the Democratic primary, in the Nov. 2 general election.

    San Juan County voters overwhelmingly chose Mullins, who received more than 80 percent of the vote with 96 percent of precincts reporting in San Juan County.

    Funny how this primary has the same results as the last pre-primary. Of course, being the gracious guy he is, Kokesh blamed an out of touch Republican Party, typical reaction from the Ron Paul candidate;

    “It was clear that he had the leadership of the party behind him,” Kokesh said. “The Republican Party, the leadership is out of touch with it’s own base. Our own leadership in our party is corrupt.”

    Is the party’s leadership 80% of the Republicans in the 3rd district? Of, course, John Kerry lost his first Congressional bid, too. So Kokesh bears watching over the years.

  • Jesse MacBeth leads the New World Order

    Jesse MacBeth sent us this link to a BlogTalkRadio link to an interview with some serious doofus who calls himself “Rev J”. Now Rev J must’ve been living under a rock for the past five years because he brought MacBeth on his show to talk about MacBeth’s service and his views on the Iraq War. I listened to the 45 minute broadcast, so you don’t have to;
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  • Matthis: I’m less of a man

    This is a video of the talk that Matthis is giving to our school-age children as part of his anti-recruiting efforts entitled “We Are Not Your Children”. As I demonstrated yesterday, Matthis never deployed to war, but in this video (at about 2:15) the video introduces him as an “Iraq War Veteran” – you may want to remove sharp objects from your reach as you watch this;

    The purpose of this whole (long-winded) speech is to convince Americans to stop supporting Matthis’ “brothers and sisters” in the military. He claims he’s less of a man because of what the military took from him – he’s less of a man because he continues to lie about his service.

    There are rumors I’ve heard that there are a few members of IVAW who plan to leave the organization because of this video, so watch the video while you still can – the leadership of IVAW tends to cover up their missteps than deal with them.

  • Filthy Hippie Hands Across the Generations in Canada

    TSO found this article in USAToday that highlights how two generations of cowards in Canada found a reason to sing Kumbayah together;

    Deportation, court martial and prison are imminent threats to Hart and about 200 other U.S. troops seeking sanctuary in Canada. Despite being members of an all-voluntary military, some oppose the war in Iraq so strongly they are willing to leave their country behind — much like Americans of an earlier generation who crossed the border in the 1960s and ’70s to avoid serving in Vietnam and built new lives here.

    Some of the draft dodgers and deserters of the Vietnam era, most of them now graying Canadian citizens, are helping the young deserters fight legal battles and find work and housing.

    Of course, that 200 number, like every other number the Left likes to repeat is only an estimate jerked out of someone’s ass during the Bush years and remains a part of their myths. Some of the filthy hippies remain there despite the fact that Jimmy Carter gave them all amnesty as his first official act of his presidency – the day after his inauguration.

    Charlie Diamond was 23 when he fled to Canada from Connecticut in 1968 to avoid going to Vietnam. By then, the war was unpopular in both countries. Americans were marching in the streets in protest and young men were burning their draft cards.

    Now 64 and a Canadian, he is reciprocating for the welcome he found here.

    “I want my country once again to be a refuge from militarism,” says Diamond, who has joined others who refused to fight in Vietnam — they prefer the term “resisters” — in the War Resisters Support Campaign.

    I prefer the term “goat raping coward” for them myself. Every time the conservative government denies permission for the goat raping cowards to stay, the courts block deportation. You’d think that Canadian tax payers would be tired of supporting the absolute ritards we’ve inflicted on them.

    Like Corey Glass – the last we heard, the Army says they’re not looking for him, yet he keeps applying for refugee status. Or Kimberly Rivera, the welfare queen who joined the Army, spent her enlistment bonus on a leather couch and then absconded to Canada with her lazy husband and a litter of kids – and then started procreating on Canada’s dime. Or the literature-ati of the Iraq war generation Joshua Keys, the guy TSO eviscerated several months ago.

    Oh, and don’t forget Bethany Smith/Skyler James whose main complaint is that the Army DIDN’T boot her for Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell when her number was up to deploy.

    You just can’t make this shit up. Hey, it’s your money, Canada.

    Some guy named MOTHAX at the Burn Pit does a better job with the stars of the article.

  • Matthis plays combat veteran again

    Someone sent me this link to the Times Herald Record yesterday about the protest that happened outside of West Point while the President was speaking yesterday. Apparently Matthis was there spreading his usual bullshit;

    Matthis Chiroux of Brooklyn said he agreed to enter the Army as an alternate sentence after “being busted selling mushrooms in Alabama,” but now regrets that choice.

    “I messed up,” he told a crowd of about 90 to 100. “I committed a crime when I went to Afghanistan.”

    Which crime would that be, Matthis? Did you take two scoops of sprinkles from the ice cream bar at the DFac?

    The truth is that according to the Army, Matthis was never stationed in Afghanistan;
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  • Matthis: I may be a rapist, but so are you

    Paul sent us a link to some hipie chick’s website in which she gives dating advice. She copied from Matthis’ Facebook page a typical “Matthis-as-victim” missive about him being better than the rest of us;

    Feels like the anti-war libel machine’s firing up again. It hurts being called a rapist for being the only one in IVAW to describe military sex culture in honest and self-incriminating terms. Read ‘confessions of a war resister’ for clarity on my story.
    It makes me very uncomfortable too, and very ashamed. The shitty thing is, I know just about every male who’s ever been in the military has at least one similar experience, but boys are too afraid to be men and tell the truth about their penises.

    It was rape, no matter what the law says.

    People gotta deal with this. Acts like what I did are normalized rape and cannot be excused. I’m ashamed of myself. Other’s should be ashamed for me.

    But part of why this is so hard for people is because it’s very widespread, both in and out of the military. Prostitution and pornography have become normalized in our society. If I’m a rapist than 40% of the male population in the U.S. have or will be rapists. Within the military, I believe this percentage would be staggaringly higher, and certainly there is a total awareness of its existence. So if this is rape, which it is, what does that mean on a broader scale?
    What sucks is people’s lack of awareness of how critical this is and their willingness to use someone’s story against them, ignoring the issues and projecting their fears instead.

    I’m not a rapist, but that was rape, and rape is happening on a broad scale, and we have a responsibility to stop it.

    Now, did you follow that line of logic – “I raped, but I’m not a rapist, you should feel ashamed for me. 40 Percent of American men rape (don’t ask me for statistics, just accept my hyperbole as fact) a staggeringly high rate of military men rape (because i say so). I’m not a rapist, but I rape women and it’s more than likely your fault. I’m just a victim in all of this because, because, because…well, just because I’m cool enough to come out and admit it.”

    First of all, no one on this side of pro-troops movement is calling Matthis a rapist. He’d better check to see who is saying that stuff – I’m just addressing the issue now because Matthis has brought the issue to the surface. Since he’s in his late twenties, i think it’s about time he stopped blaming everyone else for him being a failure and a sociopath and start accepting some responsibility. By trying to make us all rapists for his childish behavior, Matthis is making himself look foolish.

    It’s like Red Foreman used to say “Your life is hard because you’re a dumbass”.

  • Matthis and collateral ignorance (UPDATED)

    So, if you were a teacher and you invite a guest lecturer to speak to your students, wouldn’t you want them to be subject matter experts? Why would a teacher have IVAW Matthis explain the “Collateral Murder” video to his/her students then?

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    That’s what’s happening across the country today. Three people are touring the country and speaking at high schools in a program called “We Are Not Your Soldiers” – Matthis Chiroux, Robin Long and Emma Kaplan. Matthis and Robin Long refused to deploy to Iraq, Emma is a tool of Maoist World Can’t Wait. None of them has ever been to the wars, yet some teachers feel that they have the expertise to talk about the war to their students.

    The result:

    One young woman started crying, saying her dad was in the military and she wanted to join but now she didn’t want to. Matthis had asked a question and this young woman raised her hand and said, “My dad was probably in a helicopter like that killing children.

    You should introduce your Dad to Matthis.

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    Matthis asked students if the Wikileaks footage looked like a combat zone – they answered “no” of course. He talked about being trained to shot people dressed as civilians, revealing this whole view towards the people of the Middle East. One of the students said “here, if you murder someone you get 25-life but these soldiers are getting away with it over there.”

    With Matthis providing the context, instead of showing the entire video, what kind of response do you expect?

    When Emma asked the students what they thought caused the war, a number of students said imperialism. This is definitely because at least one of their teachers has made a positive impact on them. He uses “A People’s History of the United States” in his classes and also talks about the present day wars. Another example of the power and importance of courageous truth-telling teachers.

    Courageous teacher. Because he adheres to the party line. Sounds like Stalin’s USSR or Mao’s China or Fidel’s Cuba to me.
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    UPDATED: I noticed a list of speakers at the We Are NotYour Soldiers website, and noticed carl Dix was listed. I wrote about Dix last September. He’s the former president of the Revolutionary Communist Party (he’s still an active spokeman of the organization) and he talks about the war to kids in high school alongside Matthis and the other clowns. You’ll notice in the post I connected RCP to World Can’t Wait and IVAW.