Posted on 04/10/2005 8:50:22 AM PDT by tgslTakoma
Every Friday, 8-10 P.M. Shed Light On US War Casualties: Vigil Contacts: Ann Wilcox 202-xxx-xxxx; Ellen Taylor: 202-xxx-xxxx, dc@codepinkalert.org
CODEPINK recently held a nightly vigil at Walter Reed Army Medical Center from Friday, March 25 to Friday, April 1, at the North Gate (7200 Georgia Ave. at Elder Street, NW- see below for directions). It was a very successful action bringing together peace activists, soldiers, military families and neighbors. We will continue the vigil every Friday as a reminder that physically and psychologically wounded soldiers are returning from Iraq and Afghanistan every night. Late at night – several nights per week – gravely and seriously wounded soldiers from Iraq and Afghanistan arrive at Walter Reed, and Bethesda Naval Medical Center, for treatment – under the cover of darkness. These soldiers are the most seriously-wounded, with shattered limbs requiring prostheses and physical therapy, brain injuries and mental disorders. Soldiers are flown from US military hospitals in Germany – arriving at Andrews AFB and Walter Reed under the cover of night. We believe the nighttime arrivals are scheduled on purpose so as to prevent the public from knowing about the numbers of soldiers wounded and the severity of their injuries. The “hiding” of the severely-wounded is in keeping administration policy of prohibiting photographs of coffins arriving at Dover Air Force Base. (For investigative reporting of the Walter Reed arrivals, see Mark Benjamin’s articles, “The Invisible Wounded,” at www.salon.com on March 8, 2005. For Benjamin’s reporting on the psychiatric ward at Walter Reed, see “Behind the Walls of Ward 54,” Feb. 18, 2005.) Even after their stealth arrival at Walter Reed, soldiers must begin a bureaucratic battle to obtain sufficient disability benefits to provide an adequate quality of life. Initial determinations of military pension amounts (10-20% of salary, for example), made by the Army’s Medical Review Board, are often inadequate, and must be appealed to the Veterans Administration (which, to its credit, often increases the lifetime disability payment). We also vigil to protest ongoing cuts in the Veterans Administration budget made by the very same administration that sends these soldiers to war in Iraq and Afghanistan. For example, the FY05 budget institutes a new health care enrollment fee and increases prescription drug co-pays for middle-income veterans. The VA budget is not fully funded, failing by more than $2.6 billion to fully fund quality veterans’ health care. Despite strongly lobbying by veterans organizations, the Bush administration fails to recognize veterans as an extension of the costs of war. Other FY05 budget cuts in educational, vocational and adult education, and family support programs also directly impact veterans and their families. VIGIL WITH US – to honor the sacrifice of the troops and bring to light the seriousness of their injuries. We refuse to allow the government to conceal the true face of war – and the true cost of war – under a blanket of darkness.
As they are taken from the FRONT LINE to the BACK DOOR
Walter Reed Army Medical Center, 7200 Georgia Ave., at Elder St., NW
As long as you give them enough time to make some new posters
(sorry, I can't take seriously an organization that has a half-naked muscular man holding his weapon as a logo)
Thanks for the ping!
Code Pink gets regular funding from George Soros, as do many other anti-Bush, anti-American left-wing socialist anarchist groups which have a closer-than-loose-knit structure. That said, I believe they do engage in trying to fundraise to spite the American people and the military they falsely claim to "support". It is their way of misappropriating funds - given by often well intentioned Americans under one pretext, and then creatively redirected/redistributed for a completely different purpose.
The Pinkos may give the public persona of being faded "reds", but they are far from it. They most certainly are not just a grassroots group of middle-aged ladies from all walks of life, as they try so hard to portray themselves to be. This shallow well of putrid and rank evil is as poisoned by the communist/socialist ideology as any out there. There are too many threads which affiliate and tie them to other larger, more evil groups to be ignored.
Codepink is not feminine, not benign, and assuredly not cute. They are willfully supporting the insurgency in Iraq and elsewhere, aligning themselves with whomever is against the U.S.A., and as such, I consider them a terrorist organ, subject to having their ass(ets) frozen, seized, their leaders arrested summarily, and held without bail, and any organisational data subject to thorough scrutiny by the legal authorities and the public.
A.A.C.
(Yes, as it happens, I AM the most conservative member of F.R.! Why else would I call myself American ARCH Conservative?)
I admit I haven't been to many protests, but these commies get my blood boiling. You may see me there. Thanks for bringing this to my attention. Ping to Hobsonphile.
No, it's to prevent morons like you Pinkies from being able to get to them and call them evil names. I wish I could be there at the gates with you, Takoma, but it's a 1500 mile drive for me.
This is beyond sick.
And I have to be dead honest with you, I am glad I don't live out that way, because I don't think I would be able to refrain from violence with those turds.
Code Pink my butt! They just added bleach, to fade their 'Red' t-shirts to pink, because that's what they are...REDS.
Men invented great time saving machines for women. Years later men get Emma Goldman, Medea Benjamin & Code Pinkos. Crazy old homley women with to much time on their hands.
Hmmmmmmmmmmm...You Think...Who's Emma?
On a cold December morning in 1919, just after midnight, Emma Goldman, her comrade Alexander Berkman, and more than 200 other foreign-born radicals were roused from their Ellis Island dormitory beds to begin their journey out of the United States for good.
Convicted of obstructing the draft during World War I, Goldman's expatriation came 34 years after she had first set foot in America, a young, brilliant, Russian immigrant. For more than three decades, she taunted mainstream America with her outspoken attacks on government, big business and war.
Goldman's passionate espousal of radical causes made her the target of persecution. Her sympathy for Leon Czolgosz, the assassin of President McKinley, brought down upon her the hatred of the authorities and the public at large.
Feared as a sponsor of anarchy and revolution, she was vilified in the press as "Red Emma," "Queen of the Anarchists," and "the most dangerous woman in America."
I like these 1940's 1950's ladies. However, young women with those tradition are hard located today if not impossible.
Take heart and stand tall. You will be defending the bravest of the brave. Many of those inside Walter Reed just want to get well and get back to their units. They shouldn't have to listen to the likes of code pink. Every conservative in the D.C. area has a duty to be with you. If I didn't have to drive half the distance of the Eastern seaboard I would be there in a heartbeat. It's a great way to spend a Friday night.
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Supporters in the past of the Communist NVA, the Communist VC & the Communist Terrorist Dictator HO CHI MINH of Communist North Vietnam during the Vietnam War =
JANE FONDA
JOHN KERRY
WALTER CRONKITE
DIANE 'HILLARY' RODHAM
WILLIAM JEFFERSON CLINTON
And in a new Time of War
in a new Century
they are aiming to
get into our Oval Office
when our own Freedom
is now directly at stake
here at home.
NUTS
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That's some tagline you got there.
Awesome pics. Them's some fine ladies in those pink t-shirts. They look like a pink tidal wave. (blech!)
Evening, sw
I despise these duplicitous, manipulating, lying American- hating commies. They HATE the troops, and when the media isn't looking, call them baby killers, suckers and white trash (unless the soldiers are non-white--then they are poor suckers who have been duped by the "white trash" recruiters ). I expose them every chance I get, through Protest Warrior, Letters to the Editor, etc.
They fool no one with half a brain!
You and I know the really hate the troops and wish them all dead.
Miss you by the way..
free dixie,
Ari-the south will rise again!
We need you in the Justice Department.
P.S. Great tagline.
Not across from Walter Reed. They protest at the gate.
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