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Category: Code Pink

  • Code Pink to protest Jon Stewart tomorrow

    I guess Stewart’s “Restore Sanity” rally tomorrow got under Medea’s skin. The Code Pink hags are planning to protest there;

    It’s good that the Left is being protested by the Left. So which group do you want to be identified with? The folks who get their news from the Comedy Channel or the crowd who is still living in the 60s and gets their news from the al Jazeera?

  • Medea: Jon Stewart is trying to make us look silly

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    Little Suzie Benjamin writes in the Huffington Post today that she’s disgusted by the attempt by the Daily Show crowd to make fun of her;

    When Jon Stewart announced the Rally to Restore Sanity, he included CODEPINK among the “loud folks” getting in the way of civil discourse. He also equated progressives calling George Bush a war criminal with right-wingers calling Obama Hitler.
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    We did, indeed, get a call from the producers but it was not for a live interview with Jon Stewart. No, it was for a taped session with myself, a Tea Party organizer and a tear-gas dodging, anti-globalization anarchist “giving advice” to Daily Show’s Samantha Bee about how to organize a good rally. It was clear they wanted to portray us as the crazy folks who should not come to their rally for reasonableness.

    Crazy? Never!

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    Ya know when you spend seven years or so trying to convince people you’re an immature little twit and half off your rocker, sooner or later, someone’s going to believe you.

    Thanks to Daniel for sending us the link so I could paw through my pictures.

  • Strange bedfellows

    Saturday, 400 groups will converge on Washington, DC in what they call the “One Nation” rally. Of course, I’ve seen Leftist rallies which claimed 30 groups were represented and twenty people were there, so the number of groups isn’t really that important – it’s the types of groups that are showing up and intertwined for what they think make up the majority of Americans.

    Code Pink and the National Education Association? Really? Our teachers are proud to stand along side the post-op trannies of Code Pink? The American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees standing alongside Maoist-inspired ANSWER? In fact, every anti-war group you can think of is included and every union organization is right there along with them. So if you’re in a union, your dues money was spent to send people to this political rally. What do I mean? Well, the unions and the NAACP are giving thousands a free bus ride to DC.

    And unlike Glen Beck’s rally earlier this month, this rally is purely political;

    Unlike Beck’s rally, in which overt politics took a back seat to religious and patriotic themes, the progressive groups will repeatedly remind attendees to vote in the midterm elections, said Arlene Holt Baker, executive vice president of the AFL-CIO.

    “We have heard a lot about frustration and anger leading to apathy. What we are finding is that anger is now turning into, ‘Okay, let’s act,’” she said. “We can either sit here and not move forward or we can go backward.”

    Holt Baker considers the rally a first step toward more closely unifying the progressive movement, which has often splintered into niche causes.

    Organizers told the Washington Post what their focus will be;

    Organizers say they are focusing on three unifying ideas: jobs, justice and education. They define those ideas in a set of principles that also lays out a list of causes largely supported by liberals, such as ending discrimination in the criminal justice system, protecting Social Security, spending federal money to create jobs and improving public education.

    “These are the bedrock issues that define who we are and why we march,” Jealous said.

    Oh, really? Then why is the anti-military recruiting organization Ya-Ya Network coming? Why are The Geezers For Sitting on Our Hands (otherwise known as Veterans For Peace) slated? The National Center for Transgender Equality? American Friends Service Committee (otherwise known as Quakers – big anti-war protesters). US Labor Against the War? AIDS Walk Washington? The Trans-Africa Forum? Iraq Veterans Against the War (of course there are many contradictions just in that 5-word title)? US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation?

    Many of those groups have come out against Obama and certain policies of his administration. Gays don’t like that he hasn’t used his bullypulpit to end Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell. Code Pink, Vets For Peace and IVAW have all criticized him for continuing Bush policies in Iraq and Afghanistan – their reason to exist as organizations. In fact many of the members of those organizations have told me that they didn’t vote for Obama in 2008 – yet here they are at what is essentially a rally to encourage people to vote for Democrats in November.

    This isn’t America. Maybe it’s Washington, DC’s perception of America, but no one I know out here, just the other side of the Beltway, belong to any of those groups. And maybe the union leaders think their membership’s dues are justly spent on carrying smelly busloads of hippies who want a free trip to DC, but I’m pretty sure many of you would disagree.

    If that rally is an accurate portrayal of America, Those of us who aren’t there ought to buy more ammo.

  • FBI protests

    Yesterday, I wrote about the warrants that were served to “social justice activists” in Chicago last Friday morning. Last Thursday I wrote about FARC’s #2 commander, Jorge Briceno, who was killed in Colombia by Federal forces there. Sixteen laptop computers and over 60 disks were seized after the air strike on Briceno’s encampment last Wednesday.

    According to news reports, those “social activists” are being questioned on their contacts with the Communist guerrillas in Colombia as well as their contacts in the Palestinian movements. The raids on these “activists” has sparked a nationwide series of protests. Even Victor Agosto, the convicted criminal and avowed Communist member of the IVAW, is helping to organize a protest against the FBI in Miami.I wonder how many of the 13 “activists” who have promised to come will actually show. And I’m sure the FBI is shaking in their wingtips.

    Tuesday, Code Pink and ANSWER showed up outside the FBI headquarters to protest. Notice their manufactured signs – so you know the protest is a grassroots reaction, right? The protest is also being held on the Constitution Avenue side of the FBI building – there are no entrances used on that side of the building, but there’s more foot and motor traffic. So no one inside the building actually saw the protesters (except the FBI cops watching them on video) so we know who Code Pink and ANSWER wanted to talk to – tourists with money.

    Well, now to my point. There have been several incidences over the last few years of “activists” being targeted by raids and surveillance from the Feds, but this is the first time they’ve put up a stink about it. Freedom Roads Socialist Organization, one of the targets of the raids has been in existence since the mid-80s when US peace groups lent aid and comfort to Central American communist guerrillas – those habits are hard to break.

    I suspect that when the dust settles, we’re going to read that these activists are charged with aiding FARC. Yeah, I know that it’s hard to believe that US Federal government could work so fast in just a few days from the seizure of the laptops to the raids, but remember that we have an FBI office in Colombia which has close relationships with the government. I’m pretty sure an FBI agent accompanied the first Colombians into the area where Mono JoJoy was killed and had complete and immediate access to any evidence the Colombians discovered.

    As a final note, did you hear how the Colombians tracked ol’ Mono? They infiltrated FARC and got someone so close that he/she was able to put a GPS device in Mono’s boot. So what chance do the other run-of-the-mill guerrillas have against the Colombian government?

    Thanks to Casey for the link to the video.

  • Am I missing something?

    I just got an email from Jacque Betz, the head of Code Pink in Gainesville, FL where Terry Jones the pyromaniac preacher of the Dove World Knucklehead Center calls home. Betz writes;

    We are ashamed that he was become the face of Gainesville and we are using this debacle as an opportunity to counter the dangerous explosion of Islamophobia in this country.

    What dangerous explosion are we talking about? One left wing film student who knifed a cab driver? A preacher threatening to burn a Koran – which is stupid and condemned by everyone who can get to a TV camera from Barack Obama to Sarah Palin? A peaceful protest in New York City against a religious center being built?

    And what has Betz done to build bridges between communities?

    We have also created a Peace Ribbon composed of over 300 panels that pay tribute to the soldiers and civilians victims of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan

    Yep, that ought to do it. It’s as useless as burning a Koran – an empty, pathetic, pointless gesture to counter another empty, pathetic, pointless gesture.

    But I want to know where this explosion of Islamaphobia is and why haven’t I been invited?

  • Code Pink and Al Sharpton team up

    Because they’re so fond of my work, Code Pink has sent me an email to advertise their intentions this weekend;

    Aug. 28 marks the 47th anniversary of the historic March on Washington and Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream” speech. Fox TV’s conservative political commentator Glenn Beck will be holding a rally at the Lincoln Memorial. Join us at Dunbar High School (1301 New Jersey Avenue Northwest, Washington, DC) as we counter Glenn Beck’s rally by joining Reclaim the Dream, organized by Rev. Al Sharpton and other civil rights leaders. Look for the pink umbrellas to find us!

    Well, if they consider Al Sharpton a “civil rights leader”, I’m curious who they consider in that “other” group. I guess the New Black Panther Party plans on being there, too, so I guess the only people from the Left who are going are the anti-MLK bunch.

    I know some of you are going, so I hope you’ll email us some pictures we can use.

  • Credit where credit is skewed

    Last week we watched as Vote Vets gave credit to Barack Obama for the withdrawal of combat troops from Iraq today. Of course, we know that it was the so-called surge and the Bush Administration that made today’s news possible. But you know who’s taking credit? None other than those screeching harpies at Code Pink and the peace movement. This is from my email;

    Yes, they want credit for ending the seven-year war – the war that would have ended seven years ago if it wasn’t for them. if it wasn’t for the peace freaks who volunteered to be human shields for Saddam Hussein. If it wasn’t for those three congressmen standing on the roof of Saddam’s palace declaring him a more honest broker than our own President. If it wasn’t for seven years of childish antics and useless protests, shoe-throwing, cardboard cemeteries, fake Guantanamo prison cells and so many countless demonstrations of imbecility and mental masturbation.

    Yeah, this shit ended the war;
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  • Ann Wright arms our enemies

    The hard Left doesn’t admit that they arm our enemies with propaganda demonstrations. One of our readers, TD, sent me a series of videos and links of Ann Wright (I wrote about Wright a few months ago). Here are some of the stuff TD sent. Wright recruits for the next Gaza flotilla;

    Wright tells us how scary it was for her to be on a ship in the last flotilla, even though she wasn’t on the boat that was raided by Israeli commandos;

    Yesterday, CNN reported that Ayman al-Zawahiri, reportedly al Qaeda’s #2 man, spoke out to Muslim Turks on the subject of the Gaza flotilla;

    In an audio message released Sunday, a speaker identified as al Qaeda’s second-in-command offers condolences to the Turkish people on the loss of nine activists in a May 31 Israeli raid on an aid flotilla headed for Gaza.

    The incident badly frayed Israel’s once-close relationship with Turkey. The speaker, who was identified as Ayman al-Zawahiri, said in the message the incident underscores the need for Turkey to stop cooperating with or recognizing Israel.

    Of course, that’s the intention of Wright and the organizations to which she belongs. Ann Wright, a former Army colonel and member of Code Pink, Vets for Freedom Peace, Iraq veterans Against the War, World Can’t Wait and who knows how many other organizations which are tied to the Maoist ANSWER and the Revolutionary Communist Party, has no problem providing our enemies with propaganda moments. In fact they see it as their duty to arm our enemies and destroy our fragile coalition.