A bomb threat against the Gathering of Eagles Update: Meet the IVAW jerk ; Update: More threats to “waste” counterprotesters
I am pointing you to this left-wing nut’s threat so you know what we are up against–and to ensure that the screencap is saved.
This menacing jerk’s blog is hosted on Blogspot.
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Justin at Right on the Right has more:
The blogger in question claims to be Evan M. Knappenberger. The big deal about this is, Evan M. Knappenberger is a member of Iraq Veterans Against the War. It looks pretty plausible because Knappenberger uses the same “Gathering of Smeagols” title line. The kicker? The end of his IVAW post:
Peace, and non-violence, always, Evan M. Knappenberger
Update3 (Language Warning): Evan Knappenberger has chosen to respond to Michelle since she pointed out his threat. In a very obvious way, he made an outright threat against the Gathering of Eagles, and now he’s backtracking. That’s good news, because we don’t want anyone in danger. Look at this horrific response:
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From commenter gtoast:
This left-wing nut isn’t just any left wing nut. He’s IVAW member Evan M. Knappenberger.
http://ivaw.org/user/542
And he’s threatened GoE not ONCE but THREE TIMES!
1) A bomb threat in the original post
2) Another bomb threat here:
link
“We will fix the broken world… save it from all the chickenhawk armchair warrior gathering of idiots.
But I still want to blow up their fucking gathering.”
3) A threat of gun violence here:
link
“And don’t be afraid. I am not in the database as PTSD-suffering, so I can still buy all manners of handguns. Not to mention the vast arsenal I brought back from Iraq!”Anf of course his latest insight:
http://wobblynomad.blogspot.com/2008/03/i-am-popular.html
“I really really really hope that someday Malkin and her counterpart, Ann “Fucking” Coulter end up laying hog-tied with electrical wire in an Iraqi ditch”
So this is the best that IVAW has to offer?
Update 9:30pm Eastern. More threats of violence and intimidation against counterprotesters:
I don’t know what fucking idiot lobbied for these shithead right-wingers to be allowed at Winter Soldier but I fear for their safety on the campus. Me, I’m not doing shit to them. Not at Winter Soldier, anyway. But I’m far from being the only IVAW member who’s quick with his fists. Also: after putting up with weeks of crude, sexual insults from conservative bloggers “Thus Spake [Brokedick] Ortner”, the “[Not Actually but Wannabe] Sniper”, that fat fucking pig Jonn Lillyea and all those other cockroaches, I’ve decided I’m probably going to
waste most of them on sightdry-hump them all if I see them in DC away from Winter Soldier. I’ll give them a clear, verbal ten-second exit opportunity to clear out of my fucking field of vision in some pub, restaurant or subway stop. If they don’t get the fuck out of my sight… oh, well. Sorry. Dry-humped. How could you think you can call a guy a “faggot” and mock his ethnicity and feel he has no right tosmash your fucking face indry-hump you? Yeah, they’re real tough guys online. Real quick to talk shit to combat vets through a computer screen. Real quick to taunt us and fucking cry about it when we guarantee retaliation. But real, real fucking scared when they’re staring down the barrel oftheir in-person comeuppancea good, stiff dry-humping. See if a judge gives a shit when Ipunch holes in the backs of their heads by going through the fronts of themdry-hump them after the bullshit they’ve tried to pull with us.
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I hope this was reported to the authorities. I am sure there will be no report of this by the MSM.
WHEN is our goverment, city, state, county going to do something to get these SOS and put their sorry rears in a room with ‘buba’ in prison? There has got to be a way to do this. These are threats against American citizens.
L
I got a fundraising ltr from them this past weekend. I think they could use
my support. I’ll be writing a check out tonight.
Letget, do you actually think the government is going to do something? Maybe a few years ago I would have but W has been a major disappointment in matters like this. I’m sure this will also be the only place we see this little story.
We all know the anti war crowd for the most part doesn’t obey the laws anyway. Why should they, nothing ever happens to them and nothing will happen to this clown either.
Gee interesting. This clearly violates the user policy:
“VIOLENT CONTENT: Users may not publish direct threats of violence against any person or group of people.”
Wonder if Google doesn’t believe this is violent enough. Totally ridiculous.
i am still going.
i may let the wife take the kids on to the museums during the rally, which sucks because they really enjoyed the goe in September
Good Call Trailortrash. Better safe than sorry. I think it was Bukowski that had the line “Those that preach peace, are the best at hatred.” (Something like that)
Proving once again that they can’t win the with IDEAS they have to make threats or errr WARNINGS.
Loser
Update: I can’t find a place to complain about the content. Interesting. Their policy (noted above) is that you can’t post content like the above, but there is no web page or e-mail address for complaints.
#4, my heart hurts. You are right, it is happening with illegals, our schools, so many etc’s. I can’t begin to list them all. My wonderful country is never going to be the same again. Thank you MM for letting us know what is going on.
L
Hugo Chavez play book, chapter 3. If you can’t beat them on the issues, threaten violence. Then call Sean Penn….
My guess is that this mad nomad character had better hope that some of the GOE don’t figure out which dufus he is, on the off chance that he is stupid enough to show up, after levying a
threatwarning like that.I say bring it on insane leftist’s; I will be there Saturday with many friends….we fear you not one little bit…we stand with the US Military today, tomorrow and every day.
EAGLES UP!!!!
Any blogspot blog can be ‘flagged’ as objectionable by click the ‘FLAG’ button at the top of the blog as I did.
Yes. As did I.
I just reported this to the FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center as a terrorist threat… which it is.
I also pointed them back here when the form asked for “additional witnesses”. I hope that was OK.
We’ll see what happens.
I will be there live blogging and broadcasting on BTR from Walter Reed and the rally the next day.
EAGLES UP!!
My guess is that this is the type of person who hides behind anonymity to write threats, he could never do f2F. These people talk big, threaten, bully, but, very rarely, come out of hiding to actually confront their targets. The description that best fits them is “coward”. All talk, no action. You meet people like those, all the time. Probably thinking how “cool” they are.
At the top of the screen, (wobbly nomad) there is a tab to flag objectionable content. I suggest we burn it up.
Thanks for the tip dwneylonsr, I just flagged it.
oops, sorry dwneylonsr, I didn’t see your post before I posted.
hmmmm i just read though his little rant of a blog….what a waste of time
2 words…..try it.
I humbly request equal attention to web sites that promote violence against abortion clinics and their staffs. Note: so far no military recruiters have been hurt while several abortion providers have been killed.
Before you say “But abortion is murder”, remember that many good people think military operations also are murder. Many of them think Jesus thought so.
I hit the flag button on the blog too. We can push this to the top of the Google ‘problem’ blogs by tomorrow!
Blackfive or Jimbo might be interested in this posting on that site. Supposedly by a SPC who gives his unit and everything along with allegations ala Scott Beauchamp.
err.. that’s IS a threat.. to detonate a bomb at a public gathering. It may not be jihad-driven, but that is still terrorism by definition. I dare say the FBI will be paying this person a visit, if they haven’t already.
I know a number of the people involved in organizing the pro-troop rally this weekend and it would take a lot more than threats to keep them home. The gent who first emailed me a link to that GoE post you linked came back from Nam wearing a Bronze Star with a “V” for Valor on it. He’s still quite capable of grabbig two long-haired smelly people and cracking their heads together. You’ll recognize him at the gathering by the 1st Air Cav stetson he still wears.
Unfortunately there are some horrible nuts out there on both sides. It is my dearest hope that Blogspot follows up on this threatening post and that the GOE event goes off without a hitch.
That said, I like what lgm (#23) said about threats against abortion clinics. As I was reading the comments, I had to ask how would commenters #1,#8,#11 respond to this if it had been and abortion clinic.
lgm, how about if I bend over and you give me a big kiss.
If you do a little sleuthing around his previous posts you can start to put together a profile of the guy. He is a college that brags about excorting recruiters off campus one time. And then there is this
Whatcom county in where Bellingham, WA is fo there is a good chance he is a student at Evergreen.
The guy is a veteran, which I sort of thought by the language he used in some of his posts and here is his assertion.
Apparentely he doesn’t go to Evergreen but rather to the community college.
Most of it is the typical liberal rantings with excessive amounts of profanity. This guys fancies himself as some sort of counter balance to GOE and thinks recruiters hide in fear from him.
Well folks that is all the detective work I feel like doing.
Okay one last thing. His name is Evan M. Knappenberger or so he alleges.
If that is his name, he is an Iraqi War Vet:
http://ivaw.org/user/542
lgm = legally gay moron
You are either a knucklehead or an idiot
I wish I was going to that if you “are going to eat it” — is that like a barbecue or something?
lgm is just a troll, not worth a moments time.
I wish we could get a couple of liberals here for quality debate.
Michelle, I know you don’t censor or ban unless you have rants like on the Huff Post, but I humbly ask you to consider a little less of lgm on your site.
Thanks
Should be lots of fun for us here in Denver come August–violence at DNC.
Rooster, at least lgm has offered up something which can be discussed or debated. What exactly have you contributed to this thread?
Just goes to show you the loyalty of the left towards osama.
Lgm, like the troll he is, has attempted to change the subject with his abortion clinic moral relativism. Murder is wrong, whether it’s abortion, bombing a free speech rally, or killing abortion workers. Stop sticking up for a troll.
I will say no more about the troll.
Back to the topic at hand: I hope all of you flag this sorry excuse for a blog. It is hateful, and the bomb threat is simply illegal. This is no different than a criminal threatening to shoot you if you snitch on them. It’s threatening and dangerous.
knucklehead #2 otherside, the moron brought up bombings of abortion clinics which was..when was the last time?
Michelle posted a story about a threat to a peaceful organization, GOE.
Please take lgm, sausage and yourself and go to the Huff Post where you will fit better.
Violent threats against peaceful protest are not to be tolerated. What the blogger says in his posts are absolutely unacceptable and inappropiate. I don’t think that this is indicative of those who have a liberal point-of-view.
MM must set an example by deleting comments such as this one:
http://michellemalkin.com/2008/03/10/the-fall-of-eliot-spitzer/#comment-263646
Which part does she need to delete? Did she write it? Did she publish it? Sure, it’s a bonehead remark, but I see nothing threatening about it.
lgm:
Way to go! Four non-sequiturs in the same post. When you put up the fifth, will you yell “Bingo!”?
This left-wing nut isn’t just any left wing nut. He’s IVAW member Evan M. Knappenberger.
http://ivaw.org/user/542
And he’s threatened GoE not ONCE but THREE TIMES!
1) A bomb threat in the original post
2) Another bomb threat here:
http://wobblynomad.blogspot.com/2008/03/we-will-save-japan-from-war-mongering.html
“We will fix the broken world… save it from all the chickenhawk armchair warrior gathering of idiots.
But I still want to blow up their fucking gathering.”
3) A threat of gun violence here:
http://wobblynomad.blogspot.com/2008/01/smeagols-mad-at-my-victory.html
“And don’t be afraid. I am not in the database as PTSD-suffering, so I can still buy all manners of handguns. Not to mention the vast arsenal I brought back from Iraq!”
Anf of course his latest insight:
http://wobblynomad.blogspot.com/2008/03/i-am-popular.html
“I really really really hope that someday Malkin and her counterpart, Ann “Fucking” Coulter end up laying hog-tied with electrical wire in an Iraqi ditch”
So this is the best that IVAW has to offer?
What a scary demented creep. Where was he last week? Anywhere near Times Square?
This Evan fits right in with the nuts in Washington.
And to think that the people of Seattle are upset at the loss of the air tanker contract.
I don’t believe this guy ever was on the front lines or saw any combat in Iraq based on this statement he has done.
This another one of those guys who joined the military to enhance their writing skills? I have to wonder if he was honorably discharged from the military or kicked out.
My bet is he was kicked out.
aww aint he a sweetheart
/sark*
Ah little research found an old article on him with this information.
Veteran Questions Ethics of War Policies
Looks like he got fired from his job and kicked out of the military.
With his terroristic threats he should have; arrested by the FBI added to his resume of being kicked out of the military.
Talk about seriously deranged. This guy and his followers are about a heartbeat away from a rubber room. The level of anger is disturbing. He talks a good game, but this guy is the type that would wet his pants if he ever got into a confrontation. His methods would be much more cowardly, and unfortunately bombing innocent people would fit right in with his profile.
From what I gather, he is not a combat vet, and never served in Iraq or Afghanistan. And a general discharge is an indication he was released from the military for some serious problems he had. From the looks of it, those problems were mental.
Wow! That is actually humorous reading.
Bring it on, sweet-cheeks! Show us your true colors!
By the way, Evan, thanks.
Thanks to you, I’m redoubling my effort to attend the GoE counterprotest of the IVAW Winter Soldier event.
See you there
Which does a great deal toward explaining his rage. Losers never accept responsibility and ALWAYS find someone/something other to blame. He must feel horribly mistreated by the military…..how dare they fire one as brilliant as he.
big snort!
That guy has some serious anger management problems. He needs professional help.
This guy is pathetic. I can tell you from experience there is one of these pieces of garbage in every unit. They join the Military, can’t cut it, and get kicked out, all of the time blaming the military for their woes. This guy was appartently an analyst which means he didn’t “fight” in Iraq. He was probably an intell type who did his job poorly, hidden behind the walls of one of the mega bases. If he’s getting out with an other than honarable that also means he was a screw up, probably a fata**, or a habitual problem causer. Guys like this are weak, and don’t have the balls to really do anything, or they would have at least made it through four years of service with an honorable discharge regardless of if he liked the military or not. I can’t stand people with no honor. I wish a turd like this would threaten me! Any time, any where, we won’t hide behind computer screens.
Just what the world needs. A nest of left wing cockroaches with domination fantasies!
We are dealing with the “D” team in regards to Iraq Veterans Against War.
All they have to back up their stance is threats of violence – which makes one wonder of the credibility of their agenda.
There is a video out with GOE’s rebuttal to the WSI being committed by IVAW
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ES5-REWKqtI
Am I the only one that gets the feeling that “Evan” is touching himself in a rather personal way as he writes this screed?
Frankly, I am more frightened that he would actually “dry hump” my leg like some mangy dog than actually follow through with his rants.
How sick can the left get? What are the authorities doing about these threats? Are these deranged monsters being watched?
No, Katieanne, they’re probably not being watched.
Thankfully, they’re generally a bunch of sniveling little cowards that likely don’t have the stones to do anything they screech about on their rarely viewed websites.
Skye, Thanks for posting the link to that wonderful Video.
Knappenberger vs Gathering of Eagles.
Easy win for the Eagles!
This weekend — IVAW loses because Knappenberger is a typical IVAW member. Sad what these cowards want to do, backfires on them and make the Gathering of Eagles stronger.
A lone moonbat on a bike attacks a empty NY Time Square Recruiter station. The next day the Gathering of Eagles hold a rally with over 100 supporters and plenty of media. Lone moonbat lost again, Gathering of Eagles gets stronger.
They NEVER LEARN from their mistakes.
While we have more and more supporters saying “NEVER AGAIN”
Eagles UP!
Watch the Video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ES5-REWKqtI
LGM here are a few questions. How long has it been since an abortion mill been bombed? HOw many have have bombed in the last 20 yrs? When did Jesus say that the wars Rome were in were wrong? What verse did He interfere in Roman politics? Besides LGM when an abortion mill gets bombed its big news with the MSM but how does the MSM treat these threats in this blog? I know you are very slow in answering but I wish you could.
Gee, this clown sure likes to talk tough…what’ll you bet he had some non-combat MOS? Probably a clerk, or quartermaster, or mess wrangler.
If he truly did see lots of combat in Iraq, which I really doubt, he is filled with such venom that I wouldn’t be surprised that he committed war crimes…maybe even “fragged” US soldiers…what a pathetic excuse for a human being.
another wannabe. ‘vast arsenal I brought back from Iraq’? I’m a former Army Sgt, and I know of guys who got caught hiding Iraqi weapons in the walls of their trucks, I highly doubt any ass that boasts about it on a blog has much truth left in him.
He may have managed to smuggle back a pistol or even an AK, but hardly an arsenal. Repeated bomb threats deserve law enforcement scrutiny.
I love guys that boast about fighting in Iraq/Afghanistan/Kuwait etc. It proves nothing, most of us in for more than 10 years have a combat badge. I would guess he’s probably a cook that sat his ass in a mess hall in the Green Zone and wished he was a bad ass. (Nothing against cooks, you know I love your 20-gallon silver bullets of Army brew, guys).
Guy is a coward. Well, most of the left are a bunch of cowards anyway so, it’s not surprising.
I hope this is being investigated.
Nobody hates like a “liberal.”
This guy should be arrested and prosecuted for repeatedly making death threats.
I’ve never seen someone use so many words to say so little. Verbal vomit would probably be the correct term, along the same lines of a Ted Kazinsky.
If you have the stomach to wade through any of his past posts you’ll find that he thinks the military should be restructed along the same lines as the
terrorist….insurgence. All soldiers are stupid, all officers are at the same time morons and diabolical geniuses.Basically though it ends up being the typical leftest crap.
Everyone else good, U.S. evil.
Message to the fraud cowards of IVAW…I will be wearing my “Snooper” hat and will be broadcasting via Blog Talk Radio via American Truth Warriors special page for Operation Eagles Muster. Bring it on…we are tired of your anti-Americanist screed.
Michelle thank you so much for letting us know about this. People need to know what the enemy wihtin is doing and these people are truly horrible.
What a insignificant little jerk. He is now basking in the glory of being noticed by you. LOL! The first thing that always comes to mind when I run across blogs like his is “I would love to see a copy of your service record.” In many cases you might learn they were actually in something like a civil engineering outfit and stationed in Missouri. It’s turned out to be the case before.
These are some dangerous people.
Watch your backs, Eagles.
I wish they would try some stupid crap like what this bozo’s saying. It’s long past time to fight back against these America haters! All this does is strengthen my personal resolve to see them exposed and defeated for what they truly are, UN-AMERICAN.
BRING IT ON!
Hello. FBI?
This guy is our best and brightest?
Now does everyone believe that they are engaged in real warfare?
Ironic that their parody on the name is from the work of a christian author with a christian message. I’m sure that is lost on these dim-witted pagans.
BTW. The kid is probably 19 and this is his first foray into the real world after a year of living in a left wing indoctrination camp (university).
BTW II: And left-ocistas are the only people permitted to have “planned events”. One more confirmation that democrats are not in the least bit democratic; and the left is all about totalitarian rule, not liberty and free expression of ideas.
I am a GOE and it just makes us more popular!
Okay, okay. The army has many, and needs many, people that don’t fight. Intel analysts are some of those. If this guy is the clown he appears to be, it is not because of the occupational specialty, it is because he is a clown. In this case, it makes him a lying POS clown, but give the rest of the non-line guys a break. (Yes, I am a line guy.) But when I come back, I am supported by them. We all work together as a team. Disrespect the idiocy of the man, not his job.
I won’t speculate about what the guy did when he was in the army, or the conditions of his departure from that organization, but there’s no doubt that he’s got some serious anger management issues.
It wouldn’t surprise me at all to find out that his hysteria about the Gathering of Eagles is displacement behavior for some other personal problem that he’s allowing to consume him from the inside out.
Support the troops, not the war is the usual mantra you’ll hear from lefties. So, what’s is this guy’s beef with the GoE? They are just supporting the troops. I’ve never attempted talking out of both sides of mouth before, I wonder if it is doable for righties…
For those who are attending this rally -use caution, but if that nitwit thinks he has instilled fear in any of the patriots who will be in attendance… well, that is just comedic gold.
No, which is why he was kicked out of the military before his enlistment was up as I posted before. He also received a General discharge, not an Honorable one, means he screwed up big time while in the military. He also stated he was stuck doing 90+ days of guard tower duty in one of his articles, which I guess was his punishment after he was fired from his analysis job and I guess this is one of the main causes of his hatred against the military.
What I have not been able to find yet is what exactly his screw ups while he was in the military were. If someone knows anyone from his old unit I would love to hear the true story about his time in the military.
He probably doesn’t know it, but he’s part of an old Soviet propaganda campaign.
It’s interesting that he mentions “Winter Soldier”, which is at least an allusion to the Winter Soldier investigation which was a North Vietnamese directed propaganda operation.
An analyst wouldn’t see daylight, much less any convoy or patrol situations here. The only thing he had a chance to kill, was a soda pop at the PX.
Fired as an analyst, and given a general, means he left country early, and under escort to Dallas. There is no way this turd hauled any ordnance out of country, much less an “arsenal”. Customs in Kuwait is very good at disassembling your gear to find illegal items.
He’s a veteran by legal definition, but not by any Veterans I’ve proudly served among. Mr. Knappenberger has no honor, no balls, and no means to defend himself from the reality that he is a life-long loser.
Bomb this, creep.
Now, now Army, as a retired SFC I know this breed of scumm all too well.
He will get his due and it won’t be by those of us who believe in America and why it is great. It will be from the den of swines he associates with.
If commenter gtoast above brought back a “vast arsenal” from Iraq, methinks FBI and BATFE, and whatever local/state authorities he lives in ought to be drafting a no knock warrant for his residence. Especially in light of the threats he espouses.
All I have to say, based on some of these IVAW postings is that there are more troubled Iraq vets out there than we know. I think these guys really need help.
It’s interesting how they cover their “threats” with their Iraq War veteran status. Unfortunately, writing stuff like these posts only confirms the derangement of these individuals. They obviously need mental health counseling for their post-war issues or their BDS.
I would also be curious as to the backgrounds of these individuals. Are they actually “Iraq War veterans?” Why are they no longer serving in the military? Were they discharged from the military or did they voluntarily separate? What are their political motivations? Why do they belittle other fellow veterans (who they view as “chickenhaws”) for disagreeing with them? Anybody know?
lgm:
Soldiers do many things besides “murder” people. Abortion specialists do what?
when i was in basic we had a guy that left (deserted) every time he was on firegaurd, he was finaly booted out before even graduating infantry school.
i cant for the life of me see why these types enlist in the first place.
If this guy is a real soldier, then I’m the Queen of England.
In one of his rants he uses the phrase “Dry Hump” at least five times.
Perhaps his anger has to do more with his sexual frustration and could give us insight into the reasons for his other than honorable discharge.
I think he should re-direct his anger towards former president Clinton and his don’t ask don’t tell policy.
Evan…buddy…take it down a notch, head south to SF where your buddy Newsome will welcome you with open arms and your lifestyle choice will be more accepted.
1) kicked out of his MOS
2) kicked out of the military
3) brags about “fighting in Iraq”
4) claims to bring back an arsenal of weapons
5) threatens physical harm to American civilians he doesn’t like
6) writes (and probably talks) like a potty mouth 12 year old
Anyone see a pattern here? We had exactly the same thing with the Viet Nam Veterans Against The War. Liars and Losers.
Army (#91) hit the nail on the head above. This guy recieved a General Discharge in lieu of court martial. He flew home under guard and believe me, the guys in Customs gave him a thorough proctoscopy before he set foot on any aircraft. No “vast aresenal”. Hell, I seriously doubt he even has a firearm purchsed here in the US. Something about him just screams “keyboard warrior”.
FWIW, I’ve made some calls. Unfortunately, work has me stuck in CA for the GoE, but there will be some pipe hitters in the crowd, JIC. If anyone is concerned about their safety while they stay in town, e-mail me and I’ll see what I can arrange for you, gratis of course.