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Category: Veterans For Peace/VVAW

  • 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.

  • VFP: Gravity causes enlistments

    A local chapter of Geezers for Sitting on Our Hands in Wisconsin has their panties balled up over a planned parachuting demonstration at high school pep rally conducted by Army parachutists;

    VFP member Buzz Davis of Stoughton said, “Schools are required by federal law to allow military recruiters recruit in the schools. But this is going too far. The parachute drop Wednesday is designed to impress students with soldiers’ braveness and toughness. It is unfair that the students, who believe we should work harder to create peace than we do to fight wars, will be forced to sit through a pro-military display of power designed to encourage youth to join the military. Citizens should call the school district and demand the jump be canceled.”

    It’s great that VFP doesn’t give students or their parents credit for being halfway smart or able to make their own decisions based on commonly accesible information. It’s not like recruiters are going to be rounding up students from the bleachers and shipping them off to Afghanistan straight from the pep rally.

    I just wish the media would scrap it’s pracice of calling the Geezers For Sitting On Our Hands “Veterans” like they’re someone rational we should pay attention to – like real people.

  • Dave Airhart; Oldie but goodie phony

    This guy has been on the loose for at least five years, but the NPRC finally answered a POW Net FOIA request over three years old on Dave Airhart. His main claim to fame while a student at Kent State was quoted in this reprint of a Stan Goff (CounterPunch) article;

    I spent 4 months in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba and 6 months in Iraq and 7 months in Afghanistan, so I have a pretty well rounded perspective of everything that’s going on in this war on terror.

    In another interview with Counterpunch, Airhart said;

    I was in the Marine Corps Infantry. I learned absolutely nothing of value in the rest of the world. I learned how to shoot guns and how to get yelled at a lot.

    Well, not according to the NPRC;
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  • VFP’s DC theater

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    I ran into Concretebob at the Code Red rally yesterday and he pointed me to the VFP’s theater in DC yesterday. Anemic doesn’t begin to describe what was going on at their little theater yesterday;

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    The display, of course is supposed to be markers of every soldier killed in Iraq. Some of the markers have actual names of the fallen, but most of them look like this;
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    Most of the people who visited the display, were on their way to the Capitol Code Red rally, so the doofuses had an audience thanks to Jon Voight and Michelle Bachman. You have to wonder why VFP doesn’t support war with Iran – you know, the guys who’ve promised to erase Israel from the face of the earth, denied there was a holocaust, and are all for hastening the arrival of the twelfth imam;

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    I’d heard from Concretebob that Cindy Sheehan was there along with IVAW and VVAw, but when I got there, all I saw was this ten-year-old girl and a few hippies;

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    I guess it’s because when I was at the display, there were no TV cameras.

    Well, if you take a look at all three of the posts I’ve written about the events in DC yesterday, you decide which was more attended at their advertised start time. I’m not making any estimates of any of the crowds – you decide from the pictures.

  • Crazy VFP truther guy on the street

    Did you know that our troops were in place to invade Afghanistan in August 2001? You didn’t? Did you know that BushCo needed Afghanistan for a pipeline transit route? One that they needed so badly that no one has started building it yet? You didn’t? Well that’s two factoids from the eight minutes of batshit insanity from this goober, Phil Restino, a representative of the Geezers for Sitting on Our Hands Post 136;

    And, if you don’t believe him, Phil has a CD and a fact sheet printed on authentic paper-like material to prove it. Still not convinced? What about the signs? You can’t deny the signs!

    I can hardly wait for this weekend.

  • At VFP, the Crazy comes full circle

    It’s being reported on the fringe of the Left that Veterans For Peace (around here known as Geezers for Sitting on Our Hands) have brought their special brand of crazy full circle by demanding a new investigation into 9-11;

    Anti-war groups have long been regarded as deliberate gatekeepers to the 9/11 Truth (and anti-war) movement. But in 2009 VFP membership mushroomed with savvy new members who realized it wasn’t enough to protest the war if you didn’t protest the government lie that allowed it to happen. And most VFP members know the “Tonkin Resolution” was a deliberate lie – aka: “False Flag”.

    By 2008, an international team of scientists had published volumes of conclusive evidence for “explosive demolition” of the Twin Towers and WTC-7. This hard evidence and admissions by the 9/11 commission that they were “set up to fail” moved VFP members and leadership to pass a resolution to press for a new 9/11 investigation during their 2009 annual meeting.

    Here’s the kicker;

    Veterans draw on our personal experiences to raise public awareness of the true costs and consequences of militarism and war – and to seek peaceful, effective alternatives.

    As we’ve seen many times in our investigations of VFP members, most of them have only endured the difficulty and stress of a Basic trainee. Many have never seen combat, most have been booted out before their obligation ended for various malfeasance. So what “personal experiences” are they drawing from to question the 9-11 investigations? Their drug-induced hallucinations?

  • REMFs for Peace

    This came up while I was trolling around the Left side of the internet today about a guy named Richard Hendrick, a member of the Veterans for Peace, as an introduction to his past in anticipation of his talk at some private hippie high school in New Hampshire;

    I was drafted at the end of my sophomore year because of an administrative error on the part of Princeton, where I was an undergraduate in Politics. Because my brother was in Vietnam at the time, I was not sent there, but rather to Germany, where I worked in a Corps headquarters. This army experience tended to radicalize me politically and when I returned to Princeton three years later, I participated in many anti-war demonstrations, including those which culminated in shutting the university down for the rest of the year in April of 1970.

    Yes, his experience in a Corps Headquarters in Germany radicalized him. Probably from testing all of those microphones, sharpening pencils and running the mimeograph machines. Those three-day weekends in Bavaria and touring the wine fests would drive anyone to radicalism. Poor, dirty little hippie.

    I’m sure the “administrative error” at Princeton had something to with his failing grades and the loss of his student deferment. If he’d been drafted, why was gone from Princeton for three years, since the draft only required two years of service.

    And, oh, yeah, Princeton students went on strike May 1st, 1970, not April, so the school shut down two weeks early for summer break. Big whoop. Big, tough hippie standing up to the Man.

    I guess the worst thing about him is that someone thinks he has something of value to tell high school students.

  • AWOL Mom charged

    A lot of you sent us links back in November about Alexis Hutchison, the mom who went AWOL instead of deploying because her family care plan was weak. Our buddy, GI Korea, wrote a lot of good background in November. Well, the Army filed charges against her today.

    The story goes like this; Specialist who joined the Army childless, was ordered to deploy with her unit. She activated her family care plan, took her one-year-old son to live with Hutchison’s mother in California, who, after a week, decided that she couldn’t handle taking care of the child along with a sickly mother, a sickly sister and a sickly daughter. And, oh, grandmother also runs a day care center for 14 children in her home. How can she be expected to care for her grandson?

    It seems to me that someone might have considered the additional burden on Mom before it all fell apart. So when deployment time came, Alexis hid out in her off-base apartment, according to her, remaining in contact with her commander. I’m sure the commander was thinking of nothing else but Alexis while he was deploying to war with 100+ soldiers.

    I’m sure that the first thing out of everyone’s mouth was “What about that woman who showed up at Benning with her kids?” Well, Lisa Pagan was an IRR soldier who had already served her active duty time, and Pagan didn’t miss movement. Pagan’s cause wasn’t taken up by IVAW, VFP, Courage to Resist, GI Voice – because Pagan wasn’t a resister.

    Hutchinson isn’t a resister either, but she’s been made into one by the disingenuous Far Left straw-graspers. DoD says they have 70,000 single parents on active duty, why does this one think she’s so special that she can use that status to avoid going to war.

    I’ve found things that connect her lawyer, Rai Sue Sussman to the National Lawyers Guild which puts her on the same level as James Branum. She also interned last summer with the Military Law Task Force, the NLG arm which Branum co-chairs. Oviously, the anti-war clowns are going to wave Hutchison as their latest bloody shirt. Despite the fact that she’s not against the war in any political way.

    I guess my main question is “Where is the father?” All of this could have been avoided if she’d chosen to have a child with a more responsible man. So that’s a few bad choices she made for which she expects the Army to make allowances.

    Why is it the Army’s responsibility to cave into all of these interests and Alexis Hutchison’s demands when no one else seems to be accepting their burdens here. Why doesn’t lawyer Sussman, the recent law school grad, take the child for a year if she’s so damned concerned about her client’s welfare, for Pete’s sake. All of this talk about the Army forcing her to abandon her child – she abandoned her child at the moment of conception.