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Category: Iraq Veterans Against the War

  • Interview with Kokesh’s opponent Tom Mullins

    We at This Ain’t Hell have been following Adam Kokesh for almost three years now and anticipated his run at Congress. Now other bloggers have picked up on our ground work. Cassy Fiano interviewed Kokesh’s opponent Tom Mullins in the New Mexico 3rd District Republican primary. Here are some excerpts from Fiano’s questioning;

    Cassy Fiano: What are your thoughts on Adam Kokesh’s anti-military activities?

    Tom Mullins: I disagree with Adam’s positions regarding our military. I support Guantanamo Bay being open. We are not occupiers. Adam’s activities offend the many veterans, including my father, that I have met. We are not the world’s policeman. We have a volunteer military. Our military men and women deserve support from our elected officials and all members of the American public. I don’t understand how Adam’s actions are “Constitutional”. Adam is nothing more than an Internet Celebrity and a War Protester. I don’t believe New Mexicans agree with his views or his methods to share or voice them.

    CF: What made you decide to run for office?

    TM: I have never run for nor held public office. I have watched silently as our country is being destroyed. I became more active in the past few years… but became frustrated. When asked what I could do, I decided the most important thing I could do would be to take away the job of the person making these decisions and responsible for holding the executive branch accountable. This is personal. My children’s future and our nation’s future is at stake. I’ve already served as a Tea Party organizer, and now is the time for me to serve our country and New Mexico as its next Congressman.

    I’ve been battling along side Bev Perlson, Concretebob and Suzanne, among others on The 9-12 Project website over Kokesh’s candidacy for the last two days. It’s clear to me that Kokesh’s supporters are nothing but a bunch of Ron Paul retreads with screen names like Thomas Paine and Thomas Jefferson with mud-puddle-deep intellect. They use the Constitution as a shield to protect them from serious discussion. They’re fond of saying brilliant things like “Kokesh is the Real Deal” without any idea of what might actually be a real deal.

    This fellow Tom Mullins appears to be a genuine Republican whose heart is in the right place. I rhink he deserves our support. You can become a fan of Mullins on Facebook and donate to his campaign at his website.

    Thanks to Ben for the link to the interview.

    ADDED: An update from the NM GOP state preprimary convention;

    3rd Congressional District

    • Tom Mullins – 80.5 percent

    • Adam Kokesh – 19.5 percent

    It’s not clear at this point if Kokesh has earned his way on the ballot. There’s some sort of recount going on and there’s also a question about whether numbers should be rounded up. Stay tuned.

    Apparently, a candidate needs to garnish 20% to appear on the ballot. Thanks to my mole in NM.

  • IVAW’s evil plot to destroy the world

    OK, maybe that’s a bit of hyperbole, but it’s becoming more and more clear that they would destroy the world if they could. Luckily for us, they don’t have two brain cells between them that they could rub together and accomplish it. Kind of like the Somali pirates.

    Take Marc Hall, for instance. I’ve written about his plight before. Just after Nidal Hasan gunned down 13 of his fellow soldiers, Marc Hall, now called the “Stop Loss Rapper, decided to communicate a threat by recording a rap song in which he promised to “lock and load” a thirty-round magazine in his M4 rifle and kill all of his leadership in the grade of E-7 and above.

    IVAW, in concert with “Courage to Resist”, has decided to “raise money” for Hall’s defense – except Hall is represented by military lawyers (because his trial is happening in Iraq and his National Lawyers Guild attorneys aren’t there). So why are they raising money for his defense? Because they raise money for everyone’s defense…money that somehow ends up Matthis Chiroux’s nose. But the point here is that these “veterans” are doing their best to undermine the military.

    And don’t forget about Geoffrey “Stolen Valor” Millard and his new bunk mate Steve Yoczik who plan to dismantle the DC National Guard for their summer Marxist project.

    They went to the DC Armory for a job fair where they scoped out their potential targets (in my opinion, they should have been investigating jobs, but that’s just me).

    Geoff and I took note of ideal spots to set up a table, as well as wheat pasting sites, but what stood out to us most of all was the complete lack of acknowledgment from the soldiers present. They saw us in our T-shirts, that much is for sure, but no real reaction of any kind and no one approached us.

    When we went inside to further test a potential reaction, I couldn’t help but laugh at all of the “mean machines” that were set up, including a chopper that had the ACU design on the seat, accompanied by the obligatory American flag wrapped on the fuel tank. That and the tricked out humvees, the huge tow truck, and even the mobile Army Experience Center (yes, a huge trailer with TVs on the outside and a walk-in section with the warning “Contains graphic scenes of war and acts of violence” (or some variation of that) really made me want to re-up…. almost as much as I want to scrub my face with Brillo pads…

    Lemme see…no one approached you, there was no reaction…and you were offended by the music and displays. Maybe that’s all because you aren’t welcomed there, because you don’t belong there. You belong in the IVAW House where you can stroke off to Rage Against the Machine, and tales of “almost” scoring a hairy-legged hippie chick at the Winter Soldier “testimonies. Or, in Millard’s case, almost scoring a hairy legged hippie dude.

    But this is a day-in-the-life of two deserters at the IVAW House – doing their best to undermine the order and discipline of the military. To try and bring everyone down to their cowardly level.

    Has anyone heard Adam Kokesh, congressional candidate in New Mexico and former resident of the IVAW House, condemn his former roomates and urine hoarders for their anti-American shenanigans?

    Editor’s Note: Links to IVAW from This Ain’t Hell probably don’t work since the cry babies have blocked us, however, you can copy and paste the links in a new browser if you really need to see their pages.

  • CPT Bailey on Liddy Show

    Navy Captain Larry Baily, a Navy SEAL who spends a lot of his personal time and assets busting phony SEALs, will be on the G. Gordon Liddy radio show today. You can listen to it on the interwebbythingies. Apparently, Captain Bailey will be discussing Adam Kokesh’s candidacy run in New Mexico.

    The one time I’ve talked with Captain Baily on the phone, he had just finished telling a widow that her recently deceased husband wasn’t eligible for burial in Arlington despite the years of lies her husband had told her. He’s a straight shooter and a rock hard patriot.

    Below the jump is an open letter Captain Bailey sent out to New Mexico voters;
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  • The dichotomy of Kokesh

    So this reporter from the Santa Fe Reporter by the name of Corey Pein sent me two of his articles on Kokesh and his Congressional campaign in New Mexico. Me? I’m tired of writing and reading about Kokesh, honestly. And readership interest is falling on the subject – but every time I try to get out they pull me back in. Take this tongue bath;

    Meet the new face of the Republican Party in northern New Mexico.

    The face is engraved on a silver coin that is available for a $50 donation, but worth approximately $15 melted down.

    The face is smiling. The face has a neatly trimmed beard. The face belongs to a man wearing a necktie. He stands beneath the Statue of Liberty. His rolled-up shirtsleeves reveal tattoos on each forearm. One says USMC. The other says IVAW, which stands for Iraq Veterans Against the War.

    The arms hoist a banner that says “R3VOLution.”

    Funny, but everytime I think of Kokesh’s face, I remember the day I took these pictures of him less than two years ago;

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  • Getting the Kokesh story right

    I’m beginning to believe that Judge Napolitano is a useless hack. In the following video, he introduces IVAW’s Kokesh as a captain in the Marine Corps. To his credit, Kokesh corrects Napolitano and tells Napolitano he was a sergeant in Iraq – but he neglects to explain he left the Marine Corps Reserves as a corporal. It reflects poorly on Napolitano’s research, however that he introduced Kokesh as a captain. If he knew the correct Kokesh story, would he even have Kokesh on his show?

    I’ve tried to contact Napolitano on countless occasions to tell him whi he’s interviewing, but I’ve had no response so I tend to believe that Napolitano is ignoring the truth about Kokesh.

    Just so you know Kokesh, here’s a link to a brand new post at 9/11 Families for a Safe & Strong America which pulls together a bunch of my posts about Kokesh along with information from across the blogosphere.

  • More Stewart Rhodes, Adam Kokesh, Oathkeeper and IVAW

    Bev Perlson of Band of Mothers has been writing to me this weekend about the Oathkeepers and what she saw at CPAC two weeks ago. Apparently, they had Michael Maresco manning the Oathkeepers booth at CPAC for a while. Michael Moresco was the 2009 Oathkeepers Citizen Activist of the Year for his cross country bike ride from Liberty Island to Alcatraz, ostensibly to symbolize our journey from Freedom to Fascism. Along his route, Maresco handed out Ron Paul propaganda. I guess that’s why no one ever heard of him.

    Anyway, Maresco told Bev that he recruited Adam Kokesh to run for that seat in New Mexico. When Bev confronted Stewart Rhodes about Maresco’s claim, Rhodes denied that he even knew Maresco – that’s pretty strange since it seems to me that the Citizen Activist of the Year of Oathkeepers, who happened to be working at Oathkeepers’ table at CPAC would be someone the leader of Oathkeepers would know.

    Bev went on to tell me that Larry Baily, a relatively famous phony SEAL buster, told Rhodes that he should drop his support for Kokesh’s congressional campaign and announce that on the Oathkeepers’ website. Of course, Rhodes did no such thing.

    Bev went a step farther and called the New Mexico Republicans;

    I called the Republican party in New Mexico and spoke with a girl by the name of Tiffany. I told her I was calling about Kokesh and that I understand they can’t stop him from running in the Primary as a Republican, but they sure should issue a statement that they do not support a candidate that actively works to impede the efforts of our recruters and our troops. Tiffany told me they are gettting so many calls like mine, they are aware of the problem, and are looking into their legal options to separate themselves from Kokesh.

    Jonn, I hope you will post the phone number on your website to the GOP in New Mexico and ask folks to call. We need to keep the pressure up on the Republicans over this.

    Here’s the contact information for the Republicans in New Mexico;

    Mailing Address:
    P.O Box 94083
    Albuquerque, NM 87199

    Office Address:
    5150-A San Francisco Rd. NE
    Albuquerque, NM 87109

    Phone: 505-298-3662
    Fax: 505-292-0755
    Email: administrator(at)gopnm(dot)org

    Several readers have emailed me and asked me if they should continue their membership in Oathkeepers. I’ll tell everyone that it’s your choice what you do with your money, but me personally, any organization that ignores Adam Kokesh’s transgressions so that they can have a pretty candidate that mouths the words they want to hear is not one to which I would belong. Kokesh has proved himself to be a poor NCO and a poor citizen. He’s shown that he disregards laws he doesn’t like, and he has no problem lying. He’s covered up his misbehavior on his blog to facilitate his campaign. The DD214 he posted on his campaign website misleads voters.

    And that’s what Oathkeepers supports – just because Kokesh is a Paulian.

    Me? I’m going to start checking out ever member of Oathkeepers from Stuart Rhodes through the Board of Directors down to the newest member. Everyone that claims they have military service is going to have me crawling up their ass for proof. So you Oathkeepers better get your narratives straight.

    And, oh, Michael Maresco, let’s see how you have membership in Oathkeepers since I can’t find a military record, nor a First Responer’s record. Are you OK’s activist of the year just because you’re a propagandist for Ron Paul?

    Added: It appears that we’re having an impact on Oathkeeper’s support. Ol’ Broad at An Old Broad’s Ramblings has just dissolved her relationship with them because of the post I wrote last week..

  • DC IVAW House seeking roomie for criminal enterprise

    It seems that Geoffrey “Stolen Valor” Millard and Stevie “Flake off to Canada” Yoczik have a new plan to act like dorks. Apparently, they think they can convince enough Joes in the DC National Guard to shirk their responsibilities like they did (Millard and Yoczik both went AWOL – Millard went to mommy’s house and Yoczik went to Canada).

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    Is there a lawyer out there who can explain to me how plotting to make the DC National Guard non-deployable isn’t treason? Of course, two pansy-assed punks who absconded and deserted would be anxious to drag a bunch of people down to their sub-whale shit level, but isn’t there some kind of law that covers this kind of criminal association to subvert our national security?

    And $600/month for a room in DC is cheap? I lived a few blocks from the DC IVAW house and had a pretty nice and modern two-bedroom apartment for $1200 – you just need a room mate to share half the rent and you wouldn’t have to store your egg salad sandwich next to Adam Kokesh’s urine.

  • Mother Jones on Oathkeepers

    In the comments, BOHICATwentyTwo left this link to a Mother Jones article about the Oathkeepers. It was written by Justine Sharrock who visited us last year when she erred in writing an article about Adam Kokesh. Sharrock quotes folks like Glen Beck and Lou Dobbs as they praise the Oathkeepers, but I think Beck and Dobbs don’t know Oathkeepers like we know Oathkeepers.

    In fact, in a companion photo essay of the Oathkeepers, Mother Jones calls them “The Tea Party’s Military Wing” and they tout the participation in the Tea Partys. But on the last last page of the article, she quotes founder Stuart Rhodes, former Ron Paul Congressional staffer on the IVAW;

    After an Oath Keeper who is also a member of Iraq Veterans Against the War touted IVAW repeatedly on Oath Keepers’ Web forum, Rhodes deleted the guy’s online testimonial. “The IVAW have their own totalitarian mindset,” he told me. “I don’t like communists any more than I like Nazis.”

    Yeah, Rhodes didn’t delete the online testimonial voluntarily. It took four days for members of This Ain’t Hell to convince Rhodes to take the testimonial down. It began here and ended here. What hasn’t ended, however is Oathkeepers’ support of Adam Kokesh which Bev Perlson told us earlier today. So, apparently Rhodes gets his marching orders from Ron Paul…still.

    When the Oathkeepers first came to my attention, right after the 2008 election, it smelled a little fishy to me. All of the American servicemembers I know don’t need a group to tell them to uphold their oath – in fact, I take offense that Stuart Rhodes thinks they will not. Supposedly Rhodes was a member of the military – does he honestly think that the mothers’ sons with whom he served needed a boy scout troop to tell them to obey the law?

    Maybe some of the assclowns who Sharrock interviewed in that article need adult supervision, but they are the exception, not the rule.

    The bottom line is this; the Tea Party Movement, Glen Beck, Lou Dobbs, Dick Armey and any other Conservative group needs to back away from the Oathkeepers and their secret alliance with IVAW unless they want to be tainted by that special brand of crazy that comes with being a paulian.