{"id":14923,"date":"2009-10-07T06:25:49","date_gmt":"2009-10-07T11:25:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=14923"},"modified":"2009-10-07T06:25:49","modified_gmt":"2009-10-07T11:25:49","slug":"imagine-my-surprise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=14923","title":{"rendered":"Imagine my surprise"},"content":{"rendered":"

Several weeks ago I wrote about the IVAW Convention<\/a> and the vote to defeat a measure that would condemn members who incited violence against our troops. the actual wording went like this;<\/p>\n

Therefore be it hereby resolved that Iraq Veterans Against the War only uses, supports or endorses, non-violent and peaceful actions in seeking to accomplish its goals of ending the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan; providing proper medical care to all returning veterans and repairing the damage done by the occupations.<\/p>\n

Additionally be it resolved that any member found promoting violence in pursuit of the goals of this organization, will be subject to immediate discipline, including the termination of his or her membership, in accordance with the procedures outlined in the policies governing termination of memberships.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Back in August, that resolution was defeated among the membership and the organization was widely criticized not only by the staff and audience here at This Ain’t Hell, but also by their own membership. Many long time members left the organization because they refused to separate themselves from the more extreme elements who actually not only didn’t support the war, but supported the enemy’s goals as well.<\/p>\n

Well, imagine my surprise when I discovered this morning, from Army Sergeant<\/a>, that the first vote was in error and now suddenly, the resolution has passed. Yes, that’s correct, it took two months to recount 79 votes – I guess they recounted one vote every day in order to keep it accurate.<\/p>\n

So now that the votes have miraculously cured one of the ills of IVAW, all 1700 of you can rest easy and remain in the organization. Jose Vasquez is coming by your house personally to renew your subscription to the Skittles-of-the-Month Club and to feed your unicorn.<\/p>\n

Unless, of course, you think that the vote was changed this week just to end the hemorrhaging of the membership. <\/p>\n

I’m just sayin’….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Several weeks ago I wrote about the IVAW Convention and the vote to defeat a measure … Imagine my surprise<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-antiwar-crowd","category-ivaw"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14923\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}