Usual Suspects
Travis Bishop’s uninformed BS
Travis Bishop, the IVAW member who was sentenced to a year in prison after going AWOL before he signed his conscientious objector paperwork last year, has been released after serving nine months. Of course, he credits the campaign by Amnesty International, Courage to Resist and countless other misinformed malcontents for his early release at TruthOut. […]
IVAW’s Executive Director on burning the flag
The IVAW’s Executive Director, Jose Vasquez, has issued a statement in regards to Matthis Chiroux’s flag burning antics last Saturday in Lafayette Park. Apparently it has become a bone of contention among the remaining members of the organization and once again, Vasquez punts the issue rather than make an actual decision. (I know you can’t […]
Need more protest pictures?
Our buddy Zombie sent a link to the latest from the anti-war protest in San Francisco last weekend. The best and brightest turned out to exercise their right to assemble and be as ritardit as possible; You can see the rest at Zombie Classic or at Pajamas Media.
I guess we all have PTSD, then
IVAW member, Jeremy Bergren, has a blog post up on the IVAW website in which he defends his bout with PTSD. Like most of the IVAW members, Bergren never deployed. His unit deployed, but he was legally absent – and that, apparently is the source of his PTSD; I will not get too much into […]
Matthis and Agosto: flag burning is cool
Two new blog posts at IVAW, one by Victor Agosto another by Matthis Chiroux, explain why they’re cool to like flag burning and you’re not. First, Victor rolls out a list of terrible things Americans have done – none of them anything done by people we know, but things that happened before we were all […]
The DC protest video highlights
Here are some of the videos I’ve found and were sent to me about the protest this last weekend. A young reporter gets a lesson from a tea partier on wardrobe selection;
Matthis’ Big Weekend Adventure
A little bird called to tell me that Matthis Chiroux was arrested this weekend for making mud stencils in front of the White House. Sure enough, I found a photo of the arrest at Al Jazeera. Notice the cane on the ground – he’s still playing the sympathy card for his broken leg from A […]
VFP’s DC theater
I ran into Concretebob at the Code Red rally yesterday and he pointed me to the VFP’s theater in DC yesterday. Anemic doesn’t begin to describe what was going on at their little theater yesterday; The display, of course is supposed to be markers of every soldier killed in Iraq. Some of the markers have […]
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