Double-MOAB FReep of Code Pink at Walter Reed, Sept 9 (Heavy graphics, Join us Sept 16!)

DC Chapter ^ | Sept 13, 2005 | BillF with photos from bmwcyle

[BillF]

Having done this for six months, I'm calling mandatory FReeps for the next two Friday nights for the reasons given in red below. Those who've never attended and live with 80 miles must attend, unless you have a very good reason for not attending at least once (see below). If you don't come, I'll contact Halliburton to cut off your subsidized gas cards. Also, your docking privileges at the FReeper Yacht Club will be suspended. Your local Country Club and Gun Club memberships will likewise be suspended. I'm taking these actions reluctantly because some of you seem to be stuck to your keyboards. :)

Continuing now for weeks in a row, FReepers from the DC Chapter and beyond have outnumbered Code Pinkos at their weekly obscene anti-war blood dance outside Walter Reed Army Medical Center, although the numbers were close on this night.  A leftist bicycle rider stopped on our side to exchange words. For at least the second time in this series of FReeps, an object was thrown at us.  As happened previously, two Walter Reed staffers come over to thank us for being there. Also, soldiers leaving the base indicated appreciation for us repeatedly and indicated contempt for the Pinkos.

Before continuing with the report, reprinted with permission of the sender, is a FReepmail below that I received last week from a service member who had read last week's report:

Re: FReep of Code Pink's Quagmire at Walter Reed, Sept 2 (Heavy graphics, Join us Sept 9!)

Bill,
Keep up the *outstanding* work. I am a service member who has seen combat in Iraq and have more than a few buddies that have been injured over there. ***I cannot stress the importance of the role you are playing in the states.*** The war stateside, in the public view and in the headlines will ultimately decide our country's fate. As for morale...we get angry overseas about hearing ppl whine about the war, but when we hear these stories  we are profoundly rejuvenated. I commend you for your service and bringing the fight to the enemy!!
[first name of sender deleted; emphasis added]

(After the sender sent that to me, I asked if I could republish, without including his screen name, if he so preferred. He authorized republishing without his screen name.)

Will you come out this Friday night to help cover the backs of our brave troops against the psyche-ops of treacherous Code Pink and their allies? Will you help our troops become "profoundly rejuvenated?" This is a mandatory FReep. That is, if you live within 80 miles of DC, and unless it is impossible or you have medical reasons or work or family obligations that clearly preclude you from coming out, you must do this at least once. How can you (yes, look in the mirror, I'm talking to you) do anything less for our troops that never let us down?

Pinkos and their allies are waging psychological warfare against our troops. We cannot leave them undefended against being stabbed in the back. Will you help counter this threat to our troops' morale?

OK, I've just been informed that I don't have authority to order a mandatory FReep. Therefore, only come if you believe in the troops and their mission and want to do something in your power to help them.

Code Pink is truly stuck in a quagmire as FReepers severely hinder the Pinkos' cynical attempts to manipulate severely wounded soldiers and relatives in hopes of finding those who will join the anti-war movement and break faith with the troops still fighting a ruthless enemy. Many of the most severely wounded troops from the war in Iraq and Afghanistan are taken to Walter Reed for continued treatment and rehabilitation. Many have lost limbs and many are suffering from post-traumatic-stress syndrome, which will, the Pinkos hope, open them to becoming propaganda tools of the left. Additionally, the Pinkos' other goal is too demoralize those wounded troops, but wounded troops have repeatedly thanked us for our presence as an antidote to the morale-sapping leftist antics.

Incredibly, Code Pink cannot muster enough people to achieve their desired fraud and deceit at their Walter Reed protest in the liberal bastion of Washington, DC, a city filled with left wing activists and where about 90 percent of the people voted against George Bush.

Do you think that the Pinkos are sickos to have an anti-war demonstration at a hospital holding war-wounded? Then please help us by showing up next Friday night per details below.  Stand up against the Pinkos who've endorsed "the Iraqi resistance" (as they call our enemy, see here and here), given money to the other side in Fallujah, and called our troops "killers." Then, the Pinkos demonstrate at the hospital and pretend that they support our troops.

This was twenty-first Fabulous Fun FReep of the Code Pinkos as FReepers continue to frustrate the Pinkos' evil scheme. For the first time in FReeper history, we simultaneously deployed two of the MOABs (Mother Of All Banners) designed and built by tgslTakoma.

As we have done on a number of these FReeps, we ate pizza on site at the FReep.

The honor roll of those in attendance (lurkers are marked with an asterisk*):  3D-Joy, Apple Blossom and daughter*, April from Texas (!!!)*, Bill from MD*, bmwcyle and daughter*, BufordP, concretebob, Conservative Conspirator, Coop, David, Doctor Raoul, Ethel*, George*, Jack Deth, JBB, Jimmy Valentine’s brother, Joan*, Justanobody, kristinn, Landry Fan, mr.sarcastic, mrs.sarcastic, profg, SonOfTGSL, tgslTakoma, Tom*, a very special guest (SG)* whose name cannot be given and BillF.  This was our third highest attendance with a total of 30.

In view of the large number of participants, many of whom we were happy to see for the first time (and we hope not the last), I may not include names for some of the FReepers and lurkers in photo captions if I don't remember them. Sorry about that, but I'm happy to have the problem of so many people that we can't keep track of them all.

The event was so large that I can only present that part of the story that I saw. If you were there, please describe your own experiences at the FReep.

[CLICK ON A PHOTO TO OPEN A LARGER VERSION IN A NEW WINDOW except those marked "not hyperlinked." Click on another photo and its larger version should open in the same window that the first enlarged photo did. Or you can simply close the window with the enlarged photo and click on another photo in the report to open a new window with an enlarged photo. Note that some of the wider photos may open in a window wider than your screen and you can use a horizontal scroll bar to see parts. Photos will be interspersed in the report. As it got progressively darker, my telephoto lens shots became less clear, requiring software enhancement. You will notice that people look more like cartoon characters in my later telephoto lens photos. tgslTakoma and bmwcyle are both taking better photos than I, but there are difficulties in me getting the raw photos from them.

Unless labeled otherwise, the photos were taken by me, but many photos, marked with an asterisk *, were taken by bmwcyle. (bmwcyle has his full outstanding collection of photos here.) I've cropped some of the photos. Next week I hope to be able to incorporate photos from both outstanding photographers, bmwcyle and tgslTakoma.]

Opposed to our 30 patriots, the Pinkos managed to get 27 America-hating traitors and their well-meaning, but incredibly-misguided, dupes. The dupes do not realize that their Pinko organizers have endorsed "the Iraqi resistance" (see here and here), given money to the other side in Fallujah, and called our troops "killers."

One of two corners occupied by FReepers and a MOAB. Additional FReepers lined up about ten yards north of the left of this photo.

 

Doctor Raoul and BufordP closest the camera, the southeast corner had the other MOAB.

Northeast(NE) corner MOAB close-in with Southeast(SE) corner MOAB barely visible at far right, across the side street.
 

Side view of NE corner MOAB.

With Mr. and Mrs. Sarcastic closest the camera, here is another view of the SE corner MOAB.

Lurker April came from Texas. (*  = photo by bmwcyle). If she can attend, why not you?

Jimmy Valentine's brother (R) and others, sometimes as many as 3 or 4 additional occupied a location about ten yards north of the north-most MOAB.

Mr. and Mrs Sarcastic at the SE corner before the anti-Pinko MOAB was brought out.

bmwcyle and 3D-Joy

George and Ethel *

April and Coop *

Doctor Raoul and Joan.*

3D-Joy, Justanobody, and Landry Fan.

A purple-shirt biker (photo right) was quite angry talking to the FReepers as he passed along the SE corner. "There's such a thing as righteous anger," he snarled. Bush-Cheney are a murderous junta  in his view and Clinton was a liberal Republican. Apparently he tried to get FReepers to read more of his words of wisdom on his website, but I didn't hear what it was. (The site might be good for some laughs.)  He biked over to join the Pinkos or at least talk with them a long time. A car pulled out of Walter Reed and turned in front of us. The passenger on our side waved grateful acknowledgement, whereas FReepers could see the driver giving a one-finger salute to the Pinkos on his side. Those were beautifully illustrated reactions of our troops to FReepers and Pinkos respectively. Another driver, who apparently was one of the troops, drove along giving a top-half-of-his-body-out-the-window one-finger salute to the Pinkos. Although we don't encourage flipping people off, the troops certainly have earned the right.

Leftist in purple at right biked through SE corner and exchanged heated words with several FReepers, but kristinn tried to talk him into moving along..

Kevin McCarron in yellow shirt was the one who held the "Maimed for a Lie" sign in the past. Like all the Pinkos, he had toned down
the signage after a few elements of the press reported on the Pinko blood dance at Walter Reed.

Kevin McCarron, a leader of Code Pink ally and co-sponsor of the protest, Veterans for Peace, was back this week. He wasn't noticed last week following Code Pink's claim that inappropriate or insensitive signs may have been held by infiltrators. That Pinko claim, an obvious attempt to blame FReepers for Code Pink's own sickeningly, indecent displays outside a hospital,  was revealed to be yet another Pinko fraud. Specifically, it was revealed that McCarron, a leader in the Code Pink sponsored protest,  held the "Maimed for a Lie" sign. (Click here for the CNSNews story.) 

On this night, various FReepers shouted warnings across the street to Gael Murphy that the infiltrator McCarron was still in their midst. If he worked for Karl Rove himself, he couldn't be doing a better job of undermining the Pinkos. First, he holds the "Maimed for a Lie" sign. Second, he lets the Pinkos issue a statement blaming infiltrators, without warning them that he, one of their key organizers, held the sign that puts the lie to the infiltrator claim. Or maybe he truly is an infiltrator on Karl Rove's payroll?

Pinkos in the early stages.

They managed to find an unburned American flag.

"QUIET ZONE Soldiers Healing" sign was just added in the last few weeks when Code Pink got a well-deserved black eye for their
psyche-op blood dance at Walter Reed. Yet, somebody still needs to tell the guitar player under the Pinkos new "Honor the Troops"
mini-banner. *

BELOW NOT HYPERLINKED

I added the purple arrows indicating a phantom lower part of a person at right and a phantom car at left to this photo * taken by
bmwcyle. I want to assure all that these were simply artifacts from the camera aperture timing. There is no truth to the rumor in
leftist' circles that our cameras have been modified by Halliburton to include GITMO beams which teleport people to GITMO. *

For the first time in memory, maybe the first time in the series of FReeps, Blue Pony-Tail Guy, wore something other than a blue shirt (see photo at right). This guy provided us with numerous laughs on earlier occasions when he held a sign that said: "Workers and Soldiers United." If  Karl Rove paid an infiltrator to make them look like a bunch of commies, that is the sign the infiltrator would bring. Jack Deth commented that "Code Pink is responding to us in that Blue Shirt Guy changed the color of his shirt to black and it looks like he actually took a bath this week."     Exhibit A for apple in the attack on Doctor Raoul. * Quoting bmwcyle's great capation for this: "The apple that hit the doctor. An apple a day won't keep this doctor away."

Blue Pony-Tail Guy has a shirt that isn't blue. Who knew?

Past the Pinko announced 9 pm quitting time, and after the leftists had abandoned the Northwest (NW) corner and were packing to leave from the Southwest (SW) corner, Coop and at least one other FReeper went over to stand on the NW corner. One of the Pinkos came to them and claimed that they had to leave because the Code Pink permit goes to 10 pm (even though the announced time of their blood dance is 7 to 9 pm). The FReepers went back over to what the soldiers call "the good side" (they call the Pinko side "the bad side").

A short time later when most Pinkos were just going to their vehicles, BufordP darted across the road with a FReeper sign to the NW corner and did a jig reminiscent of the end zone dances of wide receivers following a touch-down in years past (before the NFL rules' changes). Unfortunately, the darkness of the night prevented us from getting any photos. BufordP quickly came back to the FReeper side before any Pinko again ridiculously asserted any permit rights to a corner that they had long sense vacated.

Some guy in a vehicle exchanged words with Doctor Raoul. Then he drove back again and threw an object. All were relieved that it was just an apple that hit the Doctor of FReep on his instep. The police were called, lest the perp return with a stone next time. Doctor Raoul told the officer that we could show him the apple in case he wanted to dust it for prints or wanted it for his lunch tomorrow. Raoul told the officer of having tangerines thrown at him years ago, leading to the perps' arrests on numerous drug charges for the contents of their vehicle. I told the officer that Raoul had thus been victimized by a drive-by fruiting before. However, humor aside, all agreed that the police should pursue the matter further to reduce the risk of more serious attacks. The officer was given the license number of the vehicle.

Officer and FReepers joked about the "drive-by fruiting," but agreed that there should be a serious follow-up.

As happened in the previous week, two medics, who work in Walter Reed, came over to personally thank us for being there to support them and the patients.

The Pinkos came close to equaling our number this week, but fell just short. We need more people coming.

We absolutely must keep the pressure on Code Pink and keep showing the wounded soldiers at Walter Reed that Code Pink doesn't speak for the nation. If you live in the DC area and haven't yet come out for one of these FReeps, please do so this next Friday. Injured Walter Reed patients, including amputees, have repeatedly told us how important it is for us to be there to counter Code Pink.

If we can sufficiently outnumber the leftists often enough, embarrassment may cause the leftists to stop these outrageous morale-damaging ("Maimed for a lie" was one of their commonly-used signs) demonstrations at the hospital. What about you? Can you spare a few hours on a Friday night?  

Can you give up next Friday night at the movies to support troops who've given up limbs for your freedoms? Will you?

This FReep is rewarding, fun and important for our troops and our nation.

[Angelwood]

Bumping through. I love BillF's pool picture!

[Aquakat]

My pretty signs will get wet if it rains!

Layer Saran wrap starting at the bottom and over lap like roofing shingles.

As good as the DC chapter is you are wimps a little rain never hurt anyone.

Two years ago in Costa Mesa the YR held a rally and our Brea group folded into them for that event. We had about 150 people there where I learned about FR.

It was a downpour it rained and rained all day long. We averaged about 75, and they were republicans, throughout the rally, about 2”

I tried to find my post including pic, but for some reason not in archives.

Once again you guys (no gender) are wimps. LOL

[Aquakat]

Last bump until next week

BUMP

[Just A Nobody]

Thanks for the bumping today Aquakat!

I'm up ... have to finish coloring, so I'll bump it along for awhile.

BillF - just an FYI...it is 138 miles from point A to B if I take the shorter, but longer time, route. It is 144 or 6 or 8 miles, (I can't remember right now) if I take the loop around Richmond. It is faster however.

[AprilfromTexas]

I admire your consistency, Justanobody! Hug my home boy soldier for me if he visits you guys again tomorrow.

One last bump for the night!

[AprilfromTexas]

I admire the commitment to the troups you guys have displayed over the last few months! You are all Patriots and make me proud to be an American. I'll be there in spirit tomorrow and back in person next month.

...don't let anyone use the duct tape on BufordP!!

[Just A Nobody]

Will do April. Thank you again for joining us. It was a pleasure to have you! Come back soon.

[BillF]

you are wimps a little rain never hurt anyone.

Thems fighting words. As a DC FReeper, I've FReeped through rain, snow, sleet, high winds, blazing sun and heat, and freezing cold (high temp was 17 to 19 degrees one day with blowing wind for a below 0 degree wind chill).

We're gone toe to toe with some of the toughest, scumiest (is that a word?), law-ignoring goons of the left. We dodged the bullet when undercover cops saved 13 of us from dozens of anarchists within several hundred of them, the dozens having planned to bust our skills open.

And you would dare to call us whimps. I challenge you to a duel. Rubber bands at 20 paces.

[Earthdweller]

You guys..... flipping rubber bands at each other.

When I come next Firday I would much rather see a spitball duel to the death.

hehehe

BUMP

[BillF]

DC's gun control is so tight that I think spitballs may be prohibited. When spitballs are outlawed, only outlaws will have spitballs.

Then again, maybe the below can't be brought into DC.

Incidentally, I'll choose the green rubber band and let the varmint :) have the yellow rubber band.

[Earthdweller]

That doesn't look like the kind of rubber band dueling equipment my brothers used to have (their finger).

You DCers sure are series about your dueling.

What am I getting myself into?

[Just A Nobody]

It is the morning BUMP!

[Coop]

I'll be there 9/16!

We look forward to seeing you there. Thanks for joining us!

[Coop]

Thanks for checking in. We need the help keeping this and next weekend's event promoted, so if you have a ping list please consider using it. Cheers!

[Coop]

We averaged about 75, and they were republicans, throughout the rally, about 2”

Hmmmm. Buford, have you EVER seen a 2" Republican?

Hurried disclaimer: I'm a conservative, not a Pubbie! :-)

[Coop]

...don't let anyone use the duct tape on BufordP!!

[tgslTakoma]

g'morning bump...

[BufordP]

Aquakat: We averaged about 75, and they were republicans, throughout the rally, about 2”

Coop: Hmmmm. Buford, have you EVER seen a 2" Republican?

No. And 75 years old to boot! They say you shrink with age.

[Coop]

For those out there wondering if this stuff really makes any difference (stolen from another thread):


I WAS HUGGED BY A SOLDIER TONIGHT!!!
I went to the local military base to discuss flyers for these FReeps. I need to go back in the morning.

I then went to a local restaurant where I usually see soldiers. I pulled in and a car with 3 soldiers pulled in right next to me. After we were all seated I approached their table to thank them for their service. I was invited to sit down, at which time I pulled out my fryers and explained what we were doing. I also told them about WRAMC. As I discussed our wounded warriors, I teared up and the soldier I was seated next to threw his arms around me and gave me a hug. They started thanking me, but I said no, we do what we do to thank and support them.

The "hugger" said how much he appreciated what we are all doing ... his wife is in Iraq right now! One of the other soldiers has already been to Iraq and has volunteered and is waiting to go back. They were very excited about all the support rallies I told them about across the country.

I asked if they would have any use for the flyers. "Hugger" said yeah, I'll hang it up in the barracks. The "female" said put one in the bathroom, too! They ended up taking 3 of each of the 3 flyers I had.

Then I gave 1 each to the waitress and asked if they ever hung anything up around there. She took them to their manager who apparently read them over carefully and said they would like to put them up!

This is my "Update Bump" for the night. Back to coloring!

112 posted on 09/16/2005 12:20:07 AM EDT by Justanobody (I - LOVE - my attitude problem !)

[BufordP]

Aquakat: Layer Saran wrap starting at the bottom and over lap like roofing shingles.

...As good as the DC chapter is you are wimps a little rain never hurt anyone.

Hey, Coop, you think duct tape would work to keep my signs from getting wet? I was thinking of fashioning a rainhat out of duct tape. But the last time I did that I lost almost every hair on my head. Took awhile for the scabs to heal.