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  • “On the First Day of Christmas, Our Soldiers Gave to Us . . . (Move America Forward)[Day 4 Post #8]

    12/14/2009 10:41:12 AM PST · by Syncro · 8 replies · 264+ views
    MoveAmericaForward.Org ^ | December 14, 2009 | Staff
    Move America Forward “On the First Day of Christmas, Our Soldiers Gave to Us . . . the Greatest Country on earth!” Move America Forward will mark our 12 Days of Christmas by chronicling the gifts that American troops have given to us since the first days of our Great Country. Each day we will tell the story of that gift and why we must celebrate our troops. We owe our troops so much. Today, our brave men and women protect us against radical Jihadists who want to exterminate our way of life. From the birth of our country...
  • Michigan Ready to Stand Up and Oppose “GITMO NORTH” (Move America Forward)

    10/12/2009 12:01:27 AM PDT · by Syncro · 20 replies · 1,343+ views
    Move America Forward ^ | Danny Gonzalez
    Town Hall Rallies in Response ToObama’s GITMO Maneuverings Folks, this is the critical moment we have been waiting for. Many concerned citizens in Standish and all across Michigan are holding their breath to see what’s next for their state. Sources on the ground say that “Standish Max” prison is being emptied out now and will be completely empty and shut down by the end of October. Is this the empty prison Obama has been looking to put the GITMO terrorists? The people of Michigan, who hear the rumors circulating day by day, know that an empty prison and a...
  • TIME FOR CONSERVATIVES TO SHOW OBAMA HE CAN LOSE

    08/22/2009 12:49:33 PM PDT · by Syncro · 18 replies · 2,112+ views
    MAF Freedom PAC ^ | August 22, 2009 | MAF Staff
    TIME FOR CONSERVATIVES TO SHOW OBAMA HE CAN LOSE  Move America Forward TWO CONSERVATIVES STANDING IN THE WAY OF AN OBAMA VICTORY CALIFORNIA SPECIAL CONGRESSIONAL ELECTION GIVES US A CHANCE; WE CAN TURN THE TIDE We finally have Obama on the ropes with growing American opposition to his plan to close Guantanamo Bay and bring more than 200 terrorists to American soil.  Our military is getting sick and tired of his policy of appeasing our enemies and worrying more about collateral damage than winning the war against terrorists – especially when his Administration denies there even is a war against...
  • Obama Mismanaging the War in Afghanistan

    08/19/2009 7:34:29 PM PDT · by Syncro · 33 replies · 1,735+ views
    MoveAmericaForward.Org ^ | August 19, 2009 | Move America Forward Staff via Email
    OBAMA MISMANAGING THE WAR IN AFGHANISTAN  Move America Forward     MORE VOICES CALL FOR GIVING TROOPSTOOLS TO WIN THE WAR IN AFGHANISTANSEN. JOHN MCCAIN SAYS “DOUBLE” MARINES IN SOUTHERN AFGHANISTAN. More and more Americans are concerned about the direction of the Obama Administration in carrying out the war in Afghanistan.  He seems to sliding into making the same mistakes that we made in Viet Nam – gradually increasing our involvement, but preventing our troops from using the means they need to win the war conclusively. Instead, we hear our troops told not to use air support to suppress...
  • How Was Your Weekend? (Troop related emails from Move America Forward)

    07/29/2009 10:53:33 AM PDT · by Syncro · 6 replies · 540+ views
    Move America Forward ^ | July 28, 2009 | Move America Forward Staff via Email
    How Was Your Weekend? As Americans back home are enjoying the sun and fun of another summer season, let’s not forget the tough going our troops have in Afghanistan and Iraq. US Millions of Americans went to religious services this weekend at synagogues, churches, temples and other houses of worship. Across the nation people listened to sermons, and knelt to pray for wealth, their health, a promotion, more money, a new car, a chance to hit that lotto number. Is there anything better than a nice barbeque in the backyard or a picnic at the park? Thousands this weekend...
  • New Ad Campaign to Launch July 7 calling Obama proposals ‘exactly what Hitler did in Nazi Germany’

    07/02/2009 9:00:11 AM PDT · by tcrlaf · 32 replies · 947+ views
    Indianapolis Examiner ^ | 7-1-09 | RON MOORE-Grassroots Politics Examiner
    The anti-Obama group, Our Country Deserves Better PAC, has announced that it will launch an advertising campaign featuring a video claiming that Obama is using tactics common to Hitler’s Germany. An audio teaser video has been released as a fundraising tool to buy time to air the ad. The ad lists a series of actions including the report ordered by the Bush administration on right wing extremists released by the Department of Homeland Security after Bush left office. They quote an un-named Congressman saying, “They proposed a civilian security force and an American congressman warned it was exactly what Hitler...
  • Hot Air breaks the $10,000 mark and EVERY team (including FR) is on the Board!

    06/23/2009 2:23:20 PM PDT · by Jim Robinson · 27 replies · 1,516+ views
    Troopathon.org ^ | June 23, 2009 | Erica Anderson
    With just two days left, Hot Air continues to surge! Our latest count brings their total to $13,005.70 in care package! We're absolutely stunned with the great success of this blogger competition-further noted by EVERY team's standing on our score board. The Anti-Jihadists continue their strong rally and remain in second with $5,099.21. And in a remarkable comeback, Ron Winter's Greyhawks team is now in third with $1,574.64 for care packages. Our new teams, FreeRepublic.com and Family Security Matters, are in fourth and fifth with $274.95 and $224.98, respectively. And, Team COINS rounds up the list in sixth with $124.98...
  • Free Republic Joins The Troopathon BLOGGER SHOOTOUT Competition!

    06/19/2009 6:04:32 PM PDT · by Syncro · 37 replies · 1,671+ views
    Troopathon BLOGGER SHOOTOUT ^ | June 19, 2009 | "Captain" Syncro
    From the Front Page of Free Republic: MAF's 2nd Annual Troopathon! Announcing MAF's Second Annual "HONOR THEIR SERVICE" Care Package Program and TROOPATHON!! Webcast LIVE from the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, June 25, 2009, hosted by Andrew Breitbart and Melanie Morgan, featuring Ann Coulter, Mark Levin, Sean Hanity, Rush Limbaugh, Laura Ingraham and many other FReeper favorites! Free Republic will be there!! Syncro is the FreeRepublic.com Team Captain for the Troopathon BLOGGER SHOOTOUT competition and we will also be joining the MAF Team at the Reagan Library! Hope to see you there! Click the Troopathon.org banner to sponsor a care...
  • LIVE From Ronald Reagan Presidential Library

    06/11/2009 10:51:36 PM PDT · by Syncro · 26 replies · 932+ views
    Move America Forward ^ | Recently | Staff
    Just Confirmed: Gary SiniseKelsey GrammerElisabeth HasselbeckRoger Hedgecock Click Here for a Complete List of Guests On June 25th, Move America Forward will be holding our 2nd annual “Troop-a-thon” titled “Honor their Service.” This cutting edge live webcast event brings together talk radio hosts, megastars of film and television, musical guests, journalists, military and Gold-star families, pro-troop groups and many more. The goal of this charity fundraiser is to send the largest ever shipment of care packages to our brave men and women of the armed forces serving in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Guantanamo Bay. Viewers are encouraged to sponsor care...
  • New Gallup Poll: Public Opinion Strongly Against Closing Gitmo (America Opposes Obama!)

    06/05/2009 3:38:10 PM PDT · by Syncro · 29 replies · 1,706+ views
    MoveAmericaForward.Org ^ | June 5, 2009 | Danny Gonzalez
    Friday, June 05, 2009 Posted By:MAF Blogger DannyPermalinkNew Gallup Poll: Public Opinion Strongly Against Closing Gitmo Move America Forward has been hot on the issue of Guantanamo Bay for the past 6 months. In December we made Guantanamo the last stop on our “Honoring Heroes at the Holidays II” tour and we brought boxes of Christmas cards, DVDs, T-Shirts and lots of other goodies from our care packages to Guantanamo Bay to distribute to troops there. We inspected the detainment camps and returned to the United States to fight Obama and his allies who wanted to close it. We produced...
  • Israel lobby challenged during AIPAC conference [Code Pink] (Barf alert)

    06/04/2009 10:50:48 PM PDT · by 2ndDivisionVet · 8 replies · 671+ views
    The Final Call ^ | May 28, 2009 | Askia Muhammad
    WASHINGTON - A small band of determined women raised their voices against America's most powerful political lobby—the Israel lobby—and they got their point across. When Israeli Pres. Shimon Peres began speaking to the annual American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) policy conference at the Washington Convention Center May 4 six members of CODEPINK Women for Peace raised banners saying “Want Peace? End the Occupation,” “What About Gaza?” and “No Money for War Crimes.” The next day, when U.S. Vice President Joe Biden began addressing the AIPAC meeting, another pair of CODEPINK members disrupted his speech. Each day, as the activists—some...
  • Flashback: FReepers Storm Senator Benedict Arlen Specter's DC Office

    04/28/2009 3:06:20 PM PDT · by Jim Robinson · 24 replies · 1,833+ views
    Washington Times ^ | Feb 11, 2009 | By Melanie Morgan, Move America Forward
    I went to visit Sen. Arlen Specter to save him from an embarrassing pro-stimulus vote that will damage America's economy and send the nation back to 1970s-style stagflation. Jim Robinson, founder of FreeRepublic.com, and I arrived at Sen. Specter's office with a group of folks who oppose the $1.5 trillion stimulus package, on this past Monday morning. We asked to see Sen. Specter. The office secretary didn't seem to be happy to see us. I could not blame her. We were there to embarrass her boss. Jim, wearing his Navy cap, asked about the senator's whereabouts, but the secretary wasn't...
  • Janet Napolitano Admits ‘An Apology Is Owed’ ("Right-wing Extremist" Warning)

    04/16/2009 1:39:22 PM PDT · by 2ndDivisionVet · 254 replies · 8,681+ views
    Fox News ^ | April 16, 2009 | Bill Sammon
    Acknowledging that “an apology is owed,” Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano promised Thursday to “meet and clear the air” with veterans groups that were offended by her agency’s report citing “returning veterans” as terrorist risks to the U.S. “To the extent veterans read it as an accusation,” Napolitano told FOX News, “an apology is owed.” “I’ll meet with the leaders of some of the veterans groups,” she promised on “FOX & Friends.” “The last thing we want to do is offend or castigate all veterans. To the contrary, let’s meet and clear the air.” Napolitano said she was briefed on...
  • Move America Forward's Catherine Moy explores run for Congress

    04/01/2009 2:29:39 PM PDT · by Sergeant Tim · 21 replies · 886+ views
    Freedom Radio ^ | March 29, 2009 | Honest Conservative
    Honest Conservative interviewed Catherine "Cat" Moy on Freedom Radio. Catherine lives in California's 10th District, home to Travis Air Force Base, where she is exploring a run for Congress; they discussed the interesting cast of characters lining up against her. In addition, they talked about Move America Foward, where Catherine serves as the Executive Director. Catherine Moy is an award-winning journalist with 19 years of experience as an investigative reporter, author, editor, columnist, feature writer and business writer. She is a human-rights activist who was nominated for a Pulitzer for her investigations on elder abuse in nursing homes. In...
  • NiteCap at Freedom Radio, Sunday 3/29, 8 PM EDT: Cat Moy, Michael Yon, Jake Rademacher

    03/27/2009 10:28:29 PM PDT · by Sergeant Tim · 19 replies · 851+ views
    Freedom Radio ^ | March 28, 2009 | HonestConservative
    Join Honest Conservative this Sunday, March 29, at 8 PM Eastern time, on Freedom Radio. Her guests this week are: Catherine Moy, the Executive Director of Move America Foward. Catherine has opened an exploratory committee to run for Congress in California's 10th District, home to Travis Air Force Base. Catherine is an award-winning journalist with 19 years of experience as an investigative reporter, author, editor, columnist, feature writer and business writer, Catherine is also a human-rights activist nominated her for a Pulitzer for her investigations on elder abuse in nursing homes. In 2006, she co-authored with Melanie Morgan, Chairman of...
  • With 2 dead and 30 wounded, D Company became ‘More Than Brothers’

    03/27/2009 10:03:06 AM PDT · by Sergeant Tim · 5 replies · 1,042+ views
    911FamiliesForAmerica.com ^ | March 27, 2009 | Tim Sumner
    Last August, Captain Roger Hill and First Sergeant Tommy Scott traded their Army careers for the safety and lives of the soldiers they had led into battle. CPT Hill discussed what happened that day and what happens next with Freedom Radio: Dog Company 1/506th Infantry deployed to Wardak, Afghanistan last spring: MAIDAN SHAHR, Afghanistan, May 8 [2008] (Reuters) - Last week U.S. Captain Roger Hill led a patrol into the Jaldez valley, just southwest of Kabul, and was immediately ambushed from three sides by 50 Taliban fighters armed with rocket-propelled grenades. The army of attackers, robed and bearded, fired somewhere...
  • Bill to create 'Veterans Corps' moves forward in Senate

    03/25/2009 7:14:26 PM PDT · by 2ndDivisionVet · 22 replies · 2,025+ views
    The Virginian-Pilot ^ | March 25, 2009 | Dale Eisman
    Senators moved Wednesday toward creation of a “Veterans Corps” of up to 5,000 paid volunteers to work on aid programs for vets, their families and the families of active-duty troops. The corps is part of a group of national service initiatives backed by the Obama administration and an unusual bipartisan coalition in Congress. Participants would work directly with veterans and bolster existing aid programs run by state and local governments and non-profit groups. With civilian jobs increasingly hard to come by, the corps would give people leaving the military another way of serving their country and staying off the unemployment...
  • White House picking vets’ pockets

    03/17/2009 3:57:43 PM PDT · by 2ndDivisionVet · 23 replies · 1,475+ views
    The Shawnee News-Star ^ | March 17, 2009 | Bruce Coulter
    Hey, G.I., is that a gun in your pocket, or is it just Obama and company reaching for your insurance card? President Barack Obama pledged to be a friend to veterans while on the campaign trail. As a matter of fact, while at a town hall meeting with veterans in Las Cruces, N.M., Obama said: “One of the best ways that we can honor our fallen soldiers is to honor those who came back, who survived. And so, to all the veterans who are here, I am grateful to your service, and as president of the United States, I will...
  • Obama's Government Report: Guantanamo is Humane and Abides by Geneva Conventions

    02/20/2009 12:52:43 PM PST · by Syncro · 50 replies · 3,868+ views
    Friday, February 20, 2009 Posted By:Catherine MoyPermalinkObama’s Government Report: Guantanamo is Humane and Abides by Geneva Conventions President Obama in one of his first actions in office ordered the closure of the terrorist prison at Guantanamo Bay. He also ordered an in-depth study of the prison camps to decipher whether the terrorists and alleged terrorists at Gitmo are properly treated and that U.S. troops are abiding by the Geneva Conventions. The report, part of which was leaked today, shows that Gitmo “complies with the humanitarian requirements of the Geneva conventions” and that the prisoners are treated with dignity. A Pentagon...
  • Sen. Jim Inhofe joins group fighting to keep prisoners in Cuba (Melanie Morgan, MAF)

    02/11/2009 5:39:05 PM PST · by Syncro · 15 replies · 901+ views
    NewsOK ^ | February 11, 2009 | CHRIS CASTEEL
    Sen. Jim Inhofe joins group fighting to keep prisoners in Cuba BY CHRIS CASTEEL Published: February 11, 2009 Inhofe, R-Tulsa, praised the group, Move America Forward, and said he is pushing legislation that would prevent any of the prisoners from being moved to prisons in the United States. Inhofe, who recently returned from a visit to the prison in Cuba, said the detainees are treated well and that the prison is serving a valuable purpose. Asked whether the prisoners should remain at the prison indefinitely, Inhofe said, "I wish there were more choices. There really aren’t. I guess we could...
  • Why I Stormed Sen. Specter's Office (by Melanie Morgan, Porkulus Freep Makes Wash. Times!)

    02/10/2009 7:28:06 PM PST · by kristinn · 59 replies · 6,124+ views
    The Washington Times ^ | Wednesday, February 11, 2009 | Melanie Morgan
    I went to visit Sen. Arlen Specter to save him from an embarrassing pro-stimulus vote that will damage America's economy and send the nation back to 1970s-style stagflation. Jim Robinson, founder of FreeRepublic.com, and I arrived at Sen. Specter's office with a group of folks who oppose the $1.5 trillion stimulus package, on this past Monday morning. We asked to see Sen. Specter. The office secretary didn't seem to be happy to see us. I could not blame her. We were there to embarrass her boss. Jim, wearing his Navy cap, asked about the senator's whereabouts, but the secretary wasn't...
  • Andrew McCarthy Writes A Special Analysis for MAF (About Closing Gitmo)

    02/10/2009 5:51:42 PM PST · by Syncro · 4 replies · 1,081+ views
    Move America Forward ^ | Tuesday, February 10, 2009 | MAF Blogger Danny
    Tuesday, February 10, 2009 Posted By:MAF Blogger DannyPermalinkAndrew McCarthy Writes A Special Analysis for MAF This blog post is really special. We were doing the presser for our Gitmo ad and we really wanted and expert opinion so we asked Andrew McCarthy of National Review and he wrote us this amazing piece which gives us another perspective - this one coming from a policy expert - on Guantanamo Bay. If the Guantanamo Detainees Are Transferred Into the U.S.By Andrew C. McCarthyAt the moment, alien enemy combatants are being held by the military outside the territorial jurisdiction of the U.S. courts. ...
  • Cat Moy: Storming the Gates and Aiming at Porkulus-enabler Specter (MAF Report on PORKULUS)

    02/09/2009 3:36:51 PM PST · by Syncro · 38 replies · 2,442+ views
    Move America Forward ^ | Monday, February 09, 2009 | Catherine Moy
    Monday, February 09, 2009 Posted By:Catherine MoyPermalinkStorming the Gates and Aiming at Porkulus-enabler SpecterFound Sen. Arlen Specter must feel like one lucky man today. He wasn’t in his Capitol Hill offices when MAF Chairman Melanie Morgan, Gold Star Mom Debbie Lee, Freepers and Free Republic founder Jim Robinson, and other patriotic citizens stormed his office to demand he reverse his position supporting the porkulus bill, aka the Barack-Blowing-Through- Dollars-Scheme. MAF, as you know, is a protroops organization, and it is our opinion that this legislation will hurt veterans’ healthcare - not to mention every other American. We’re really in town...
  • Freepers, other citizens storm Sen. Specter's Office on Porkulus

    02/09/2009 3:25:57 PM PST · by Syncro · 133 replies · 8,485+ views
    MelanieMorgan.Com ^ | Febuary 9, 2009 | Melanie Morgan
    Freepers, other citizens storm Sen. Specter's Office on Porkulus Written by Melanie Morgan    Monday, 09 February 2009 Sen. Arlen Specter must feel like one lucky man today. He wasn’t in his Capitol Hill offices when MAF Chairman Melanie Morgan, Gold Star Mom Debbie Lee, Freepers and Free Republic founder Jim Robinson, and other patriotic citizens stormed his office to demand he reverse his position supporting the porkulus bill, aka the Barack-Blowing-Through- Dollars-Scheme. MAF, as you know, is a protroops organization, and it is our opinion that this legislation will hurt veterans’ healthcare - not to mention every other American....
  • After Action Reports of Porkulus Freep of the Senate [Youtube video included]

    02/09/2009 2:40:55 PM PST · by kristinn · 40 replies · 3,284+ views
    Monday, February 9, 2009 | Catherine Moy, elk, iMacMan
    <p>Sen. Arlen Specter must feel like one lucky man today. He wasn’t in his Capitol Hill offices when MAF Chairman Melanie Morgan, Gold Star Mom Debbie Lee, Freepers and Free Republic founder Jim Robinson, and other patriotic citizens stormed his office to demand he reverse his position supporting the porkulus bill, aka the Barack-Blowing-Through- Dollars-Scheme.</p>
  • Melanie Morgan on G. Gordon Liddy Show 12 Noon EST 2/09/09 Re: Porkulus Freep (Listen Live)

    02/09/2009 7:49:31 AM PST · by kristinn · 48 replies · 1,871+ views
    Monday, February 9, 2009 | Kristinn
    Melanie Morgan, Chairwoman of Move America Forward and a great friend of Free Republic, will be on the G. Gordon Liddy Show today for the whole third hour starting at 12 Noon EST.She'll be talking about the Porkulus freep at the Senate today and tomorrow, MAF's campaign to keep Gitmo open and the other news of the day.LISTEN LIVE HERENote: The show is archived for pod casting, so if you miss it live you can catch it later!
  • MAF Team Heads to DC for Ad Unveil, MAF Blogger Danny misses flight! (MAF Team Joins Jim Robinson!)

    02/08/2009 7:23:18 PM PST · by Syncro · 16 replies · 1,539+ views
    Move America Forward ^ | January 8, 2009 | Danny Gonzalez
    Sunday, February 08, 2009 Posted By:MAF Blogger DannyPermalinkMAF Team Heads to DC for Ad Unveil, MAF Blogger Danny misses flight! Dear Friends, HELP! I am stuck in Sacramento after missing my flight this morning. My brave comrades went on without me but I was too late to get my back on that track deal that takes it to the plane. I was two minutes too late and I was told I could still get on the plane but my coat and tie and all my worldly possessions had to stay! I couldn’t just abandon my favorite tie so I had...
  • Melanie Morgan to Join Jim Robinson in Porkulus Freep at Senate Monday

    02/08/2009 7:03:13 PM PST · by kristinn · 96 replies · 6,084+ views
    Sunday, February 8, 2009 | Kristinn
    MEET AT 10 A.M. MONDAY AT ARLEN SPECTER'S OFFICE 711 HART SENATE OFFICE BUILDINGMelanie Morgan will be joining Free Republic founder Jim Robinson at the Senate Monday to help lead the Porkulus freep!Freepers are traveling from all across the country. You still have time to join Jim in D.C. He'll be at the Senate all day Monday and Tuesday. If you can't make it Monday then show up Tuesday morning. Previous threads:Attn FReepers: Is anyone ready to join me at the US Senate in DC on Monday?FREEPERS RISE UP! March on the Senate Monday and Tuesday! Stop the Porkulus Coup...
  • Move America Forward New Ad: "Keep Gitmo Open" You Tube (Press Conference in DC Feb 10th)

    02/06/2009 2:39:04 PM PST · by Syncro · 1 replies · 562+ views
    You Tube and MAF ^ | Febuary 6, 2009 | Move America Forward Staff
    Move America Forward has a Petition at their website that can be signed to help the Government know that it is a dangerous and bad idea to close the prison at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base.Click on the link "Petition" to sign it.MAF is also holding a press conference on Tuesday in D.C., with 9/11 families, Gold Stars Family Members and others to condemn Obama's plans to close Gitmo.
  • St. Mary's Protest - First Amendment Under Assault [Ayers]

    01/30/2009 4:04:34 PM PST · by Jim Robinson · 23 replies · 1,617+ views
    http://www.youtube.com:80/watch?v=RZ9b975MmIA&feature=email
  • Breaking the War Mentality (Barack Obama, circa 1983 at Columbia)

    01/29/2009 7:30:27 PM PST · by Ultra Sonic 007 · 141 replies · 6,709+ views
    Most students at Columbia do not have first hand knowledge of war. Military violence has been a vicarious experience, channeled into our minds through television, film, and print. The more sensitive among us struggle to extrapolate experiences of war from our everyday experience, discussing the latest mortality statistics from Guatemala, sensitizing ourselves to our parents' wartime memories, or incorporating into our framework of reality as depicted by a Maller[?] or a Coppola. But the taste of war -- the sounds and chill, the dead bodies -- are remote and far removed. We know that wars have occurred, will occur, are...
  • CA: (terrorist) Bill Ayers: Trudging Toward Freedom (St Mary's College, we'll be there!)

    01/26/2009 1:33:12 PM PST · by Jim Robinson · 59 replies · 3,919+ views
    Saint Mary's - Moraga, CA ^ | January 28, 2009 | Press Release
    "Guilty as hell, free as a bird—America is a great country," he said. Chicago Magazine, No Regrets, Aug 2001. Bill Ayers: Trudging Toward Freedom Bill Ayers, a professor of education at the University of Illinois-Chicago, became a focal point of the 2008 presidential campaign. Described by Republican nominee John McCain as “a washed up terrorist,” Ayers was a prominent figure with Students for a Democratic Society and the Weather Underground in the late 1960s and 1970s. After spending several years living underground as the U.S. government pursued charges against him that it later dropped, Ayers went on to become...
  • Former FBI Informant Reveals Truth About Ayers & Weather Underground's Campaign Of Political Murder

    01/25/2009 1:14:38 PM PST · by Jim Robinson · 82 replies · 4,507+ views
    PipeLineNews.org ^ | January 21, 2009 | By WILLIAM MAYER
    January 21, 2009 - San Francisco, CA - PipeLineNews.org - Almost from its inception, the Weather Underground [WU] was viewed with great concern by the FBI. As a result, the decision was made to place a high level informant within the group to help keeps tabs on its members' activities. That person was Larry Grathwohl, a Vietnam veteran and the only publicly identified FBI informant who succeeded in penetrating the Weather Underground, serving in that capacity from August 1969 until April 1970. Prior to his service in the FBI, he was a member of the Cincinnati Police force. PipeLineNews.org contacted...
  • U.S. Scientists Unearth Truth of Saddam's Reign of Terror (Mass Graves)

    01/07/2009 3:19:33 PM PST · by 2ndDivisionVet · 12 replies · 1,489+ views
    Newsmax ^ | January 6, 2009 | Dennis Fisher
    A feature story in the January issue of Archaeology Magazine reports that U.S. efforts in Iraq are doing more than just bringing freedom to the once totalitarian state. American scientists are also delivering a measure of justice to the families of tens of thousands of Kurds slaughtered by Saddam Hussein's forces, according to the magazine, which hit newsstands this week. At the prodding of the investigators at Human Rights Watch, who had heard horrific first-hand accounts of the mass executions from survivors, U.S. Army archaeologists and other experts in 2003 began excavating mass graves and gathering evidence for trials that...
  • March of the Dead to Greet Congress on Tuesday (Peacecreeps on Parade)

    01/05/2009 1:25:33 PM PST · by 2ndDivisionVet · 15 replies · 1,315+ views
    Progressive Democrats of America ^ | January 5, 2009 | David Swanson
    WHAT: A long column of figures dressed all in black with white death masks and bearing the names of those killed in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Palestine. The march will be followed by a dramatic nonviolent action intended to awaken Congress to the need to end the wars. WHERE: The march will approach the U.S. Capitol on Pennsylvania Ave. SE and turn north on 1st Street to pass between the Capitol and the Supreme Court, turn west on Constitution Ave. to pass the Senate office buildings, turn south to pass the west front of the Capitol, and turn east on Independence...
  • An intellectual surge: David Petraeus is a worthy pick for Prospect’s public intellectual of 2008

    01/03/2009 7:01:16 PM PST · by 2ndDivisionVet · 1 replies · 472+ views
    Prospect Magazine ^ | January 2009 Issue | James Crabtree
    Earlier this year Prospect teamed up with Foreign Policy to list the world’s 100 greatest living public intellectuals, a contest won (after some sharp-elbowed campaigning) by the Turkish cleric Fetullah Gülen. But who has had the most impact in 2008? We gathered an all-star judging panel (see opposite) from the worlds of policy, media and ideas to find out. The concept of “public intellectual” remains satisfyingly vague. Nonetheless, we instructed our panel to weigh up the field on three criteria: novelty, real-world impact, and intellectual pizzazz. Internal debate, along with soundings on our blog, First Drafts, created a shortlist of...
  • OBAMA SHOULD KEEP GITMO OPEN--MAF Leaders Call on Obama to Visit Personally, Get Facts

    12/29/2008 11:56:13 PM PST · by Syncro · 14 replies · 1,434+ views
    Move America Forward ^ | December 29, 2008 | Danny Gonzalez
      Contact: Danny Gonzalez                                                           FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASECommunications Director, Move America Forward                                         December 29, 2008Cell: (714) 926-6189 or danny@moveamericaforward.org OBAMA SHOULD KEEP GITMO OPENMAF Leaders Call on President-Elect to Visit Personally to Get Facts  SACRAMENTO – Move America Forward (MAF), the nation’s largest pro-troop, grassroots organization, urged President-Elect Barack Obama to personally travel to the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base and learn why Gitmo should be kept open to house the world’s worst terrorists. Melanie Morgan, Chairman of Move America Forward, led a delegation to the naval base last week to bring gifts, Christmas and Hanukkah cards and expressions of support...
  • CATHERINE MOY: Change is Coming for U.S. Troops (MAF Article)

    12/29/2008 10:34:25 PM PST · by Syncro · 41 replies · 2,664+ views
    Move America Forward ^ | December 29, 2008 | Catherine Moy
    Monday, December 29, 2008 Posted By:Catherine MoyPermalinkChange is Coming for U.S. Troops The election of Barack Obama as America’s next president has many of our troops confounded. Six out of 10 active service members are worried about Obama as commander in chief, according to a Military Times poll. “Being that the Marine Corps can be sent anywhere in the world with the snap of his fingers, nobody has confidence in this guy as commander in chief,” said one lance corporal who asked not to be identified. For eight years, members of the U.S. military have served under a Republican commander...
  • *GITMO!!!* THEY’RE HERE—The US Navy arrives to pick us up!! (Updates at #26, 41)

    12/21/2008 12:53:31 PM PST · by Syncro · 52 replies · 9,366+ views
    Move America Forward ^ | December 21, 2008 | Move America Forward Staff
    From Move America Forward Front Page: GITMO!!! The HHH-II Tour is now officially complete, but the MAF team has one more little stop...Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. MAF will be sending Chairman Melanie Morgan, Gold Star mom Debbie Lee, Executive Director Cat Moy, Ryan Gill and Danny Gonzalez with Kylie Williams off to Guantanamo Bay to visit the troops there and bring them special tidings of comfort and joy for Christmas! Check back often for the latest updates.
  • Gold Star Mom heads to Guantanamo Bay! (HHHII Tour goes to Cuba)

    12/19/2008 7:17:53 AM PST · by Syncro · 8 replies · 1,114+ views
    News Blaze ^ | December 18, 2008 | Staff
    Published: December 18,2008Gold Star Mom heads to Guantanamo Bay! Pro-Troop Group Brings Holiday Cheer to Gitmo TroopsGuantanamo Bay Final Destination for Nationwide Tour Gathering Care Packages for Troops Sacramento, CA - Move America Forward, the nation's largest pro-troop grassroots organization, announced today their nationwide tour to support the troops will include a stop at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Melanie Morgan, Chairman of Move America Forward, said, "We are delighted and excited to be able to personally tell the United States military personnel at Guantanamo Bay how much we appreciate their service to America. We especially appreciate those who have had...
  • ITS OFFICIAL: Move America Forward to visit GITMO

    12/19/2008 3:43:25 AM PST · by our_retired_explorer · 19 replies · 2,416+ views
    The proverbial cat is out of the bag folks. It's official, Move America Forward will be sending Melanie Morgan and the rest of the MAF gang to GUANTANAMO BAY CUBA to visit the guards and the gatekeepers of the most awful terrorists ever captured alive! They will be there to show their appreciation for locking up those damned dirty terrorists and bringing holiday cheer, Christmas cards, and some DVDs to them while they spend their Christmas stationed in the land of Castro
  • At White House, antiwar demonstrators stage a shoe-in (Code Pink and company)

    12/18/2008 6:52:42 PM PST · by 2ndDivisionVet · 18 replies · 1,566+ views
    The Fort Worth Star-Telegram / The Washington Post ^ | December 18, 2008 | Dana Milbank
    For the antiwar crowd, the shoe is now on the other foot. The activists were really cut off at the knees when the nation voted in a president who promises to bring an expeditious end to the war in Iraq. And in a month, the other shoe will drop: George W. Bush will be gone — and with him will go the raison d’etre of those who have protested, picketed and heckled him these last eight years. And so they assembled Wednesday on Pennsylvania Avenue, outside the White House gate, to take a few final shots. Literally. They assembled a...
  • Code Pink activists march in solidarity with shoe-thrower (Berkeley USMC Recruiting Station)

    12/17/2008 10:05:12 PM PST · by 2ndDivisionVet · 22 replies · 1,800+ views
    KFTY Radio ^ | December 17, 2008
    BERKELEY (BCN) Anti-war activists from the group Code Pink will hold a march at a Marine recruiting station in Berkeley this morning to show solidarity with an Iraqi journalist who threw his shoes at President Bush on Sunday. Members of the group and others will march around the recruiting station holding shoes in the air to show support for Iraqi journalist Muntadhar al-Zeidi, who hurled two shoes at Bush during a news conference in Baghdad. In many Arab countries, showing the sole of one's shoes, much less throwing shoes at another person, is considered a sign of extreme disrespect. Organizers...
  • *MAF Honoring Heroes II Updates and Pictures---Syncro Report* (Updates daily)

    12/17/2008 6:18:34 AM PST · by Syncro · 39 replies · 2,600+ views
    Move America Forward ^ | December 17, 2008 | Dr. Zoo
    On the road with the Honoring Heroes at the Holidays Tour going through Texas today.Time is short, so I'm going to post some pictures and info from internal correspondence HELP KEEP OUR PRO-TROOP BUS TOUR ON THE ROADOnly a few days left to collect care packages for our troops We left early this morning from our Super 8 Motel in Fort Stockton, Texas, heading to San Antonio and Austin for rallies today.   The MAF team working around the clock on the bus The Wal Mart stores in Texas have been great to us in allowing us to conduct our rallies right...
  • MAF'S Honoring our Heroes Tour stopping in Austin tonight, Houston tomorrow!

    12/16/2008 12:19:30 PM PST · by Jim Robinson · 8 replies · 942+ views
    Move America Forward ^ | 12/16/2008 | Jim Robinson
    Just got a call from Syncro. The Tour is in San Antonio now. Will be in Austin tonight at 5:00 pm at the Wal-Mart Supercenter, 1030 Norwood Park Blvd and in Houston tomorrow at noon at the Wal-Mart Supercenter, 4810 Highway 6 N #A. Bring your flags and support the troops signs. Sponsor a care package for our troops! The Tour continues on to Baton Rouge and Mobile on Thursday, and on to Tallahassee and Jacksonville, FL on Friday!
  • All-volunteer military has created a red-state Army in the U.S.

    12/16/2008 8:16:22 AM PST · by 2ndDivisionVet · 124 replies · 4,918+ views
    The Salt Lake Tribune / The Washington Post ^ | December 15, 2008 | Danielle Allen
    In Hopewell Township, N.J., the veterans of American Legion Post 339 have put their building up for sale. "Today's vets don't come out," 82-year old Jim Hall told The Times of Trenton last month. The post is down from 425 paying members in the 1960s and '70s to 202 this year; only about a dozen regularly attend. But it's America that has changed, not vets. Since 1970, the population of the United States has grown by about 50 percent, from roughly 200 million to 300 million. Over the same period, the number of active-duty armed forces has fallen approximately 50...
  • URGENT WEATHER ALERT ISSUED: Afghanistan US Soldiers under 4 feet of snow.(MAF email)

    12/12/2008 5:41:59 PM PST · by Syncro · 30 replies · 2,611+ views
    Move America Forward ^ | December 12, 2008 | Staff
    URGENT WEATHER ALERT ISSUED: 2:57 PM PST // 5:57 PM ESTStrong storms are forecast to strike positions of U.S. troops in Afghanistan by Monday.  Snow will blanket many parts of the country where U.S. troops are stationed, and temperatures will plunge down to the single digits in some locations.  We here at Move America Forward have been monitoring this situation closely and a complete weather report follows below. Weather report from Afghanistan follows, along with first-hand report from military support family on four feet of snow that has blanketed soldiers at OP Fritsche. We are saddened to think of our brave...
  • CAT MOY: Why we thank our Heroes:Green Berets Battle Badguys, and Win Again!! (MAF)

    12/12/2008 5:50:27 PM PST · by Syncro · 8 replies · 1,174+ views
    Move America Forward ^ | December 12, 2008 | Catherine Moy
    Why we thank our Heroes:Green Berets Battle Badguys, and Win Again!! When Move America Forward kicks off our Heroes for the Holdidays II tour tomorrow, we do it for the men and women who give their all while we’re warm at home. We do it for guys like the Green Berets who will get Silver Stars for kicking butt and destroying terrorists. Hooah!! Here’s the Washington Post story about the heroes in action: By Ann Scott Tyson Washington Post Staff Writer Friday, December 12, 2008; Page A01 After jumping out of helicopters at daybreak onto jagged, ice-covered rocks and into...
  • Countdown to MAF Heroes' tour!!!! (Starting Sat Dec 13 in Sacramento)

    12/12/2008 12:39:16 PM PST · by Syncro · 5 replies · 707+ views
    Move America Forward ^ | December 12, 2008 | Catherine Moy
    Countdown to MAF Heroes’ tour!!!! Tomorrow is the BIG day as we kickstart our nationwide tour that will culminate in a huge surprise for our troops! We at Move America Foward are proud of this year’s venture and we invite all of you to come out and support our troops in our Honoring Heroes at the Holidays II tour. OUr aim is to ship more packages than MAF has ever shipped to our troops over the holidays. Saturday at 9:00 AM sharp we will participate in Sacramento, California’s Vietnam Memorial/Parade. You can find us at 216 O St., Sacramento, Calif.We...
  • MAF Announcing Honoring Heroes at the Holidays II (FR Members Help Needed!)

    12/10/2008 11:41:17 AM PST · by Syncro · 16 replies · 1,409+ views
    Move America Forward ^ | December 10, 2008 | Staff
    MAF Announcing Honoring Heroes at the Holidays IIMove America Forward is thrilled to announce that we are bringing back Honoring Heroes at the Holidays to honor our troops again this Christmas and holiday season! Last year, MAF introduced Honoring Heroes at the Holidays and traveled to cities all over the country. We were so excited by the results that we had to do it again for 2008! Our troops deserve to know that we love and appreciate them! Starting December 13th, we’ll once again be hitting the road to take our message to the people of America who want to...