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Category: Veterans For Peace/VVAW

  • Shiftless hippies plan March March

    ANSWER and their attendant allies are planning their annual (well, except last year) March on the Pentagon trying to recreate their hey-day of the sixties. The list of participant organization reads like the index of Discover the Networks;

    Vets for Peace, IVAW, World Can’t Wait, Cindy Sheehan, Ron Kovic, the rotting corpse of Ramsey Clark, Edward Jabba the Asner – a regular Who’s Who of irrelevant hippie trash with juvenile opinions. The complete list is here. I hope the temperature doesn’t drop a few degrees – that was their excuse for poor attendance in 2007 when they were out numbered by Gathering of Eagles.

    So, why, in the Age of Obama are they planning on marching? ANSWER’s website says;

    President Obama decided to keep the Pentagon just as it was under Bush. He even selected Bush appointee Robert Gates to keep his position as chief of the Pentagon. Gates announced that the new administration would double the number of troops sent to Afghanistan. That is certainly not the “change” most people thought was coming following the end of Bush’s tenure.

    These are wars for domination in the Middle East and Central Asia.

    Why would the US want to dominate these shit holes? Oil? Why would we want to go through the trouble of fighting and then administering foreign people when we have enough oil to sustain us for decades in our own country that we won’t touch? Seems it’d be easier to dominate some pussy-assed shiftless hippies in the environmental movement than some bomb throwing Stone Age tribes of the Middle East.

    No matter who is in charge in this country, there’s a vocal element who will never be happy. Even if we returned to the Stone Age in this country and live in caves rubbing sticks together for fire, they’ll still find something to complain about – well, if they survive without being eaten by the rest of us.

  • VFP wants a “sanctuary city” for deserters

    The latest deserter ejected from Canada was seized by border agents Wednesday, tossed in the local hoosegow and then ROR to return to Fort Stewart and turn himself in, according to the Bellingham Herald;

    Cliff Cornell fled the U.S. Army four years ago for British Columbia when his Georgia artillery unit was ordered to serve in the Iraq War.

    On Wednesday, Feb. 4, Cornell was deported from Canada, arrested in the U.S. and booked into the Whatcom County jail.

    I don’t know what the locals were thinking when they released an admitted deserter from the military hoping he’ll turn himself in to the Army on the other side of the country, but we’ll see if it pans out for them.

    But what got my attention was that the idiot for the local Veterans For Peace chapter wants to make Bellingham, WA a “sanctuary city” for deserters being ejected from Canada. Of course, his name would have to be Marx, wouldn’t it;

    Gene Marx, a local peace activist and member of the Bellingham Veterans for Peace, Chapter 111…and other local peace activists are asking officials to make Bellingham a “sanctuary city” so military deserters will not be arrested by locals and handed over to federal officials.

    Out of all of the things this so-called “veterans” organization could be doing for the troops who served honorably without deserting their posts and leaving their work for someone else to do, these buffoons want to make a hiding place for the lowest and least responsible humans in our country. That’d be a real feather in the cap of Bellingham – also famously the hometown of Evan Knappenberger – the crud who threatened to bomb the Gathering of Eagles and Michelle Malkin last year.

    The funny part is that this is how the VFP chapter announced Cornell’s release from jail;

    After an eight-hour delay on the US/Canadian border and a night of incarceration, Cornell was finally able to rejoin his unit at Fort Stewart, Georgia.

    They made it sound like law enforcement was preventing him from being with his comrades. here’s a screen shot because I’m not linking a VFP website here. Notice the “throng of supporters” in the picture. I guess five is a “throng” these days.

    So, let’s say Bellingham is a sanctuary city today, would the VFP then be keeping Cornell from “rejoining his unit”?

  • Chiroux’ date to answer for his childishness

    An eagle-eyed reader (I only have his real name and I’m not sure he wants me to use it) emailed within an hour after it was posted that Matthis Chiroux, our favorite crybaby from the IVAW says he has a date to answer to the Army for his childish refusal to report for duty;

    March 12, I’ll attend a board hearing in St. Louis, Missouri, to determine what the nature of my discharge from the Individual Ready Reserve will be. The Army has alleged “misconduct” and they’re shooting for a “general discharge,” but I’m pushing for “honorable,” as my refusal to deploy was not an act of misconduct.

    Well, if that’s his defense, that not doing what he’s contractually obligated to do is not misconduct, I hope his mommy gets him plenty of soap-on-a-rope.

    I will be working closely with Iraq Veterans Against the War to plan what we hope will reflect a Winter Soldier event in the form of our members testifying under oath to the military about their experiences in the Global War on Terror.

    Yeah, I’m pretty sure the Army will allow the whole membership of IVAW turn an administrative hearing into a clown show of malcontented buffoons. Maybe Geoff Millard can wear his 3 MSMs and impress the board with his chair and microphone arrangement skills. Or TSO’s favorite droning Powerpoint Ranger, Luis Montalvan, can put the board into a deep and deadly sleep.

    Chiroux looks forward to the opportunity to beclown himself and the members of IVAW;

    The Army in no way has forced this hearing upon me. I demanded this hearing from them to oppose the General Discharge, and I thank them for providing me due process.

    Of course, when the Army doesn’t let them parade the Ship of Fools before the board, there’ll be an outcry of unfairness. And there is no shortage of support from the Democrats in Congress for Chiroux, he claims;

    As I write this, they are penning another letter of support which will be more widely circulated in Congress than the first to be sent to President Obama before my hearing. As well, several Members have expressed interest in appearing in person to voice support for me and troops like me in March.

    Chiroux claims his supporters are from the group who signed a letter of support for him at the height of the BDS outbreak in July. Of course, he claims that the reason Obama hasn’t heard them yet is because of Joe the Plumber;

    We tried to bring this message to President Obama at the final presidential debate. Tragically, Joe the plumber took precedence that evening….

    Damn working American…who the Hell does he think he is letting people talk about him?

    Like anything else, Matthis’ prestige comes with a price;

    We are continuing to gather funds needed to cover travel expenses and accommodation for those who will be testifying. I hope anywhere from fifteen to thirty veterans, military family members, Iraqi civilians and constitutional experts will appear before my board.

    Yeah, send him some money for thirty lay-abouts to get shut out of an Army administrative board, which has no responsibility to hear any testimony from anyone. If this does happen at all (and I have my doubts), the Army is not in the habit of turning their official business into a minor theater performance complete with the bearded lady and lobster boy.

    You can see the fingerprints of civilians all over this thing – those World Can’t Wait Maoists, most likely. I can hear them snickering about him letting them waterboard him and now they double-dog-dared him to act like a pompous jerk in front of some Army officers.

  • FTA: Jane Fonda fundraiser for IVAW

    I read the other day that the anti-war crowd are having trouble raising money because the average anti-war less-whackos are a bit reticent about criticizing the new president’s policies in Iraq and Afghanistan, and less likely to give up their money to fund the more-whackos like IVAW, Code Pink and the old coots at Vets For Peace. So they have to come up with more unique ways of tapping wallets.

    A few weeks ago I found a blurb about the possible return of Jane Fonda to a more active role in the anti-war movement. I sent the blurb to someone who emailed me back a Village Voice article today that verified it;

    How much more proof do you need to recognize that these clowns are trying to relive the 60’s? They’re screening a 37-year-old movie with the 72-year-old actress on hand to yammer about her anti-war antics with some 74-year-old guy who looks strangely like Jack Bauer. I wonder if they’ll have a Depends dispenser in the restrooms for the old coots. But what does all of that have to do with us here at This Ain’t Hell? Well, buried in the short article is this;

    …a portion of the proceeds from the evening will benefit Iraq Veterans Against the War, a nonprofit organization that advocates for ending the war and for providing help to returning service members.

    They left out the third bullet of the IVAW’s demands – that being reparations to the Iraqis for all of the hovels that got leveled and all of the “militants” who were forcibly demilitarized.

    It’s probably a bit of irony that the movie originally was released the year before combat troops were withdrawn from Vietnam and it’s being dusted off as a fund raiser for the Iraq Veterans Against the War the year before combat troops are scheduled to be withdrawn.

    I’m feeling generous today so I caution the IVAW from depending on Fonda for her ability raise money with this from Wikipedia;

    In [1972], Fonda spoke out against the war at a rally organized by Vietnam Veterans Against the War (VVAW) in Valley Forge, Pennsylvania. She offered to help raise funds for VVAW, and, for her efforts, was rewarded with the title of Honorary National Coordinator.
    […]
    Her financial support to VVAW at this time was apparently not significant, as the organization ran out of money within a month, and one of its prominent leaders, John Kerry, was called upon to raise the necessary funds.

    So, if you guys are hoping to get a new club house on Jane’s fund raising abilities, you’d better lower your expectations a bit. Maybe she can raise enough for a down payment on new refrigerator so you can keep your Hot Pockets and your bottles of urine separate.

  • VFP Geezers and Code Pink at the Newseum

    Dave in Texas writes at Ace of Spades that Nancy Pelosi is considering pursuing the Bush Administration after they leave office for imagined war crimes.

    House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Fox News Sunday says she’s open to the idea of prosecuting Bush administration officials.

    “I think you look at each item and see what is a violation of the law and do we even have a right to ignore it,” the California Democrat said.

    The old coots of Veterans For Peace partnered with the hags of Code Pink yesterday at the Newseum in DC to point their arthritic and unclean fingers at the corporate media for being complicit in the Bush Administration’s imagined crimes. Their spokeman says that the Newseum is the “showpiece of the corporate media” and that’s why they chose it for their theater.

    This is a nine-minute video, you’ll want to scroll through the first 6 minutes to avoid listening to the guy with the horrible Philly accent and get to the part where the protesters begin violating everyone’s right to have a peaceful tour of the museum without screeching harpies mindlessly shrieking empty platitudes.

    So while everyone is looking to the future, Nancy Pelosi and the horse-blindered Left are still steeped in their Bush Derangement Syndrome. Actually, they’re afraid they’re going to lose all of the money they got from the BDS-sufferers to fund their lavish, work-free lifestyles what with The One being in office now. Remember the picture of the Vets For Peace member’s car I took a few months ago at the National Archives;

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    They still want to impeach President Nixon and thirty years from now they’ll still want to impeach President Bush

  • Playing with MovieMaker

    I was just sitting around reading a copy of a brand new book (yeah, publicity agents send me books to review these days) about Hugo Chavez and decided to make a video for you to watch and listen. It’s some of my favorite moonbat pictures of 2008 set to Santana and Steven Tyler’s version of “Just Feel Better”.

    Turn up the speakers and get a glass of rum and enjoy.

  • VFP begs for coward

    Remember Robin Long? Back in August he was sentenced by a military court to 15 months in jail for deserting and absconding to Canada. Long was the first deserter to be deported from Canada. In November, after the election, Long wrote a long, windy letter to Barack Obama asking for clemency and to avoid the remainder of his sentence, just like he avoided the service he committed himself to when he joined the Army.

    In his letter to the President-elect, he demonstrated his ignorance of laws, both domestic and international by claiming that the war in Iraq is illegal because we didn’t declare war on Iraq using some nebulous steps required by the Geneva Conventions. Typical shit-house lawyering we hear from the Left all of the time.

    A reader in Nevada sent us this opinion piece in the California-based North Country Times written by VFP member Dave Patterson entitled “Do The Right Thing; pardon vet”;

    I take umbrage at the fact that an absconder, out of cowardice, takes flight in the face of his duties, for which he volunteered, and gets to be called a veteran. There are millions more Americans who completed their terms of service without breaking their promises, laid their lives on the line without running to Canada who are REAL veterans.

    An organization that has the title “Veterans” as the first word should be able to understand that.

    Patterson begins the piece tugging at our parental heart strings;

    As parents, we all hope that our children will do the right thing and follow their conscience when the line between right and wrong invariably becomes blurry. We hope that they will have the courage to step away from the crowd, even if that means being ostracized, denounced or even imprisoned.

    Dave, also as parents, we hope our children “cowboy up” and accept responsibility for their actions and honor the commitments they make to society. Oh, and Long was a man when he decided he’d ignore his obligations, not a child. Although, his actions were those of a child.

    A jury of his peers found him guilty of violating laws, just because you don’t happen to like the law he violated, that doesn’t make the sentence any less valid. If President Obama were to give the pile of weeping dung the clemency he desires, the result would be disasterous for Obama and every president after him. Jimmy Carter was able to turn every American veteran against him the day after his term began with a grudge that lasts until today by giving amnesty to draft dodgers. I would hope that President Obama would have a bit more sense, even though his supporters don’t seem to have any sense.

  • Pro-Hamas theater meets Free Republic [Jonn]

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    This afternoon in DC, at Lafayette Park, across from the White House amidst preparations for the Inauguaration, several thousand protesters gathered ostensibly to show their support for Gazans, but as you can see by the flag above, it was more an Israel Hate Fest than support for anyone.

    About three blocks from Lafayette Park, in Farragut Park, I ran into a prayer session;

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    Inside Lafayette Park, it was interesting to see who was behind the protest;

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