{"id":1395,"date":"2008-03-26T17:35:22","date_gmt":"2008-03-26T21:35:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=1395"},"modified":"2008-04-02T14:56:01","modified_gmt":"2008-04-02T18:56:01","slug":"poor-victimized-ivaw-member","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=1395","title":{"rendered":"Poor victimized IVAW member reinstated"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Evan Knappenberger is seen above during the Wednesday, March 19, event organized by Ferndale High School students to protest the fifth anniversary of the Iraq War, where Knappenberger was a guest speaker.<\/em><\/font><\/p>\n

Evan Knappenberger, the Iraq Veterans Against the War lunatic who threatened to blow up the Gathering of Eagles and issued a “fatwa” to assassinate Michele Malkin<\/a>, then got suspended from the IVAW<\/a>, gets resurrected in his local newspaper’s (the Bellingham Herald<\/a>) blog;<\/p>\n

Evan Knappenberger, a local Iraq War veteran who did the Stop Loss Tower Guard vigil last summer and started the local Iraq Veterans Against the War chapter was suspended from the group, but reinstated after four days, for making threats online against pro-war activists two weeks ago.<\/p>\n

Knappenberger, who initially suffered an indefinite suspension, told me on the phone this morning that he had received an apology from the IVAW board for what he called their \u201carbitrary decision\u201d to suspend him in the heat of the moment.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Not only did the IVAW restore his membership, they apologized to him for suspending him. I wonder if they’re apologizing to Army Sergeant for the threats she gets from Knappenberger and his ilk. The blogger at the herald continues;<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve been getting death threats for quite awhile now,\u201d Knappenberger told me today. \u201cI just kind of boiled over. Yeah, I slipped up.\u201d<\/p>\n

Knappenberger, who suffers from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, said that the issue has been dead for two weeks and it\u2019s not a big deal.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yeah, he’s been getting death threats. I wonder why.<\/p>\n

He said the IVAW is also \u201credefining\u201d its terms of non-violence after the incident, with the recognition that they have soldiers in the group.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

What the Hell does that mean? Does it mean that IVAW is defining what Knappenberger engaged in as “non-violent”? I got news for you guys, there’s soldiers in every group and we all live under the same rules as the rest of civilized society. But the fun is only beginning;<\/p>\n

Because Knappenberger was not allowed at the Winter Soldier event, he offered up his testimony to them and he is also offering it up here. *Update*<\/strong> – Knappenberger has asked me to take the testimony down.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So that’s Knappenberger’s story – he would have offered up damning testimony at Winter Soldier, but since he couldn’t attend because of mean ol’ Army Sergeant jumping the gun, he’ll just give it to some fresh-faced journalist-type who couldn’t tell an IED from an IUD.<\/p>\n

Quietly reinstating Knappenberger says more about the IVAW than anything I could write about them.<\/p>\n

UPDATED April 2, 2008<\/strong>: Michele Malkin<\/a> must be getting hits from the same story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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