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Category: Usual Suspects

  • Matthis as literature

    Long time readers may remember several months ago when one of Matthis Chiroux’s girlfriends started feeding us stories about the true nature of Matthis. Of course, his fan club showed up and criticized us for using anonymous sources (like the kind of sources real journalists use) to disparage poor Matthis. Well, the thing is, I knew who the source was, and I checked out her story as best I could before I published her story here.

    She told me that she was working on a book that included some of her experiences with Chiroux but that I should keep that quiet for the time being. I honored that request.

    A few weeks ago, I’d heard from someone else that one of Chiroux’s ex-girl friends was writing a book so it was becoming common knowledge and I mentioned it in passing on previous post.

    Well, my source emailed me this morning (I’m still keeping her identity quiet, at least until the book comes out) and sent me some excerpts of the book. I put them below the jump because they’re really NSFW.
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  • TAH haunts Kokesh in Las Vegas

    The other day I got an email from Chris Hill of Gathering of Eagles;

    Jonn,

    Adam Kokesh, as part of his campaign is at Freedom Fest out in Vegas and is one of the speakers. By chance Captain Larry Bailey happens to be there too. Kokesh’s bio has all sorts of false or embellished claims, most noticeably that he received an honorable discharge. We’re putting together a flier to distribute there countering his claims. Do you have any of the reports about the weapon Kokesh brought back from Iraq, it’s theft from his vehicle, a copy of his DD-214, or any of the statements he made about the officers which resulted in the general discharge. The event runs for a few more days, but I’d like to get this flier put together today with a banner something like WHO IS ADAM KOKESH REALLY? Thanks for any help you can provide bro. Manchu.

    Chris Hill

    So I sent him a bunch of links to posts that we’d written over the past few years and apparentlythey printed the pages out and made a handout of them. A few days later, Chris emailed back;

    John,

    Captain Bailey used the material you provided on Kokesh to rattle him completely this morning at Freedom Fest in Las Vegas. It was being videotaped, but we are unsure by whom. The Fest only lists audio tapes. We’ll be looking. Thanks bro. Mission Accomplished. Manchu

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  • Political campaigns as foreign policy

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    Well, I feel better, don’t you? The guy who makes weekly pronouncements about how he “created or saved” hundreds of thousands of jobs while the unemployment rate increases by hundreds of thousands of jobs lost reassures the world. And then he impores the other leaders of the world to follow his plan (AP Link);

    Obama urged national leaders to unite behind a global recovery plan that includes stricter financial regulation and sustained stimulus spending.

    The short version; more regulation, more government spending, more taxes.

    The president rejected suggestions that the summit fell short of expectations by failing to call for tough new sanctions on Iran for its crackdown on democracy advocates after its disputed presidential election.

    “What we wanted is exactly what we got — a statement of unity and strong condemnation,” Obama said. He said the leaders’ declaration was even more significant because it included Russia, “which doesn’t make statements like that lightly.”

    How many statements of unity and strong condemnations have there been in the last few years? Did human history begin on January 20th, 2009? All history before that date doesn’t count? North Korea is launching missiles like bottle rockets, the Islamic Republic’s police are beating the snot out of everyone on the street (when they’re not shooting them or hanging them). And that “Russia doesn’t make statements like that lightly” line should have been made on his knees with his face buried in Putin’s shorts.

    Is he saying the whole rest of the world DOES make statements lightly? Thanks, allies, now get behind Russia – everyone who does things to the detriment of the US and our security seems to get a seat in front. Screw the rest of them.

    Just like Obama’s political campaigns. Blacks, Hispanics, unions, gays, the traditional Democrat voters – get tossed aside so he can woo the folks who don’t want to vote for him. When Obama goes overseas, American interests and those of our allies get tossed aside so he can woo the thugs. Remind you of anyone?

    Read my post at my Latin American politics blog, Tall & Rich, for another example of our current poor foreign policy.

  • Deserter Robin Long released from prison

    Some of you long time readers may remember Robin Long the little creepy looking guy that absconded to Canada after he’d been ordered to Iraq (after being in the military for two full years before his deployment). Canada wisely booted his dreadlock-wearing ass out last year. In August 2008 he was sentenced to 15 months in the Navy brig in San Diego – getting off pretty easy in my book.

    After our new president was elected, Long wasted no time whining to Obama pleading for leniency. I don’t know if it had anything to do with it, but he got released yesterday 12 months after he turned himself in to the military (he must’ve got credit for time served before the trial). (LA Times story)

    “Wow, what a journey the last four years has been,” Long said as he left the brig.

    He was accompanied by Dawn O’Brien, a board member of Veterans for Peace and a leader in Military Families Speak Out.

    After being returned to this country, an Army court-martial sentenced Long to 15 months and a dishonorable discharge.

    Even after he is processed out of the Army, Long may not be able to return to Canada, where his girlfriend and their 2-year-old son reside.

    Canadian law prohibits convicted felons from entering the country, although Long’s supporters have vowed to appeal.

    Another deserter, Kimberly Rivera (also known as Queen Fat Ass, the Baby Factory) appealed to the Canadian Ministry of Citizenship and Immigration to keep her, her fat, lazy unemployed husband and “who knows how many kids now” in Canada. I’d prefer they stay there, though, so we don’t feed all of those mouths and house her bitchy video game playing husband. Let the Canucks keep them all. Serves them right for letting them into their country in the first place.

    TSO, who for some reason is working hard at the job that pays him money, says he’ll have more on Long on Sunday. Needless to say, his early release caught us off guard today.

  • Robert Chiroux to TAH readers

    The following is from an email that Matthis Chiroux’s father, Robert Chiroux, sent us this morning asking that I post it in order to directly address the porqueria (as my wife would call it) that Matthis has been spreading around the internet lately. Robert assures me that this message will appear in local Alabama papers as well. But, as everyone knows, TAH is your first stop for Matthis Chiroux news.
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  • Hate Group SPLC to smear troops in Congress

    On the heels of the Salon rush job report on racists in the military, the Southern Poverty Law Center is up to it’s old tricks again. They’ve determined that the military is rife with racists (they found 40 out of how many people serving?) so they’re marching their hate-filled asses to Congress today to tattle according to Stars and Stripes;

    “In the wake of several high-profile murders by extremists of the radical right, we urge your committees to investigate the threat posed by racial extremists who may be serving in the military to ensure that our armed forces are not inadvertently training future domestic terrorists,” Morris Dees, SPLC co-founder and chief trial counsel, wrote to the legislators. “Evidence continues to mount that current Pentagon policies are inadequate to prevent racial extremists from joining and serving in the armed forces.”

    Added Mark Potok, editor of the Intelligence Report, a magazine produced at the law center: “The Pentagon really has shrugged this off and refused to look at this in any serious way.”

    See that quote: “In the wake of several high-profile murders by extremists of the radical right….” I don’t see Potok (the punk asshole SOB) getting exercised about the murderof two soldiers by that Muslim hate group member a few months back – but one octogenarian at the Holocaust Museum and Potok demands that the military purge their ranks. Because they found 40 people on Facebook who CLAIM to be members of the military.

    You remember that Southern Poverty Law Center also named the American Legion a “hate group” recently. Of course, their greasy lawyers will come here and deny that they called AL a “hate group”, which may be true in the greasy lawyer sense, but here’s a screen shot of their report of the AL under their column heading “Hate Watch”;

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    We have to ask ourselves how many of these dildos are really members of the military. S&S quotes one in their article;

    One participant under the username “WhitePride85,” who said he is a 24-year-old staff sergeant from Madison, Wis., wrote: “I have been in the Army for over 5 years now … I am a SSGT … I have been in Iraq and Kuwait … I love and will do anything to keep our master race marching. I have been a skinhead forever.”

    How many Army Staff Sergeants write their rank using the Air Force form “SSGT”? If he was an Army staff sergeant, he’d write it “SSG” like the several thousand of us who wore that rank in the Army and filled out paperwork everyday using the abbreviation.

    To quote that greasy-assed lawyer Mark Potok, who has been to TAH in the recent past to defend his ambulance-chasing organization of greasy lawyers who couldn’t find real jobs in real law firms, by the way, they don’t really know if these people are in the military or not;

    “We can’t verify these things,” Potok said, because his group does not have access to military personnel records. “We feel that clearly military investigators could.”

    So the military should stop what it’s doing and chase ghosts because the drama queens at SPLC smell money. Even if there are racists in the military (and I don’t doubt that there are, the military is a product of society), how is the military supposed to investigate if they’ve broken no laws? Isn’t that a violation of the soldiers’ civil rights? Maybe the ACLU can instruct their fellow travelers at SPLC about that aspect of their unreasonable demands on the military.

    And, it’s all speculation by SPLC and other anti-military groups;

    In 2006, the SPLC released a report asserting that “thousands” of active-duty troops like clarkpatrick88 could have hate group affiliations. The law center said that some military officers conceded that recruitment and retention pressures forced them to look the other way when presented with overwhelming evidence of hate group membership.

    “Since we issued our 2006 report, the problem may have worsened,” SPLC President Richard Cohen wrote to Gates.

    By this spring, a Department of Homeland Security report said law enforcement groups should beware of extremists coming out of military duty or groups trying to recruit susceptible veterans for their combat skills.

    Emphasis is mine. Of course the “retracted” DHS report raises it’s vile head again.

    This is just another attempt by SPLC to paint all of the troops with a broad, racist brush. I think SPLC should be labeled a hate group. In fact, I’m declaring them a hate group right now. Whatcha gonna do about it, Potok?

  • Agosto facing Special Court Martial

    You may remember Victor Agosto who I wrote about back in May when he refused deployment with his Fort Hood unit. I’ve been getting some email asking what his status is these days. Aside from getting a lot of love from the usual suspects and hanging out with his fellow derelicts at Under the Hood, not much. The Left recycles his story across the internet and proclaim his bravery.
    Yesterday there was a bit of news, though. Apparently, his commander has recommended and approved a Special Court Martial. Of course the Left is outraged that he’s being persecuted. One blog even went so far as to call it a lynching – probably for the racial undertones of the use of that word. Since Agosto continues to provide us with a paper trail to his jail cell, I’m willing to publish it;

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    I hope the court martial board takes into account the influence that Agosto’s refusal has had on other troops as conveniently documented by Dahr Jamail at HuffPo;

    I spoke with [Sergeant Travis Bishop] briefly after he turned himself in at his base in early June. He said he’d chosen to follow Specialist Agosto’s example of refusal, which had inspired him, and wanted to be present at his post to accept the consequences of his actions. He, too, hoped others might follow his lead. (He and Agosto, now in similar situations, have become friends.)

    Maybe they can get adjoining cells.

  • Chiroux not feeling the love in his hometown

    IVAW’s Matthis Chiroux was a star this last year when he kept his message in the liberal northeast, but now that he’s tried to take it home to Alabama, it’s a different story. Sure he finds some people to feel for him, mostly journalists. Like Annie Gilbertson of The Auburn Villager;

    “I believe Alabama is the most important place to foster an antiwar movement,” said Chiroux. “I’ve found a lot of support from the Alliance for Peace and Justice, the Muslim community, the Quakers, the Baptists and other Christian communities. A lot of churches have it right on and see the core of humanitarian ideas.”

    Chiroux is often asked if he will eventually run for office–a career he said he is not planning on now, but one that he would pursue in Alabama if he ever changed his mind.

    The folks that know Chiroux tell me that he thinks he’s too urbane for life in Alabama, but he works at the Southern affectations for the locals;

    “I’m not a coward,” he said, “I’m not a bad soldier, I’m exactly the kind of soldier this country needs right now.”

    Chiroux has forged alliances with organizations such as Iraq Veterans Against the War, CODEPINK, Granny Peace Brigade and the Campus Antiwar Network in hopes of building an antiwar effort.

    “I ain’t going, I ain’t running and I am not hiding,” he said. “If we all stood up, we’d have a fighting chance.”

    Yup, he’s the kind of soldier we need alright. A soldier who shirks his duties and gets outraged when someone expects him to do what he’s been getting paid to do all along. Yeah, we need a ton of folks like that.

    Well, over at OANOW.com, the folks who wrote the story the other day that I linked, found some locals who aren’t being taken in by Chiroux;

    “When you hear somebody compare our military to the Fourth Reich, you kind of realize that this guy isn’t really worth listening to,” said Janine Babbitt, whose husband Maj. Erich Babbitt, an active duty Army National Guard member, has been deployed in Afghanistan for about a week.

    “What this guy is pitching is the ugly American,” [U.S. Army Capt. David] Van Horn said. “He would be pitching this if there was a cold war or a hot war. I would warn strongly against people buying into anything that hasn’t been seen first hand. Until you’ve been there, you’re not going to know.”

    “The army is not trying to make criminals out of people. It falls on deaf ears for someone like me who’s been out there and run the road and seen it. American soldiers aren’t built to be terroristic… It’s not who we are as people. My guys are too damn good,” Van Horn said.

    Yeah, I think that Chiroux had planned on mooching off of the locals with his pretty words and grand pronouncements, but it may all end soon and he may have to get an actual job. Make sure you read the comments just to get an idea of how out of step Chiroux is with his homies.