{"id":10376,"date":"2009-05-04T18:23:17","date_gmt":"2009-05-04T23:23:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=10376"},"modified":"2009-05-04T18:49:14","modified_gmt":"2009-05-04T23:49:14","slug":"the-anti-recruiter-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=10376","title":{"rendered":"The anti-recruiter war"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last year, the anti-war movement discovered that they can’t stop the war through Congress – mainly because Congress doesn’t want solutions to problems, they only want issues. So the anti-war crowd decided they would attack the troops who are detailed as recruiters. At about the same time, the Army decided to build a $12 million pilot facility called the Army Experience Center<\/a> at Franklin Mills Mall near Philadelphia which has a variety of video games designed to give potential recruits a taste of the Army. I can’t wait to visit and try the shoe-shining and the latrine-scrubbing video games.<\/p>\n

Since it opened last year, the AEC has stuck in the anti-war crowd’s craw. They’ve protested it at least once before that I know on February 16th<\/a> – it kind of fizzled out, of course. So this past Saturday, they decided to make a concerted effort towards shutting the AEC down. <\/p>\n

Our own Raoul was on the scene, of course, and he phoned in a report last night. He met them in the church parking lot where they assembled at St. Luke’s United Church of Christ. In short order, Raoul was able to get the church’s secretary to call him a mother f@#%er twice. <\/p>\n

All of the Leftist reports say they had over 300 people to protest, Raoul tells us it wasn’t even 200 – which is surprising since the Left also says that over 30 groups participated. Even if it was 300, with 30 groups, that’s piss-poor attendance. <\/p>\n

But the whole thing is comical. Here’s 200-300 people protesting video games. They had slogans like “If you’re not old enough to drink, you’re not old enough to kill”. So I guess, like me, they think the drinking age should be lowered, too. <\/p>\n

IVAW Winter Soldier, Jesse Hamilton was there. His deep intellectual contribution to the discussion was; “You can’t simulate the heat. You can’t you know the cries of people who are getting killed. You can’t simulate the noise when things are exploding around you.” Well, ya know what Jesse, they get an idea of what it’s like during training, don’t they? It’s not like they load the kids on buses outside the AEC and take them straight to Iraq, do they?<\/p>\n

Here’s a local TV report;
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One blogger from the Left, who certainly thought highly of himself and his actions that Saturday afternoon at the mall wrote;<\/p>\n

The complaint was read out loud, which had a profound effect on everyone who was there shopping, and visiting the various eateries. <\/p>\n

People stopped to listen, and really couldn\u2019t believe what was happening. I myself, was part of a group of protesters who donned death masks and the names of fallen soldiers and stood directly in front of the AEC, which was at that point surrounded by police. <\/p>\n

But that didn\u2019t stop us from demanding that it be closed and they should cease and desist corrupting our youth. Those of us in death masks stood silently by and watched the rest of the group shouting at the recruiters. \u201cStop stealing our kids\u201d \u201cNo wars for empire\u201d, \u201cSHAME ON YOU!\u201d to the endless pounding of drums. <\/p>\n

It seemed to me that the recruiters were becoming a bit unnerved….<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yeah, soldiers who had faced an armed enemy on foreign soil were unnerved by a bunch of smelly geezers. I’m sure. And as far as a “profound effect” it had on shoppers, I’m pretty sure they were real impressed by loud-mouthedclowns interrupting their day of shopping to scream intellectually vacant chants like kindergartners.<\/p>\n

Someone should probably point out the Army isn’t stealing anyone’s kids. Everyone who joins is an adult in their own right, making their own decisions and the fact that these pathetic cowards think that kids are stupid enough to think war is a video and need rescuing says more about the fantasy land these clowns occupy than it does about America’s youth.<\/p>\n

ShotgunDroid sent us this video from GamePolitics;
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Seven people were arrested, one was Elaine Brower, who I mentioned in the earlier post, the others bravely wore hoods and masks. The whole confrontation lasted 9 minutes. One of the arrestees wrote;<\/p>\n

After only one warning, the police decided to aggressively arrest seven of the protesters who were wearing death masks, peacefully standing in front of the AEC and not blocking the entrance. Taken to a distant precinct, the civil affairs Captain vowed vengeance by trying to charge the seven with a \u201cmisdemeanor in the third degree.\u201d After 6 hours in the most deplorable conditions, they were released to return to court in June. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yeah, in the video, you can see how aggressive the police were. I saw where they even refused to arrest one little old bag who was begging for it. And the captain “vowed vengeance”, huh? Or, maybe he vowed to enforce the peace. <\/p>\n

Raoul reported that only people who were angry were the folks trying to get in the AEC. Fox reported that the anti-war protesters have to keep their lawyers employed;<\/p>\n

Anti-war protesters are suing. They claim the Army Experience Center is endangering the welfare of children.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

What children, you retards?<\/p>\n

Most of the pictures I see say “Courtesy of Bill Perry” so I guess I fixed his camera well enough. Hey, Bill, Raoul says he saw you standing safely off to the side.<\/p>\n

Raoul also reports that our buddy Pinhead<\/a> was there and was showing anyone who would pay attention his VFP card to prove that he really is a veteran while Raoul pestered him for the month’s pay Pinhead owes Raoul on their wager. Yeah, we never said you aren’t a veteran, Dennen, we were wondering about the World War Two medals you wore at protests.<\/p>\n

I’m sure Raoul will have more to add in the comments.<\/p>\n

Raoul adds:<\/p>\n

It was a failure for them.<\/p>\n

1. They mobilized from NYC to DC, promised 700 people, delivered 200. That’s 29%.<\/p>\n

2. They got just one news story. The local Fox affiliate did a 333 word article for the website, no film. Another TV station showed, no story on the news that night.<\/p>\n

3. They got better than they gave. Three counter-demonstatrers owned their rally at St Luke’s. Our PA was louder than their’s and they had to listen to our “Teach In”.<\/p>\n

4. St Luke’s Church Secretary called me a “Mother F**ker” three times.<\/p>\n

5. They pissed off a lot of locals stuck in traffic as the geezers walked a mile in 30 minutes.<\/p>\n

6. You couldn’t tell there was a demo just 40 yards down the mall.<\/p>\n

7. People coming and going at the mall mainly ignored them<\/p>\n

8. They pissed off the teens who let the geezers know it.<\/p>\n

9. They were in the mall for less than an hour.<\/p>\n

10. The AEC opened 10 minutes after they left.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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