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Category: Veterans For Peace/VVAW

  • VFP tries to arrest Rumsfeld

    Daniel sends us a link to a report that the Geezers for Sitting on Our Hands (Veterans For Peace) tried to conduct a citizens’ arrest of Donald Rumsfeld in Boston last night;

    “I went down in front and looked Donald Rumsfeld in the eye and said, ‘I’m making a citizen’s arrest,’” protester Nate Goldschlag told WCVB-TV.

    “He lied us into Iraq. He lied about weapons of mass destruction. He lied about Saddam Hussein being involved in 9/11.”

    Three of the protesters removed from the event were with Veterans for Peace and a fourth was a member of Code Pink. One protester was arrested outside the event for allegedly using a bullhorn to assault a police officer.

    Goldschlag forgot to mention that Rumsfeld was on the grassy knoll in Dallas and staged the moon landing in Arizona.

    Of course, the people who wanted to hear what Rumsfeld had to say booed the four tiny-penised protesters.

    I only wish that they’d had the gumption to try that shit at the Milblog Conference when Rumsfeld spoke to us, but that was early on a Saturday morning, you know the hippies couldn’t drag themselves out for a principled stand at 8am.

    Here’s the protester’s side of the discussion below the jump;
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  • Iraqis to Panetta: We like you guys after all

    The new Secretary of Defense says that the Iraqis have already agreed that US troops should stay there beyond 2011 reports Stars & Stripes;

    Six weeks after Panetta became the latest U.S. leader to press Iraq on a formal request, the Pentagon is moving forward, he said, because there is unanimous consent among key Iraqi leaders to address U.S. demands. Those demands include that Iraqis begin negotiating internally what type of U.S. training force they would like, begin a process to select a defense minister, craft a new Status of Forces Agreement and increase operations against Iranian-backed militants.

    I guess Code Pink and the Iraq Veterans Against the War won’t be helping the Obama campaign next year. And this kind of makes Dahlia Wasfi’s message empty, too. Exit question to Ward Reilly…is it still an occupation when the host country asks you to extend your presence in their nation?

    Thanks to Jeff Schogol for the link.

  • POW.net asking for help with IDing Poser CSM

    Ok, looks like it is that time again, this is new about a week ago that a person was spotted at a VFP event.

    This is what we know about him at this time.

    A man in U.S. army fatigues walked by the crosses, and said he was ‘observing’.

    He asked not to be named for security reasons, but said, ‘All memorials are good. People may get a better understanding of war’.

    The man in fatigues said he had served three months in Afghanistan, but that he was currently serving civilian duty locally.

    According to POW.net someone emailed them concerns about the “Solider” in question and got this reply.

    Hi. Thanks for reading and for writing. Your email is very interesting. I don’t have any more details about the gentleman in question, he wouldn’t give me his name or any other details. He actually did tell me that he was purposefully not wearing proper unit patches in order to keep anonymous. I don’t know if he was telling the truth or not.

    Yea if that is not a major red flag right there. But seeing someone like that and you still have doubts about him being fake?

    Jonn added; The first thing I do when I want to be discrete on the beach is wear an Army uniform with my name tag and dog tags showing;

    Jonn added again: I tried “Danenberg” in AKO and got nuthin’, so I tried Dannenberg and got this;

    None of them are in California.

  • Jane Fonda is mad at history

    See that picture above? It never happened according to Jane Fonda. See, she was cancelled from a spot on QVC to engage in the capitalist process of hawking her latest book and QVC viewers threatened to stay away en masse so QVC cancelled her appearance according to an E! Online article sent us by ROS. Fonda proceeded to complain on her blog about the cancellation;

    The network said they got a lot of calls yesterday criticizing me for my opposition to the Vietnam War and threatening to boycott the show if I was allowed to appear. I am, to say the least, deeply disappointed that QVC caved to this kind of insane pressure by some well funded and organized political extremist groups. And that they did it without talking to me first,” Fonda wrote on her blog. “I have never shied away from talking about this as I have nothing to hide. I could have pointed out that threats of boycotts are nothing new for me and have never prevented me from having best selling books and exercise DVDs, films, and a Broadway play.

    Fonda continued;

    Bottom line, this has gone on far too long, this spreading of lies about me! None of it is true. NONE OF IT! I love my country. I have never done anything to hurt my country or the men and women who have fought and continue to fight for us. do not understand what the far right stands to gain by continuing with these myths. In this case, they denied a lot of people the chance to hear about a book that can help make life better, easier and more fulfilling

    Yes, we’re spreading lies – like the picture above. And she’s never done anything to hurt the country or the men and women who fight for the country. Well, unless you include things like supporting John Kerry’s Vietnam Veterans Against the War and his Winter Soldier hearings. Or making the anti-war film “FTA”.

    According to IMBD, the 1972 “documentary” FTA was;

    A documentary about a political troupe headed by actors Jane Fonda and Donald Sutherland which traveled to towns near military bases in the US in the early 1970s. The group put on shows called “F.T.A.”, which stood for “F**k the Army”, and was aimed at convincing soldiers to voice their opposition to the Vietnam War, which was raging at the time. Various singers, actors and other entertainers performed antiwar songs and skits during the show.

    Just by being an impudent cunt, Fonda gave aid and comfort to the North Vietnamese and lengthened the war, causing more deaths. What’s most disappointing is the comments at her blog;

    Tony says:
    July 16, 2011 at 12:42 pm

    That is such a shame. I, for one was very much looking forward to seeing your appearance, and am STILL very much looking forward to reading your book.

    Perhaps the right is jealous – of your beauty, energy and happiness. Lets face it, its much easier for the government to control the masses when their free thinking is impaired by fear and lethargy.

    March on as you have always done! The Universe will still deliver your message

    Tyler Smith says:
    July 16, 2011 at 11:52 am

    That’s a shame. You’d think that after forty some years people would forget about your stance on a war, especially after all the great work you’ve done in the fields of health, women’s rights, etc. since then. We support you, Jane!

    Ed Scheid says:
    July 16, 2011 at 11:10 am

    I am shocked that this could go on still. You remain an inspiration to many people. I came from Pittsburgh to NY to see you in both the ‘Necessary Targets’ reading and in ’33 Variations’. You were powerful in both.

    I’m shocked that there are still pinheads out there that think actions don’t have consequences. Sure it’s been forty years and I hope it goes on for another 40 years. And let this be an example for anyone else in Hollywood who has the same aspirations.

  • Ann Wright: Those Jooos tried to kill us

    You probably remember Ann Wright whom I’ve written about before. She’s a major drama queen and member of Code Pink, Iraq Veterans Against the War and Veterans For Peace. She also sat on the board of OpTruth, the precursor of Paul Rieckoff’s Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America. Well today she’s in Greece awaiting her personal invasion of the Gaza Strip.

    Luckily for her, the Israelis warned Grecian authorities that the boats the hippies were about to sail were unsafe. Earlier today, Medea Benjamin said it was a trick to delay them. Now it turns out that the Israelis were right;

    “It was pure luck that the damage to the Irish boat was discovered,” said Ann Wright, a spokesman from “The Audacity of Hope”, an American activists’ boat also docked near Athens.

    “The damage to the propeller could have caused the ship to sink and those on board to drown. Quite simply it was act of terrorism.”

    Of course, the whole point of terrorism is to kill or injure people, ask those Palestinians you’re going to rescue, Ann. What would be the point of Israel’s sabotaging and then warning you about the damage? I’m no naval genius but, I’m still trying figure out how a propeller could sink the boat.

    [Israel] is offering to allow the flotilla to dock at the Israeli port of Ashdod and to escort the aid on board to Gaza by land.

    Damn sneaky Jooos, being all nice and everything letting the hippies have their way.

    The Turkish Mavi Marmara, which was due to be the flagship once again, pulled out at the last minute, under what appeared to be pressure from the government in Ankara.

    It must’ve been the Joos in Turkey thatpulled the boat out of the flotilla…oh, wait…

    “The delay has been orchestrated by the Israeli state and we urge the Greek government to exert itself as a sovereign country,” Mrs Wright, 64, a former colonel in the US army, said.

    “The Israeli state is doing everything within its capability to stop us from making this journey, from sabotage to tying us up in bureaucracy. Well it won’t work. We are determined.” She hinted that the flotilla might depart without the necessary paperwork.

    Delaying them by offering to escort them to port and distributing their cargo?

  • More Matthis lies; Robynn Murray

    Matthis lies sent us another video this morning, this time focusing on Oscar-nominee Robynn Murray. The video also highlights how some IVAW members are still supporting Matthis;

    Burning the flag in this video is Robin Long who absconded to Canada rather than deploy with his unit to Iraq. When Canada booted his monkey ass, he did a year in jail. Long is a member of the Iraq Veterans Against the War (IVAW), and you can hear cheers of “IVAW” while the flag is burning. So Matthis may be gone, but other flag burners remain.

    By the way, another former Iraq Veterans Against the War supporter emailed me yesterday to remove her name from the blog because she was turning her life around and she was embarrassed by her participation with Under the Hood and IVAW. Of course, I helped her out like I do for all of the former IVAW members who are contrite about their past transgressions. There are some for whom I won’t do that, though.

  • It ain’t me, Matthis

    Someone who calls themselves “Matthis Lies” sent us these two videos that they made;

    They tell me that there’s more videos coming. These are just rudimentary and I’m not sure who this Matthis Lies is, but i do know that they’re close to Matthis and they are not right wing, but Matthis thinks so and he has his panties in a bunch;

    It’s just my ninjas doing the job they enjoy most.

  • Matthis still in your schools

    I know there must be some Philadelphia tax payers in this crowd that are upset that a phony Afghanistan veteran and admitted rapist is lying to your kids in the schools that you fund.

    He still claims he is an Afghanistan veteran. In this video, he claims he “trained up” for his six days at the Bagram Baskin Robbins. He tells the kids that soldiers are trained to shoot civilians.

    He spews out statistics about 1 in 3 women being sexually assaulted while they’re in the military. 1 in 5 men are sexually assaulted during their terms. He gets those figures from a study that sent out hundreds of thousands of surveys and got only few thousand surveys back. One third of the women and 20% of the men who responded claimed to have been sexually assaulted. Not a very scientific survey.

    According to Matthis, 1 in 4 homeless people in NYC are veterans and veterans are the largest demographic among the homeless. More accurately, more homeless claim to be veterans than they claim to be from any other demographic. Most of the homeless veterans I’ve talked to wouldn’t know an M16 from an E-tool.

    And you’re all drug-adled sociopaths teetering on the edge of suicide like him.

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