As I wrote earlier, MoveOn dot Org is upset that the Republicans are staging a revolt on the floor of the House this week demanding that Speaker Pelosi recognize that this is a crisis and that Congress do something about it instead of taking an well-deserved vacation after accomplishing absolutely nothing in the last two years. Under the gaze of Ulysses S. Grant MoveOn.org tried to protest for $10/gallon gas today. General Grant didn’t look pleased.
Rurik sends me this link from a Colorado Fox affiliate. The “Recreate 68” crowd thinks that their little drama play in Denver is so important that local police are threatening them to stop it;
Members of “Denver CopWatch” and several other activists say they received an email threatening a police riot during the convention.
The top of the email message says “We beat you then, we’ll beat you again,” apparently referencing what is called a “police riot” during the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago.
Part of the email text reads: “Think your tough hippy? Get ready to get down!! We’re celebrating 40 years of beat-down!!”
Denver CopWatch tells us the email came from a Hotmail account and was written by a rank-and-file police officer.
Well, I don’t know how they figure it’s a “rank-and-file police officer” because later in the article;
Some of the people who received the threatening message plan to take the email to the office of the Independent Monitor and they will also ask for an investigation to determine who sent the threatening message.
So the email was sent through a Hotmail account, and no one really knows who sent it…so it must be a cop. First of all, I don’t think a cop even cares about these aged hippies, or when they protest – the Denver police are probably looking forward to the overtime pay. And if they were indeed going to cause trouble, they wouldn’t telegraph ahead. The only people living in 1968 are the folks trying to “recreate” it.
It sounds to me like a publicity stunt to get the media to pay attention to them for a minute or two. I doubt it’ll work. Just like the IVAW, Code Pink and all the rest, they’re old moldy news.
Ron Paulians filled Constitution Avenue this morning to bring the “Second Revolutionary War” to Washington. I’ll admit that it was a pretty big crowd, the website had over 15,000 people pledged to come, but it looked like less than half that many showed up, but it was fairly impressive nonetheless. Well, compared to their gathering in April and the gatherings of other moonbats I’ve witnessed lately.
Concrete Bob hooked me up with a local protest/counterprotest between Move On dot Org and Dick Armey’s Freedom Works. I pretty much knew what was going to happen before I got there. It was going to be in Bethesda on Wisconsin Avenue which connects trendy, yuppie Bethesda with trendier, yuppier Georgetown. But it was much lamer than I could have imagined.
This guy was having more fun than I had.
My buddy, Skye from Midnight Blue sent this video along and asked me to post it. Like I’d turn down Skye for any request. But it’s about Rich Davis, whom I met briefly when I went to West Chester last month – only breifly because Rich was on the move from the time we got there until we left. But, here’s Skye’s video about Mr. Davis;
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It turns out that this is Skye’s entry for the GOP Convention video contest. She says she might find out tomorrow if she’s been selected for the competition. Stay tuned here for news on how you can help her get a free trip to the convention.
Meet Corey Glass.
In 2002, I joined the Indiana National Guard. When I joined, I was told I would only be in combat if there were troops occupying the United States.
I signed up to defend people and do humanitarian work filling sandbags if there was a hurricane. I had no conception I would be deployed to fight on foreign shores.
Way to do your research. If you are volunteering for something that is 8 years long, wouldn’t a certain amount of due diligence be advisable? I mean come on people. He did do his research on desertion though.
So anyway, on leave he runs away to Canada and becomes the cause celebre! The Court there ruled he had to be sent packing, and so the parliament voted in a non-binding resolution that he should be allowed to stay. Meanwhile:
With no word yet from the federal government, neighbours, concerned citizens, residents of Toronto’s Parkdale community, and Iraq War resisters will hold a rally to stop the deportation of Corey Glass, 7 p.m., Thursday, July 3 at the May Robinson Building, 20 West Lodge (1 block east of Lansdowne, north of Queen W.)
All good and fine. Only one miniscule problem:
“He is not considered absent without leave. He is not considered a deserter,” Maj. Nathan Banks, a U.S. army spokesman, told ABC. “He is running for no reason. He is fully welcome in the United States. I cannot believe this is a big deal in Canada.”
How DARE the US Army rob the deserters of their poster child! The gall of such people as Major Nathan Banks!
Meanwhile, we are on day 18 of Matthis Chiroux held hostage at the IVAW house. No doubt law enforcement is failing to move because they are frightened of the statement of Kokesh:
Should any military or law enforcement personnel come here, to MY house, they will not be welcome, nor will they find removing him from the premises to be physically tenable.
That means his combat tour at IVAW house now exceeds that in Iraq and Afghanistan combined by a magnitude of 3.
How we’ve managed to overcome the loss of a sole Army Journalist I think is truly a testament to how versatile we are as an Army. I figured we would have caved by now and begged him: “Help us Matthis Chiroux, you are our only hope.”
The force is strong in these two. Must be the high Midi-chlorians level.
This post brought to you by TSO: a welcome respite from the otherwise intellectually stimulating blogosphere.
Those filthy hippie freaks of the 60s are so steeped in their self-importance, so self-assured they somehow made a difference in this country’s history, they’re back to attacking the veterans of the same era. Dodging their spittle the first time wasn’t enough, I suppose.
It was honest-to-goodness Vietnam veterans who dealt the death blow to John Kerry’s 2004 Presidential bid. Not only did the Swiftboat Vets do him in, but a thousand or so veterans stood outside the Capitol one September afternoon and told America that John Kerry lied while good men died.
In 2005,Vietnam veteran Michael A. Smith spit tobacco juice into the face of Jane Fonda in Saint Louis. Millions of veterans of all eras stood and cheered for Smith doing what we’d all wanted to do for so long. The Left was outraged that one of them was on the receiving end of a differing opinion – that someone would actually disagree with their treasonous, shallow opinions.
The Left trotted out “research” that “proved” that not one Vietnam Veteran had ever been spat upon. They even created an expert out of VVAW member Jerry Lembke who couldn’t really prove it didn’t happen so he pooh-poohed it down to an urban myth – the Left, of course, gobbled up the “research” of this Ph.D. In this Slate article, he provides the unassailable proof that it never happened;
He writes that he never met anybody who convinced him that any such clash took place.
Well, that’s enough proof for me. How ’bout you?
Then, the Left held their last successful anti-war demonstration in January 2007. When they spray-painted steps at the Capitol and defaced the statue at the Navy Memorial, Vietnam Veterans said enough was enough.
They put a call out and thousands of Vietnam veterans flocked to the Vietnam Memorial two months later and formed an impenetrable human shield around “their”memorial.
Ever since then, the Left has been disparaging Vietnam veterans. I don’t know how many exchanges I’ve had with IVAW veterans who think that only their service is relevant and they’ve called Vietnam veterans fat, old has-beens. Even my buddy, TSO, an Afghanistan veteran, was physically threatened by IVAW thugs at Winter Soldier when they found out he was a member of Vets For Freedom.
Every time the Left planned an antiwar protest, Vietnam veterans showed up to stand in stark contrast to the anti-war side. Vietnam veterans announced that what had happened to them when they were fighting our nation’s wars would never happen again.
Support for the Left dwindled from thousands at their protest in January 2007 to hundreds at their last big event in March 2008. Now, they’ve decided that they need to focus their rekindled hate for Vietnam Veterans on John McCain.
It began with Jay Rockefeller;
“McCain was a fighter pilot, who dropped laser-guided missiles from 35,000 feet. He was long gone when they hit,” Rockefeller told the newspaper, which published the article on the interview Tuesday.
“What happened when they [the missiles] get to the ground? He doesn’t know. You have to care about the lives of people. McCain never gets into those issues,” he is quoted saying.
Then Wesley Clark, because he got away with it defending Hillary back in March, disparaged McCain’s Vietnam service using nearly the same words. It’s signaled the Left’s attack poodles that McCain’s Vietnam experience is fair game.
My buddy, Robin at Chickenhawk Express quotes Code Pink’s Medea Benjamin;
“I wouldn’t characterize anybody who fought in Vietnam as a war hero,” said Medea Benjamin, a co-founder of the theatrical anti-war group Code Pink. “In 23 bombing sorties, there must have been civilians that were killed and there’s no heroism to that.”
“Anyone who can’t look back and admit how wrong it was to be in Vietnam and be killing civilians deserves to be challenged,” she said, though she stressed that her group is more focused on McCain’s present support for the war in Iraq than on his past.
At Lew Rockwell, Michael Gaddy uses McCain’s “I’m a war criminal” confession given to his captors against McCain. At the Daily Kos, they ask “What’s so special about McCain’s service?;
Getting shot down, tortured and then doing propaganda for the enemy is not command experience….
But being a Harvard-educated lawyer does?
Politico even exhumes the corpse of Vietnam activist Noam Chomsky for a quote on the subject;
Noam Chomsky, the linguist and activist, said in an e-mail that he thought Americans should question whether McCain’s torture in an unjust war is relevant to his campaign.
“The questions could scarcely even be understood within the reigning intellectual and moral culture — though I don’t doubt that much of the population would understand,” Chomsky said.
Confederate Yankee writes;
We’ve known that Barack Obama’s base among the radical fringe would bring out some long-seated uglinesses in part of the Democratic Party that makes up his base, but I don’t think that anyone could have expected it would come out this soon, this hard, this transparently.
It’s been building for years – since they got away with disparaging Dan Quayle’s and George W. Bush’s National Guard service, it was inevitable.