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Category: Veterans For Peace/VVAW

  • VFP’s Veterans’ Day battle

    Every year, we get to listen to the Geezers For Sitting On Our Hands (also known in less informed circles as Veterans For Peace) whine about how they can’t get in traditional Veterans’ Day festivities because they’re a political organization. Their defense of course, is that they’re a Veterans’ group not a political organization;

    Over 75 members of Boston area chapters of Veterans for Peace and supporters marched behind the Veterans Day Parade through downtown Boston Thursday. The veterans have tried for years to convince the parade organizer – the American Legion – to allow them to march with signs critical of recent US military interventions while chanting anti-war cadences. Without success. Supreme Court precedent allows private groups that get permits for public events to decide who participates and enforce rules for participation; so the Veterans for Peace and allied organizations once again marched behind the American Legion’s parade rather than not march at all.

    Yeah, it’s horrible that the American Legion gets to choose who is in their parade in Boston, huh? Who even wants to be seen in public with these burned-out relics of days gone by?

    So like the immature little twits they are, the VFP marched behind the American Legion’s parade this year carrying signs to prove that they have no interest in turning the event into a political discussion;

    In Ann Arbor, Michigan, they completely lost sight of the fact that Veterans’ Day is to recognize living veterans while they’re still alive and the VFP chapter there made an “Arlington West” out of rows of crosses. Writes the reporter of the event;

    The memorial was just one of thousands set up across the nation to replicate the crosses at the Arlington National Cemetery.

    Yeah, except there are no crosses at Arlington to replicate. Small detail I know, but proof these pencil-dicked morons don’t know what they’re doing.

    “This is not a protest march in any way, shape or form,” said [Bob Krzewinski of the Michigan chapter].

    I guess that because they keep repeating that phrase, it’s made so.

  • “Veterans” to march against White House for Peace

    A group of anti-war veterans have signed on to march against the White House to demand peace on Thursday, December 16th, probably hoping to avoid counterprotesters who have jobs and can’t show up on a Thursday. They compare themselves to the Bonus Marchers of the last century who marched after World War One for their benefits;

    In the early thirties, WW1 vets descended on Washington, D.C., to demand their promised bonuses, it being the depths of the Depression. General Douglas MacArthur and his sidekick Dwight Eisenhower disregarded President Herbert Hoover’s order and burned their encampment down and drove the vets out of town at bayonet point.

    We are today’s bonus marchers, and we’ve coming to claim our bonus-PEACE.

    Well, here are some of the people who’ve signed on to the above statement and whom we’ve discussed over the past few years.

    Brian Becker, National Coordinator, ANSWER Coalition; as you can imagine, Brian isn’t a veteran, just a Maoist bomb thrower. He runs ANSWER along with his brother also not a veteran.

    Medea Benjamin, Co-Founder, CODEPINK for Peace; yeah, she’s not a veteran either – yet there she is listed with veterans.

    Elaine Brower, Anti-war Military Mom and World Can’t Wait; She’s not a veteran, but her son was deployed to the GWOT three times – voluntarily. She’s fond of calling soldiers “baby killers” and “murderers” but exempts her son from such caricaturization and throws her son’s service in the face of her detractors at every opportunity.

    Scott Camil, Veterans For Peace; Camil was known as Scott the Assassin during the Vietnam War days because it was his idea to assassinate politicians who didn’t oppose that war. He was also one of the Gainesville Eight who plotted to disrupt the 1972 Republican National Convention in Miami by attacking the police, disrupting utilities and firebombing stores. The plot was foiled by the FBI. He was also shot once while trying to sell drugs to the DEA.

    Matthis Chiroux, Iraq War Resister Veteran; What can I say about Matthis you don’t already know. He’s not a veteran of GWOT.

    Bill Perry, Vietnam Veterans Against the War; Bill Perry was one of the original VVAW members who testified at the first Winter Soldier hearings. He admitted to me last year that his testimony at those hearings was “bullshit” to please the hippie chicks and John Kerry.

    Mike Prysner, Co-Founder, March Forward; Mike ran for office in the Party for Socialism and Justice. He ran for the Board of IVAW even though he’d left the organization to form March Forward because IVAW wasn’t radical enough for him.

    Ward Reilly, Veterans For Peace; Ward is a big fake. he walks around in boonie caps and tiger stripe uniforms to give the impression that he’s a Vietnam veteran, but his entire tour in the military was spent in Germany during Vietnam. He wears a Ranger tab on his boonie cap to give the impression that he’s a Ranger even though he’s never been to the school and wouldn’tmake a pimple on a real Ranger’s ass.

    He once questioned me on how I could justify my CIB since I earned it in Desert Storm. He was wearing a Ranger tab at the time. Hypocite.

    Cindy Sheehan, Founder, Peace of the Action; Not a veteran, just an old hag in the final throes of her fame.

    David Swanson, author; Swanson is professional crybaby. He founded AfterDowningStreet which has morphed into an Arrest Bush and Cheney organization. Mostly he whines that the Left isn’t Left enough. He’s not a veteran.

    Debra Sweet, National Director, World Can’t Wait; Sweet is everywhere a lame protest erupts. Lately, she’s taken to following Matthis around NYC-area schools. She’s not a veteran.

    Col. Ann Wright, Veterans For Peace; she famously resigned from the Bush State Department to protest the invasion of Iraq. She’s a liar, when it suits “the cause” and she alternates between Code Pink and Vets For Peace. You can see her service record at the link.

    Doug Zachary, Veterans For Peace; Zachary was booted from the USMC before he could be deployed to Vietnam, but, like Reilly, he plays the part of a Vietnam veteran. Imagine how screwed up you have to be to kicked out of the Marines in 1968. Zachary loots every anti-war cause he can get his grubby paws near.

    There are more signatories, most of whom I don’t recognize by name. I only saw a few IVAW members on the list, but I’m sure they’ll be there.

  • Matthis in your school

    Someone sent me this video yesterday of one of Matthis’ talks in your kids’ school about his time in the military. That’s Elaine Brower at the beginning telling us how 1 in 3 women in the military are raped. Of course, you have to buy into her definition of rape to believe that particular statistic.

    Matthis, not to be outdone, claims that one-in-five men in the military have been raped by other men in their own units. All of you guys who were raped, raise your hands. Yeah, me neither.

    At about 5 minutes into the video, Matthis tells how he pointed his rifle at children every time he went on patrol in Afghanistan. Every time. I wonder how many times “every time” are since he was in Afghanistan on temporary duty (TDY) for less than six days. I’m pretty sure he never left Bagram Air Base, let alone was issued a weapon.

    He talks about the children starving while he gets to eat Burger King in Afghanistan. I wonder if he realizes that many of the troops on Bagram don’t get to eat Burger King like his TDY ass did?

    So, I guess the history of this war will be written by guys who spent less than six days there.

  • Veterans Day for the protected class

    So now that Veterans’ Day has ended, we can take a look at how the Left celebrated the sacrifice of our troops. Like Bobby Whittenberg, formerly of the Iraq Veterans Against the War, more currently of the Veterans For Peace Austin, TX chapter;

    Of course the fact that he’s a veteran encourages the mindless stooges to pile on with him.

    Dahlia Wasfi is an idiot, Ph.D or not, she’s a straight up moron for encouraging this shit. Oh, and Whittenberg is a pussy.

    Well, if that didn’t get your blood boiling, this is sure to raise it few degrees. Matthis goes on Russian Today and spouts off.

    “There are vets who are anti-military, I’m one of them. There are vets that are anti-American because of their experience in the military and I’m one of them,” Chiroux says.

    Nothing in his “experience” made him anti-American. In fact he didn’t experience anything while he was stationed in Germany and Japan except the fat life of a pogue. He wasn’t even against the war until he called back to duty and disrupted his cushy life in New York City.

    “I enlisted when I was 18. I was homeless, living in a tent, selling psychedelic mushrooms to make money to survive. I was set up by the police department and was given the choice to enlist or face prosecution,” Chiroux recalls.

    He enlisted when he was 19, he was homeless and living in a tent because he was told to find a job. Selling mushrooms at an elementary school playground isn’t a job. And the police aren’t Army recruiters setting kids up to force them into the Army. Only brain dead hippies would believe that shit.

    “When I came to the conclusion that we hadn’t just made a mistake but were and continued to be in violation of international law, it was imperative that I not deploy to Iraq.”

    More accurately, when he came to the conclusion that fulfilling his commitment to the country would inconvenience him greatly, Matthis decided it was imperative that he would not deploy.

    It’s idiots like these two peckerwoods who made veterans hide their service for decades after Vietnam. Peckerwoods like Ward Reilly, Doug Zachary and Bill Perry.

    Thanks to the folks who sent the screen shots and links.

  • VFP Phony in Seattle?

    Rurik sent me a link to this post at Geobent about a gaggle of organizations who protested the war in Seattle. I see ANSWER signs, a Military Families Speak Out sign, and some Veterans For Peace banners and participants. One guy from the latter group stuck out to me. He wore four rows of ribbons with the Combat Infantry Badge beneath them. Anyone who was ever earned the CIB knows that it goes above everything. Well here’s a picture of the hero;

    I blew up another picture that shows his rack a little better;

    I may be off a bit, but it looks like his highest award (reader’s top left) is the Korea Defense Medal which is certainly not the highest among the medals he’s wearing. Next is a single award of the Army Commendation Medal which is plausible, but the next is a Meritorious Service Medal – the highest award of the whole mess. Then the Army Achievement Medal, then the Reserve Components Achievement Medal 4th Award followed by the Republic of Korea War Service Medal – a foreign award which goes after all US Army awards – and it has some funny devices on it that I don’t recognize. The ribbon on your far left in the second row from the bottom is the South West Asia Service Medal. The next one is the Overseas Service Ribbon – not a medal so it’s lower than medals. Next is what looks like four awards of the Army Service Ribbon – awarded for six months in the Army. I’m not aware of consequent awards of the ribbon. I’m pretty sure you only get it once without any palm leafs. Following that ribbon is the National Defense Medal which should be above the two ribbons preceding it – it’s a medal. That’s followed by the foreign award of the Saudi Arabia Defense Medal, it’s followed by the Kuwait Liberation Medal, but it should probably be right-side up instead of the way this doofus is wearing it.

    Now, below that is the CIB and master Sergeant rank, so I have to think that he’s trying the give the impression that he’s a Master Sergeant with combat infantry experience. Now he has some reserve medals, which mean he was in the Reserves. If he was in the Reserves during Desert Storm, he didn’t get a CIB, because no reserve infantry units deployed to Desert Storm. If he was on active duty when he deployed to Saudi Arabia, where is an Army Good Conduct Medal? Just one for three years of service without stepping on his dick.

    There’s no NCO Development Ribbon, yet he made it to Master Sergeant? Impossible if he was promoted after 1986. So he thinks he’s a Master Sergeant, but got his ribbons and medals mixed up and upside down? And if I’m not mistaken, the Korean Defense Medal is for combat.

    But I do know that if everything on his uniform true, and someone walked alongside of me with that sign, I’d seriously think twice about the company I’m keeping because associating myself with someone that stupid doesn’t honor my fallen comrades.

  • Matthis and the Revolutionary Communist Party

    Matthis showed up on the inter-tubes again last week when he signed World Can’t Wait’s “Crimes are crimes” petition. At least he’s stripped most of the deceit out of his bio.

    Yeah, well, ya know how your mom always told you that you’re judged by the company you keep? Carl Dix, the former head of the Revolutionary Communist Party (distinguished from the regular old Communist Party by their Revolutionary aims). Now you can call me a “red-baiter”, but since the dude calls himself a communist, i don’t know how I’m baiting any-damn-body.

    I wrote about Dix and his connections to IVAW over a year ago. He was the national leader of the RCP a few years back, now he’s just a spokesman.

    So what does the RCP believe? This is from the RCP, USA Constitution – which, as you can imagine, is very long and tedious;

    The first stage of this movement [Communism] included three epic revolutions: the Paris Commune; the Soviet Revolution; and the Chinese Revolution, which included the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution as its high point. These revolutions effected unprecedented and amazing changes; their vision and accomplishments inspired people around the globe. But world imperialism remained dominant, and these were new and beginning efforts; despite heroic struggles, each in turn was finally defeated by the forces of reaction. In the wake of those defeats, these revolutions have been endlessly slandered, and the truth about them suppressed and distorted. In actual fact, these revolutions proved that a better world really is possible, and through these revolutions humanity has accumulated invaluable experience and a whole new point of departure.

    Checkout the webpage of the Revolutionary Communist party of Charlottesville – Soviet Union imagery, lamentations over China straying from the teachings of bloodthirsty tyrant Mao Zedong, or whatever they’ve changed his name to today.

    There’s a call to celebrate the anniversary of the October Revolution which brought the Soviet Union into being at the cost of millions of gallons of blood. If you refresh the page, the header banner changes to imagery of Mao, Stalin, Lenin, Marx along with some memorable passages from each.

    That’s quite different from what Victor Agosto told us a few weeks ago – that communists learned their lessons from China and the Soviet Union (and North Korea?) and that they won’t make the same mistakes next time. It looks to me that they don’t even realize that the Soviet Union split up under the weight of it’s own ideology.

    Of course, there were other lesser luminaries in the crowd who recorded their messages to the waiting masses like Cindy Shehan, Debra Sweet, David Swanson, Noam Chomsky and Ray McGovern.

    Nonetheless, it’s good to see Matthis keeping such good company over there at World Can’t Wait and the Veterans For Peace. Oh, by the way, he couldn’t make it to Washington, DC this past week end (that four hour bus ride was just too much for him) so he sent this message to his minions on Facebook;

    If anyone’s going to the ‘democrats can end the wars’ rally this weekend in D.C., please burn a flag! And roll a burning trashcan into the oval office, if ya get the chance!

    Peace out, ma brotha, peace out.

  • VFP: Please look at us

    After years of being ignored while they “occupied” the National Archives (or more accurately occupied the outside of the building – links and pictures here and here), the Geezers for Sitting on Our Hands have decided the Newseum, down the street from the Archives might generate more attention. Their small actions and the arrival of the police seem to excite them in this video;

    Of course, any opportunity to get out of “the home” on a field trip probably excites them.

    Thanksto someone for the video.

  • Strange bedfellows

    Saturday, 400 groups will converge on Washington, DC in what they call the “One Nation” rally. Of course, I’ve seen Leftist rallies which claimed 30 groups were represented and twenty people were there, so the number of groups isn’t really that important – it’s the types of groups that are showing up and intertwined for what they think make up the majority of Americans.

    Code Pink and the National Education Association? Really? Our teachers are proud to stand along side the post-op trannies of Code Pink? The American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees standing alongside Maoist-inspired ANSWER? In fact, every anti-war group you can think of is included and every union organization is right there along with them. So if you’re in a union, your dues money was spent to send people to this political rally. What do I mean? Well, the unions and the NAACP are giving thousands a free bus ride to DC.

    And unlike Glen Beck’s rally earlier this month, this rally is purely political;

    Unlike Beck’s rally, in which overt politics took a back seat to religious and patriotic themes, the progressive groups will repeatedly remind attendees to vote in the midterm elections, said Arlene Holt Baker, executive vice president of the AFL-CIO.

    “We have heard a lot about frustration and anger leading to apathy. What we are finding is that anger is now turning into, ‘Okay, let’s act,’” she said. “We can either sit here and not move forward or we can go backward.”

    Holt Baker considers the rally a first step toward more closely unifying the progressive movement, which has often splintered into niche causes.

    Organizers told the Washington Post what their focus will be;

    Organizers say they are focusing on three unifying ideas: jobs, justice and education. They define those ideas in a set of principles that also lays out a list of causes largely supported by liberals, such as ending discrimination in the criminal justice system, protecting Social Security, spending federal money to create jobs and improving public education.

    “These are the bedrock issues that define who we are and why we march,” Jealous said.

    Oh, really? Then why is the anti-military recruiting organization Ya-Ya Network coming? Why are The Geezers For Sitting on Our Hands (otherwise known as Veterans For Peace) slated? The National Center for Transgender Equality? American Friends Service Committee (otherwise known as Quakers – big anti-war protesters). US Labor Against the War? AIDS Walk Washington? The Trans-Africa Forum? Iraq Veterans Against the War (of course there are many contradictions just in that 5-word title)? US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation?

    Many of those groups have come out against Obama and certain policies of his administration. Gays don’t like that he hasn’t used his bullypulpit to end Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell. Code Pink, Vets For Peace and IVAW have all criticized him for continuing Bush policies in Iraq and Afghanistan – their reason to exist as organizations. In fact many of the members of those organizations have told me that they didn’t vote for Obama in 2008 – yet here they are at what is essentially a rally to encourage people to vote for Democrats in November.

    This isn’t America. Maybe it’s Washington, DC’s perception of America, but no one I know out here, just the other side of the Beltway, belong to any of those groups. And maybe the union leaders think their membership’s dues are justly spent on carrying smelly busloads of hippies who want a free trip to DC, but I’m pretty sure many of you would disagree.

    If that rally is an accurate portrayal of America, Those of us who aren’t there ought to buy more ammo.