(Viet Wall) Desecration the Conservative Way: How One Woman Exploits Vietnam Dead For Her "Activism"

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Sat Sep-15-07 11:08 AM
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(Viet Wall) Desecration the Conservative Way: How One Woman Exploits Vietnam Dead For Her "Activism"

FREEP\EAGLES ALERT !!!

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The last time this lie about someone attempting to vandalize the Vietnam Veterans War Memorial came out, the anti-peace crowd managed to get a few thousand to come out and oppose an anti-war rally sponsored by International ANSWER, and since it worked so well the last time Freak Republic's Mary Beth "tgslTakoma" Caherty is going to give it another shot.

Of course, this time she had to up the ante and provide pics of actual vandalism. Now will it bring out the thousands for her side? We shall see, but if one notices, this isn't getting the media play that the original lie had. That might be due to the fact that the National Park Service is discounting the vandalism, leaving all the right-wing activist busybodies to wallow in their own muck. The problem is this, however: Caherty wants to pick fights with progressive activists across the board. She can't forumlate a real arguement, just provide a good spin. She refuses to accept the NPS explaination that her proof of vandalism is actually proof of a cleaning accident, and her fellow right-wing nutjobs are following her lead. In case there is some sort of stupid nonsense going on because a bunch of conservative jackasses can't get over themselves. We figured we alert you to what is going on in the event you see them around and need to set things straight.

WASHINGTON, DC-If there is opposition to the International ANSWER rally on Saturday, it would more than likely be spurred on by a woman who is making it her mission to bring that opposition out on the falsehood that anti-war activists have targeted the Vietnam Veterans War Memorial for vandalism. It was a falsehood that worked for her groups Free Republic and Gathering of Eagles on March 17 of this year, and it is being brought out again, this time with photos she claims is proof of vandalism done, even while Park officials say otherwise.

A week before that March 17 rally, the rumor had spread among right-wing activists that those coming to the protest were going to attempt to deface the Vietnam Veterans War Memorial Wall. While that did not happen, the promotion of that rumor as fact via right-wing blogs and websites and outlets such as Fox News resulted in 2000 people coming out to rally against anti-war activists. Many of those activists were physically assaulted by the counter-demonstrators, who were calling themselves the Gathering of Eagles (GOE), and there was massive damage done to their personal property. Of those assaulted, many were among those whose pictures and information was posted on the GOE website's forum by a poster screenname tgslTakoma, a longtime veteran of the DC Chapter of Free Republic, a well-known neo-conservative discussion board. When those persons were attacked the response was rather predictable: tgslTakoma quickly took the pictures down.

On Sept. 15, another anti-war rally will be taking place in Washington, and a week before the rally tgslTakoma, who is really a DC area nurse named Mary Beth Caherty, is again promoting the notion that the Memorial Wall is a target. This time however, she is posting on Free Republic that the Wall was indeed defaced with, according to the Caherty, an oily substance poured on the base of the wall. "It looks like the person who did this walked along The Wall with some type of container, perhaps hidden at their side so that they could squirt the oily substance without being caught in the act," Caherty opined. Her initial post on Sept. 9 generated 458 replies, almost all of them saying that it was the "anti-war left" that was responsible. It took 113 posts for someone to write "Unless I'm missing something, what we know is this: Something was spattered on the memorial. Everything else is a guess."

It took this story to go to the right-wing outlets CNS News and Washington Times on Sept. 11 before someone at the US Veteran Dispatch website got a response from the National Park Service (NPS) informing them that the oily substance was actually cleanser that a ranger spilled by accident. "After several attempts, I was able to contact SGT Booker of the National Park Service (NPS), to check on the facts about the defacement of the Vietnam Wall last weekend," wrote Commander Steve Cobb of the Military Order of the Purple Heart "doctorhugo" in a letter he posted on the US Veteran Dispatch forum. "He explained it was a cleaning accident by a Park Ranger and NOT a defacement as was originally reported by the Vietnam Veterans of American (VVA). The NPS is regarding this as an accident instead of an act of vandalism or terrorism."

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More: http://dc.indymedia.org/newswire/display/140777/index.php

Real classy these guy, huh???

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(Viet Wall) Desecration the Conservative Way: How One Woman Exploits Vietnam Dead For Her "Activism"

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