Norfolk-based sailor uses Web to channel opposition to war (Halp me Jon Carry!)

The Virginian-Pilot ^ | 11-5-06 | Louis Hansen

[TigersEye]

I simply don't understand why seemingly intelligent people go for it.

Intelligence is no buffer to insanity.

[kcvl]

In 2001, Hutto was a speaker at The Fight against Police Violence: from Cincinnati to PG County, Maryland. Hutto's co-speaker at the event was Glova Scott of the Socialist Workers Party. The speech was posted on The Militant website. Hutto’s article, Rebuilding the GI Movement, appeared in Thomas Barton’s GI Special on the alBasrah Iraqi Resistance website.

Hutto described the military as “an institutional culture laced with discriminatory behavior based on race, gender, sexual orientation and geography.” He lauds “the movement of soldiers and sailors against the occupation of Vietnam was pivotal in ending U.S. Imperialist aggression against the Vietnamese people.”

Jonathan Hutto and the members of VFP, MFSO and IVAW certainly have the right to speak out. But WE have the right to know what their underlying agenda is. After reading up on the backgrounds of the organizations and Mr. Hutto, it is hard to swallow the media’s portrayal of a simple non-partisan grassroots movement. The country deserves to hear the truth about the anti-American agenda of the so called “peace groups”.

UPDATE: The NY Sun is reporting on some other nasty little connections that this group has to other anti-American agenda driven organizations...

A staff member at Fenton Communications who requested anonymity said his company was approached last week by a longtime peace activist and former director of the anti-nuclear proliferation front known as SANE/Freeze, David Cortright, to publicize Appeal for Redress. Mr. Cortright is now president of an Indiana-based nonprofit group, the Fourth Freedom Forum, and his biography on the organization's Web site says he helped raise "more than $300,000 for the Win Without War coalition to avert a preemptive attack on Iraq in 2002–03."

Still, the counsel retained by Appeal for Redress, J.E. McNeil, runs the Center for Conscience and War, an organization whose mission is to defend the rights of conscientious objectors.

Ms. McNeil said yesterday that she first got in touch with some of the soldiers in Appeal for Redress through a military hotline the Center for Conscience and War runs for active-duty servicemen to find out what rights they have. According to the center's Web site, the group's lobbyist is Pat Elder, a co-founder of the D.C. Area Anti-War Network, which has organized civil disobedience demonstrations against military recruitment offices in shopping malls.

The Sun also has this little statement from Jonathan "Amnesty International" Hutto...
Seaman Hutto said none of the members of Appeal for Redress were "pacifists, conscientious objectors, or anything that would go against the military contract." He does not discuss the new organization when he is on his base or in uniform, he added.

Seeing as the supporting organizations are VFP and IVAW which have been exposed above as including conscientious objectors and activists, I find Hutto's claims about as hard to believe as his non-partisan, non-agenda stance. The Appeal for Redress signers are not posted on the website so in the interest of full disclosure, I call on the organization to make the names public. They want to speak the truth - let's see if they can handle the truth. Release the names.


More here...


http://tinyurl.com/y38orh

[usmcobra]

I hear The Navy needs photographers in Iraq.

[kcvl]

MORE MEDIA LIES...

According to Navy regulations, Jonathan Hutto is allowed to run his antiwar campaign, but it must be done on personal time, out of uniform and off base.

Hutto himself has a history of liberal activism. In 1996, Hutto enrolled in Howard University, choosing political science as his major. He quickly became close friends with a controversial classmate, Sinclair Skinner, who admits to being expelled from Tuskegee University for his activism. Together, they helped organize the Million Man March.

Along with his civil rights activism, Lawrence Guyot has compared the GOP to "Nazis" on national talk programs. Guyot himself has been an anti-war activist since the 1960s.

When Hutto graduated from Howard, he worked for the ACLU and then for Amnesty International. Hutto has expressed disdain for President Bush, stating "[Bush's] agenda is not only anti African/African American, but anti-labor, anti-woman, anti-environment and anti-human rights", has called the Iraq war "illegal" and the United States "imperialist".

[kcvl]

Worker's World (Socialist organization) is supporting him...

Catalinotto was a civilian organizer with the American Servicemen’s Union, an anti-war GI group, from 1967 to 1971.

Press Here

If these people hate this country this much why not just get the hell out?!!!

[kcvl]

What the Media Forgot to Tell Us About the Group "Appeals for Redress"


A group of active duty soldiers, called a "grassroots group" by some in the media, is speaking out against the war in Iraq and calling on Congress to bring the troops home. Fine with me - they have every right to speak their mind (I know nothing about the military rules - I'm speaking in the realm of First Amendment rights). Having the freedom to speak out is one of the great benefits of living in the United States of America.

BUT it is disconcerting and disingenuous to report this group as a simple grassroots group trying to get their voices heard. The "Appeal for Redress" group is sponsored by three of the most virulent anti-war groups that use their "desire for peace" as a cover for their blatant anti-Americanism. You've heard of these groups - Veterans for Peace, Military Families Speak Out and Iraq Veterans Against the War. Whenever you see Cindy Sheehan or any of her comrades, you will see members of these organizations.


http://newsbusters.org/node/8606

[kcvl]

GRASSROOTS MY *SS!!!


Grass-Roots Group of Troops Petitions Congress for Pullout From Iraq

By Ann Scott Tyson
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, October 25, 2006; Page A13

[lastchance]

Why is it not treason?

[Mad_as_heck]

One day in 2003, broke and seeking direction, Hutto enlisted in the Navy.

In 2003? He knows exactly what he is up to. This looser signed up specifically to disrupt the war effort and set himself up as some sort of liberal martyr.

I remember reading somewhere about a left wing activist from England who emigrated to Israel and enlisted specifically so that he could then make a stink about refusing to serve in the "occupied territories."

Ship him off to the nastiest more remote posting imaginable and let him rot till his enlistment is over. Keeping him away from the cameras he craves is the best punishment.

[Citizen Soldier]

I'm sure a navy photoghaper knows the horrors of war from a coffee shop in Norfolk!

[goldstategop]

A liberal joining the Navy? He's rarer than a beak on a hen's tooth, simply because of the psychological makeup of these people. They loathe carrying arms, hate fighting wars, and look down upon soldiers, sailors and airmen in uniform as dummies easily commanded and led to their deaths. Liberals abhor patriotism.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." -Manuel II Paleologus

[DouglasKC]

After the Web site was publicized two weeks ago, Hutto's supervisor pulled him aside and laid out the Navy's ground rules: The campaign had to be done on personal time, out of uniform and off base.
Hutto, who studied military rules and consulted lawyers before launching the campaign, agreed.

I was taught in the Air Force that any kind of protests against the government in uniform or out of uniform was grounds for discharge.

[goldstategop]

Must be a different set of rules for liberals.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." -Manuel II Paleologus

[Coldwater Creek]

Cost about a million dollars to search for a sailor that is overboard. In this case money well spent!!!!!!!!

[Coldwater Creek]

You can thank Bill Clinton for this kind of acceptable behavior.

[piasa]

Another product of the red diaper doper baby bunch emerges to take his John Kerry plunge.

[SlowBoat407]

"...the cafés and bookstores in Ghent"

Don't ask, don't tell....

I can't imagine anyone who spends his time in those spots (and I know those spots in Ghent) even considering a stint in the military.

[usmcobra]

That should be illegal under the UCMJ.

[maine-iac7]

He's not just against the war, he is against the military as an organization, in any form it may take.

Correction: he's against the AMERICAN military. He'd hand our military over to the UN in a heart beat - he's with their goal to control the world with all countries handling over their sovereign control of military to the UN -

[maine-iac7]

WHY is this not illegal for active duty men (or women) to do this?

The same rule applies to anyone employed by any agency that is supported with tax payer monies - even, say, your local CAP agencies - why teachers aren't called on it, I don't know (well, we all do = but...)