4 posts tagged “moveamericaforward”
Is this crazy or what? Code Pink brought witches to place spells and curses on a Marine recruiting center in Berkeley (Breitbart.tv feed – unsure how long it will be up). I mean is this evil or what? Witchcraft is definitely a form of anti-Christianity and then (whether you believe in this hoodoo or not) with evil intent wish evil upon a United States Marine Corps recruiting station and I am guessing all that are associated with it.
How nuts is that?
How un-American is that?
How anti-Christian is that?
It is not surprising to me to hear that Berkeley has enacted city ordinances to allow anti-war organizations to use free speech to cause a public nuisance in front of a Marine Corps recruiting office. After all the University district of the city was famous for calling Vietnam Vets baby killers when they came home.
I am certainly gratified that Move America Forward is standing up to twinkle toe groups like the unpatriotic Code Pink that the Berkeley City Council has basically unleashed to disrupt the day to day operations of finding a few good men to fight for such rights as Freedom of Speech.
It is unlikely Code Pink’s or the Berkeley City Council’s actions will be found on page one on the Mainstream Media (MSM).
JRH 1/31/08
This repudiation of a New York Times story was emailed to my Slantright.com email address. I maintain many Blogs to be involved in a forum dialogue; however SlantRight.com is the flagship.
MoveAmericaForward takes the NYT to tasks demonstrating how the Leftist rag sends employees out to create a story with skewed pre-formulated data as their substantiation. MoveAmericaForward shows how this was NYT bull.
JRH 1/14/08
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New York Times 'Killer Vet' Story Exposed as Erroneous by Pro-Troop Group
Mary Pearson
January 14, 2008 - FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
MoveAmericaForward.org E-mail List
SACRAMENTO- Move America Forward (website: http://www.MoveAmericaForward.org/), the nation's largest grassroots pro-troop organization, today announced that after vetting the numbers cited by The New York Times in their Sunday, January 13, 2008 story, "Across America, Deadly Echoes of Foreign Battles," it became clear that the Times had engaged in demonstrably erroneous and false reporting.
It took seven New York Times researchers to find 121 cases in which veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan committed a killing in the United States, or were charged with one, upon returning home to this country.
The Times made the false conclusion that: "Taken together, they paint the patchwork of a quiet phenomenon, tracing a cross-country trail of death and heartbreak."
The Times documentation of 121 potential killings out of more than 1.5 million veterans of Operation Iraqi Freedom (Iraq) and Operation Enduring Freedom (Afghanistan), divided by 6 years of conflict results in a murder rate of just 1.34 incidents per 100,000 veterans per year.
That murder rate is far lower than the murder rate for the general population, demonstrating that the experiences of military service - including having served in Iraq and Afghanistan - actually made it less likely for returning veterans to commit murder once they returned home, than the general population.
Given a census-estimated population of the United States of 300,000,000 persons in this country as of October 2006, and FBI-compiled statistics of 17,399 homicide offenders for 2006, the murder rate of the general population was 5.80 offenders per 100,000 on average - and a rate of approximately 7.67 per 100,000 for men.
Since all but one of the veterans cited by the Times who committed a killing in the U.S. was male, the comparable rate is approximately 7.67 incidents of murder per 100,000 people among the general male population, compared to just 1.34 incidents per 100,000 returning Iraq and Afghanistan veterans (of both genders).
"It's obvious that the New York Times has an agenda of undermining the missions of our troops in the War on Terror, so much so that they are willing to resort to demonstrably false statistics to support their anti-troop bias," said Melanie Morgan, Chairman of Move America Forward.
"The slander of our troops and veterans by the New York Times is unfortunately all too familiar. We heard this kind of nonsense about our returning veterans from Vietnam. It's the same insult, different war.
"Perhaps the shameful staff of The New York Times has run out of war-time secrets to publish for America's enemies to read, because now they've resorted to an all-out smear campaign of America's finest men and women, who have served this country bravely and with distinction," Morgan said.
In place of hard data to support their premise, The New York Times was instead forced to devote almost the entire portion of 6,321 word hit-piece to anecdotes of wrongdoing by individual veterans.
The New York Times even went so far as to trace back the phenomenon of murderous veterans to Greek mythology to back up their assertions of their report.
"The real mythology is the reporting by The New York Times," Move America Forward's Melanie Morgan concluded.
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*** Note that the central statistical measure is how many instances of alleged killings take place per 100,000 Iraq/Afghanistan war veterans who returned home. The New York Times might argue that our statistics are incorrect since the 1.5+ million Iraq/Afghanistan veterans have not been home during the entire 6 years of the war (especially since in the early onset of Operation Enduring Freedom troops were just arriving into the war zone).
However, Salon.com reports that as of January 31, 2005 there were 1,048,884 Americans who had fought in Iraq or Afghanistan. One can then calculate statistics from that point onward. Let’s give the New York Times the leeway of saying their alleged 121 incidents of killings by veterans occured during just the three years that elapsed since that time to the present. The murder rate per 100,000 people would still be approximately 3.5 incidents of murder per 100,000 returning Iraq/Afghanistan veterans.
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CONTACT: Mary Pearson: (916) 441-6197 or Email: mary@MoveAmericaForward.org
On August 4 I posted about the Moderator at a Kos Conference that not only snuffed an American Soldier’s comments on the Troop Surge, but also exploded with hostility toward the Soldier and demanded a Kos panelist to “stand down” that was going to respond to the Soldier. Then in a huff unceremoniously stated the Panel discussion was terminated and stomped off the stage. That is the memory jogger.
The link to the video (that link must be fast forwarded to the 40 minute mark) I had only showed the Moderator – Jon Soltz – expressing his hostility to the Sergeant.
Courtesy of Pajamas Media, a news reporter covers the end of the Panel discussion from the audience perspective. He captures Soltz’s rude anger and the voice of the Sergeant. The Pajamas Media reporter then attempts an interview with Soltz – that did not go so well. Then the reporter interviews the Sergeant and of course he was very forth coming. The Sergeant’s interview reveals that Soltz in a private room threatened to have the Sergeant dishonorably discharged for wearing his uniform at a political function. Apparently it is illegal to wear military uniforms at public forums except under certain guidelines.
You and I both know that Soltz – a former soldier currently involved with Leftist moveon.org and votevets.org – did not want to hear any positive information from an American Soldier the contradicted the Left Wing view of the Troop Surge.
Here is the Pajamas Media link to the Kos conference I described.
Here is a YouTube video of a debate between Jon Soltz and MoveAmericaForward Chairman Melanie Morgan. After you watch this video you can understand why Soltz was hostile toward the Sergeant. Soltz contends that his votevets.org is the primary organization in America representing veterans of the wars being fought by American Troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. That of course is hogwash and thus the origin of the hostility from an American Soldier confronting Soltz in a public forum at a Kos conference.
Melanie Morgan in the August 8 MoveAmericaForward e-newsletter says this about Jon Soltz:
Jon Soltz has become one of the leading anti-war spokespersons for the "surrender" movement that is trying to force our troops to declare "defeat" in Iraq and surrender the nation to al-Qaida.
He puts a "military" face on the surrender/defeat/retreat message of the anti-war movement, but make no mistake - he is actively working to undermine support for the missions of our troops at a time of war. His conduct is shameful, and we should all be aware of what we're up against. We need to be prepared to fight back here on the home front to ensure our troops that they have the support they need to finish their missions and achieve VICTORY.
Soltz is a classic Lefty claiming to represent the hearts and the minds of the American citizens and troops he purports to be the “leading voice” for (votevets.org). Soltz’s claims are propaganda taking advantage of polls that ask skewed questions that provide a skewed answer. On the other side of the political spectrum there are organizations that lay to the same claim and are more legitimate because a significant amount of there funding is grass roots as opposed to Anti-American Leftist George Soros (the major billionaire donor to moveon.org and votevets.org). MoveAmericaForward and VetsForFreedom represent the grassroots people that comprehend the threat of Islamism to Western Civilization.
Soltz is a representation of the Left that will do all it can to snuff the voice of the Right to prevent Americans from making informed decisions based on finding a middle ground. Leftists only want you to see the Left side of the field. Often times the Left side is sugar coated with utopian promises that cannot be kept because they are delusional or impossible. Think of that in November 2008.
