LIVE ACTION REPORT: Code Pink's Gail Murphy sends thugs into peaceful DC Chapter counterprotest

[daughterofTGSL]

I just received a phone call from my mother, tgslTakoma. She's at the DC Chapter counterprotest of Code Pink at Walter Reed.

tgsl says: We arrived carrying American flags and signs supporting the troops at 8 PM on the northeast corner of Walter Reed. The Code Pinkos arrived around 9 on their corner. Gail arrived and saw the FReepers on their corner, and we can only assume that she made a few phone calls. After we unfurled our MOAB (Mother Of All Banners), the Pinkos got upset and sent over 2 goons to stand in front of us, Later another one came. The three questionable characters arrived, one man saying he wants to kill "ragheads" and another one with a sign that says "Kill the poor." This second somewhat androgenous character just told me that he likes to eat bodies. This man says he was in the 351st airborne based out of Chattanooga, Tennessee. I called police at 9:24 and 9:29 and they said they'd send the next available unit. The police have yet to arrive.

[tgslTakoma]

Home safe. The rest of the team is working their way home. We had three of our own cameras rolling, and we all have photos of the troublemakers that Code Pink sent over to our side.

I am still riled at MPDC for just blowing off the man with a gun report. He basically said that it doesn't matter if someone says he has a gun; you have to see it before MPDC will respond with any speed or urgency.

Meaning, you must be shot and bleeding before MPDC will believe your report of a man with a gun.

On the drive out of our fair capital city, I found the MIA cops who didn't arrive to answer the three calls I made. Two MPDC cars were pulled off on the side of Georgia Avenue, across from the McDonalds, cops leaned back against their headrests.

Now I'm going to take a look at the photos and video clips I shot.

[reformjoy]

Great job on the Freep! Glad everyone is safe.

[WVNan]

You guys deserve some kind of medal. We should have medals for Freepers who go beyond the call of duty, or face hazardous duty. We owe you.

[BillF]

FReepers at this fun, but challenging, FReep: kristinn, tgslTakoma, bmwcyle, jimmy valentine's brother, and BillF.

I have photos that I will process and post, but I probably won't get them posted 'til at least tomorrow.

Last of the three leftists who came to disrupt our event was a guy that I call phony Southern man because of his terrible, phony Southern accent. Like the first infilitrating leftist, Southern man had a "Kill the Poor" sign and he tried to pretend that he was one of us. He spouted nonense that far-leftists think that conservatives believe: racist, homophobic, kill 'em all speech. By standing in with us, they tried to discredit us with their two ridiculous signs.

We asked them repeatedly to rejoin their Pink pals on the opposite corner. Both the first two leftists, who came together, and the last leftist, who came later, denied that they were with Code Pink (CP). We asked them to go to one of the other two corners, instead of interfering with our freedom of speech. They refused.

All three leftists fled together after Southern man realized that the police would come, eventually, to investigate his claim to have a gun on him. They left before the police officer arrived and Southern man took off his jacket and changed his outer clothes to avoid being picked up.

The two "Kill the Poor" signs that the three leftists brought were thrown on the ground 20 feet from the scene of their brownshirt disruption of freedom. Thus, they littered on their way to escape justice. After all, if they had properly taken their signs, they might have been more easily picked up if any police actually cared to search for a lunatic who claims to have a gun.

[pageonetoo]

...Affirmative Action officers, without a doubt.......

This is DC! Affirmative action there means hiring a white guy...

Marion Barry

Marion Barry is easily one of the most colorful public officals in United States history. After serving as mayor of Washington, DC for 12 years, he was arrested for smoking crack in a hotel room in 1990 (caught on hidden camera no less) and forced to step down. After serving six months in a federal prison, he was inexplicibly re-elected in 1994. Perhaps Mayor Barry's legacy can best be described in his own words:

* "If you take out the killings, Washington actually has a very very low crime rate."

* "First, it was not a strip bar, it was an erotic club. And second, what can I say? I'm a night owl."

* "The brave men who died in Vietnam, more than 100% of which were black, were the ultimate sacrifice."

* "I am a great mayor; I am an upstanding Christian man; I am an intelligent man; I am a deeply educated man; I am a humble man."

Barry is a former Eagle Scout

[BillF]

Affirmative action has nothing to do with this. The officer was white.

[spodefly]

I am glad you guys can do this sort of thing with grace, maturity, and professionalism.

I simply don't have the disposition for it. I can't stand the sort of dishonesty and subterfuge the Code Punk types use, and I would not do well in close proximity to that sort of nonsense.

[pageonetoo]

Affirmative action has nothing to do with this. The officer was white.

... and DC has an ovewhelming BLACK population... it was an attempted pun. Sorry!

[BillF]

That's OK. I just wanted to make sure that no one got the wrong idea from the earlier poster, even though I'm sure that he wasn't trying to mislead anyone.

[RebelTex]

"I don't think I could do protests. I'm too blue collar, too confrontational. I don't think I'd back down, and that'd probably be the death of me."

hmmm - sounds like we both suffer from the "Billy Budd" syndrome - all action and no talk.

(Billy Budd is a novella by Herman Melville, who is most famous for his novel Moby Dick that was written some forty years earlier. Foretopman Billy Budd, to give the book its full title, was written in 1891 but was not published until 1924. It is the story of ‘the handsome sailor’ Billy who, though a decent man, is treated badly by his master-at-arms called Claggart and strikes this nasty character down, killing him outright but unintentionally. The cause of this sorry circumstance is Billy’s stammer that prevents him from defending himself in words when he is wrongfully accused by Claggart. The tale follows his trial under Captain Vere and his subsequent hanging.)

[BillF]

It does take a lot of patience, but that comes easy to me.

The serious problem tonight was the whacked out phony Southern-accent man with his sign saying "Kill the Poor," his statement that he had a gun in his pocket, and then his reaching into his pocket.

[Trteamer]

"Giving $650,000 to "the other side" in Falluja is pure treason. I'm sure she skimmed a little off the top before she handed over the money."

How did she escape arrest for that? If that's not giving aid and comfort to the enemy, nothing is.

Code pink went ot Syria to give the aid. They gave it in medical supplies, to the women and children in the refugee camp outside Falluja. It only makes sense that Al Quiada operatives in the camp took the supplies and sold them for weapons and explosives.

Too bad some real reporter hasn't followed up on this.

[tgslTakoma]

Went through my photos more closely this morning...

I have a group photo of Code Pink side, and guess what?

The self-professed gun-totin' southern man who came over to cause trouble with us is in the photo with the Code Pinkos!
Absolutely, positively no doubt that this is the guy who told us he had a gun and loved killing. A very distinguishing characteristic gives him away.

The time stamp on my photo is 9:18pm. I have three other photos with him, with the Code Pinkos' group - time stamp 9:19pm. In the last of those photos, he and at least three Code Pinko demonstrators appear to be talking as a group. Oh my.

My second call to MPDC 911 operator, when I told them that a third troublemaker (aka southern man) had arrived - screaming and yelling about killing, was placed at 9:29pm (five minutes after my first call, BTW)

Now, I must go back and retrieve the less-good photos from my recycle bin. They might hold more information about Gael Murphy's troublemakers...

[upchuck]

I have photos that I will process and post, but I probably won't get them posted 'til at least tomorrow.

Please ping me when you post the photos, thanks!

[tgslTakoma]

Check all your photos very carefully, and don't delete any of them - even if they are a little bit blurry or underexposed. I will point out where southern man appears in the Code Pinko group. I also noticed what appears to be the androgynous person sitting on the ground, by southern man, with the Code Pinkos. Maybe that was when they were making their signs.

Very good Freep, btw, guys.

[armymarinemom]

The self-professed gun-totin' southern man who came over to cause trouble with us is in the photo with the Code Pinkos! Absolutely, positively no doubt that this is the guy who told us he had a gun and loved killing. A very distinguishing characteristic gives him away.

Those people just aren't quite right in the head. It always amazes me that they are even given one moment with the press. Right now I'm watching the Revolutionary Communist getting airtime over another issue. Sigggghhhh.

[bmwcyle]

I'll be checking soon.

[Tax-chick]

Wow, you people amaze me. Loud, raucous cheers, waving flags, banging on the pots and pans here!

[BillF]

The police performance was quite disappointing, but we got the Code Pinkos' panties all bunched up and sent their disrupters fleeing into the night, changing clothes on the fly, with the police on the way.

We had a tremendous victory.