Matthis in your school talking to your kids (Video updated)
This is from a session Matthis had with high school students in Brattleboro Union High School in Brattleboro, Vermont [(802) 257-7335 131 Fairground Rd, Brattleboro, VT];
Elaine Brower changed the settings on the original video so we couldn’t watch it, but, thanks to NotSoOldMarine who sent me a copy of the video, I put it back on YouTube and updated the description;
Notice that he’s still allowing people to call him an “Afghanistan veteran” without correcting them. I wonder what parents would say if they knew a drug-addled, admitted rapist was in their schools trying to influence their children.
Category: Antiwar crowd, I hate hippies, Iraq Veterans Against the War, Phony soldiers, Usual Suspects
Must we listen to the drivel? Is there something to gain, or will it just make us throw things? I will try a few seconds, just to say I tried.
Ugh! 1 min 47 seconds was my limit. Nothing to see here, keep moving on to something more important like picking your nose.
Is there anyway we can get a list of what schools they are going to next so we can contact the school board and tell them we don’t want an admitted rapist and liar talking to our children?
Is it too much to ask that the school representative booking these people do a google search of their name first.
Unless, they already are and still choose to invite them…
Is it me, or does Matthis look a little strung out in that screen shot?
FO: Thats more than I can take of his slander. I spent 10 1/2 months in Afghanistan, and recently 12 in Iraq. I really, really dislike him and everything he stands for.
We need a form letter to send the every school board, principal and district super in the places he visits. It would be pretty easy to get it signed and emailed and with the mil blog scene being what it is I don’t think it would be long before thousands of letters were following him everywhere he went. Maybe we could get a few people’s jobs too.
I wonder what parents would say if they knew a drug-addled, admitted rapist was in their schools trying to influence their children.
Jonn, c’mon man, it IS Brattleboro, after all. If he fessed up to that they’d probably throw him a parade. Although I like seeing how he’s too fucking gutless to allow any counterpoint, something he knows full well would leave him standing in a puddle of his own piss with his mouth flapping like a landed carp.
For what it’s worth I wrote the Principal an email. I attached most the relevant links.
Principal Day,
I’m writing to you to express my extreme disappointment in your faculty inviting Matthis Chiroux to speak to young students during class time. As an honorably discharged Iraq veteran who completed their commitment to the Marine Corps it breaks my heart to see people like Mr. Chiroux allowed into classrooms unchallenged in order to preach their doctrine of hate. Even a cursory amount of research on Mr. Chriroux would have revealed his history of drug abuse, drug dealing to children on school grounds, his failure to complete his military obligation when called to deploy, his habit of intentionally misrepresenting his service record by pretending to be an Afghan veteran in order to further his political agenda (being a supporter of the Trotskyist International Socialist Organization), admitted incidents of raping underage girls while stationed in the Philippines and a general tone of hate toward both military members and veterans. The teacher who invited Mr Chiroux to speak has greatly failed both your students and the taxpayers of your school district. They either failed to do a minimum amount of research on the person they were bringing into our children classroom or, worse, they knew of Mr. Chiroux’s vile history and elected to have him speak anyway. Either way I’m left with in critical doubt as to the appropriateness of their continued employment. Below I will attach a partial video of Mr. Chiroux’s reprehensible series of lies he presented to your students as well as a small sampling of other links on his personal history and conduct. People like him, lying drug peddling rapists, thrive in the shadows and so I very much hope you will devote a small amount of time to shedding some light on why he was allowed in your school. I very much hope to hear back from you.
With deep concern,
Let us know if he sends a reply.
re #10
I will. If it’s more than a form “thank you for your feedback” type letter I’ll repost it here.
I will be taking action on this as well. I recommend every here do the same.
I know that I will. I will have an opportunity to speak to school kids myself here before Memorial day, along with WW2, Korea and Vietnam Veterans. Its a really cool program that the school puts on by itself, and on that could use emulating by the rest of the country. The fact that Matthis, with his history of drug dealing and lying is even allowed within 600 meters of school property however, is deeply disturbing to me.
A prompt reply:
Mr XXX,
I am went medical leave on May 3rd. The man taking my place is Steve Perrin. O am going to forward this email to him. If this concern is about what I think it is, Steve Perrin is already into this. I am sure he will get back to you.
Jim Day
Steve Perrin is listed as the Asst. Principle at the school and his email is sperrin(at)wsesu.org
Wow, a principal passing the buck. How heroic.
re #16
Well in all fairness he’s on medical leave and may or may not have been in charge when this happened as the video was uploaded on the 10th, seven days after he went on leave. Even if he was present at the time he may not have known about it. With the exception of the WCW crew (didn’t know Matthis is working for the RCP now) and the teacher(s) who invited them I’m not ready to throw stones at anyone yet.
NSOM,
I understand you to say that the principal may have an excused absence because a medical issue, and the teachers and other administrators just casually at the last minute snuck Matthis into the classroom.
Fine that you’re not throwing stones, but as you’ve described it, this situation is looking like a Little Johnny joke, with the students as the punchline.
DaveO,
Yeah, I know. I also considered that as part of his contract he may not even be allowed to comment on things like this or do anything that could officially be considered work related while on leave. I’ll post Mr Perrin’s reply when and if I get it.
NSOM – thanks for posting the emails.
Is there any way Matthis can be legally barred from speaking to school kids? TSO, as the resident Legal Beagle, whatsayyou?
lucky,
One thing to keep in mind is that most school funding (and therefor control) in this country is in the hands of local communities. If Brattleboro, Vermont wants to let Chiroux in they’ll let him in as is their right. The best thing to do is to try and shed light on what’s going on in instances like this by speaking to those communities and holding school officials to account in the most public manner possible. It’s a public relations battle, not a legal one. By bombarding public school officials and teachers with (tactful but firm) feedback it lets them know they’re being watched and tells them that they can’t act in anonymity. They must be held to account.
Word spreads fast, Elaine Bower took down the video. Anyone have a mirror or cached copy?
I do, on a mac, but I am unsure how to get it.
Ninja,
If it’s saved to your hard drive then could you upload it to megaupload or another file sharing service? If not you can download a “video ripping” app for your internet browser to grab it.
It’s on a Firefox browser, still playable since I never closed the page. It must be saved somewhere, just not sure where.
NSOM: Then whom do I contact as a pissed off actual OEF/OIF Veteran?
Never mind Ninja, I found it in my cache but thanks anyway.
If anyone wants or needs it in the future let me know.
re #27
Call the Principal’s office. Write an email to the acting Principal Steve Perrin (sperrin@wsesu.org). Call or write his boss, the district Superintendent Dr. Ron Stahley or the Board (802-254-3730), write a letter to the editor or call the editor of the local paper, The Battleboro Reformer (http://www.reformer.com/) and tell them the World Can’t Wait, a front group for the Revolutionary Communist Party is sending drug dealing child rapists into their classroom to libel US troops. Etc.
Glad you got it. I think it should be put back online but with corrections to his lies.
NSOM: Can do easy. This mouth-breather needs to be put somewhere he can’t influence others, like Rehab or jail
Thanks to NotSoOldMarine, I’ve replaced the video. There’s also a new description at YouTube.
1). On a personal level it REALLY pisses me off that McCord shows up.
2). Why is it that we give these narcissistic fools any stage to spout their bullshit?
3). did this principle even know who this ass hat is?
Doc Bailey,
No, the principle didn’t know. He sent me an email this morning that I’ll post later. It seems that the WCW is misrepresenting the content of their presentations in order to get into schools and in front of a captive audience of kids.
NSOM,
Will the principal pursue charges of misrepresentation or fraud? Did he indicate any corrective action? Don’t believe the 1st Amendment covers lies by either omission or commission.