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Category: Usual Suspects

  • Ann Wright lies

    White House Protest 10-5-2009 (43)a

    Mary Ann Wright, the scraggly old bag in the front of the above picture, is a member of several anti-war groups in the US. She made headlines when she resigned from her State Department job over the invasion of Saddam’s Iraq. Ever since you can watch the former Reserve Colonel populate the ranks of Code Pink, VVAW, VFP and any other crowd of doofuses that needs her to wear a T-shirt in their front ranks.

    I’ve listened to her screeches at a thousand protests in DC and watched her antics on YouTube. Here’s her military record;

    Why the military record? To prove that she really was a military officer once, but you can see for yourself how that has no meaning to her anymore. Every time you see “Col. Ann Wright”, you can just toss that “Col.” shit aside because she certainly has.

    To refresh your memory about some of the things I’ve written about her, here’s a video taken last year. At about 1:32 you can see Wright begin screaming for no reason – there are no Israeli police near her, but she screams like a twelve-year-old girl and then runs around the back of the crowd and wedges herself between a barrier and a light pole and acts like the police shoved her into the predicament. Enjoy;

    She’s such a drama queen. Well, anyway she’s been spouting off that she witnessed the action on Mavi Marmara last week off the coast of Gaza;

    ” Wright says: “I just returned from the Gaza Freedom Flotilla and started my speaking tour last night in NYC to share what I witnessed aboard the flotilla, and what people can do to end the siege.”

    “I witnessed the Israeli attack that killed 9 persons and wounded 50 on the Gaza Flotilla… the murder of nine persons… Tragically, it took another example of disproportionate use of force by the Israeli military that resulted in the deaths of nine innocent civilians to force many governments of the world to call for the Israelis to end the siege of Gaza.”

    Yeah, except she now admits she wasn’t on the Mavi Marmara, but she tries to convince a reporter that she has night vision as well as telescopic vision and saw the whole thing from the Challenger, through the darkness from several hundred yards away. Oh, and she has super-hearing, too because she heard the captain of the Mavi Marmara order people to stop beating the Israeli commandos.

    Lerner: Col. Wright I just want to make sure again – so you actually were on a different boat and did not witness the attack firsthand.

    Wright: That’s correct.

    Lerner: So your witnessing is based on the information that you are getting from the other folks who were there.

    Wright: My witness will be specifically what happened on our ship, the Challenger. And then I can comment on what happened in the very first three or four minutes as the Israeli commandos were trying to board the ship. We saw that from the stern of the ship. But after that that’s when my witnessing from my own eyes of what happened on that ship would end.

    Oh, and she hasn’t bothered to see the YouTube video of the incident. In other words, she knew what she was going to say before the first Israeli commando stepped on the Mavi Marmara.

    Thanks to Ponsdorf for the heads up.

  • Army Experience Center to close doors

    After almost 2 years, $12 million, 40,000 visitors and 235 recruits, the Army Experience Center is shutting it’s doors at Philadelphia’s Franklin Mills Mall. Of course, the hippies are taking credit for the closure;

    Lepley said the demonstrations had nothing to do with the decision to close the center, but activist Elaine Brower, of Staten Island, N.Y., said she was thrilled. She had been particularly galled by the center’s mall location, between a skateboard park and an arcade.

    “We really consider this a major victory for us,” Brower said. “We are happy that they are not going to be in the mall.”

    The statistics should teach the hippies a lesson about their fears. Thirty-nine thousand seven hundred and sixty five visitors to the center decided not to join the Army. So what were the hippies scared of?

    This Ain’t Hell has covered the protests at the Center over the last few years and the protests were as anemic as they were baseless.

    I’d wager that Elaine Brower’s Baby Killer video did more harm to the troops than the Army Experience center ever could.

  • Elaine Brower, Matthis and Cindy Sheehan headed to court

    Someone sent me this link yesterday from Cindy Sheen’s blog about the “Trial of the Century” in which Cindy tries to rally the peace troops to protest against her arrest and subsequent imprisonment for several hours. The most instructive part the post is the statement from Elaine Brower;

    “My son served 3 combat tours as a US Marine. My family suffered tremendous strain and stress with each re-deployment, and we were lucky to see him come home alive, but broken in a way that no one understands except the small percentage of families who are asked to make sacrifices for the illegal, illegitimate and immoral wars and occupations that this government refuses to end. I was participating in a peaceful protest allegedly safeguarded under the first amendment against furthering the deaths of millions of people. It is an outrage that we have no redress of our grievances, and spent 52 hours in jail because of it.”

    Notice how quickly she drags out her son’s service as shield to hide behind. That’s a bit different than her sentiments in the video I linked the other day in which she called some helicopter pilots on Coney Island “baby killers”. I guess it’s OK for her to disparage the service of other mothers’ sons, while she hides behind her own son’s honorable service.

    Hypocrite.

    The thing about Brower is that she’s proud of the fact that her politics are the polar opposite of her ex-husband, her parents, virtually everyone she knows. I get the feeling that she is being contrary strictly for the sake of being contrary. Like a two-year-old child.

  • Pelosi heckled by Teaparty activists

    Oh, no, it’s Code Pink and some left wing activists heckling the Speaker of the House. Last year ahe whined that right wingers scared her, and that insurance companies were behind the protesters. Which big money industry is behind this;

    When the Secret Service advises he to leave because the protesters are throwing stuff at her, she ratchets up her courage. Last year she was sniveling over the shouts, this year she’s brave in the face of missiles.

    I guess Code Pink for Peace has become part of the rent-a-mob crowd since protesting George Bush and whichever war happens to be in the news is unprofitable these days.

  • Elaine Brower calls the troops ‘Baby Killers’

    Brower and matthis burn the flag
    You may remember that I introduced you to Elaine Brower, the Staten Island Blue Star Mom who runs the area’s Military Families Speak Out chapter, who stood with Matthis when he burned a flag, while shouted something about ‘this what we think of this country’ or something equally childish. She also pays for the blog that Matthis doesn’t use anymore.

    Well, on Saturday, Tommy dropped off this video taken out on Coney Island by Elaine Brower in which you can hear her call the military helicopter pilots “Baby Killers”.

    Now, Brower’s son, a Marine sergeant, has done more than three tours of Afghanistan and Iraq. Does she think her son is a baby killer, too? Or just the whole military except her son? More than likely, Brower, who opens up nearly every speech with the fact that her son is in the military doesn’t realize that she includes he son in the ‘baby killer’ crowd. Or maybe only Army personnel are ‘baby killers’.

    Or maybe Brower is such an idiot that she doesn’t even know what she’s saying these days.

  • Matthis: Vacation or jail?

    So Matthis is trying to make up his mind whether he should fulfill his obligations or totally blow off jail in favor of a Caribbean vacation in regards to his arrest in Highland Falls during the President’s speech there. Guess which way he’s leaning;

    I called the District Attorney’s Office this morning, but they said the responsibility for Matthis and his community service will fall to the probation department, who won’t have responsibility until the disposition of the case has been determined.

    I hope someone in Orange County, New York is listening so they can hold the local justice officials’ feet to the fire on this. It seems to me that if Matthis leaves the country while under jurisdiction of the case, he could be in serious trouble – federal pound-you-in-the-ass-prison kind of trouble. Sure would hate to see that happen.

  • IVAW Convention at Huston-Tillotson University

    Next month is the annual IVAW Convention. This year it will be held at Huston-Tillotson University in Austin, TX. Here’s what they say about the purpose of their convention;

    All members of Iraq Veterans Against the War are highly encouraged to attend convention. In addition to building relationships with other members, we will be discussing the most important issues facing our GI and veterans movement.

    Members will have a chance to discuss lessons learned, brainstorm innovative ideas, and develop a common orientation towards the goals and strategy of IVAW for the upcoming year.

    Members will also meet with the current board and candidates, elect members for open board positions, review the status of our organization including finances, and participate in active duty outreach at Fort Hood.

    Key allies and supporters are also welcome to attend convention but are responsible for the cost of their own registration and travel arrangements. We are happy to recommend housing accomodations near the convention site.

    Preference for on campus housing is given to members and those with disabilities.

    Sounds like a joyful reunion of all of the folks the military has divested itself of the last few years. If you’d like to call Huston-Tillotson Univ., here’s their phone and fax respectively; Telephone at 512.505.3000, Fax at 512.505.3190.

    Oh, and there’ll be a special guest. I’m not sure if he’s invited or just in town;

    Yes, our favorite derelict and reject from the human race (and frequent troll) Carl Webb plans on crashing the convention. Let’s see to what degree Webb is welcomed. I wonder if the leeches and pedophiles from VFP and Military Families Speak Out will be having their convention at the same place and time this year like last year in College Park to keep the kiddies in (party) line. Since that’s his AO, you can be sure Doug Zachary will be there to raid the coffers at every opportunity.

    Sounds like oodles of fun.

  • Navy puts kibosh on IVAW-UXO concert

    The latest money-raising scheme of the Iraq Veterans Against the War is their UXO Tour. UXO means unexploded ordinance – hinting that veterans back from the war are going to go off any minute now. Well their first concert was on a cruise ship in New York City and it was timed to coincide with Fleet Week when the most active duty service members, mostly Marines and Navy personnel, would be there.

    Well of course, the Navy forbade their people to go to this concert and IVAW is mightily upset. I won’t link to them, because they block traffic to their site from this blog anyway, but here’s the “press release” they link.

    “The military chain of command has no right to micromanage what service-members are doing in their off time”, said Nick Morgan, an Iraq veteran and UXO organizer. “They have no right to censor the information that’s available to them, especially when it’s within the confines of the law.”

    You remember Nick Morgan, don’t you? He was the IVAW member who got stomped by horse-mounted police at the last Presidential debate on Long Island. I guess he’s survived.

    Another organizer was junior rocket scientist Bobby Joe Grubb;

    Grubb, another IVAW member who has never seen Iraq, said;

    “We were incredibly successful in reaching out to these Sailors and Marines,” says Grubb. “We made solid contact with those we met while doing outreach”. He said many of them were interested in getting more involved in the active-duty and veteran-led anti-war movement.

    But then the Navy forbade Navy personnel from attending. So I called the Navy in New York City and spoke to a PAO LT Sean P. Riordan. LT Riordan told me the reason the Navy restricted attendance at this particular GI Resistance Concert is because all of the Marines and Sailors were in New York in an official capacity and they were all in uniform, so the Navy decided that attendance at a GI Resistance Concert in NYC during Fleet Week in uniform would be inappropriate according to military guidelines.

    Morgan also added that these concerts are helping to bring legal and mental-health resources to members of the military. “It’s imperative for these veteran-led efforts to be accessed by active-duty troops to make up for the lacking support they get from the current administration, the Department of Defense, and the Veterans Administration.”

    Yeah, that’s why they had a concert. They could hand out brochures describing the help IVAW provides soldiers – like homeless Trey Kindlinger (a former member of the Navy) and legal help like James Branum. And if the concert was about providing veterans services, why is it called a GI Resistance Concert?

    The Sailors and Marines weren’t “off” the whole time they were in NY, Nick Morgan, neither did the Navy restrict information. You could talk to them all you wanted.

    The Navy made the correct call and IVAW is left to cry into their empty glasses because they overplayed their hand.