{"id":14372,"date":"2009-09-15T07:02:03","date_gmt":"2009-09-15T12:02:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=14372"},"modified":"2009-09-15T07:02:03","modified_gmt":"2009-09-15T12:02:03","slug":"gordon-duff-defines-military-service-for-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=14372","title":{"rendered":"Gordon Duff defines “military service” for us"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I’ve run into Gordon Duff’s writings occasionally on the internet. He’s about as prolific as that Jim Staro guy that TSO likes so much, and Duff is about as literate as Staro. He’s the “senior editor” of a website misnamed “Veterans Today” – it’s been my experience that Veterans Today is just another propaganda mouthpiece for the Democrat Party. <\/p>\n

I always chalked Duff up under the “harmless crank” column and went looking for better targets. The other day, 1stCavRVN11B sent me a link to one of his columns published in a local newspaper<\/a> disparaging the service of Congressman Joe Wilson<\/a> thusly;<\/p>\n


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Let’s look at some of this;<\/p>\n

Born in 1947, Wilson was prime material for the Vietnam War. After taking deferment after deferment for college and law school, in 1972, Wilson was glided into a coveted Army Reserve billet, protecting him from service in Vietnam. He quit in 1975 with the fall of Saigon and transferred to the National Guard where he was a Judge Advocate, a “lawyer.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

“Deferment after deferment” was common – every year college students had to apply for deferments from the draft. So pretty much the thousands of male college students during the Vietnam era got “deferment after deferment”. When the draft ended in 1972, “Army Reserve billets” weren’t quite so “coveted” anymore. I don’t know what Duff is trying to say mentioning the “fall of Saigon” – I guess he wants to make it seem like Wilson was hiding from the National Guard in the Reserves.<\/p>\n

But “draft dodger”? How is Wilson a draft dodger if he got deferments? I’ll bet Duff drinks wine with real draft dodgers all of the time, given his politics.\n<\/p>\n

\nDuff yammers on about Wilson and Lindsey Graham “double-dipping” their two federal pensions (like thousands of us who retired from the military and went to federal jobs), and how Wilson belongs to “white supremacist organizations” without naming them. Here in DC, I’ve been told that the Heritage Foundation is a white supremacist organization, so who knows what Duff considers white supremacist.\n<\/p>\n

\nDuff continues that Wilson voted against veterans 11 times in his career. We at TAH know that’s possible and it’s a frequent trick of VoteVets and IAVA to use that tactic.\n<\/p>\n

\nWell, even after I read that article, I still ignored Duff as being a crank…until this morning when I saw this little parcel of crap<\/a> sitting on his website;<\/p>\n

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Yep, all of you veterans who went to the rally on Saturday are “the new KKK” according to Gordon Duff.<\/p>\n

It is just like it was during the 1920s. Ignorant “white folks” scared to death of “black folks” are out on a lynching party backed by corporate money.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Yeah, I’m waiting for my check.<\/p>\n

Most of the people I met in DC were veterans, and apparently Duff is as willing to throw them under the bus with Joe Wilson, the supposed draft dodger.<\/p>\n

More ignorance from mud-puddle-deep intellect that is Gordon Duff;<\/p>\n

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There is only one reason all those uneducated white people are out yelling and screaming, guns left in their luggage on busses paid for by taxpayer money sucked in by the biggest pack of corporate thieves that ever bribed a congressman.\n<\/p>\n

\nIts all about the “N” word. We are having a convention of Americans in love with the “N” word, people who use it every day, folks afraid of black people they don’t know, people easy to scare.\n<\/p>\n

\nWe are also having a convention of “male enhancement” customers and people whose anti-psychotic drugs don’t seem to be working as intended.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Did you catch that? Because all of you veterans are worried about taxes, you’re racist, have penis issues and, oh, by the way, you’re nuts. Way to make a point, Gordo. Way to support your fellow veterans. I guess we’ll all just submit our DD214s to Duff so he can tell us which of us qualify to call ourselves veterans in public. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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