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Category: Veterans For Peace/VVAW

  • Matthis in Philly HS last week

    TWo of my ninjas sent us this link to “We Are Not Your Soldiers” anti-recruiting efforts in a Philadelphia High School last Wednesday. Notice at about 4:50 into the video, Samantha goldman walks into the classroom and the camera follows her capturing some of the students’ faces.

    You don’t have to watch the video, it’s the same old “poverty draft” blather. At about 8:40 Matthis tells the students that he was suicidal after he got out of the military “because of what I experienced”. I guess the Baskin Robbins at Bagram ran out of Rocky Road one day.

    By the way, I have the collection of photos that Matthis circulating as proof that he went “outside the wire” during his six days in Afghanistan. I’d like someone who has been there to evaluate the pictures. If you want to see them, email me and I’ll send them to you. It looks to me that he didn’t get too far outside the wire, though. And how far can you get in six days?

    Here’s a sample;

  • Dhimmi Ann Wright

    While Israel is busy battling protesters who breached the country’s borders on five sides this weelend, ANSWER and Ann Wright (you can see her records at that link) are planning to open a sixth front from the sea. Here’s Wright surrounded by the people who would behead her given half a chance;

    The last time Wright went on one of these flotillas, Israeli commandos attacked the boats. We can only hope that this time they’ll just sink the flotilla. Here’s a YouTube video of Wright announcing her intentions to invade a sovereign country in violation of it’s laws.

    You have a great opportunity to send her your money so she can go off on this fool’s errand to appease Iran, Hamas and Hezbollah.

    Thanks to Tom for the links.

  • Matthis still in your school talking to your kids

    In an article posted today on the “We Are Not Your Soldiers” website, Matthis brags about how he converted some students to his anti-recruiter campaign in Manhattan earlier;

    Matthis, explained that recruiters will prey on the youth, as young as it takes to get them interested in joining the “delayed entry program” so that by the time they graduate high school, they are taken off to basic training. At basic training young children are taught tactics to de-humanize the “enemy”, who, at this point in history, are the Muslim population around the world.

    The students were fascinated by the discussion, and many had decided to wear the “We Are not Your Soldiers” bandanas, and to confront the recruiters when they approach them. They also decided to form a student group that will plan to keep recruiters out of the school, and away from their friends.

    Talk about instilling irrational fears. It’s not like the military kidnaps children off the street. Or drive a paddy wagon up to the high school graduation ceremonies and force the newly-minted graduates off to far-away basic training centers.

    I never saw “young children” when I was at basic training. I saw young men – probably because old men make poor soldiers. The military doesn’t want you if you don’t want to be there. And I’d like to know how we were “taught tactics to dehumanize the enemy”.

    My impression is that this program lies a damn sight more than any recruiting battalion ever could lie.

    Thanks to one of my ninjas for the link.

  • Matthis in your school talking to your kids (Video updated)

    This is from a session Matthis had with high school students in Brattleboro Union High School in Brattleboro, Vermont [(802) 257-7335 131 Fairground Rd, Brattleboro, VT];

    Elaine Brower changed the settings on the original video so we couldn’t watch it, but, thanks to NotSoOldMarine who sent me a copy of the video, I put it back on YouTube and updated the description;

    Notice that he’s still allowing people to call him an “Afghanistan veteran” without correcting them. I wonder what parents would say if they knew a drug-addled, admitted rapist was in their schools trying to influence their children.

  • Where Did All the Anti-War Protestors Go?

    John Stossel asks the same question that we here at TAH have been asking since 2008 “Where Did All the Anti-War Protestors Go?“;

    …the war in Afghanistan ramped up after Obama was elected. American fatalities shot up in 2009 and 2010.

    The protesters have remained silent over Libya.

    And I’m struck by the hypocrisy of the supposedly “anti-war” politicians who voted against Iraq, like Nancy Pelosi. Since Obama was elected, she has voted to continue the war in Afghanistan … and supported the attack on Libya.

    After the anemic Code Pink/IVAW/ANSWER protest in March of 2008, we asked where the protesters have been. It seems that they weren’t really anti-war at all, but more anti-Bush. The fact that the Geezers For Sitting On Our Hands (VFP) are still trying to impeach Bush (and Nixon apparently) more than two years after he left office is proof.
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  • The people talking to your kids about the war

    As I’ve written a few times, Ethan McCord, who was one of the soldiers on the scene during the now-famous “Collateral Murder” video (which was filmed four years ago). Now he’s a man on a mission to “explain” the video to your kids and school children like them with the help of the rocket surgeons at World Can’t Wait. Here’s a screen shot of WCW’s Facebook page where Ethan rejoices at his new-found occupation – teaching your kids;

    If any of you have ever tried to interview a private about what he saw in combat, you’d know that 15 privates will give you 17 stories about the same event. Not that they lie, but everyone remembers traumatic events the way they want to remember it. Of course, Ethan is a mild improvement over the guys that used to tour schools who weren’t even at the scene.

    Speaking of whom, Matthis has published a wonderfully laborious bit of literature, too tortuous to read in it’s entirety. it’s about evil – of course it has to do with him being evil during his time in the military because the Army made him evil. We all knew it wasn’t his fault, right?

    Evil was all around me. It engulfed my every action, concealed itself behind my every motivation, but perceive it I could not. It wrapped our violent fists when we hit the town for drink. It cradled the balls hung from our erections as we forced them inside the natives. It sat in our throats when out flowed the lies that cued our mothers to be proud. It whispered promises of glory to us as we slept and dreamed of conquest.

    We abide by it still, in every aspect of our lives. Even the wise among us abide by evil to proliferate their constructions of a better life; their stomachs bloated by a loaf of its own oven. I’ve said before, “life in the United States is as a tube affixed to your anus through which you inhale the bulk of your existence.” Even the best of us consume the poison of ourselves within this system. How can we not taste it?

    I like how he writes “our” and “We”, but he actually means “You”.

    So, I suppose Matthis should just move out of the United States, since we all have tubes in our anuses – what a childish analogy…almost as bad as his oral sex analogy in the previous paragraph. It looks like that VA-paid college education is wasted. He writes like a pseudo-intellectual high school freshman.

    Ya know what’s funny? Here he is talking about how evil it is to be in the military, to be an American, yet here he is attending college free-of-charge on a benefit paid for by the American tax payer. Yeah, that’s pretty fucking evil. And, oh, by the way, he’s stealing the benefit, too, because his downgraded discharge should have precluded any further college tuition benefits. So when they finally catch up with him (and they will, if I have any say whatsoever), he’ll say he’s being harassed because he spoke out against the war.

    A day is coming when every American will know the evil in himself. That day we will burn the temples and cast out the false gods. We will finally be free of ourselves.

    I’d prefer to just be free of your blather, Matthis.

  • A Moonbat Weekend

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    March 19th is the 8th anniversary of the beginning of the war in Iraq, so you know the moonbats have worked themselves up into a frenzy. They have a big weekend planned according to Washington Peace Center;

    Friday Mar. 18

    7-9pm: Walter Reed Vigil at Walter Reed Hospital, 7150 Georgia Avenue, NW (at Horseshoe, between Dahlia and Elder)

    A weekly vigil to raise awareness within our community and the media that our injured soldiers are brought to Walter Reed Hospital and we must not forget them. Fund the wounded, not the war! (The right wingers will be out in force so let’s support!)

    The Vigil began in March 2005 following the second anniversary of the invasion and occupation of Iraq, and has continued every Friday evening regardless of rain, sun, snow, ice, or right-wing hooligans.

    Yeah, and a fearsome group they’ve been;

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    I guess this will be attended by IVAW, too. This is how they plan on helping the wounded…by taunting them while they come back from the war. Good call, Jose and Geoff.

    Saturday March 19
    12 noon: Veterans for Peace Rally and Action at Lafayette Park and the White House

    Resist the War Machine! Put your body on the line for peace and help make this the largest veteran-led civil resistance to the war machine in recent history! For more information, email stopthesewars@gmail.com.

    Rally at 12 pm at Lafayette Park, H and 16th Streets NW
    Speakers: Elliott Adams, Chantelle Bateman, Brian Becker, Medea Benjamin, Zachary Choate, Ryan Endicott, Ayesha Fleary, Chris Hedges, Kathy Kelly, Mike Malloy, Michael McPhearson, Caneisha Mills, Ralph Nader, Debra Sweet, Ann Wright, Kevin Zeese

    Civil Resistance at 1 pm, White House

    Civil resistance means they’re going to try and get arrested again, because that means something…or something. Matthis won’t be there – he’s going to be on a panel in New York City with Debra Sweet talking about how Obama is a bigger war criminal than Bush was.

    Sunday, March 20

    2 pm: Bradley Manning Action at Quantico Marine Base (VA)

    Exposing war crimes is not a crime! Support accused WikiLeaks whistle-blower Army Pfc.Bradley Manning who has been held in solitary-like conditions for six months.

    Click here to buy bus tickets to the Rally. Only $10 rountrip.

    This event is endorsed by the Bradley Manning Support Network, Veterans for Peace, Courage to Resist, CodePink, and many other groups.

    Now, if you’re inclined to attend, you won’t be alone. Toothless Dawg says Free Republic will be there at three events;

    MARCH 18,2011 (Friday) WALTER REED

    WHERE: Main gates of Walter Reed, Georgia Avenue and Elder Street, NW. Plenty of street parking and also park in the lot. Entrance off Elder Street.

    WHEN: Friday, 6:45 PM to around 9:30PM when we cheer a bus load of Wounded Warriors and their families coming back from their weekly dinner. The dinner is sponsored by The Aleethia Foundation, founded by a wounded Vietnam Vet. They could also use some donations.

    The DC Chapter of FReeRepublic will have flags, banners, posters, snacks and drinks.

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    MARCH 19,2011 (Saturday) FREEDOM PLAZA

    ANSWER, Code Pink, IVAW, and others of their ilk are still protesting against our troops. We need to continue supporting our troops and defending their honor. We need to be a voice for them. Our soldiers still need the support we gave them in March, 2007 during the first Gathering of Eagles.

    WHERE: Washington, DC — We have permitted FREEDOM PLAZA (Main gathering point) at 14th and E Streets, NW. Blue and Orange FEDERAL TRIANGLE Metro Station is closes station

    DATE: Saturday, March 19,2011

    WHEN: Gather at 10AM at Freedom Plaza, then at 11AM we will go to Pennsylvania Avenue in front of the White House till we are no longer needed to support our troops.

    The DC Chapter of FReeRepublic will have the Walter Reed MOAB, flags, banners, and posters. At FReedom Plaza we will also have snacks and drinks.

    The moonbats will be gathering at Lafayette Park at noon and will protest in front of the White House after their speeches damning and disparaging our brave troops.

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    March 20, 2011 (Sunday) Quantico MCB Main Gate

    The information I have read is that Code Pink and other skanky organizations will be gathering to free the Manning whiner. Their buses will arrive around 2pm at the intersection of Rt-1 and Rt-619 (Joplin Rd) at the Iwo Jima Memorial. They will then march the 100 yards to the main gate of Quantico.

    The Marines have stated their intention to close the main gate for several hours and expect around 500 protesters.

    Construction in the area is going to make parking very tight.

    I’ll be at the Saturday protest in Lafayette Park after I drive back from stumping with DanNy for David Bellavia. So if you don’t see anything here on the blog this weekend, it’s coming.

  • Good for the goose

    One of my ninjas sent this video of Ray McGovern being removed from a Hillary Clinton discussion at George Washington University a few days back. McGovern, it seems, stood with his back to the panel and then was forcibly removed from the room by a cop and someone in a suit. McGovern is wearing a Veterans For Peace shirt.

    Of course, the hippies are outraged that McGovern was treated this way and highlight his military service.

    I suppose it’s too much to ask the hippies to remember that several VFP and union thugs pounced on 60-year-old Gerry Kiley, a Vietnam veteran, tackled him to the floor and then dragged him from the room at Winter Soldier in 2008.

    McGovern was treated gently compared to what TSO and I witnessed at Winter Soldier.

    Grow a pair, Ray.