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Category: Code Pink

  • A Moonbat Weekend

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    March 19th is the 8th anniversary of the beginning of the war in Iraq, so you know the moonbats have worked themselves up into a frenzy. They have a big weekend planned according to Washington Peace Center;

    Friday Mar. 18

    7-9pm: Walter Reed Vigil at Walter Reed Hospital, 7150 Georgia Avenue, NW (at Horseshoe, between Dahlia and Elder)

    A weekly vigil to raise awareness within our community and the media that our injured soldiers are brought to Walter Reed Hospital and we must not forget them. Fund the wounded, not the war! (The right wingers will be out in force so let’s support!)

    The Vigil began in March 2005 following the second anniversary of the invasion and occupation of Iraq, and has continued every Friday evening regardless of rain, sun, snow, ice, or right-wing hooligans.

    Yeah, and a fearsome group they’ve been;

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    I guess this will be attended by IVAW, too. This is how they plan on helping the wounded…by taunting them while they come back from the war. Good call, Jose and Geoff.

    Saturday March 19
    12 noon: Veterans for Peace Rally and Action at Lafayette Park and the White House

    Resist the War Machine! Put your body on the line for peace and help make this the largest veteran-led civil resistance to the war machine in recent history! For more information, email stopthesewars@gmail.com.

    Rally at 12 pm at Lafayette Park, H and 16th Streets NW
    Speakers: Elliott Adams, Chantelle Bateman, Brian Becker, Medea Benjamin, Zachary Choate, Ryan Endicott, Ayesha Fleary, Chris Hedges, Kathy Kelly, Mike Malloy, Michael McPhearson, Caneisha Mills, Ralph Nader, Debra Sweet, Ann Wright, Kevin Zeese

    Civil Resistance at 1 pm, White House

    Civil resistance means they’re going to try and get arrested again, because that means something…or something. Matthis won’t be there – he’s going to be on a panel in New York City with Debra Sweet talking about how Obama is a bigger war criminal than Bush was.

    Sunday, March 20

    2 pm: Bradley Manning Action at Quantico Marine Base (VA)

    Exposing war crimes is not a crime! Support accused WikiLeaks whistle-blower Army Pfc.Bradley Manning who has been held in solitary-like conditions for six months.

    Click here to buy bus tickets to the Rally. Only $10 rountrip.

    This event is endorsed by the Bradley Manning Support Network, Veterans for Peace, Courage to Resist, CodePink, and many other groups.

    Now, if you’re inclined to attend, you won’t be alone. Toothless Dawg says Free Republic will be there at three events;

    MARCH 18,2011 (Friday) WALTER REED

    WHERE: Main gates of Walter Reed, Georgia Avenue and Elder Street, NW. Plenty of street parking and also park in the lot. Entrance off Elder Street.

    WHEN: Friday, 6:45 PM to around 9:30PM when we cheer a bus load of Wounded Warriors and their families coming back from their weekly dinner. The dinner is sponsored by The Aleethia Foundation, founded by a wounded Vietnam Vet. They could also use some donations.

    The DC Chapter of FReeRepublic will have flags, banners, posters, snacks and drinks.

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    MARCH 19,2011 (Saturday) FREEDOM PLAZA

    ANSWER, Code Pink, IVAW, and others of their ilk are still protesting against our troops. We need to continue supporting our troops and defending their honor. We need to be a voice for them. Our soldiers still need the support we gave them in March, 2007 during the first Gathering of Eagles.

    WHERE: Washington, DC — We have permitted FREEDOM PLAZA (Main gathering point) at 14th and E Streets, NW. Blue and Orange FEDERAL TRIANGLE Metro Station is closes station

    DATE: Saturday, March 19,2011

    WHEN: Gather at 10AM at Freedom Plaza, then at 11AM we will go to Pennsylvania Avenue in front of the White House till we are no longer needed to support our troops.

    The DC Chapter of FReeRepublic will have the Walter Reed MOAB, flags, banners, and posters. At FReedom Plaza we will also have snacks and drinks.

    The moonbats will be gathering at Lafayette Park at noon and will protest in front of the White House after their speeches damning and disparaging our brave troops.

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    March 20, 2011 (Sunday) Quantico MCB Main Gate

    The information I have read is that Code Pink and other skanky organizations will be gathering to free the Manning whiner. Their buses will arrive around 2pm at the intersection of Rt-1 and Rt-619 (Joplin Rd) at the Iwo Jima Memorial. They will then march the 100 yards to the main gate of Quantico.

    The Marines have stated their intention to close the main gate for several hours and expect around 500 protesters.

    Construction in the area is going to make parking very tight.

    I’ll be at the Saturday protest in Lafayette Park after I drive back from stumping with DanNy for David Bellavia. So if you don’t see anything here on the blog this weekend, it’s coming.

  • Finally, a war for oil that the Left can get behind

    Fox News reports that the USS Enterprise has left it’s station off the coast of Somalia and is steaming towards the Suez Canal and it’s ultimate destination, Libya with 13 captured pirates still aboard from their adventure last week. The Marines are looking for a force to place aboard the USS Kearsarge which is also steaming up the Red Sea entrance to the Suez.

    The Washington Post reports that the US Treasury Department is busying itself freezing Libyan assets in US banks and their overseas branches.

    In Geneva, U.S. and European leaders focused on sending aid to rebels and refugees, toughening sanctions and calling for the ouster of Gaddafi, who has ruled Libya for more than 41 years.

    Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, addressing a meeting of the U.N. Human Rights Council, announced new efforts to stem the Libyan humanitarian crisis. Some $10 million in relief funds have been set aside by the U.S. Agency for International Development, and two teams of experts are being dispatched immediately to Libya’s borders to assess the refugee crisis and organize the delivery of aid.

    Of course, these are not any of the things that Clinton’s husband did when hundreds of thousands of Rwandans were murdered – arguably a much larger crisis than Libya. The only difference is that the Libyans have oil and production has declined considerably in preceding weeks. At the pumps, Americans are feeling the pinch as gas soared seventeen cents in the last week. Of course, there’s no Halliburton or Dick Cheney or evil genius idiot McBushitler to blame, so no one is really interested in gas prices…well, except you and me.

    Besides, Obama is doing all of the things that Bush did to Hussein in the run up to the Iraq War – isolating Qaddafi, cutting off his money, planning no-fly zones to protect dissidents, and Obama gets to do all of that stuff without members of Congress standing on the roof of Gaddafi’s palace announcing that Gaddafi is more trustworthy than Obama. There are no human shields streaming towards Libya.

    You’d think Code Pink would have something to say about the US military forming up for war fighting with Libyan military…but you’d be wrong. Code Pink was marching across the San Francisco Golden Gate Bridge today “in solidarity” with the Egyptian people.

    Obama just a few minutes ago, without ceremony, issued the first deep water drilling permit since the Deepwater Horizon exploded. Too little too late.

    So after voting present on Libya for weeks, he’s counting on the military to pull his narrow ass out of a jam.

  • Code Pink hags rescued by Big Oil in Egypt

    We all remember that Medea Benjamin, while protesting the Marines recruiting in Berkley, sought protection in their big, burly arms when she threatened a few years back. Well, according to Kristinn Taylor at Big Peace (if you go to the Big Peace link, be aware that the images of Medea’s bone-dry, barren breasteses will resist countless mind bleach treatments) and Oregon Live, another set of Code Pink hags, were rescued by another boogieman of Code Pink’s; Big Oil;

    They found a group of other Westerners and stayed with them. Turned out they were a group of Shell Oil employees who had chartered a flight out of Egypt.

    In the end, the two women left Cairo on that flight to Amsterdam.

    “We were treated like royalty,” Boyd said.

    Shell put the two women up in a hotel in the Netherlands, where they plan to stay until Wednesday when they have a flight home.

    Funny thing, karma.

    Of course, I can’t help but think of the poor Gazans who were upstaged by the Egyptians. Code Pink had been on their way to create a scene at the Egypt/Gaza border, but they discovered there were too many cameras in Cairo to resist and canceled their planned theater in support of the Gazans. So much for principled protests.

    Thanks to TSO who sent the link.

  • Nose where it doesn’t belong

    Yeah, Code Pink is in Egypt. And Daniel sent us this link to the Democratic Underground discussion about it.

    molly77
    35. So nice to hear.

    Because the way they are carrying out the protests is only comparable to Selma Alabama….in my realm of knowledge. The Egyptian people are showing the world the way.

    Yeah, only a few hundred years after the rest of the world got the message.

    Le Taz
    26. K & R

    Code Pink. STILL fighting the Good Fight.

    Against common sense. It’s a fund raising ploy, and the DUmmies are falling for it.

    BrightKnight
    40. That is a really good idea. Code Pink is impressive.

    The state department should hire her. A lot of neocons are going to blow head gaskets.

    Yeah, are you called “Bright Knight” for the same reason that we named the really fat guy”Tiny”?

  • I hate hippies

    Someone sent me this video of the Bradley Manning rally at Quantico last weekend;

    All of our favorite hippies are there.

    Of course, the “activists” blame the military police for the manufactured outrageous treatment of Bradley Manning for the rug burns from his scratchy blankets. The blankets they bring for poor Brad look strangely like the blankets I see wrapped around homeless people in DC.

    It must be nice to be able to push and shove MPs around and not get gun down or beaten with a night stick. Brave activists.

    For some reason I see the Guantanamo mock prisoners in the crowd, too. I wonder what the point is. If I were Brad Manning, I’d welcome imprisonment in Gitmo, what with the good chow and balmy weather. Beats Northern Virginia in the winter.

    The Code Pink hags had to retool this weekend, though, and headed out to Egypt. This from Medea Benjamin;

    Dear Jonn,

    After several cancelled flights, I am finally on my way to Egypt to join my CODEPINK colleagues who are already there. We were supposed to be leading a delegation to Gaza right now, traveling through the Sinai to get to Gaza’s southern border. The Rafa crossing into Gaza has been closed, our delegation is unable to leave Cairo, and we have been caught up in the breath-taking people’s movement that is sweeping Egypt. CODEPINK’s Tighe Barry has been out on the streets of Cairo all week long. You can hear a compelling report from him here.

    Nothing would make me happier than if the Code Pink hags would get stuck in Egypt and Gaza. Activist tourists. Fly in, get everyone all riled up and then back to Starbucks for scones.

  • Code Pink celebrates a new Congress

    While the Democrats controlled both houses of Congress, the hags of Code Pink pretty much stayed away from Capitol Hill. But now that the Republicans control the House, Code Pink is wasting no time shoving their haggard faces in front of cameras reporting on the new Congress;

    Dear Jonn,

    Happy New Year! We have a busy month ahead. Please join us whenever you can. It’s time to put the wars back on the national agenda and demand that we bring our war dollars home!

    First Day of New Congress: Tomorrow, Wednesday, January 5, 11 am, Longworth Bldg, Congress
    Please join us for a visit to Speaker John Boehner’s office, on the first day of congress, to say yes, shrink the federal budget by ending the wars. Boehner’s office is at 1011 Longworth. We will meet at the lobby inside the Longworth building (Independence entrance) at 11am, then proceed to the office to turn in our letters to the speaker.? Please let us know if you are coming – ?email medea@codepink.org or call ?415-235-6517

    And they’re back on the Guantanamo train now that Congress has cut off the President’s legs on that issue;

    Tuesday, January 11. Close the prison at Guantanamo.
    The prison–symbol of a legacy that includes rendition, extralegal detention and torture–will enter its 10th year of operation. This legacy endures, despite the promise of President Obama to close Guantanamo. We will gather at the White House for a press conference with a coalition of human rights and grassroots groups and then proceed in a “prisoner procession” to the Department of Justice, where some participants will engage in nonviolent direct action and others can simply witness.
    10:30am – Gather @ the White House
    11:00am – Press Conference @ the White House with the Center for Constitutional Rights and and other groups
    11:45am – procession to the Department of Justice
    12:15pm – 1:00pm – Vigil & direct action at Dept of Justice
    Visit http://witnesstorture.org/ for up-to-date information and, if you are willing, to reserve a jumpsuit for the prisoner procession.

    On January 15th, they plan on marching behind Martin Luther King’s corpse (figuratively, of course) to demand an end to all war. Bless their hearts. And on the 17th, they’re going to march at Quantico to convince the Marines to release Bradley Manning. I’m sure the Marines are scared to death.

    It’s a good thing that the Republicans kicked ass in the last election before the Code Pink hags exploded from a lack of being in front of cameras.

  • Code Pink and DADT.

    As expected Code Pink’s Medea Benjamin put this out since it was repealed. No really surprised.

    The peace group I co-founded, CODEPINK, has not only been protesting the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the drone attacks in Pakistan, but we have been going to military recruiting stations, high schools and career fairs throughout the country encouraging our youth not to join the military.

    Ok here is the warning. Put down any drinks and keep them there for the entire post. Yes it will be that bad.

    Final warning,

    Ok here we go, considering Code Pinks actions in the past years before reading the next quote.

    We know that the military is one of the only ways many young people can afford a college education these days and that the financial crisis severely limits this generation’s career options. But we still encourage young men and women to look for other opportunities that don’t involved killing or being killed in wars we shouldn’t be fighting.

    It might seem contradictory, then, that CODEPINK was an enthusiastic supporter of the rights for gays and lesbians to join and serve openly in the military. But within our organization, it was never even controversial — we stand up for the rights of all human beings. The decision to join the military or not should be determined by individual choice, not institutional discrimination.

    WTF? Really? So what was all of that going on in Berkley? Yea here is what they really think of individual choice.

    But then it gets better.

    We understand that allowing gay soldiers to openly serve in the military is a crack in the armor of bigotry that will eventually open the way for gay people to marry and be guaranteed equality in the workplace. We understand this victory in the larger context of the march toward full human rights for this oppressed community. And who knows? Perhaps this victory will also serve to strengthen the military’s respect for human rights abroad.

    Yea because we never had any of that before DADT was repealed.

    But is comes down to the real reason Code Pink supported the repeal of DADT.

    We also understand the potential for a powerful alliance between the gay and anti-war communities. We can work together to help young people — gay and straight — find careers that won’t kill them, maim them, destroy them psychologically, or cause them to do harm to others.

    We can jointly reach out to those already in the military to speak out against the violations of the rights of peoples whose land we occupy. We can ask gay veterans to join groups like Veterans for Peace and Iraq Veterans Against the War. And we can work together to turn our military from an aggressive force to one that truly defends us here at home.

    So they want them to join so they can have a fresh batch of Soldiers to use and throw away, since the current supply is running low.

    Oh in case your wondering she will be at Fort Benning next year to take part of the SOA protests.

    It it now safe to resume or start drinking.

  • Whistleblowers, Truth Tellers & Peacemakers

    I guess Code Pink is running out of things to protest, so they went to give their fellow traveler, communist Bernie Sanders a hug in his office yesterday and tomorrow they’re going to the AG’s office to tell him to prosecute “real war criminals”
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