We’re winning the war at home, too (UPDATED)
I got wind a few weeks ago that ANSWER was planning a protest in DC on March 15th. So my immediate reaction was to check the Gathering of Eagles forum – and they had already planned a counter-protest. Well, that was good news for me because protests always raise my traffic through here.
Today, I went back to ANSWER’s website and there was no mention of the March event. Strange. So I went to GOE’s forum and lo and behold, ANSWER had cancelled their protest;
Do you ever think that we’re spinning our wheels in fighting the America-hating moonbats? Well, consider this:
A.N.S.W.E.R., MoveOn.org, and their affiliated purveyors of political puke have canceled their planned March 15th event! They are increasingly intimidated by the prospect of us and our allies confronting them in the streets wherever that might be, in Hometown, USA, or Washington, DC.
Accordingly, we will not have the “Americans Standing Up†rally in DC on the weekend of March 15th, as there will be no opposition to confront, and you KNOW we love to intimidate those misguided souls and their anti-American leaders like Cindy Sheehan and George Soros!
In a nutshell, WE ARE WINNING THE BATTLE! And we will win the war for the soul of America!
Now you have to remember these clowns had anti-war protests in DC planned BEFORE 9-11, and now they’re canceling events during the war. They just might be getting it that they’re not accomplishing anything.
Adam Kokesh and the IVAW haven’t gotten the news yet apparently because they still plan to have their John Kerry-style theatrics called Winter Soldier II. But it may just be that they’re is too lazy to update their websites. When I hear more, I’ll post more.
UPDATE: Gathering of Eagles is planning on being in town for the Winter Soldier II thingie, so your blogger will be there, too. Good excuse to take a coupla days off from work. You up for it, Kate?
Category: Antiwar crowd, Gathering of Eagles, Iraq Veterans Against the War, Politics, Support the troops, Terror War
See you on the 15th?
See? All you have to do is let it be known that you will excercise your right to freedom of expression in counter-protest, and the anti-military moonbats start to think twice.
I love The Gathering of Eagles! It’s a great outfit.
Kate: If you and I were down there on the 15th, apparently we’d be lonely. Of course, you can protest me and I can counter-protest if you’d like.
I’m thinking about doing the Winter Soldier thing, though, if it still comes off. Robin at Chickenhawk Express gave a lead that I’m following up. If you want to go along, I’m up for it.
GI Jane: See all the fun you miss by leaving town.
Someday I really want a lot of people to tell me why they focus on Adam Kokesh. He’s hardly the only member of IVAW. Someone even thought I was him, which is really weird.
That said, I’m not a member of ANSWER, but barring circumstances like the Army denying all leave to DC during the Winter Soldier hearings, I’m not really much for violent confronations, but I’d be happy to meet you for that stated ‘beer between citizens who disagree’.
Army Sergeant; what I have against Kokesh is that he’s a liar – a very public liar. His goals are purely selfish. He sees opposition to the war as a political spring board ala John Kerry. He’s a spoiled rich kid who got caught sneaking an Iraqi pistol back from Iraq which ended his career – and that’s why he suddenly opposes a war he tried to return to before he was busted.
The Winter Soldier event in 1971 has been thoroughly discredited – like Kerry himself. I expect this one will be similar.
Personally, I don’t see you and me tossing back beers together. I’m picky about the people I drink with.
Do you have any instances in which he’s lied, or do you just mean that he changed his mind about the war/his career?
And hey. This ideal world may take quite a while to come, after all-but I’ll always make the offer for opponents to meet civilly instead of on opposite sides of a police barricade.
Police barricades are usually safer – for both parties. Maybe it’s because my principles aren’t skin deep.
Um, as for a specific instance of his lying; how about telling the media that he had been discharged and that he was no longer in the Marines and they called him back to duty to change his discharge. We all know he’d never been discharged and was still subject to the rules and regulations. In fact, he was walking around with a valid military ID card in his pocket while he was telling the media he’d been discharged.
You can read my very special Adam Kokesh category. It’s all covered there.
Jonn – IVAW sent out a letter to all the anti-war groups asking them not to schedule any protests during the Winter Soldier II charade so it would get all the media attention. I may make a trip to DC in March so I can tell little Boston that his Grandma was at the anti-war’s lame attempt to rehash the Vietnam anti-war days.
Well, Robin, if you come to town, we definitely need to get together.
Keep me posted on the details, and if I’m not out of the country on business, I’ll try my best to be there.
Sweet! I’ll be hangin’ with my two favorite bloggers goin’ after my least favorite.
Honestly, as someone still in who talks to all the guys who are short….they really do think of their discharge as the time they are out. That is just how they think of it. Most of them even forget the IRR exists, or that you have an eight year service obligation. I wouldn’t blame him if he unintentionally stated it in a way which was not technically correct.
Though I did look at your category.
If you looked at the category, you noticed the link to his blog where he admitted that he used his valid military ID card to get on a base in Germany – just a few weeks before the whole discharge dust-up. I don’t accept your excuses for him. He lied – and you’re running a screen for him. That’s fine – you equivocate, I present facts.
hi there
we stumbled across your blog, and find it very fascinating and comforting that there is another
individual out there that recognizes adam’s behavior for what it is. as someone
who considers herself a friend of adam’s from college (and my bf who
has met him through me), i’ve been slowly disheartened about his change in character.
i really believe it has become about self-recognition, and not actually about the war.
i feel like the war issue has been discovered as an easy way to get attention.
as i have just stumbled upon your blog and have not read all the back posts, i am interested
to hear in brief, what drew you to this topic? how did this come to your attention? what
made you so passionate?
may i ask, what is the gathering of eagles?
deborah v.
jeffrey s.
Well, I caught Adam lying to the media several months ago (on my sidebar is an Adam Kokesh category you can read through) The Gathering of Eagles is a group of mostly Vietnam-era veterans who refuse to allow Kokesh and the others do to our modern day warriors what they did to the Vietnam vets. There’s also a category of blog posts for Gathering of Eagles if you want to read through them.
Thanks for visiting, I hope you come back often.