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Category: Shitbags

  • Tears for Brad Manning

    Glen Greenwald writes in Salon that Bradley Manning isn’t very happy with the fruits of his treasonous release of sensitive documents to Wikileaks;

    For reasons that appear completely punitive, he’s being denied many of the most basic attributes of civilized imprisonment, including even a pillow or sheets for his bed (he is not and never has been on suicide watch). For the one hour per day when he is freed from this isolation, he is barred from accessing any news or current events programs. Lt. Villiard protested that the conditions are not “like jail movies where someone gets thrown into the hole,” but confirmed that he is in solitary confinement, entirely alone in his cell except for the one hour per day he is taken out.

    Well, Manning’s discomfort is my pleasure. See, he released that information without a thought of lives and families he destroyed or the damage he’s done to our war effort. For something as simple as being spurned by his lover. And I’m supposed to feel sorry for him – the opposite true. I revel in his discomfort.

    He were released into the general population, given a roomie and mingled with the other inmates, he might get his little ass beat. I’m sure there are criminals locked in the Quantico facility who would want to make a name for themselves.

    No sheet or pillow? Poor guy. My only experience in confinement was when I was jailed for kidnapping in Panama (it’s a long story, suffice it to say that I didn’t do it), my bed was a newspaper on a concrete floor, my pillow was my arm and my sheet was another newspaper. I left my cell once a week for a shower, otherwise I was in the cell 24/7. I was released before my trial, because like I said, I didn’t do it. So I really can’t feel much sympathy for Manning.

    Thanks to BooRadley for the link. And for making my night.

  • Gun gets past TSA. A gun for Pete’s sake.

    All of this blather about emptying our water bottles, taking off our shoes, submitting to full body scans, crotch pats, leaving behind our hand creams…it’s all just that. Blather. (ABC News link);

    Last fall, as he had done hundreds of times, Iranian-American businessman Farid Seif passed through security at a Houston airport and boarded an international flight.

    He didn’t realize he had forgotten to remove the loaded snub nose “baby” Glock pistol from his computer bag. But TSA officers never noticed as his bag glided along the belt and was x-rayed. When he got to his hotel after the three-hour flight, he was shocked to discover the gun traveled unnoticed from Houston.

    “It’s just impossible to miss it, you know. I mean, this is not a small gun,” Seif told ABC News. “How can you miss it? You cannot miss it.”

    You have to ask yourself how an Iranian-American can get a loaded .40 caliber Glock past TSA security. I think I know.

    Thanks to Old Trooper and ROS for the link.

  • DC Metro to begin random searches

    The DC Metro railway system is planning on beginning random bag searches on passengers according to the Washington Examiner;

    Metro Police Chief Michael Taborn said the coordinated effort with the Transportation Security Administration was not in response to a specific threat but was part of a continuing effort to keep the system safe from explosives. Boston, New York and New Jersey transit officials do similar searches, according to the agency.

    Ya know I’d support Metro on this, if they’d shown the slightest interest in security of the transportation system in the last nine years. The only place I saw transportation cops was when they were driving around town in their SUVs. I can count on one hand the times I saw cops on the platforms or on the trains even though I rode the trains almost every day until last year. That includes on 9-11 when a half million people were trying to get out of town that fateful day.

    Up to this point, the only thing that Metro did after 9-11 was remove the trash bins and the newspaper vending machines on the platforms. Now they want to give the illusion of security by harassing passengers. If they were truly interested in security, they’d sell off their SUVs and make their patrol officers patrol the actual places they want to secure.

    I think the American traveling public is fed up with the theater and harassment that has become the hallmark of American security. How about actually making us secure for a change. It’s only their job.

  • 100+ protesters arrested says VFP

    The protesters at the White House yesterday, some of whom were veterans can’t get any respect from the media. The protesters reported that over a hundred “veterans” were arrested yesterday in front of the White House. I put the word “veterans” in parenthesis because the only names I saw of arrestees were names like Daniel Ellsburg, Debra Sweet, and Elaine Brower – none of whom are veterans. But this comes from Ward Reilly;

    Apparently, being a veteran means you can break the law with impunity to these clods. If you look at the video I posted yesterday, you can see they forced their way through barriers erected by the police to protect themselves and the White House, they chained themselves to the White House fence and they through postcards over the White House fence. All illegal.

    So, Ward, veterans fought to keep this a nation of laws, not a nation of lawbreakers. Using protester math, though, there were probably a few dozen arrested and Ward extrapolated that to over a hundred.

    Anyway, there’s no mention of the protests or the arrests in the Times or Post this morning, although the Post mentions that one man was arrested on Capitol Hill for assaulting the Capitol police. But nothing about the smelly hippies.

  • Matthis at Tufts; the final chapter

    Some of you may remember the article that was written for Veterans’ Day at Tufts Daily which was a cry-fest for poor little Matthis. You may also remember the letter his father sent in response to the article. Today, to their credit, the editorial staff of Tufts Daily published a response from a Vijay Saraswat, veteran, a former marine and a student at Tufts.

    The Daily could have interviewed any number of veterans at Tufts and the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy who would have given a balanced and reasoned account of military culture.

    […]

    That the Daily’s editors gave Matthis Chiroux a solitary platform in the first place is nothing short of outrageous. Even cursory research would have revealed fundamental inconsistencies between his statements, actions and service record which should have immediately tabled any consideration of a profile piece. And while Matthis Chiroux’s actual tour of duty deserves acknowledgement, his recent shameful actions and disingenuousness dishonor the legacy of service and sacrifice embodied by past and present members of the Armed Forces.

    Vijay wrote us last week and asked permission to use some of the research we’ve done in the nearly 3 years Matthis has held the spotlight on himself and he sent us a draft of this article before Thanksgiving. We heartily applaud his efforts. You should read “Setting the record straight on Matthis Chiroux“.

  • Wikileaks slam US diplomatic efforts

    So Bradley Manning, the wikileaker, really did it this time. Now it turns out that his document dump earlier this year before his arrest included communications from the Obama State Department. No one except the anti-war crowd got upset over the “collateral murder” video, we all collectively ignored the second dump, but now, heavens to Betsy, he’s whittled away the facade of smart diplomacy.

    The New York Times outlines some of the communications which include Saudi Arabia eager to convince the US to attack Iran, bribes to isolated kingdoms to take Guantanamo prisoners, the reticence of our partners in the war against terror to shut down terror cells in their own countries.

    Here’s a video from Fox News;

    All because Bradley Manning broke up with his boyfriend. A private first class with a troubled past had this kind of access to classified material. Clearly, military clearances need to be reviewed more often than they are, especially among first-termers and lower enlisted ranks. And potential drama queens that have access to millions of classified documents that they might release to super-gay looking hackers when their main squeeze takes away the lovin’.

  • Kyle Barwan arrested for Fraud and Stolen Valor (Updated).

    Kyle Barwan arrested for Fraud and Stolen Valor (Updated).

    Yep the same person that was posted here for posing as a Army Officer has been arrested. Here is a photo from the side, I have seen the patch before but I cannot Id the unit off of the top of my head.

    Police in Knox County are holding Kyle Barwan of Crestwood, Illinois on charges of possession of cocaine and impersonating a public servant, and even more charges may be coming.

    I want to thank Smoke523 for bringing this to our attention. There is also a video included with the story that is too big to post.

    Just a reminder this is the Kyle posted this on August 28th 2010a few months back.

    By the way I impersonated to get into a bar and got caught I was being stupid I’ve learned from that I never stole any medals from my grandfather he earned those not me I have no right having those I have more respect then that for my family all I did was were the wrong rank no shiny medals no fake Iraq stories the army sniper blog was for my friend mike who was an army sniper who lost his life in Iraq back in 2007 I put that there for his memory I’m so sorry for all of this mess ladies and gentlemen my sincere apology to you all

    Or the people that he Scammed

    My family and friends were victims of Kyle Barwan..if that is even his name. He stayed in my house stole from me and my family, racked up debt that I can not afford to pay, and told unbelievable tales before I told him to get out. He was sleeping with underage girls and even told everyone he was going to be a daddy. I began to question when he did not have a military ID and said that his “orders” were constantly being changed at the last minute. He had multiple fake ID’s and I feel such anger that he would take advantage of people, like my family, that honor and hold all military personnel in the highest regard.

    Update: I got a photo from An Old Friend that shows him in ACU s as a 1st LT. It looks like he is wearing a Ranger Battalion Scroll above another unit’s ID. Because even the President’s hundred tap is being close to that big.



    Seen wearing ACUs, a beret (With 1st Lt. insignia), a combat infantry badge, ranger tab, First Cavalry patch, Jump wings, and a combat infantry badge.

    Update: goes under the following names/usernames.

    Kyle Reacher, Kyle Felucifer, Klutch, Klutch_Reborn.

  • “We have feminized the Medal of Honor” WTF?

    Yea, you read that right, a douche bag columnist for the American Family Association Bryan Fischer seems to think so. Here is is Bio.

    “When we think of heroism in battle, we used the think of our boys storming the beaches of Normandy under withering fire, climbing the cliffs of Pointe du Hoc while enemy soldiers fired straight down on them, and tossing grenades into pill boxes to take out gun emplacements. That kind of heroism has apparently become passé when it comes to awarding the Medal of Honor. We now award it only for preventing casualties, not for inflicting them.”

    Really? Then explain cases like Desmond T. Doss who not only earned the Medal of Honor while saving lives, he was a conscientious objector. (The first of two confirmed so far)

    It gets better, his excuse is that it was be cause he based his baseless claims on someone’s else baseless claims that it must be true.

    Fischer based his claim on a line in a column in The Wall Street Journal by William McGurn, a former speechwriter for President George W. Bush. In the midst of his high praise for Giunta’s heroism, McGurn noted that rather than “Rambos decorated for great damage inflicted on the enemy,” every Medal of Honor awarded from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan “has been for an effort to save life.”

    In fact, that’s not exactly the case. The official account of the first Medal of Honor given for service in Iraq, to Army Sgt. First Class Paul R. Smith, shows how, among other courageous acts, Smith “braved hostile enemy fire to personally engage the enemy with hand grenades and anti-tank weapons,” losing his life in the process.”

    It is like he is activity ignoring every single MOH award write up? The things people will write when playing arm chair general.