{"id":10321,"date":"2009-05-03T07:23:44","date_gmt":"2009-05-03T12:23:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=10321"},"modified":"2009-05-03T07:27:12","modified_gmt":"2009-05-03T12:27:12","slug":"front-toward-enemy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=10321","title":{"rendered":"Front Toward Enemy"},"content":{"rendered":"

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To those who don\u2019t know me, I\u2019ve been messing around on political forums for the better part of 10 years now, including 5-or-so years as a moderator\/admin on one very popular forum owned by some skinny blonde chick\u2026Ann something or other, but I digress.<\/p>\n

During that time, I made a practice of lurking on opposing forums, mostly for material, but also for the sheer sake of trying to decipher what these people were thinking\u2026and I use that term loosely. One of my favorite, most target rich environments for my recons was The Democratic Underground, profoundly referred to as DU, earning it\u2019s denizens the title of DU\u2019ers. In many cases, what was posted on DU could hardly be held out as fiction, much less categorized as an argument (last time I checked \u201cfuck you\u201d wasn\u2019t exactly considered thoughtful debate), so I would package up these little nuggets and post them on Ann Whatsherface\u2019s forum and we\u2019d all get a pretty good chuckle out of them. Nice. Whatever.<\/p>\n

The bulk of these DU crossposts were harmless, amounting to a significant number of echo chamber rants, lithium fueled diatribes, endless bitching about Bush and Cheney (to which they had all manner of interesting nicknames) and some of the lamest attempts at humor seen this side of a Kathy Griffin \u201cshow\u201d. On occasion, however, there were some rare gems, like the one from a particular DU poster named Magic Rat, who according to him, had his \u201cgirlfriend\u201d up in his bedroom, her clothes half-off, when he suddenly decides that taking the tube-bus to Tuna Town wasn\u2019t in the cards that evening\u2026his bewilderment on why she suddenly left was comedy gold.<\/p>\n

Then there was the \u201cguy\u201d who got mad because all the chicks in his office would run out for lunch on Friday to his favorite pizza joint and wouldn\u2019t invite him\u2026or the epic \u201cLiberal Historian & Nighttrain\u201d hook-up, where DU\u2019ers actually pledged gas and motel money via PayPal, only to have good ol\u2019 Nighttrain bail when he figured out that his Dodge Omni probably couldn\u2019t handle Jabba The Historian\u2019s considerable girth. These were some of the better threads, chiseled into the internets for all time.<\/p>\n

But with the coronation of the Teleprompter-in-Chief, these outlets have changed a little\u2026or have they? A quick DUmpster dive this morning revealed a significant number of threads dedicated to prosecution of Bush administration officials related to the \u201ctorture\u201d memos. There were a few posts about the flu (and the magnificent way St. Barry is handling the crisis), but there was one that stood out:<\/p>\n

formercia (1000+ posts) http:\/\/journals.democraticunderground.com\/formercia
\nTue Apr-28-09 07:40 AM
\nOriginal message<\/p>\n

I was threatened again yesterday. They did it by threatening my 8 year old son. They’re such cowards that they sent a boy almost twice his age to do it. he’s still a minor, thus pretty much untouchable.They were sending me a message that they may not be able to get to me directly but my son is fair game.
\nWe’ve turned into a Third World country where the inmates are in charge of the asylum.<\/p>\n

I had to keep him home from school today because he’s suffering from anxiety. He’s borderline autistic and has enough trouble functioning at school as is, but this just pushes him over the edge. I complained before but nothing gets done.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Ok\u2026at face value, it\u2019s a fairly reasonable response to someone having their kid bullied, but then again, this is DU…the thread continues:<\/p>\n

HarukaTheTrophyWife (1000+ posts)
\nTue Apr-28-09 07:42 AM
\nResponse to Original message<\/p>\n

1. Since you know who did it, just call the fucking cops<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

formercia (1000+ posts)
\nTue Apr-28-09 07:46 AM
\nResponse to Reply #1<\/p>\n

3. They won’t do anything. I even complained to the FBI a couple of years ago.<\/p>\n

They’re a bunch of Bush Gang connected Dominionist, Joel’s Army types. Their local gur-preacher is a State Senator who likes to push his weight around.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Hm. Ok, so we\u2019ve gone from our kid being bullied to the FBI and a state senator being involved. Interesting. But there\u2019s more:<\/p>\n

HarukaTheTrophyWife (1000+ posts)
\nTue Apr-28-09 08:08 AM
\nResponse to Reply #3<\/p>\n

9. Wait, so this has been going on for years? Why are they doing this to you?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

formercia (1000+ posts)
\nTue Apr-28-09 08:11 AM
\nResponse to Reply #9<\/p>\n

10. It’s Bush Gang revenge. I screwed with one of Poppy’s operations when I worked at CIA. This has been going on for decades.They can’t attack me directly, so they attack my son.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yeah\u2026totally worth the wait, wasn\u2019t it? To recap for those in the cheap seats, what we have here is an anonymous poster on a leftwing whack-job forum who is complaining that their kid is being threatened by teenaged FBI agents, and their state senator (who is also a pastor\u2026gotta get that anti-Christian bias in there too you know), due to some clandestine operation they thwarted during Bush 41\u2019s presidency while they were working for the CIA. To their credit, some of the DUmbasses have the audacity to question our intrepid hero\u2019s veracity, which doesn\u2019t go over too well:<\/p>\n

formercia (1000+ posts)
\nTue Apr-28-09 08:28 AM
\nResponse to Reply #12<\/p>\n

18. What is the ‘kool-aide’ reference? Are you trying to insinuate that I’m under-medicated? They already tried that attack. The shrinks say I’m ok.
\nI do have severe PTSD as a result.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Looks like IVAW could have a potential spokesperson here! But wait, it gets even more intense:<\/p>\n

formercia (1000+ posts)
\nTue Apr-28-09 08:20 AM
\nResponse to Reply #15<\/p>\n

16. They have been ‘messing’ with me for decades. I’ve been shot at, poisoned, electrocuted, assaulted. I spent a year and a half in rehab recovering from one of their ‘pranks.’<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Sounds like he\u2019s been to Gitmo. I kid\u2026I\u2019m a kidder. No seriously:<\/p>\n

formercia (1000+ posts)
\nTue Apr-28-09 08:44 AM
\nResponse to Reply #19<\/p>\n

27. It’s not paranoia. I’ve heard your meme many times. I would have taken offense to it at one time, but I’ve heard it so often, that I just write off such statements as ignorance. This has been going on for decades. It began when Poppy was VP and in charge of the Central America Program.<\/p>\n

I was one of the CIA Officers that worked on the mining of the harbors in Nicaragua program. In January of 1982, I notified my superiors that I felt the program was illegal. Apparently, Poppy took great offense to this.<\/p>\n

My quote:
\n“You people are out of your fucking minds.” “When Congress finds out about this, they are going to cut our balls off.”<\/p>\n

This is what I said to my Division Chief, in front of his whole Division. (OTS\/SAD)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Rebubula (481 posts)
\nTue Apr-28-09 08:55 AM
\nResponse to Reply #27<\/p>\n

39. So…for 27 years the CIA (an organization that routinely kills people in manners that seem natural or simply disappears them) has been pissed at you for transgressions against them?<\/p>\n

Sorry…if this is true (and honestly I doubt it), this (Democratic Underground) is NOT the forum. You should (as another poster mentioned) contact Leon Pannetta’s office (he seems an honorable man) and some of your old CIA friends (you should still have at least one friendly contact there) to get everything on the table.<\/p>\n

If this is true, I apologize and wish you the best at getting out from under these assholes.<\/p>\n

If only Jack Bauer were here\u2026he\u2019d know how to handle this\u2026or Chuck Norris, but since he\u2019s a fundie Repuke, maybe Ward Churchill? I hear Bill Maher is pretty tough as long as he can use his mouth:<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

14. Can you move far away? Not worth risking your, or your son’s health.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

formercia (1000+ posts)
\nTue Apr-28-09 08:23 AM
\nResponse to Reply #14<\/p>\n

17. I’m safest in plain sight. They have too many tentacles to hide from.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Google \u2018hentai\u2019 for more on these wayward tentacles\u2026on second thought, don\u2019t do that.<\/p>\n

And so this is how it goes. These are the folks that can nullify your well informed vote. These are the people who parade around in pink attire demanding peace at all cost. These are the morons who think that the preamble to the Constitution says \u201cgenerally promote Welfare\u201d instead of \u201cpromote the general welfare\u201d. These are the idiots who join the military for \u201ccollege\u201d and then shit themselves when the Army has the audacity to actually deploy them into harm\u2019s way. They are the ones who would be more than happy to sell out your grandkid\u2019s future as long as they can sit in a women\u2019s studies program for 10 years on your dime\u2026and they all think you\u2019re the one who is the problem. And hey, thanks to Janet Napolitano they have Federal justification for that opinion.<\/p>\n

Which brings us to the point of this rambling mass of whatever\u2026battlefields are no longer limited to far flung shores, or wind swept sand dunes\u2026they\u2019re in your face. They\u2019re in your neighborhoods. They\u2019re in your kid\u2019s school, and more importantly, they\u2019re embedded in the collective psyche of those who command the reins of power. Think of that next time you see our Fearless Leader, his flawlessly vetted speech scrolling on his best pal, the teleprompter and think of this; on a claymore mine, it has printed in large text \u2018Front Toward Enemy\u2019. The question is, who has the clacker.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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