{"id":28633,"date":"2012-02-06T14:20:15","date_gmt":"2012-02-06T18:20:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=28633"},"modified":"2012-02-06T15:07:21","modified_gmt":"2012-02-06T19:07:21","slug":"occupy-la-co-opted-by-antiwar-march-forward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=28633","title":{"rendered":"Occupy LA co-opted by antiwar March Forward"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Old Trooper sends us a link from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/detail\/224933.html\">PressTV<\/a>, the English-language Iranian news organization, which tells us that our old buddy, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=16332\">Mike Prysner<\/a>, IVAW cum March Forward anti-war activist is using his organization to co-opt the Occupy LA sheep to turn them against the nebulous war against Iran;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Mike Prysner is an Iraq War veteran and an organizer with the Answer Coalition.<\/p>\n<p>Prysner says protesters want to stop America from starting another unauthorized war in the Middle East, similar to what happened in Iraq.<\/p>\n<p>Activists say the war drive is based on U.S. imperialism and a desire to control the resources of the Middle East. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;Similar to what happened in Iraq&#8221;? If that was imperialism, why are we not there anymore? Kind of redefines imperialism, doesn&#8217;t it?<\/p>\n<p>Prysner, you might remember, was indeed a veteran who served in Iraq, but his stories about what he saw there are somewhat in doubt because of his job&#8230;a radar operator. He wears remnants of his uniform at every opportunity to give himself some measure of authority in the discussion, but that only works among the hippies.<\/p>\n<p>Prysner also ran for public office, Florida, I think on the ballot for the Party for Socialism and Liberty and he&#8217;s a died-in-the-wool socialist. he left the IVAW because they weren&#8217;t radical enough, but he returned long enough to run for membership on their board in hopes that he could make them more radical. When that didn&#8217;t work, he formed March forward, the veteran arm of the Maoist-inspired ANSWER. <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m sure he licks his lips in anticipation at the thought of a nuclear-armed Iran.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Old Trooper sends us a link from PressTV, the English-language Iranian news organization, which tells us &hellip; <a title=\"Occupy LA co-opted by antiwar March Forward\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=28633\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Occupy LA co-opted by antiwar March Forward<\/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":[8,37,91,190],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-antiwar-crowd","category-ivaw","category-march-forward","category-occupy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28633","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=28633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28633\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}