The sign that got Code Pinko leaders Medea Benjamin and Gael Murphy so upset that day.
Posted on 03/27/2005 4:52:31 PM PST by tgslTakoma
Edited on 03/27/2005 6:16:32 PM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
Verbatim transcript of Suzie "Medea" Benjamin's speech follows:
Bush says Code Red, we say... (crowd) Code Pink!
So I wanna address that sign over there, and those people who have been standing there for hours with a sign that says “Code Pink kills American troops, giving money to terrorists.”
Now what I think that refers to is that after George Bush quote “won the election” on November second, he said “This is a mandate for the war in Iraq,” and he sent our troops into Fallujah to destroy the entire city of 300,000 people, and we said not in our name! And we collected $650,000 worth of materials and took it to the women and children of Fallujah.
(crowd cheers)
We are here to say loud and clear “We love the US troops, and that’s why we want them back home.”
(crowd cheers)
We are here to say loud and clear “We love the Iraqis, and that’s why we want the US troops to come home.”
(crowd cheers)
Now, George Bush talks about a wave of democracy in the Middle East. What you don’t hear about is the wave of democracy happening around the world, wherein wherein country after country people are forcing their governments to leave the quote “coalition of the willing” and bring their troops home.
(crowd cheers)
It happened in Honduras. It happened in Nicaragua. It happened in the Dominican Republic. It happened in the Philipines. In Thailand. In the Netherlands. And most recently, the Italian people are forcing Berlusconi to bring the troops home.
(crowd cheers)
Let us learn from the people of Spain, who when they had that tragic terrorist attack one year ago, said… they got out on the streets massively, and they said no to terrorism. No to war. No to all forms of violence. They threw out a government that lied to them and they brought their troops home. We can do it too.
(crowd cheers)
That is the wave of democracy we wanna see. We invite our brothers and sisters in the military to join us in a nonviolent revolution in this country that will sweep away Alberto Gonzales who says the Geneva Conventions are quaint. That will sweep away...
(Medea is rattled as crowd in distance cheers “Code Pink kills, Code Pink kills.”)
...that will sweep away Paul Wolfowitz and take him out of the World Bank.
(crowd cheers)
That will say John Bolton will not be our representative at the United Nations (crowd cheers), and that says we want people in power who will deal with the world not like the global gendarme, but show kindness, humility, love, and compassion, that we in this country want to spread throughout the world, It’s not only the right moral position, it is the only thing that will make us safe at home. Thank you, Code Pink.
(crowd cheers, Medea leaves, and Chuck Fager begins to speak)
Isn’t it amazing how Medea just kinda mellows you out? Calms you down there? Now we gotta thank you Medea, we gotta move right along here, and next...
(crowd in distance cheers “Code Pink kills”)
...I’m gonna introduce Patricia Roberts, who lives in Covington, Georgia… Covington, Georgia. Her son was Army Specialist Jamal Rashard Addison (sp?) And he was killed near Nazarea in the opening days of the war in Iraq. And you folks over there, how ‘bout showing some respect for the dead... some respect for the dead victims of this war. He was killed near Nazarea in the opening days of the war in Iraq, and Patricia Roberts is now raising her grandchildren, Christian Constance Addison and Jamal Rashard Addison the second. Now those folks over there don’t have any respect for those who’s made the ultimate sacrifice in this war. Let’s show some for Patricia Roberts. Patricia...
(crowd cheers)
Note: We continued our chants of “Code Pink Kills,” after Medea left the stage and Chuck Fager introduced his next speaker, because Medea and her Code Pink gang were still standing alongside the stage. We were very much focused on making our point, and a lot of noise with our chanting, and we weren’t paying attention to what Chuck Fager was saying from the stage. When we realized that the new speaker on the stage was a mother whose son was killed in Iraq, we changed our chant to “USA, USA,” to voice our support for our fellow American who gave his life for his (our) country.
Hear Medea Benjamin's speech, and Freepers in the background.
I can imagine that this was a thrill for you--especially knowing how hard it is to sometimes get 3 or 4 people out!
bttt
Good job!
"Love the looks on the faces of the law enforcement officers!"
Meanwhile, the officers kept turning to us smiling & laughing. One even signaled his partner he was leaving the line & came over to tell me about a very large "re-elect W" button he had during the campaign. They were wonderful!
...good work!
Fantastic MOAB!
Medea Benjamin likes some wars, just not the ones where the Communists lose.
Good job & thanks, folks!
Great work. Go get those pinkos....let the big dawg hunt!
Someone should educate Code Pink on the meaning of the word "fungible" if they think they haven't given money to terrorists.
Good report! I could not make this one, but I was with y'all in spirit!
The phony peace girls are juat another socialist mob.
BWAHAHAHAHA!! Whatt bunch of Lib'ral dunderheads...we liberated Fallujah from murderous thugs.
FReegards...MUD
Great MOAB, BTW...MUD
Right, our troops will really appreciate having to fight terrorists here in our own cities and neighborhoods with the ACLU and Nancy Pelosi condemning every effort to stop them. You bet, let's bring our troops home so that the terrorists are free to use the rest of the world as a training and staging ground for attacks on our own soil. Brilliant!
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