Posted on 07/22/2007 12:57:50 PM PDT by kristinn
Imagine if the Democratic Party did for peace what the Republicans do for war. --DS (David Swanson)
Pro-war Eagles tied to Republican Party & Conservative Media By David Dixon, www.CharlotteAction.org
The chairman of Gathering of Eagles (GOE), Ret. U.S. Navy Captain Larry Bailey (he was a leader of GOE's protest of Cindy Sheehan's Journey For Humanity & Accountability in Charlotte, NC on July 17), was the president of the Vietnam Vets for the Truth, "which attacked 2004 Democratic Presidential candidate Senator John Kerry's military record, on the heels of the more well-known" Swift Boat Veterans for Truth. (Raw Story). He reorganized the group as The Vets For The Truth in 2006 (& VFTT accepted donations on behalf of GOE). Bailey is a member of the DC chapter of Free Republic.
The GOE's press contact Kristinn Taylor is a co-leader of the DC chapter of Free Republic . Her bio on the FR site refers to her as "Warlord of the D.C. Chapter of FreeRepublic.com" and having been a member of FR since 1998.
Free Republic (FR) has a Gathering Of Eagles section on their website/"forum", which is included in the menu at the top of their site. Free Republic is an openly right-wing, pro-Republican blog/forum type website and organization. Kristinn Taylor has a recent posting on FR concerning the DC Free Republic's plan to disrupt the July 23 March from Arlington Cemetery to Rep. Conyers for Impeachment, being led by Cindy Sheehan.
In fact, it appears Free Republic is a main driving force behind Gathering of Eagles, which serves as an umbrella group for FR and the organizations they are related too.
Key organizations that promoted and participated in the launching of the Gathering Of Eagles & their first counter-protest at the March 17, 2007 March on the Pentagon are Move America Forward, Free Republic, and Rolling Thunder.
Conservative journalists that promoted and covered the GOE creation/counter-protest include Front Page Magazine's Jaime Glazov and syndicated columnist Michelle Malkin. Malkin had articles published in places such as National Review Online and The New York Post and, of course, posted on Free Republic.
In a Feb 28, 2007 article Malkin wrote:
"Sgt. Artie Muller, founder of Rolling Thunder, the POW/MIA advocacy group, has called on his 80-plus chartered chapters to turn out. Move America Forward, a grassroots, nonprofit, pro-military charity, is launching a caravan from California March 8 to join the Eagles and will bring flags from across the country for the event."
Move America Forward (MAF) is lead by California Republican activists, talk show hosts and staff members of the public relations firm Russo Marsh & Rogers. MAF's California Articles of Incorporation registration address was that of PR firm Russo Marsh and Rogers (their first .com web address was also registered under the name Russo Marsh and Rogers). The firm has strong ties to the Republican Party.
Move America Forward's "Chief Strategist" Sal Russo is the founder and principal of Russo Marsh and Rogers, though he chooses not to list that on his MAF bio.
Melanie Morgan is the chairman of Move America Forward. She is a columnist for WorldNetDaily and conservative radio talk show host at KSFO in San Francisco. She has, or at least had, an email address with the PR firm Russo Marsh & Rogers, Melanie@RMRWest.Net.
Rolling Thunder claims to be a POW/MIA advocacy organization. However, their ardent support of right-wing, pro-Republican organizations and their active role in organizing and participating in their "events" reveals another agenda as well.
Ar Rolling Thunder's last rally in Washington, DC on May 27, 2007, two of their featured speakers were "Capt. Larry Bailey USN, Retired" and "Kristinn Taylor freerepublic.com". The leader of their group met privately with President Bush prior to their rally.
This is just a small sample of the close connections between Gathering Of Eagles, Move America Forward, Free Republic, Rolling Thunder and the Republican Party and conservative media. There is much more information available in the public domain, mostly from these groups websites and conservative media outlets.
Sources:
Gathering of Eagles' website
Move America Forward's website
Free Republic's website
Rolling Thunder's website
Russo Marsh and Rogers' website
National Review Online
New York Post
Front Page Magazine
C-Span
WhatReallyHappened.com
Raw Story
David Dixon is founder & coordinator of the social justice organization Action Center For Justice and OperationImpeachment.org.
There should be a law against this!!!!!
That's really how they act, too.
A group of us FReeped a large A.N.S.W.E.R. anti-war rally in February '03 in Houston and our very presence made them furious.
It was great. :-D
They have it all wrong.
It actually goes like this:
Mindless bots “blog” by the thousands on FreeRepublic about kitties and trolls.
The Kitties are actually the Mods in drag, who do Jim Robinson’s bidding like so many purring zombies.
Jim Robinson is actually Dilbert, a brilliant technician who created FR and is much smarter than his genius boss, Karl Rove.
Rove reports to the Board of Directors of Halliburton, which is still secretly under the thumb of Vice President Cheney.
Hope that clears up everything except—the fact that Kristinn is most definitely a man—and the matter of who controls Cheney.
Kristinn does. I’m quite series.
Glad to be of halp.
That Yeltsin team is the same team that brought us Arnie. :-(
I’m a regular Freeper, AND I once worked for Russo Marsh and Rogers AND I also have shaken hands with President Bush.
The cover is blown boys, we might as well give them credit for figuring it all out.
You forgot the Rockefellers, the NWO, and the CFR.
And here's something the America hating leftist/socialist/communist moonbat militant peacenik wackos like to reserve for themselves but prohibit for everyone else:
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.Free speech, freedom of association, freedom to dissent. We are the dissent, baby! We're here and in their face! They'd better get used to it.
You got that right JimRob...
And to think that they want to impose the fairness doctrine on us...
Calling Kristinn a “her” is simply gender-neutrality in grammar. Or to have more fun, this is a sign of the usual bigotry of the left. They assume a ‘Kristinn’ is a girl without checking, SEXISM! ;^)
You got that right, Jim!
Here it's kinda like A Boy Named Sue.
You should have seen me at the Rocky Horror Picture Show parties back in the day :-)
That woman on the left -- have we seen her before?
It seems the Counter Demonstrators scare the metrosexuals...
I wonder WHY???
The left is learning that they are not the only ones allowed to have “Free Speech” in America...
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