{"id":18975,"date":"2010-05-04T15:34:33","date_gmt":"2010-05-04T20:34:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=18975"},"modified":"2010-05-04T15:34:33","modified_gmt":"2010-05-04T20:34:33","slug":"matthis-screwed-to-the-wall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=18975","title":{"rendered":"Matthis screwed to the wall"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_18257\" style=\"width: 506px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/chiroux-murray-brower-flag.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18257\" class=\"size-full wp-image-18257\" title=\"chiroux-murray-brower flag\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/chiroux-murray-brower-flag.jpg?resize=496%2C500\" alt=\"IVAW's Matthis Chiroux, Robyn Murray and MFSO's Elaine Brower burn the US flag &quot;This is not my country!&quot;\" width=\"496\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/chiroux-murray-brower-flag.jpg?w=496&amp;ssl=1 496w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/chiroux-murray-brower-flag.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/chiroux-murray-brower-flag.jpg?resize=297%2C300&amp;ssl=1 297w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 496px) 100vw, 496px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-18257\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">IVAW&#39;s Matthis Chiroux, Robyn Murray and MFSO&#39;s Elaine Brower burn the US flag &quot;This is not my country!&quot;<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Apparently the IVAW Board has reversed itself, changed last month&#8217;s vote on whether or not to punish Matthis for his flag-burning escapades.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/matthis-status-re-vote-2a.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-18977\" title=\"matthis-status-re-vote-2a\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/matthis-status-re-vote-2a.jpg?resize=500%2C666\" alt=\"matthis-status-re-vote-2a\" width=\"500\" height=\"666\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/matthis-status-re-vote-2a.jpg?w=544&amp;ssl=1 544w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/matthis-status-re-vote-2a.jpg?resize=225%2C300&amp;ssl=1 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Typical sociopath; &#8220;Give me something else to burn&#8221; He doesn&#8217;t learn from his mistakes &#8211; he tries to go bigger and flashier to stick it to the man &#8211; the man in this case is the IVAW Board, apparently. And of his little enablers chirping up a storm of support. And he basks in the glow of their adulation.<\/p>\n<p>The IVAW board, who caved under the weight of disgust of Matthis&#8217; actions last month are finally doing what they should have done in the first place. But they don&#8217;t get cheers from me because it only proves that they&#8217;ll only do what is the most politically expedient, balancing the organization between the extemists of the Far Left International Socialist Organization and the veterans who merely oppose the war.   <\/p>\n<p>Well, those of you who merely oppose the war know now what Board member Matthis thinks of you. You &#8220;only police the radicals&#8221; these days. <\/p>\n<p>So why are you still there again? Matthis ain&#8217;t leavin&#8217; &#8211; him and Ward Reilly will be there to turn out the lights.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently the IVAW Board has reversed itself, changed last month&#8217;s vote on whether or not to punish Matthis for his flag-burning escapades. Typical sociopath; &#8220;Give me something else to burn&#8221; He doesn&#8217;t learn from his mistakes &#8211; he tries to go bigger and flashier to stick it to the man &#8211; the man in this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,37,52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-antiwar-crowd","category-ivaw","category-usual-suspects"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4ozh1-4W3","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18975\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}