I’m sure you remember Ward Reilly who we exposed as a phony Rangerhere, here, and here. Well, according to my ninjas, he decided that he’d make a useless point on his Facebook page last night;
If I interpret this as he intended it, Ward is saying that we’re all like Jared Loughner because we kill armed insurgents intent on killing our soldiers. Is that what Loughner was doing? Yeah, it’s just the same, Ward…only completely different.
Ben sent us a link to an article by Daniel Flynn on Frontpage Magazine that recounts the history of the removal of ROTC from some college campuses during, and to protest, the Vietnam War. It reminded me of the events much more recently at the university where I taught ROTC for a few years. It was at the University of Vermont, and if I remember correctly, it was in 1989.
We were a small unit with about 30 cadets and our office was a two-story house between the campuses and the residences. One morning I came in to do my daily PT and discovered that someone had broken the glass in the front doors and spread red paint over our porch in some weak attempt at intimidation. Like I said, it was 1989 – what pray tell was going on in the world that could inspire such an act of childish endeavor?
There were usually posters stuck up near our building from Geezers For Sitting On Our Hands about the evil US war machine which was destroying corn crops in El Salvador with mini-guns. At the time each round of 20mm was about $50 a piece, so it always seemed to me that if the Army wanted to destroy a corn field, there were cheaper ways to do it.
That same year, teachers at UVM shut down my Wilderness Survival class (a half-credit PE class) by complaining that I was abusing the chickens I bought for the students to kill and eat because I’d teach them to pull the heads from the chickens – a method approved by the ASPCA as humane. When that didn’t work, they disapproved of the way the chickens were stored in cages the night before our exercise. The recommendation that came from the board after my testimony was that we take the students on a field trip to a slaughtering facility. So, obviously, we weren’t going to get any rational alternatives and we shut down the program.
Within a few months of that, the university decided that they needed our building for another department and they made plans to move us off campus – several miles away to the campus of Saint Micheal’s College, a Catholic college, to an ancient set of government quarters. Of course, the best part of being on campus was our access to students for recruiting purposes. Despite our protests, we were forced to move. Our cadets suffered most because they were unable to get our offices for help with their various activities.
Anyway, this was all before Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell and it wasn’t until after they’d moved us someone made the connection to the gay issue as an excuse to keep us off campus. So I don’t expect the repeal of DADT to yield much more access to campuses.
I just got back from spending a day with the great medical folks at Walter Reed and some parents of wounded warriors and found these pictures in my inbox (from one of my ninjas). The first thing that popped in my head is that they should have picked Matthis up by his feet and dragged him on his face to see if he’d dig that mug into the snow.
Someone told me that Matthis was wearing a VFP pin or patch, so he’s a Geezer For Sitting On Our Hands.
The protesters at the White House yesterday, some of whom were veterans can’t get any respect from the media. The protesters reported that over a hundred “veterans” were arrested yesterday in front of the White House. I put the word “veterans” in parenthesis because the only names I saw of arrestees were names like Daniel Ellsburg, Debra Sweet, and Elaine Brower – none of whom are veterans. But this comes from Ward Reilly;
Apparently, being a veteran means you can break the law with impunity to these clods. If you look at the video I posted yesterday, you can see they forced their way through barriers erected by the police to protect themselves and the White House, they chained themselves to the White House fence and they through postcards over the White House fence. All illegal.
So, Ward, veterans fought to keep this a nation of laws, not a nation of lawbreakers. Using protester math, though, there were probably a few dozen arrested and Ward extrapolated that to over a hundred.
Anyway, there’s no mention of the protests or the arrests in the Times or Post this morning, although the Post mentions that one man was arrested on Capitol Hill for assaulting the Capitol police. But nothing about the smelly hippies.
The Geezers For Sitting On Our Hands aren’t wasting any time getting arrested today at the White House. Here’s a video of them crashing through the barriers and chaining themselves to the White House fence;
Ward Reilly has posted a couple of photos of Daniel Ellsburg getting arrested supposedly for the 80th time on his 80th birthday.
There’s your future, IVAW.
I guess Code Pink is running out of things to protest, so they went to give their fellow traveler, communist Bernie Sanders a hug in his office yesterday and tomorrow they’re going to the AG’s office to tell him to prosecute “real war criminals”
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Those billionaire hippie dregs over at Geezers For Sitting On Our Hands released a statement last week announcing that they were boycotting Amazon, Ebay and PayPal because those entities were shutting down their connections to Wikileaks;
Yesterday, the Executive Committee of Veterans For Peace voted to break all commercial ties with the Amazon Corporation and call for our members to boycott eBay Corp. and PayPal Corp. This includes, but is not limited to,
* Removing the Amazon link from the VFP website. Previously we had encouraged our members to use this link when making purchases from Amazon Corp., as a fundraising method for our organization.
* Urging our members, supporters and the public to boycott Amazon, eBay and PayPal corporations.
* Urging Julian Assange and the Wikileaks team to continue their fight in the most important area of free speech: government secrets.
I have to chuckle at the thought that the hippies at VFP think that the pennies they spend at those companies will have any real effect. Hippies don’t have any money, they’re still wearing the same clothes they wore in the sixties. The rumor is that Bill perry and War Reilly share their underwear.
In the meantime, This Ain’t Hell fully supports Amazon and PayPal and will continue to have our links running to those folks.
The statement from VFP continues to complain that the Justice Department is planning on using the Espionage Act against Assange. In fact, they complain that the Wilson Administration used the Espionage Act to silence Eugene V Debs. it must not have worked too well because Debs, the communist provocateur, ran for president of the United States in 1920 while he was in prison for violations of the Espionage Act. By the way, the violations, 10 counts, were related to his urgings of resistance to the draft during WWI.
The VFP statement ends thusly;
VFP gave imprisoned Army PFC, Bradley Manning, its Courage of Conscience award earlier this year for releasing documents detailing U.S. war crimes in Iraq and Afghanistan. Resistance to the attack on WikiLeaks and Assange is also growing and VFP considers it important to do what we can to join that resistance.
Bradley Manning was mad because his boyfriend broke up with him. That’s real courage. I’m glad that VFP pines with Manning in his unrequited amorous affairs. I hear he’s missing a Lady Gaga CD, maybe VFP can dig deep and buy him a new one…but not from Amazon.
Someone sent me some screen shots from a discussion Ethan McCord had on Facebook over an email he got from one of the guys he served with in Iraq during the “Collateral Murder” incident.
Yeah, it goes on like that “Ethan, you’re so brave”, “Ethan you’re so smart”, “Ethan, everyone who doesn’t think like you are idiots”. Typical kneejerk bullshit. While they complain they can’t have their own opinions in public, they deny everyone else’s right to think they’re wrong. Blah, blah, blah, who cares.
But, as in everything anti-war, Ward Reilly shows up in the discussion like Herbert the Pervert. I really don’t know what his interest could be in hanging out on Facebook with people half his age (Ward and I are almost the same age).
Yeah, veterans in the anti-war movement are so truthful. Like Ward wearing a Ranger tab he didn’t earn;
And claiming he’s a Ranger because his company, a leg infantry company in Germany, called themselves Rangers;
If you read that last paragragh of the last post Ward made, you’d think he’s a Vietnam veteran, but he spent the last few months of the Vietnam War in Germany. He enlisted in October 1971 and combat forces were withdrawn from Vietnam a few months later.
Reilly “resisted” in May and June of 1973 when he went AWOL for 30 days while stationed in Bavaria ten months after combat forces left Vietnam – not in 1972 like he wrote. You can see the actual dates of his AWOL on his Form 2-1. He was barely in desertion status – he was AWOL from May 2 – June 2 and he was returned to duty on June 15th, so he was a deserter for a whopping 13 days. By the way, his AWOL episode came five months after the Paris Peace Accords were signed, so what exactly was he resisting?
He continues that the infantry made him a hippie. The infantry would have made him a man if he’d paid the least bit of attention.