Talk about Toy Soldiers...

Talk about mocking the troops!

It's sad, really.

Good Lord. Do these people have nothing better to do with their free time? (Answer: no. It was this or protesting animal makeup testing, and they couldn't find any animal costumes.)

It is hard to question their patriotism when it is so evident they don't have any.

FUCKIN' DOLTS!

Idiots ...

Sorry, but you walk through a mall wearing military uniforms, pointing fake guns at civilians, you ought to be met with significant force by the real police or military.

this shit does NOT fly in a post 9-11 era

Reminds me of this (one of the greatest concepts in music videos, evah!)

Well, as reproduction produces variation, I think we are looking at the irreducible minimum of fools that any society has.

But they must have been working on their foolery.

How blind do mall cops have to be to NOT kick these people out?

These people could never put up with the reality.

And it looks to me they're playing out their Mumbai fantasies.

as “Iraq Veterans Against the War” stages a demonstration

Gosh, you'd think that real "Iraq Veterans" would know that US troops stopped wearing black combat boots years ago (too visible to IR equipment).

You don't suppose... they aren't really veterans, do you? Nawww...

re: #12 Ben Hur

Reality eventually will not put up with them either.

Halloween was two months ago. It's time to put the costumes away.

re: #8 Shug

Sorry, but you walk through a mall wearing military uniforms, pointing fake guns at civilians, you ought to be met with significant force by the real police or military.

this shit does NOT fly in a post 9-11 era

Especially considering what was happening half a world away in Mumbai. But looks like San Franciscans in the pictures were gathering in large numbers to be hostages and terrorist victims if this had been a real event.

re: #8 Shug

Obviously, it does fly and people are sleepwalking...

Getting kicked out of the drama club has long lasting effects for some people.

Just another day in San Francisco, where the weird are mainstream.

These people would love a terrorist action like what happened in the Vince Flynn book "Transfer of Power'

Next, in perhaps the most ill-conceived part of a completely dunderheaded script, the soldiers swarmed through the adjacent Westfield Mall, "shooting" at shoppers and making "rat-a-tat-tat" sounds.

At which point, they should have been promptly arrested.

re: #11 gclaghorn

How blind do mall cops have to be to NOT kick these people out?

They kicked out a lady for nursing her baby under a blanket at my local mall. . .

Ha!

The blond chick in the cage is hot.

All we are saaayyying

is pee in our pants

Should have had a SWAT team mobilized and kicked the living shit out of these losers.

What they should be doing is going into those stores and asking for employment.

Why weren't these shmucks arrested for creating a public nuisance?

re: #18 tfc3rid

Obviously, it does fly and people are sleepwalking...

well I would have liked to see them face down with a cop's knee pressing their pimpled faces into the dirty mall floor as they got their asses cuffed and hauled off to jail.

The San Francisco authorities seem particularly amenable to the antics of these shitbirds. Let them try it in a concealed carry state.

re: #19 bosforus

Getting kicked out of the drama club has long lasting effects for some people.

It looks like they've spent too much time with the Dungeons and Dragons club.

Maybe they're in the mountains of Pakistan, hunting down Osama, with no mercy. :)

Ra ta ta ta, I keeled you,
no you didn't I have armor plates,
but I shot your head,
You missed,
You are the dead one now, I lobbed a grenade at you...

Kids these days

re: #22 Occasional Reader

At which point, they should have been promptly arrested.

They should have, but even quite a number of the cops are moonbats in the Bay Area.

Wanna bet the "soldiers" gave themselves "Medals of Honor" for a "successful" action against Bush the Emperor?

Memo to the anti-american leftists who stage this pseudo-theater.

We won the war. We're winning the peace in Iraq too. Even the NYT is trying to rewrite the history so that they can claim it's the result of Democrats and Obama, rather than President Bush's stubborn interest in actually getting to victory rather than defeat in Iraq and all the related consequences of failing to defeat Islamic terrorists on their playing field.

Iraq is standing up in the fight against the Islamists, and the terrorists are on the run there. The play dates that these idiots have at the mall just show how absolutely tone deaf they are to reality.

These people are clearly under the influence of stupidity.

re: #14 Occasional Reader

Gosh, you'd think that real "Iraq Veterans" would know that US troops stopped wearing black combat boots years ago (too visible to IR equipment).

You don't suppose... they aren't really veterans, do you? Nawww...

Wish my sons were hear, they would kick their asses. . .but they are in Iraq and 'Stan now. . .busy with the tedious details of freedom preservation. . .

Hello Moonbats, I have a name for people like you;
FUCKING BASTARDS EVERY LAST ONE OF YOU

Ever notice animal rights people never picket a biker bar?

They are trying to convince the citizens to hate their own country.

re: #8 Shug

Sorry, but you walk through a mall wearing military uniforms, pointing fake guns at civilians, you ought to be met with significant force by the real police or military.

this shit does NOT fly in a post 9-11 era

I'd love to see them try that same stunt at a shopping mall in... oh, say, Texas.

re: #9 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

Reminds me of this (one of the greatest concepts in music videos, evah!)

"Tase you like I should"

That's the operation I'd like to see in effect here.

Obama's UN appointment has some explaining to do:

“The FBI, in 1996 and 1997, had their efforts to look at terrorism data and deal with the bin Laden issue overruled every single time by the State Department, by Susan Rice and her cronies, who were hell-bent on destroying the Sudan,” one-time Clinton diplomatic troubleshooter Mansoor Ijaz told radio host Sean Hannity in 2002.

Richard Miniter, author of the book “Losing bin Laden,” concurred, saying Rice played a key role in scuttling the deal that could have prevented the 9/11 attacks on New York and Washington.

re: #39 Ojoe

They are trying to convince the citizens to hate their own country.

This is the Bay Area, mission accomplished a LOOONG time ago.

re: #38 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

Ever notice animal rights people never picket a biker bar?

There's a very good reason for that.

re: #22 Occasional Reader

At which point, they should have been promptly arrested.

I am WAITING for one of these things to happen to me. . .I would love the opportunity to offer a bit of a counter protest of my own. . .

re: #39 Ojoe

I kind of like the good ole US of A. They can't change my mind either.

Oh, for the love of gravy!
Surely there's a law against stupidity!

re: #46 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

Nor mine. I've read enough history.

These asshats picked the day after the Mumbai massacres to perform their street enactments. How DISREPECTFUL. If I had been in the street, or in the mall shopping, I would have been very pissed at them and probably spit on them. In fact I'm not surprised that they were not escorted out of the mall by security.
Who do they think allows the priviledge of their FREEDOM here?
I say send them all off onto basic training so they can feel the angst of really having to defend something purposeful and meaningful to their existence and for this country.
What a mockery of a protest.
*SPIT*

re: #42 Kenneth

Obama's UN appointment has some explaining to do:

“The FBI, in 1996 and 1997, had their efforts to look at terrorism data and deal with the bin Laden issue overruled every single time by the State Department, by Susan Rice and her cronies, who were hell-bent on destroying the Sudan,” one-time Clinton diplomatic troubleshooter Mansoor Ijaz told radio host Sean Hannity in 2002.

Richard Miniter, author of the book “Losing bin Laden,” concurred, saying Rice played a key role in scuttling the deal that could have prevented the 9/11 attacks on New York and Washington.

Hey, there is room under the bus now. . .

re: #2 marge45b

Talk about mocking the troops!

Given that particular organization's penchant for using folks who have never been in the military. . .it's more like:

"Talk about mock troops!"

re: #27 uncle_monkey

What they should be doing is going into those stores and asking for employment.

You mean, like, jobs?

FASCIST!

Am I alone in perceiving that the fake soldiers actually dream of opening fire on the crowd for real? It looks a like a Mumbai murderer solidarity rally.

(Not a veteran in the bunch. Not now, not before, not ever. Fake, fake, fake.)

Say, if somebody tossed a milkshake on one of these weasels, I wonder what would they do? Squeal like a child? Call mall security?

re: #40 Occasional Reader

I'd love to see them try that same stunt at a shopping mall in... oh, say, Texas.

They're not brave enought to go to the doorbuster sale at a Walmart.

But I think they would get away unmolested if not unarrested in Texas.

re: #24 experiencedtraveller

That's why they they put her in there, so guys like you will stop and gawk!

re: #43 FurryOldGuyJeans

This is the Bay Area, mission accomplished a LOOONG time ago.

Yep- true that. I am boycotting that part of the planet for going on 8 years now. . .9-11-01 was the start date.

This is in shockingly bad taste, even by moonbat standards. Considering that while this was going on, real terrorists in Mumbai were walking around with real guns really murdering people, I'm surprised the cops didn't billy-club these fucktards.

re: #53 Wm T Sherman

Am I alone in perceiving that the fake soldiers actually dream of opening fire on the crowd for real? It looks a like a Mumbai murderer solidarity rally.

(Not a veteran in the bunch. Not now, not before, not ever. Fake, fake, fake.)

Say, if somebody tossed a milkshake on one of these weasels, I wonder what would they do? Squeal like a child? Call mall security?

Ayers spit called the COPS on Fox News. . .

re: #51 Yashmak

Given that particular organization's penchant for using folks who have never been in the military. . .it's more like:

"Talk about mock troops!"

These folks are Obama's new Taupe-Shirts.

re: #42 Kenneth

Obama's UN appointment has some explaining to do:

“The FBI, in 1996 and 1997, had their efforts to look at terrorism data and deal with the bin Laden issue overruled every single time by the State Department, by Susan Rice and her cronies, who were hell-bent on destroying the Sudan,” one-time Clinton diplomatic troubleshooter Mansoor Ijaz told radio host Sean Hannity in 2002.

Richard Miniter, author of the book “Losing bin Laden,” concurred, saying Rice played a key role in scuttling the deal that could have prevented the 9/11 attacks on New York and Washington.

You forget that Obama promised C.H.A.N.G.E.

As in

Clinton
Had
A
Nifty
Groupe of
Employees

re: #17 FurryOldGuyJeans

Especially considering what was happening half a world away in Mumbai. But looks like San Franciscans in the pictures were gathering in large numbers to be hostages and terrorist victims if this had been a real event.

They think that the terrorists will see the moonbats good will and take them as allies in their struggle against "Imperialism". In reality, of course, the Islamists will turn on them and murder them as infidels.

re: #54 OldLineTexan

But I think they would get away unmolested if not unarrested in Texas.

I just think that if they started feigning gunfire at Texas shoppers, they might get return fire.

re: #42 Kenneth

Obama's UN appointment has some explaining to do:

“The FBI, in 1996 and 1997, had their efforts to look at terrorism data and deal with the bin Laden issue overruled every single time by the State Department, by Susan Rice and her cronies, who were hell-bent on destroying the Sudan,” one-time Clinton diplomatic troubleshooter Mansoor Ijaz told radio host Sean Hannity in 2002.

Richard Miniter, author of the book “Losing bin Laden,” concurred, saying Rice played a key role in scuttling the deal that could have prevented the 9/11 attacks on New York and Washington.

Obama seems hell-bent on replicating the worst of both Carter AND Clinton, and adding even more capitulation to the mix.

They appear to be Castro Revolutionaries

re: #53 Wm T Sherman

Say, if somebody tossed a milkshake on one of these weasels, I wonder what would they do? Squeal like a child? Call mall security?

"I wet my BDUs! Waaah!"

Have any of these guys ever once held a gun? Really?

I'm seriously a civilian, and I could see what was wrong with every position they took!

The kook side of life.

Hope is just a town in Arkansas. . .I guess

Susan Rice & the massive diplomatic failure that lead to 9-11:

In April 1997, they said, Sudan dropped its demand that Washington lift sanctions in exchange for terrorism cooperation.

“Sudan’s policy shift sparked a debate at the State Department, where foreign service officers believed the United States should reengage Khartoum. By the end of summer 1997, [those officers] persuaded incoming Secretary of State Madeleine Albright to let at least some diplomatic staff return to Sudan to press for a resolution of the civil war and pursue offers to cooperate on terrorism.

“Two individuals, however, disagreed. NSC terrorism specialist Richard Clarke and NSC Africa specialist Susan Rice, who was about to become assistant secretary of State for African affairs.”

Rice and Clarke persuaded Clinton National Security Advisor Sandy Berger to overrule Albright on the Sudanese terrorism overtures, said Ijaz and Carney.

Still, Sudan made yet another attempt to share intelligence on bin Laden and al-Qaida with the White House, repeating the unconditional offer to hand over terrorism data to the FBI in a February 1998 letter addressed directly to Middle East and North Africa special agent-in-charge David Williams.

“But the White House and Susan Rice objected,” wrote Ijaz and Carney. “On June 24, 1998, Williams wrote to Mahdi, saying he was ‘not in a position to accept your kind offer.’”

U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania were destroyed by bin Laden six weeks later, in a suicide bombing attack that killed 253.

re: #62 Occasional Reader

I just think that if they started feigning gunfire at Texas shoppers, they might get return fire.

Ventilating moonbats, a new sport?

re: #31 gclaghorn

It looks like they've spent too much time with the Dungeons and Dragons club.

Not so. I'm a board gamer myself. Many Saturdays have I spent in the same room as people who play D&D. None of them have ever done anything this stupid.

re: #66 Dianna

Have any of these guys ever once held a gun? Really?

I'm seriously a civilian, and I could see what was wrong with every position they took!

I'm imagining your paintball groupings.

I'm willing to bet that not one of those idiots has ever set foot in Iraq or Afghanistan. I'll up the anti, and also wager that not one of them has a DD-214. I've got a real special place in my heart for Combat Veteran Wannabees.

I'll bet all these people grew up elsewhere and moved here. These are your kids, Main Street, USA. What a bunch of emos.

re: #62 Occasional Reader

I just think that if they started feigning gunfire at Texas shoppers, they might get return fire.

God I hope not. It seems our concealed carry laws are completely dependent on no one ever getting shot ever again (if you read the reporter's cries after any "incident").

re: #66 Dianna

Have any of these guys ever once held a gun? Really?

I'm seriously a civilian, and I could see what was wrong with every position they took!

You mean I'm not supposed to brace my rifle butt against my eyeball?!

Seems to me that "fake" acts of mass murder and terrorism should be against the law. I know just mentioning the word bomb on a plane can get you arrested and federally charged.

re: #68 DisturbedEma

Hope is just a town in Arkansas. . .I guess

From whence came Bill of the Dropped Trousers and Michael of the Bad Guitar Playing.

Think of how sick and twisted these lefties must be to dress like their hated enemies.

I'm thinking of evil people I despise: Dictators, pedophiles, rapists, klansmen, violent gang members. I would never, ever put on their clothing to protest them. It would be like becoming them. How is that a protest? It seems to me that it would be a psychological identification on some level. I don't want to identify with evil-doers, or ever be mistaken for them. Not even to mock them. They are too evil for mockery.

On a different note, just remember that the military is the only thing that keeps our free civilization from becoming a bloody dictatorship. All these peace protesters put together don't amount to anything. There's more morality in the trigger finger of one soldier than in the whole lot of these losers.

re: #71 Dark_Falcon

Not so. I'm a board gamer myself. Many Saturdays have I spent in the same room as people who play D&D. None of them have ever done anything this stupid.

Not the boardgame. The version where people actually dress up in costumes and take it a little too far.

re: #69 Kenneth

Susan Rice & the massive diplomatic failure that lead to 9-11:

Obama is rewarding success for trying to destroy American apparently. This is the change He promised, or what?

re: #35 lawhawk

How do you think these people would fair in places where you had to serve because you were surrounded by 500 million people that wanted to kill you?

The Dork Brigade.

re: #69 Kenneth

Hang on to your arses. It's going to be a long four years.

For those of you with only a passing familiarity with S.F.

This stuff DOES fly there. In fact, I suspect many S.F. mall-goers would have felt like something was out of place if there weren't anyone protesting the war, or fur, or global warming. . .

Last time I went shopping there, a group of (I kid you not) leather Birkentstock wearing PETA protestors threw red paint at my girlfriend (who had a jacket with a faux fur collar), missed her entirely, and hit a couple who were visiting the USA from Japan (and who weren't wearing any leather or fur).

If the mall cops tried to do anything to these folks in S.F., you can be damned sure they'd be disciplined for interfering with the free speech of the protestors. Yeah, it's crazy, but yeah, that's S.F.

re: #73 Dustyvet

Probably veterans of the Jesse Macbeth Brigade

re: #76 Occasional Reader

You mean I'm not supposed to brace my rifle butt against my eyeball?!

Shhh...don't tell them...it'll make it all teh funnies when/if they ever get some rubber pants and fire a real gun. LOLZ.

re: #42 Kenneth

Change!

Iraq Veterans Against the Store

re: #84 Who Watches the Watchmen?

Hang on to your arses. It's going to be a long four years.

Plural? I only got one arse. And who says we're going to last 4 years?

re: #72 debutaunt

I'm imagining your paintball groupings.

Ha!

I haven't played paintball, but I'm pretty sure a bunch of ten year olds in one of those laser tag rooms could make mince-meat of all of these guys!

re: #66 Dianna

Have any of these guys ever once held a gun? Really?

I'm seriously a civilian, and I could see what was wrong with every position they took!

How DARE you question their veracity when they intone they are soldiers! If you can't trust the lies of the Left, just who can you trust?

re: #82 Ben Hur

How do you think these people would fair in places where you had to serve because you were surrounded by 500 million people that wanted to kill you?

Well, in the case of Israel, I think the answer is unfortunately that they get elevated to Prime Minister. See Olmert, Ehud.

The First Casualty is their capacity for embarassment.

We used to play Army in the back yard. Mom would've dragged us home by the ears if we acted like that in a store.

re: #75 OldLineTexan

God I hope not. It seems our concealed carry laws are completely dependent on no one ever getting shot ever again (if you read the reporter's cries after any "incident").

Those reporters have unrealistic view of the world (but you already knew that). Some level of violence by thugs, terrorists, and nuts is inevitable. Concealed Carry simply limits the carnage and helps to make the killer number among the dead.

re: #94 jaunte

The First Casualty is their capacity for embarassment.

This is yer brain on drugs.

re: #63 FurryOldGuyJeans

Obama seems hell-bent on replicating the worst of both Carter AND Clinton, and adding even more capitulation to the mix.

I'm getting a feeling of deja vu here. So, President Palin will have to deal with the next 9/11, as a result of Obama's screw-ups?

re: #86 Kenneth

Probably veterans of the Jesse Macbeth Brigade

Jesse Macbeth, that bastard stole over $11,000 in medical care from a Veterans Hospital.

As much as I want to always support men in uniform, I would have rounded up these dildos and charged them all with making terroristic threats.

re: #78 Dark_Falcon

From whence came Bill of the Dropped Trousers and Michael of the Bad Guitar Playing.

Yep. . .

re: #80 gclaghorn

Not the boardgame. The version where people actually dress up in costumes and take it a little too far.

Not exactly fair, really. Most of the D&D'ers who play "real life" eventually figure out that there is such a thing as cover, and sight-lines.

re: #98 Iron Fist

Hunt moonbats for fun and profit!

I ain't skinning anything that smells that bad.

Now the one they live-trapped...hmmm...

re: #93 lawhawk

Well, in the case of Israel, I think the answer is unfortunately that they get elevated to Prime Minister. See Olmert, Ehud.

Yep, and well, would you be all over my ass if I told you one of my sons is named for Bibi?

In Texas, the "Keep Austin Weird Crowd" would have allowed this crap to take place, maybe not at Lakeline or Barton Creek but definitely at Highland.

Personally I would have loved to see a kid plick them with a Nerf automatic.

re: #105 DisturbedEma

Yep, and well, would you be all over my ass if I told you one of my sons is named for Bibi?

Yoni is the one who died. Bibi is still with us.

re: #103 Dianna

Not exactly fair, really. Most of the D&D'ers who play "real life" eventually figure out that there is such a thing as cover, and sight-lines.

My sons are gamers. . .they grew up just fine. . .

re: #107 Alouette

Yoni is the one who died. Bibi is still with us.

I know, I stole his nicknamed when I named him after my dad. . .

re: #99 Ward Cleaver

I'm getting a feeling of deja vu here. So, President Palin will have to deal with the next 9/11, as a result of Obama's screw-ups?

Nah... We will get hit... And get hit hard... And while The One is in power... And people will be shocked that it could happen again... Shocked that terrorists are so brutal...

All except us... We will not be shocked, but prepared... We know what these terrorists are capable of... We have to be ready to do what we must to prevent future attacks here in America...

Being in NY, it's tough to see the police force underground and so many people just thinking it's a big nothing...

re: #80 gclaghorn

Not the boardgame. The version where people actually dress up in costumes and take it a little too far.

I've seen that at GenCon. I've still never seen those people do anything as stupid as those moonbats. But, then again, this is San Francisco we're talking about. Maybe its something in the water.

re: #106 badger1970

In Texas, the "Keep Austin Weird Crowd" would have allowed this crap to take place, maybe not at Lakeline or Barton Creek but definitely at Highland.

Personally I would have loved to see a kid plick them with a Nerf automatic.

I almost bought the $40 tripod-mounted one, but it takes a MOUNTAIN of batteries. 25 dart BELTS!

The moonbats will always think of our soldiers as killers instead of liberators.

Thanks to a-holes like Dick Durbin, John Kerry and Andrew Sullivan.

re: #101 Lizard by the Bay

As much as I want to always support men in uniform, I would have rounded up these dildos and charged them all with making terroristic threats.

In this case, these are men in uniforms they bought at the surplus store. So, no need to support them.

re: #110 Iron Fist

He's not even taken the Oath of Office yet, and Obama's administration is already a disaster. It's two long years before the mid-term elections. A lot can happen in two years time.

The medis are already starting to marginalize the GOP in hopes that the Dems will get their 60 seats in 2010...

re: #108 DisturbedEma

My sons are gamers. . .they grew up just fine. . .

I gamed. I learned a lot from it - mostly, don't annoy the dungeon master!

re: #106 badger1970

In Texas, the "Keep Austin Weird Crowd" would have allowed this crap to take place, maybe not at Lakeline or Barton Creek but definitely at Highland.

Personally I would have loved to see a kid plick them with a Nerf automatic.

Heh. In our local mall out here on the outskirts of Chicago, they'd have been forcibly removed from the mall by the mall rent-a-cops and the city police officers (who carry real guns, BTW) who patrol the corridors. This type of fake shooting looks like gang activity, and would be treated as such.

re: #107 Alouette

Yoni is the one who died. Bibi is still with us.

My sister named her son for Yoni. . .such a hero. . .and he would have been an interesting leader to watch. . .strength of conviction and battle worn. . .but I wonder if he would have been like Ehud. . .

re: #104 OldLineTexan

I ain't skinning anything that smells that bad.

Now the one they live-trapped...hmmm...

At least a tauntaun is useful for a ride...a moonbat is useful for?

In other news: Robert Mugabe's socialist paradise continues to get even more perfecter.

re: #112 Dark_Falcon

I've seen that at GenCon. I've still never seen those people do anything as stupid as those moonbats. But, then again, this is San Francisco we're talking about. Maybe its something in the water.

Note the behavior of the passers-by. They're really San Francisco, not the moonbat idiots.

re: #118 Dianna

I gamed. I learned a lot from it - mostly, don't annoy the dungeon master!

"I'm sorry you don't care for this level. Oh, darn...looks like you just stumbled into 25 orcs and a troll...and you with low hit-points and all. Drat the luck."

re: #118 Dianna

I gamed. I learned a lot from it - mostly, don't annoy the dungeon master!

My DM son? Now a Marine!

re: #98 Iron Fist

Hunt moonbats for fun and profit!

It's a humane catch, wash & release program.

re: #126 Iron Fist

The Media are the Enemy.

They are one of the enemies... We have many...

re: #127 Who Watches the Watchmen?

It's a humane catch, wash & release program.

Yer doin' the Lord's work. Good on ya.

re: #117 Iron Fist

But then you are violating the "killer's" right to self-expression. Fascist!

You don't have a right to paint your picture with my blood, Achmed. Try, and you will not regret your error for long.

re: #85 Yashmak

Protesting is allowed yes. Flinging anything on passerby's, urine, fake blood, or soda even, needs to be reported and a formal complaint filed as assault.
There are boundaries even in protests.

Oh yeah. Good catch Zombie! You rock!

re: #130 Iron Fist

I wonder if they have a twelve-step program for moonbats?

Once they go moon bat, they never come back...

i concur with my fellow lizards: it's highly unlikely that any of these tools was ever in the service.

what scum.

re: #134 Dustyvet

Once they go moon bat, they never come back...

I've seen that. . .

re: #14 Occasional Reader

Gosh, you'd think that real "Iraq Veterans" would know that US troops stopped wearing black combat boots years ago (too visible to IR equipment).

You don't suppose... they aren't really veterans, do you? Nawww...

Jesse McBeth's friends?

re: #119 Honorary Yooper

Heh. In our local mall out here on the outskirts of Chicago, they'd have been forcibly removed from the mall by the mall rent-a-cops and the city police officers (who carry real guns, BTW) who patrol the corridors. This type of fake shooting looks like gang activity, and would be treated as such.

As it should be.

re: #130 Iron Fist

I wonder if they have a twelve-step program for moonbats?

if they do, it should involve an 11 step pier... %-)

re: #139 redc1c4

if they do, it should involve an 11 step pier... %-)

LOL!

re: #140 Iron Fist

It's a terminal illness, I guess. We should be kind to them and put them down as painlessly as we can. For the greater good, and all that happy horseshit.

I'll take "Spock quotes that were edited out of the final film cuts" for $400, Alex.

re: #134 Dustyvet

Once they go moon bat, they never come back...

At least until they look at their first real tax bill after having their first real job.

New post from Michael Yon, 'The Art of the End of War'. He talks of an art show in South Baghdad and troopers who haven't fired their weapons during their entire deployment. It's a story much more deserving publication than any of the drivel I've seen recently.

I'll be waiting with baited breath for the 60 Mintues segment on the South Baghdad Art and Culture Fair. An event that hasn't taken place in over a generation, and wouldn't have taken place if the Hussein family was still in power.

re: #142 OldLineTexan

I'll take "Spock quotes that were edited out of the final film cuts" for $400, Alex.

It was a hell of thing when Spock died...

[taking a moment]

/hat tip: Seinfeld

re: #142 OldLineTexan

I'll take "Spock quotes that were edited out of the final film cuts" for $400, Alex.

Spock was logical, but Christopher Walken can Dance!

re: #144 CommonCents

New post from Michael Yon, 'The Art of the End of War'. He talks of an art show in South Baghdad and troopers who haven't fired their weapons during their entire deployment. It's a story much more deserving publication than any of the drivel I've seen recently.

I'll be waiting with baited breath for the 60 Mintues segment on the South Baghdad Art and Culture Fair. An event that hasn't taken place in over a generation, and wouldn't have taken place if the Hussein family was still in power.

You'd think the left would want to do that story. Whenever my mother has my father and/or I take her to an art show, we always see plenty of lefties there.

re: #55 notutopia

That's why they they put her in there, so guys like you will stop and gawk!

I can reject their political message and the obvious attempt at influencing my opinion.

But, yes, there would be some gawking involved.

Apparently, mom let them out of the basement to go the mall, but forgot to give them any cash. But, they can't pass up a free trip to the mall!

Why are people NOT stomping these idiots into the dirt/floor? Bad taste? Wow! That's an understatement.

I wonder how a little 'right-wing' street theater would go over? Let's line up a few folks, women and children included, and start chopping off their heads. We can add a few "mock' bombs and such and strew body parts all over the shopping center. Arms, legs, blood everywhere etc etc.

How's about we setup a REAL torture room like those found in Faluja etc and give these folks a look at what REAL torture looks like?

These people make me almost as sick to my stomach as the REAL perps do. Almost.

Why didn't they have their moms take them to Toys-R-Us for some toy weapons before their toy soldier show? /

Zombie, you are strong to reside in SF. I think I'd go out of my mind if I had to live there.

re: Notutopia #49

Unless the news has been prepackaged by Noam Chomsky or whatever oracles of the far left are hanging out in Berkeley and hand delivered to these Moonbats I doubt they are even aware of what was going on in Mumbai.

p.s. That bit of commentary comes from n. of the mason-dixon line:)

re: #151 tazzerman

Why are people NOT stomping these idiots into the dirt/floor?

I know that one! Because it is San Francisco.

Just noticed the cage used to hold the bloody-fur gals is the exact same model my 145-lb Chessie bent the door off, to escape. Actually, he was only about 100 lbs at the time. Didn't like being in his cage! Bloodied his nose, but he got out. I decided he didn't need a cage, and now he sleeps on the couch when we're out, as all dogs should be allowed to do.

Lesson being, if you want to raise Chessies for their luxurious curly fur, with water-repellent properties, you need a sturdier cage than this model.

re: #151 tazzerman

Eh, they're too stupid to really get angry over. Even when you're just making fun of them, it's almost like you're making fun of the mentally-handicapped.

I think Zombie has the right take, though. Amused, and only occasionally offended.

NPR: "This free speech / right to protest message was underwritten by our boys and girls in uniform."

For maximum impact they should have done this at the airport. Oh wait, not guts no glory.

re: #74 rawmuse

I'll bet all these people grew up elsewhere and moved here. These are your kids, Main Street, USA. What a bunch of emos.

Childish. Stunted narcissists. They are soon to be broken on the wheel of reality.

re: #152 cattt

Why didn't they have their moms take them to Toys-R-Us for some toy weapons before their toy soldier show? /

Zombie, you are strong to reside in SF. I think I'd go out of my mind if I had to live there.

As a conservative who lives near (but not in) S.F., I have to say there's a certain amount of amusement value in these 'events'. Plus, there are more conservatives in S.F. than you'd think.

Zombie: Excellent work, as usual.

Dianna: I agree -- from the looks of these photos, none of these clowns has ever shouldered a real rifle, much less seen military service.

Thankfully I spent Thanksgiving flying to and being in Munich. Nice city, but it's in the Bible belt of Germany -- the 2 weekends before I went were "nicht tanzen" (no dancing) weekends b/c religious holidays. You could listen to music but you couldn't tap your feet to the beat. One thing for sure, they really don't like Scientology.

re: #35 lawhawk

Memo to the anti-american leftists who stage this pseudo-theater... The play dates that these idiots have at the mall just show how absolutely tone deaf they are to reality.

Priceless. Play dates. Another entry for my semantics of the resistance.

Do you think they cried when they had to cut off their hair so they could pretend to be veterans?

What a bunch of effin morons...these fools give useful idiots a bad name. Perhaps we should just call them juvenile useless idiots.

Well, freedom of speech means that these twits are free to make complete asses of themselves in public...and remind us which side they are really on.

re: #149 taxfreekiller

tfk
you are a sort of...poet

re: #167 Joan

tfk
you are a sort of...poet

tfk is the ee cummings of LGF!

re: #165 ploome hineni

Chopra is like Professor Irwin Corey without the humor. I'll grant him authority on selling Aryuvedic snake oil to self-loathing, gullible Westerners, but why anyone listens to this fraud about geopolitical matters is a mystery.

How many Iraq Veterans Against the War were ever actually in the military? Moonbats have a long history of lying about this sort of thing.

Frankly, anybody who engages in this kind of juvenile, and pointless behavior is too stupid to make it past the initial interview.

re: #42 Kenneth

Obama's UN appointment has some explaining to do:

“The FBI, in 1996 and 1997, had their efforts to look at terrorism data and deal with the bin Laden issue overruled every single time by the State Department, by Susan Rice and her cronies, who were hell-bent on destroying the Sudan,” one-time Clinton diplomatic troubleshooter Mansoor Ijaz told radio host Sean Hannity in 2002.

Richard Miniter, author of the book “Losing bin Laden,” concurred, saying Rice played a key role in scuttling the deal that could have prevented the 9/11 attacks on New York and Washington.

Destroying the Sudan? Why would that be a U.S. policy, carried out by the State Department.

I feel stupider and stupider every day. Is this Susan Rice blinded by her political views, oblivious that polcies and ideas have consequences that must be understood, if only to correct ineffective polcies?

Or, is she just another traitor?

Was that a protest? It looked like typical outdoor S+M in San Francisco.

Hands tied, bent over, one guy looks like he's about to do a Gavin Newsom on the microphone.

Are you sure it was a protest?

Do we have any way of checking if anyone, any single one of them, was actually a veteran? And I don't mean, wore the uniform for two weeks until washing out of basic training. We had too many fake soldiers from the Vietnam protest days.

@ 171 kynna 12/01/08 10:18:12 am - How many Iraq Veterans Against the War were ever actually in the military? Moonbats have a long history of lying about this sort of thing.

Exactly.

This is very, very weird and reinforces my opinion that Democrat liberals have become the party with the mentality of children. They always want to change the rules if they don't win, they dress up and think make believe silly protests are courageous acts, they have no sense of the gravity of the world terror situation, they can't realize they aren't the center of the universe, blah, blah, blah. Each one of these morons went home thinking they did something meaningful that day.

Around here, if you gesture at someone as if you were shooting them with a gun, the details of your funeral and burial are published in the newspaper a day or two later.

re: #77 vapig

Seems to me that "fake" acts of mass murder and terrorism should be against the law. I know just mentioning the word bomb on a plane can get you arrested and federally charged.

Just once, I'd like to see the crowd turn on them instead of standing around like a bunch of sheep waiting for someone else to come take care of the problem.

Otter: No, I think we have to go all out. I think that this situation absolutely requires a really futile and stupid gesture be done on somebody's part.
Bluto: We're just the guys to do it.

re: #176 Crusty

I'd like to see photos of bystanders responding to the finger guns with fingers of their own.

Isn't this horrid?
I mean, there are REAL shootings at malls all the time!
Just today there was one in Miami, FLA.

Hmmm... dressing up as soldiers and throwing women to the ground.
They should keep their sick sadistic S&M fetishes in their bedroom.

but what do you expect from moonbats.

Several cases of arrested development. Can you say, "Idiots"!

Thats it, it has to be said. These people are whacked out of their F***ing minds.

Sure, they're idiots. But we have the right not to have to face idiocy in public places, especially stuff like this that is threatening in a vaguely creepy way. Why can't we bring back the stocks, or tar and feathering; punishments short of jail time but that allows citizens to feel the power of shame and public derision. These clows would benefit from a check of some sort on their parading around looking stupid and offensive.

The Moonbats forgot to have someone dressed up as a big nosed Jooo Doctor removing the hostages organs and selling them on the black market.

see: "Valley of the Wolves Iraq"

stuck on stupid

Looked at all the photographs.

These people are not harmless, no matter how childish and foolish they seem. The high school snipers did scenarios, playing for the camera, relishing sadistic role-playing. These are terror wannabes, not peace-loving agonized Quakers.

re: #175 Gretchen

This is very, very weird and reinforces my opinion that Democrat liberals have become the party with the mentality of children. They always want to change the rules if they don't win, they dress up and think make believe silly protests are courageous acts, they have no sense of the gravity of the world terror situation, they can't realize they aren't the center of the universe, blah, blah, blah. Each one of these morons went home thinking they did something meaningful that day.

Yes, well said.

Liberal tolerance on parade.

Not original guys. This was done in the 1960's.
Check out those vets today. Is that what you want to become?

Meanwhile, a very similar thing happened in a faraway place called Mumbai, only with live ammunition.

These stupid bastards don't even recognize the fact that what they are doing, is in essence mocking those dead and wounded, in Mumbai, India.

Then they have the balls pose the question..."why does everyone hate us?"

Is it me, or do these types of stories almost always originate from California?

"as “Iraq Veterans Against the War” stages a demonstration in San Francisco’s Union Square the day after Thanksgiving, complete with moonbats acting the part of crazed US soldiers, stalking the shopping mall and making imaginary shooting gestures:"

If these were Iraqi Veterans, they have only dishonored themselves--similar to Murtha. It's sad to say, but idiots are idiots, even if they served their country.

World Can't Wait isn't known for its peace loving tactics, so kudos to them for the nonviolence.

re: #171 kynna

How many Iraq Veterans Against the War were ever actually in the military? Moonbats have a long history of lying about this sort of thing.

Frankly, anybody who engages in this kind of juvenile, and pointless behavior is too stupid to make it past the initial interview.

Most "veterans" that I've met that were highly critical of the military were mostly people who couldn't make it through training, usually washing out because the drill sergeant yelled at them or some BS like that.

I was a computer nerd in high school who became a computer nerd in the Army for six years. The military isn't for everyone but I love how sore some would get. They all have dreams of being Rambo only to have their fantasy torn down by a drill sergeant or some other NCO trying to get some reality in their thick skulls.

I'm not a fan of fake vets either, my favorite being the "PX Ranger" types (those who buy medals and badges they never earned to impress others). Nothing more infuriates me more than someone trying to claim their a veteran and never served a day in uniform.

Where's a crate of rotten tomatoes in Union Square when you need one? Time was this kind of "street theater" would have elicited some "street criticism"..

re: #8 Shug

Sorry, but you walk through a mall wearing military uniforms, pointing fake guns at civilians, you ought to be met with significant force by the real police or military.

this shit does NOT fly in a post 9-11 era

Especially after the shooting that took place at the Southcenter Mall near Seattle last week. What complete idiots. Actually, they look like they're auditioning for the next Dissident Frogman 'Shooty/No Shooty' video.

re: #24 experiencedtraveller

Yeh, there are fetish websites for this sort of thing. They must be lovin' it.

re: #191 Elcid

Meanwhile, a very similar thing happened in a faraway place called Mumbai, only with live ammunition.

These stupid bastards don't even recognize the fact that what they are doing, is in essence mocking those dead and wounded, in Mumbai, India.

Then they have the balls pose the question..."why does everyone hate us?"

Yeh, they should try a demo like that in Mumbai and see how far they get before some wary Indian security forces open up on them.
BTW, in Canada, I believe it is illegal to wear the current uniform of active armed forces, if you aren't a member - what's the law in the U.S?

What a bunch of knuckleheaded losers. And those guys that went into the mall should have been cited for causing a disturbance. Freedom of speech ends when people start to feel threatened.

re: #199 exredtory

Yeh, they should try a demo like that in Mumbai and see how far they get before some wary Indian security forces open up on them.
BTW, in Canada, I believe it is illegal to wear the current uniform of active armed forces, if you aren't a member - what's the law in the U.S?

Yes, 10 USC 771 and 772

Nearly all of these leftist soldiers either held down a non-combat MOS or were kicked out because they were dirtbags.

Of course, we can eliminate the human element altogether:

Robot Soldiers never die - they just rust away!

What is disgusting about this article is the implicit theme that American soldiers just can't help committing atrocities. They must have Murtha on the panel advising them.

The second they started to pretend to shoot people in a mall, they should have been bet with REAL Police pointing REAL guns REALLY ordering them to the ground while other officers put on the flex cuffs and haul them off.

I do enjoy some of the left wing totty on show at these tin foil hat conventions. I wonder if they'd be up for a game of "the panzer grenadier and the milkmaid"?

All for a good cause ;o)

I couldn't get through all the pictures. Pure idiocy gives me a headache.

Looks like Nobama's NSF is getting started early. Fucking disrespectful mimes in camo.

i wonder how many of these assholes were dishonorably discharged.

re: #28 Alouette

Why weren't these shmucks arrested for creating a public nuisance?

That only happens in San Fransicko if the group had attempted to pray.
/

These individuals are an insult to anyone who puts on the uniform.

Theater of the absurd returns to San Francisco.

Whether they agree with the war in Iraq or not, no decent man or woman with formal military training would EVER participate in a staged performance like this one... especially in front of children.

My take: these people are all fakes, every last one of 'em.

You know what grinds me the most, though?

You have to wonder how many of the horrified onlookers who were observing this mockery of our military were actually parents, spouses, siblings and children of guardsmen and active duty military personnel whose loved ones have boots on the ground a long way from home.

Pathetic pieces of sh*t.

"People are Strange

Starnger than ever"

Jim Morrison

re: #205 Maui Girl

especially because of the look on their faces as if they were abduted by Jim Jones

re: #205 Maui Girl

I couldn't get through all the pictures. Pure idiocy gives me a headache.

especially because of the look on their faces as if they were abduted by Jim Jones

re: #199 exredtory

Ummm, plead the Fifth (make that Cruzan Rum 151, please...lol). Actually I do not know, exredtory.

Making "shooting gestures"? Too bad there weren't a few real Marines around to show them the error of their ways...

/ They should face arrest and a mandatory mental health assessment ASAP.

These guys are better than TV.

Is there some way the whole town can have its own cable channel?

I haven't laughed so hard since the bull huggers interrupted a Madrid bull fight only to be attacked by...THE BULL. He cleared the ring like a runaway snow plow with horns.

Mu wa ha ha ha hack weez

re: #192 Hanoch

Is it me, or do these types of stories almost always originate from California?

It's the moonbat capital of the US?!

If any of these pathetic protesters actually did serve in Iraq, I am absolutely sure that none of them did anything that they were depicting.

It makes me sad that there are veterans (probably) who became dis-enchanted with the military for whatever reason (it happens in peace time too) and wish to do as much damage to the perception of the military as possible.

I have known soldiers that became angry to the point of psychosis about the military, because they blame it for the problems in their marriage, their financial situation, or perhaps just came to hate a particular superior, and that hate manifested itself in hatred for the military in general.

These are the kind of people you will see at these kinds of things (assuming they REALLY are vets), ones who just want to do the military like (according to their perception) the military did them. Not because they participated in some great American injustice while in uniform and just want to tell their tragic story so that people will know the "truth"

I concur.

Particularly given recent events in Mumbai and more locally (SouthCenter Mall), if I were to observe a bunch of camo-clad folk scampering about in threatening fashion *un-armed* I would call 911 regarding a potential terrorist situation.

If they were waving about visually believable firearms, I'm afraid that various CPL holders in the vicinity (WA is a shall-issue state) would take them *very seriously* for about as long as it took to abate the perceived threat.

Suicidal Protesters? I'm not sure that's a viable long term strategy...

Amazingly this is the first time I feel bad for the lefties. I mean, consciously, and willingly allowed themselves to make fools of themselves for all to see? This is a new low. One, I've never even expected from them...

I wore the uniform with pride during my service.

It's very frustrating to watch them deface the uniform. Yeah, they have they freedom to do this because they were in the trenches but I who served as well have their freedom to criticize them.

For now, all my military gear is locked up. If needed I just follow the instructions:

"IN CASE OF WAR...BREAK GLASS"

The saddest part of all is that these people think they're actually accomplishing something. Frankly, I'd have em arrested as a public nuisance and for disturbing the peace, make them sit around for a few hours while being processed, then let them all go at separate times.

One of my co-worker's son is the "soldier" with all the tats. He got out of his Army hitch by faking mental problems after returning from Iraq. He lost his GI benefits but being a "veteran" got him a union welder's job. He was a borderline malingerer while he was in the service. There is a strong streak of "poor me" running through that family.

re: #222 foxsecret

I wore the uniform with pride during my service.

It's very frustrating to watch them deface the uniform. Yeah, they have they freedom to do this because they were in the trenches but I who served as well have their freedom to criticize them.

For now, all my military gear is locked up. If needed I just follow the instructions:

"IN CASE OF WAR...BREAK GLASS"

I have to agree with you on this one. Although most of the stuff I left active duty with is now in possession of my brother (who is currently on active duty.. sometimes its good to share the same last name!) I did keep a few things for myself. I have a pic of me in my fieldjacket taken on "ho-chi-minh strasse" in Leipzig. The jacket is a reminder of times past... actually I do believe it was the first thing that the AF issued to me. I have a pair of chocolate chip desert pants that I can still fit into and I wear now and then. There's something about wearinga pair of pants that are older than alot of your students and coworkers :)
All that said, I still think these clowns should have been arrested or fined for their nonsense. I dont think I would wear my field jacket or chocolate chip trousers much in the US. I know that once I got out the last thing I wanted to do was dress like a tree again. Here in Turkey US military surplus (believe it or not) is quite expensive and in vogue amongst the " 'yout". A pair of well used bdu pants goes for about 40 bucks. Ive actually had kids offer to buy my trousers from me. Strange!

They did this in San Francisco...the perfect venue for the assclowns in the IVAW circus.