Posted on 03/07/2014 6:04:07 AM PST by kristinn
“They Stuffed a Scarf in My Mouth to Stop Me from Screaming” – Medea Benjamin on Egypt Deportation
Medea Benjamin displays ‘the violence inherent in the system.’ Photo by Code Pink
Susan ‘Medea’ Benjamin; leader of the terrorist support group Code Pink held a press conference at the Embassy of Egypt in Washington, D.C. on Thursday to protest her deportation from Cairo earlier this week.
Benjamin spoke outside in the cold for about twenty minutes straight explaining how she tried to visit Egypt as a pass-through to Hamas controlled Gaza for a ‘women’s rights conference’. Benjamin expressed bewilderment at why the government would not let her in to agitate on behalf of the terrorist group Hamas. Unmentioned by Benjamin was her and Code Pink’s work with the now banned Muslim Brotherhood to overthrow the government of former President Hosni Mubarak. Also unmentioned was Code Pink’s fundraising for al Qaeda families in Yemen.
Benjamin confirms a report that she threatened to disrupt U.S.-Egyptian relations if she was deported.
Pop some popcorn, crack open a beer and settle in for the most dramatic solo performance on film since Sandra Bullock in Gravity.
Spoiler: Not to make light of her pain, but the best scene is Benjamin describing how fed up Egyptian security did what so many have been wanting to do for years–they put a scarf in her mouth to shut her up as she caterwauled her way across the airport. BTW, her arm was not broken and she was not brutally beaten as she claimed. From her post on Twitter("Just saw great dc orthopedic doctor for dislocated shoulder and torn ligaments from egyptian assault. Now at Egyptian embassy to protest.") and her own tale of woe told by herself at the press conference, her arm was dislocated when she was forcibly handcuffed as she pitched a fit and refused to go along peaceably when security came to deport her. Basically, Medea Benjamin’s big mouth wrote a check her brittle 61 year old body couldn’t cash.
On Friday, Egypt will deport the rest of the so-called Gaza Solidarity delegation that the government had detained at the Cairo airport, according to a report on TurkishPress.com.
My hat’s off to the Egyptians.
Code Pinko
All of a sudden, we have the reason why there are no more code pink protestors in muslim countries.
And we see where the real war on women is.
And its not the republicans.
“They Stuffed a Scarf in My Mouth to Stop Me from Screaming”
Why didn’t we think of that...??
Maybe she should have stopped screaming the first time they told her to stop screaming. After all, they were not torturing her, they were leading her through an airport.
What a spoiled piece of human garbage.
I used to like the color pink but Code Pink and Komen have ruined it for me.
I hope it was a pink scarf.
She’s clearly trying to make a martyr of herself, without having to actually do what it takes to be a real martyr.
I would have paid good money to see that happen.
If only to save their ears from all the whining.
I didn’t.
Unless she shouts “goodbye cruel world”, and then shoots herself in the head, she has nothing to say that I am willing to listen to.
It had to be more than a scarf, probably the size of a bed sheet!
Given that CODE PINK began the riots (”video”, indeed)
in concert with Obama, she is fortunate to have
received such a light response.
> What a spoiled piece of human garbage
Spoiled piece of progressive, liberal Obama lovin’ piece of human garbage
Sorry had to add a few more adjectives...: )
Did they stuff anything in her other cavities?
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