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  • Kokesh won’t quit (Updated)

    As I predicted, Adam Kokesh, IVAW diva, announced that, although he could only attract 16% of the delegates in new Mexico’s 3rd District GOP pre-primary race, he won’t quit;

    “Our campaign is energized, and we’re committed to winning the primary election,” Kokesh said in a news release. “We are a grassroots campaign, and over the next two and half months we will be calling on our many supporters to help us win this important election, and do our part to unseat the Luján-Pelosi-Reid Congress and stop the Obama agenda.”

    Typical Ron Paul tactic – ignore that fact that he’s unelectable and keep charging ahead with a useless campaign until the party is so fractured that the Democrat wins. Then he’ll claim that its the Party’s and the media’s fault because no would would crown him the candidate despite the wish of voters. Someone explain to me how Kokesh, who now has the support of one in seven voters, is going to turn that around in 10 weeks – he’s already been campaigning for a year, but a couple more weeks is all he needs.

    I wish someone would start a nationwide remedial math class for Paulians.

    Thanks to COB6 for the link.

    UPDATED: Below the jump is Kokesh’s latest campaign letter forwarded to us by a former IVAW member;

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  • ACLU, law community undermine our security

    If you haven’t read Debra Burlingame’s article at the Wall Street Journal entitled “Gitmo’s Indefensible Lawyers “, you really need to read the whole thing. Ms. Burlingame recounts the story of lawyers from Paul, Weiss legal firm’s distribution of Amnesty International-manufactured propaganda to their clients in order to undermine order and discipline among their clients in Guantanamo. The same propaganda that Anthony Camerino endorses for his own work with ACLU.

    Majeed Abdullah Al Joudi, the detainee in whose cell the brochure was first found, told guards he received the brochure from his lawyer. An investigation by JTF-GTMO personnel revealed that Julia Tarver Mason, a partner at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, had sent it to Al Joudi and eight of the firm’s other detainee clients through “legal mail”—a designation for privileged lawyer-client communications that are exempt from screening by security personnel. Worse, the investigation showed that Ms. Mason’s clients passed it to other detainees not represented by Paul, Weiss lawyers. In all, more than a dozen detainees received a copy.

    The Amnesty International brochure, handed out at a human rights conference in London, was a political advocacy screed in clear violation of that order, which was formulated to protect force security. Maj. Gen. Hood made a command decision. He banned the Paul, Weiss lawyers from access to Guantanamo. The DOJ notified the firm.

    In fact, from al Qaeda’s perspective, the Amnesty International brochure was better than the Manchester Manual. It cued detainees that the abuses at Abu Ghraib “were not an aberration.” The brochure told them that images from the Iraqi prison were consistent with “numerous allegations of torture and ill-treatment reported from detention centres in Afghanistan, Iraq and at Guantanamo Bay.”

    The message to the detainees was clear: If you want to claim you are being tortured, here is a vast menu of examples from which to choose.

    And of course, it can only get worse under the current administration who are only too willing to capitulate to their friends, the litigation-hungry cretins at the powerful law firms.

    Other incidents listed in the FOIA material included: a lawyer who was caught in the act of making a hand-drawn map of a detention camp’s layout, including guard towers; a lawyer who sent a letter to his detainee client telling him that “we cannot depend on the military to do the right thing” and conveying his message of support to other detainees who were not his clients; lawyers who posted photos of Guantanamo security badges on the Internet; lawyers who provided news outlets with “interviews” of their clients using questions provided in advance by the news organization; and a lawyer who gave his client a list of all the detainees.

    Makes you wonder why we even allow these imbeciles near detainees, doesn’t it?

    ADDED: At Ace of Spades, DrewM sets the lawyers of the John Adams Project straight.

  • Kokesh’s final delegate count?

    Someone just emailed me that the final count of delegates in the Kokesh vs. Mullins GOP primary battle is 16% to 84%. Candidates need 20% to get on the ballot. I haven’t found any confirmation of these numbers yet – so it’s all we’ve got. But the tipster is the same source that beat the Santa Fe news Saturday.

    As Sparky pointed out the other day, Kokesh can still get on the ballot for the primary by collecting 2,000 signatures. But really, what would be the point? Obviously New Mexico Republicans won’t vote for him – overwhelminly. Even if he’d made the 20% mark, it’s still and indicator of how little chance he had in the primaries – like Ron Paul claiming he had massive support, raising astounding amounts of cash and still not polling above 15 in actual elections.

    Now, if Kokesh is a real Republican like he’s been telling us, I expect he’ll come out and endorse Mullins – obviously the Republican choice for Congress in New Mexico’s 3rd District. If Ben Ray Lujan, the Democrat incumbant, is as bad as Kokesh has telling us, he should want to unseat Lujan more than indulge his ego, right?

    So, here I am, holding my breath waiting for Kokesh to do the right thing for the party he embraced.

  • 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.

  • Massa gropes us all

    Before you read this, go read David Bellavia’s five issues with Massa. It’s a masterpiece and one of the reasons I’m considering canonizing Bellavia.

    TSO sends us a link from the Washington Post about Eric Massa, the victim of “Old Guy” hate crimes perpetrated by his staffer. The last three paragraphs of the Washington Post article;

    After more than two decades in the Navy, during which he reached the rank of commander, Massa moved to Upstate New York to work for the manufacturing company Corning. In his official biography, he says he was laid off from his job because, “due to unfair free trade agreements, the company could not afford to keep those jobs in America.”

    Massa then became a professional staff member on the House Armed Services Committee. He says in his biography that he was an early critic of the Bush administration’s strategy for invading Iraq and that he was “forced out” of his Armed Services job for “standing up against the failed pre-war planning.” Congressional salary data on file at the Web site Legistorm shows that Massa was employed by the committee for eight months in 2003.

    Previously a Republican, Massa switched parties after leaving the House payroll and went on to work for the 2004 presidential campaign of retired Army Gen. Wesley K. Clark, for whom Massa had worked when Clark was supreme allied commander of NATO.

    Yeah, Corning is probably the fairest employer in New York State – they’ve resisted moving the company and outsourcing during the last thirty years of brutal oppression of the last three New York Administrations. They’ve bore every burden and paid any price to keep the New York business in New York State. Well, for everyone except Massa, apparently. And, oh, those free trade agreements – all Clinton Administration, boy-o.

    Then he was forced out of the House Armed Service Committee after eight months of being an abrasive turd. I wonder what “pre-war planning” went on in the House Armed Services Committee. Seems to me that was done at the Pentagon – or maybe in the deep recesses of the psyche contained in Massa’s fat head.

    But he found a home with Wesley Clark – probably reliving the staff tickle fights they used to have during the Kosovo operation. Clark paid him back with Vote Vets endorsements in 2006 and 2008.

    And now Massa resigns and it’s someone else’s fault just like every other job he hasn’t been able to hold. Like I said the other day, I hope his poor wife slaps the dog shit out of him morning before breakfast – and I hope he carries his useless ass back to South Carolina where he belongs.

  • 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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  • So who is it?

    I’ve been waiting for confirmation that the American who the Pakistanis claim is Adam Pearlman has been captured. Pearlman is the son of hippie goat herders in California, also known as Adam Gadahn, also known as the Pillsbury Doughboy of al Qaeda. Early reports yesterday seemed to confirm that Pearlman is in custody in Pakistan.

    But Fox News says there’s some doubt to the prisoner’s identity. I guess there are two fat white boys running around Pakistan. And what with the current administration policy of taking prisoners to Baskin Robbins for an ice cream cone between questions (hoping the brain-freeze will break the terrorists – it’s still not known if the administration has the approval of Tony Camerino yet) we probably won’t get a confirmation on his identity until the little fatty has had his fill of banana splits. The word is that the CIA is withholding colorful sprinkles from Pearlman’s sundaes.

    I also hear that Adam Kokesh and Rand Paul are reaching out to Pearlman with requests that he endorse them for their respective primary runs during Pearlman’s interrogations.

    Of course, that hasn’t stopped you guys from inundating my mailbox with the announcement that Pearlman has been captured – thanks to all of you, but I was being cautious.