{"id":9438,"date":"2009-04-06T05:50:45","date_gmt":"2009-04-06T10:50:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=9438"},"modified":"2009-04-06T10:27:53","modified_gmt":"2009-04-06T15:27:53","slug":"ivaw-member-declares-shes-not-socialist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=9438","title":{"rendered":"IVAW member declares she’s not socialist"},"content":{"rendered":"

I don’t link to Army Sergeant often, or at all really, but she’s declared over the weekend that she’s not a subversive socialist<\/a> bent on over throwing our system of government. Odd that a member of an organization supposedly made up of patriotic former servicemembers would have to make such a statement, isn’t it?<\/p>\n

I love America. I love my brothers-in-arms, even if it is in a dysfunctional way. I love the Constitution, and the founding fathers. I have a slightly unhealthy obsession with Alexander Hamilton. I believe in a system of democracy. I believe in our freedoms. I may think some things in our country aren’t working perfectly, but I do not believe in changing them with any particular ‘ism’ of the moment. If you have an agenda? I’m against it. If you are attempting to use what I believe in for your own purposes? Feel free to consider me your implacable enemy. I am not your soldier. I swore an oath, and I meant it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This is not a post of support for Army Sergeant, it’s a condemnation of the realities of Iraq Veterans Against the War. It is a complete lie, right from the name of the organization – it’s not an association of Iraq veterans. Even one of the founders of the organization never got closer to Iraq than a safe and warm office in Turkey monitoring overflights of the No-Fly Zone – he left the Air Force the month before the war in Iraq began. <\/p>\n

The organization exists to give, what Medea Benjamin called “street creds”<\/a>. It’s organized so that an elite, photogenic few live a decadent life of drugs and sex, while others who are in need of the organization’s funds and connections are forgotten and left to fend for themselves. I could cite specific examples, but I’ve promised some people that I wouldn’t tell their stories of instances that the group’s leadership neglected them – preferring to keep them supplied with illegal drugs and alcohol than getting them the help they need.<\/p>\n

I can also cite specific examples of their VVAW and VFP mentors abandoning some members. One member of IVAW told me how Bill Perry<\/a> was specifically responsible for his VA claim being denied.<\/p>\n

Some of you might remember the post I did about Darnell Stephen Summers<\/a>, another mentor of IVAW in Germany, and how he belonged to to the radical VVAW-AI (the AI meaning anti-imperialist) which was actually the socialist\/communist membership of the VVAW who left and formed their own, more extreme organization. It seems that IVAW may be heading down the same road – except looking at the recent membership, I suspect that the more moderate IVAW members will be leaving this time because they’re outnumbered by the far-Left extremist whackos. <\/p>\n

There is no place for people who merely oppose the war in IVAW, there’s no place for real Iraq veterans in IVAW. They’re more concerned about providing economic opportunities for people like TJ Buonomo<\/a> and Matthis Chiroux<\/a> who are worthless turds and couldn’t find productive employment anywhere else. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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