Elaine Brower, Matthis and Cindy Sheehan headed to court

| June 9, 2010

Someone sent me this link yesterday from Cindy Sheen’s blog about the “Trial of the Century” in which Cindy tries to rally the peace troops to protest against her arrest and subsequent imprisonment for several hours. The most instructive part the post is the statement from Elaine Brower;

“My son served 3 combat tours as a US Marine. My family suffered tremendous strain and stress with each re-deployment, and we were lucky to see him come home alive, but broken in a way that no one understands except the small percentage of families who are asked to make sacrifices for the illegal, illegitimate and immoral wars and occupations that this government refuses to end. I was participating in a peaceful protest allegedly safeguarded under the first amendment against furthering the deaths of millions of people. It is an outrage that we have no redress of our grievances, and spent 52 hours in jail because of it.”

Notice how quickly she drags out her son’s service as shield to hide behind. That’s a bit different than her sentiments in the video I linked the other day in which she called some helicopter pilots on Coney Island “baby killers”. I guess it’s OK for her to disparage the service of other mothers’ sons, while she hides behind her own son’s honorable service.

Hypocrite.

The thing about Brower is that she’s proud of the fact that her politics are the polar opposite of her ex-husband, her parents, virtually everyone she knows. I get the feeling that she is being contrary strictly for the sake of being contrary. Like a two-year-old child.

Category: Antiwar crowd, General Whackos, Usual Suspects

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509th Bob

So, he gets arrested on a Saturday. There’s no court on Sunday, and he’s held into Monday before he’s released. What trauma! What sacrifice! I’m sure he went on a hunger strike which forced the evil jailors to release him to return to the pursuit of his noblest cause (gazing at his navel).

Jacobite

Trial of the Century? How about the Mother of all Yawns.

TSO

Did Sheehan really refer to herself in the third person in her blog post? That’s like quoting yourself in a research paper.

I believe it was Oscar Wilde who once said: Yo Cindy, pull your head out of your ass.

OldTrooper

TSO; Old Trooper thinks that Cindy needs to just calm down and seek psychiatric assistance, because Old Trooper doesn’t like when batshit crazy types talk about themselves in the third person, it gives Old Trooper the willies.

Scott

“broken in a way that no one understands except the small percentage of families who are asked to make sacrifices”

Broken? He’s gainfully employed as a NYC cop, last I heard. I’m sure if Elaine had specific evidence of how her son was “broken”, she’d certainly trot that out for her own personal gain as well. Of course, it’s always too much to ask for the peace movement to speak with specificity.

Cram it down, you fucking ignorant bitch.

Operator Dan

They had the opportunity to defer jail time by doing community service (a very minimal amount by the way, only like 10 or 15 hours if I recall). Of course, they want the jail time because it adds to their anti-war bonafides.

Scott

This article alludes to the fact that James Brower is a sniper:

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/2008/11/01/2008-11-01_those_who_fight_but_cant_vote.html

“He does not grumble about going on night patrol with his sniper/scout team.”

Elaine Brower burns flags and calls troops “Baby killers” and her own son is, if this is accurate, among the few who look their target in the eyes before making a calculated decision to kill.

I bet Thanksgiving in the Brower home is the spawn of some terrific conversations, assuming James is still tolerating his wackjob of a mother.

Casey J Porter

I like how it refers to Matthis as a Veteran. Veteran rapist, I can buy that.

Elaine is clearly a selfish woman who is doing this for herself and not her son or the troops. Just like Cindy.

Scott

http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/2010/05/17/2010-05-17_marine_vet_wages_war_with_nypd_over_cop_job.html

Hmmm. It appears Sgt. Brower has been on desk duty for some time, despite having been declared fit for full duty twice, and demanding his job back. So Elaine is arguing he’s broken, while at the same time saying what an expert he is due to his military service, and how badly NYC needs him on the street fighting terrorism.

The hypocrisy just keeps stacking up. This article came ten days before her “Baby killers” video.

What a bitch.

Scott

From the link:

“Mark Goldstone: (Lawyer for “Peace Criminals”)
“On Thursday, June 10, Cindy Sheehan, Iraq Veteran Matthis Chiroux and 5 other activists will go on trial, before a Judge of the DC Superior Court. ”

Iraq Veteran Matthis Chiroux??

Funny how people start misrepresenting your service when you tag yourself as an “Iraq Veteran Against the War”.

So how now, IVAW reps? It’s already a lie when Matthis calls his six days in A’Stan a “short deployment” so what’s a little more lying on top of that, right?

Gary

I think “broken in a way no one understands” means he despises his mother in a way that no one can understand.