100+ protesters arrested says VFP
The protesters at the White House yesterday, some of whom were veterans can’t get any respect from the media. The protesters reported that over a hundred “veterans” were arrested yesterday in front of the White House. I put the word “veterans” in parenthesis because the only names I saw of arrestees were names like Daniel Ellsburg, Debra Sweet, and Elaine Brower – none of whom are veterans. But this comes from Ward Reilly;
Apparently, being a veteran means you can break the law with impunity to these clods. If you look at the video I posted yesterday, you can see they forced their way through barriers erected by the police to protect themselves and the White House, they chained themselves to the White House fence and they through postcards over the White House fence. All illegal.
So, Ward, veterans fought to keep this a nation of laws, not a nation of lawbreakers. Using protester math, though, there were probably a few dozen arrested and Ward extrapolated that to over a hundred.
Anyway, there’s no mention of the protests or the arrests in the Times or Post this morning, although the Post mentions that one man was arrested on Capitol Hill for assaulting the Capitol police. But nothing about the smelly hippies.
Category: Antiwar crowd, I hate hippies, Shitbags
It’s quite obvious why there was no mention of the arrests. Even Stevie Wonder can see it: Bush isn’t the President anymore, so the media that helped elect Obama isn’t going to rough him up over some smelly hippy-types, especially since they don’t consider this his war.
The funny thing is that fb page shows where one of the posters called them war Veterans, yet I don’t think there were that many war Veterans involved. They are drama queens, though. I think that’s where Susie Benjamin and her group got their training in dramatics. In fact, in the video, there were a couple code-pinko members standing up at the fence.
And if you don’t like the laws Mr. Reilly, well, then get them changed. Your minions and you broke the law…that does not make those who enforce the law part of a police state and nor does it mean they infringed on your freedom of speech. What pieces of work.
Pfft. Enough of these irrelevant hippies. How about some good news about some people who are actually making a difference in the world:
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/7343008.html
For the record what are we considering “Veterans” I always thought you had to actually, you know, go to war, with the possible exception of high risk units (Submarines for instance). Does being a “Veteran” mean just doing a hitch in the Army?
Mr Reilly is HARDLY a good spokesman. As for protesters being arrested? Who cares. That’s about as interesting as the dump I took this morning. It happens with regularity and aside from consistency and amount there’s nothing news worthy there.
“Mr Reilly is HARDLY a good spokesman.”
Went AWOL cuz:
1. Couldn’t handle sweeping the motor pool & doing track maintenence in garrison Deutchland.
2.Eating c-rats & doing tactical roadmarches in a M-113 at Graf & Wildchicken was too much stress, man!
3.Sucking down that good German beer while having a G.I. party for Battalion & Brigade inspections… “the horror, the horror.”
Don’t get me started on sporting the UNEARNED Ranger tab on the boonie cap & wearing cammie OG 107s or Tiger stripes for faux ‘Nam vet status…
pathetic
Doc:
A Veteran is someone, who at one point in their lives wrote a check payable to the US Government for up to and including their life. Unlike like the simpletons that “think” that military service is at their convenience only and that when the call comes, they run the other way and claim to having a “conscience”. Funny how that “conscience” never was around when they were in garrison and were looking at a fat check for college, eh?
Well, they’re veterans, but of what I have no idea. Then again, Ward can claim he’s a Ranger until he’s blue in the face, but it don’t make it so.
Doc–thanks for including boats in your description. I play poker with a few guys who served in Vietnam, etc., and when I mention I’m also a VFW life member, I get the, “And where did YOU serve?” bit. Yeah, it’s kind of embarassing to admit my qualification doesn’t include bad guys going BANG at me, but a lot of what we did to earn the Expeditionary Medal and other qualifiers for the Legion and VFW are classified. Not to brag, just hard to explain, I guess.
And guys like Bubblehead Ray can attest to the fact that some of the shit we did was as hairy as anything in combat. I know guys aren’t supposed to talk about it, but drop into some of the places in Pearl, Groton, or Virginia Beach where retired submariners hang out, and prepare to be amazed.
Thanks, OT, saved me from typing it. And, I doubt there are many veterans at all involved in this street theater. And, that’s all it is, street theater. Apparently, the hippies, VFP and IVAW never got the memo that it’s so 1960’s.
Being a veteran means that you took the oath to support and defend this country, no matter who was giving the orders to do what it was you were doing to preserve the freedoms that those before us bestowed upon us. It’s simple. But if you wanna dick around for causes that are empty to gain something personally and break laws doing it, fuck off. There is no respect for those who abuse the emotions of others and the status of “veteran” to spew useless shit that people will forget about. Those people lead pathetic lives at best and the causes they stand for improve nothing for the vets coming back and in need of more than is available for them.
So,maybe they need a clue? Nah. They’d never “get” it because it’s all about them.
FYI,
Daniel Ellsberg is certainly a veteran. He was a USMC officer and Company Commander in the 1950s.
Why isn’t the MSM up in arms about the way these veterans and supporters were brutalized by the warmongering Obama Administration? Oh yeah, I forgot their chosen one is the President.
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He made O2 and was given command of a company all within his 2 year reserve officer obligation? Interesting. Any Marines here care to comment on that?
#13,
The fact that Ellsberg commanded a USMC company is indisputable. It is well documented in multiple sources.
Others can feel free to weigh in on his service trajectory, but unless they are familiar with USMC officer slating in the 1950s, their thoughts/opinions will be of little value in determining how usual/unusual his situation was.
The only point I was trying to make in my initial post was that Ellsberg is a veteran – contrary to what this post claims.
I am not commenting on his post-USMC life, I am just saying that he served honorably as a Marine Officer.