Wk 22 Report - DC Chapter Defense of Walter Reed Wounded Continues(9/16/05) Join us Sept. 23rd!

Note: To see photos of this Freep, please click on the captioned links throughout the thread.

For the twenty-second consecutive week, members of the DC Chapter of Free Republic, FR lurkers, out of state Freepers, Republican Operatives, mil-bloggers and many others gathered across the street from the main gate at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, on the northeast corner of Georgia Avenue and Elder Street, NW, to show our unconditional support for our troops, their mission and our great country.

Our group began assembling on our corner at 6:30pm, and we discovered that the womyn of Code Pink had already been busy little beavers, leafletting the neighborhood with flyers that suggested the neighbors call the police to complain about our patriotic display and demonstration of support for our troops.

Isn't it interesting - If Code PinkOs were ever stopped from hanging banners from US government property, attaching signs and banners on private citizens' property, trespassing in national political conventions, Capitol Hill hearings, and other events, they would stage strip-ins, lie-ins, die-ins, "pink-slip-drops" and issue press releases, to decry the "fascism and brown-shirt tactics" of those who would stop their law-breaking. But those same America-hating, terrorist-funding traitors are suggesting that the WRAMC neighbors try to stifle our right to assemble peacefully on a public streetcorner. Code PinkO wants only one voice heard, theirs. Code PinkOs are desperate to have us shut down, by any means necessary.

As manure piles up in a horse's stall, the Code PinkOs' numbers slowly grew, to near twenty. Their high for the night was twenty five or so. It's difficult to look at them for the extended length of time needed to count their numbers; you have to constantly fight the urge to gouge your eyes out.

Our Freeper Honor Roll for the evening: Tom the Redhunter, BOBTHENAILER (flew in from Michigan), Concrete Bob (drove up from Richmond, VA), Landry Fan, Jack Deth, BillF, BufordP, 3D-Joy, Bmwcyle, Justanobody (drove up from south of Richmond, VA), tgslTakoma, Kristinn, Fraxinus, Tanker Todd and Mrs. Tanker Todd, mil-blogger Andi, Plea Deal, Our Man in Washington, Annapolis Mom and her daughter, Bill from MD, lurker Kathy from VA, lurker Janine, lurker Joan of Olney. Forgive me, and yell out if I've forgotten you; everyone who stands up for our troops deserves recognition.

The Code PinkOs and their uninformed supporters included the regulars; Gael Murphy, Kevin "Maimed for a Lie" McCarron, Laura Costas, Squeegee Boy, Blue Shirt Ponytail Guy, Little Bicycle Guy, and an assortment of admirers of Gael Murphy.

So, again this week Code PinkOs' old favorite signs, "Enlist Here and Die For Halliburton" and "Maimed For a Lie," were still in Gael Murphy's DC basement, along with her cauldron, pickled newt eyes, and love letters from Slobo.

Instead, the master deceivers of Code PinkO handed out signs bearing seemingly supportive messages, including:

Our group was large enough that we were able to deploy both of our MOABs for the second week in a row. On the southeast corner, which we keep reserved for our anti-Code Pink messages, we deployed the "Code Pink Kills American Troops, Giving Money To Terrorists" MOAB, which we first used on March 19, 2005 in Fayetteville, NC - much to Gael Murphy and Medea Benjamin's dismay. Fraxinus, Tom the Redhunter, Tanker Todd and Mrs. Tanker Todd all spent time on the southeast corner, telling passers-by about Code Pink's funding the very terrorists who are helping to fill the beds at WRAMC with wounded soldiers. Code PinkOs seemed unhappy to see the pink MOAB these past two weeks. Cry me a river, PinkOs.

A little spat between Squeegee Boy and Little Bicycle Guy?
SQUEEGE: "I told you! Gael says no more signs that say how we really feel about the $#!#*& soldiers."
LBG: "Oh yeah?! Well, she said I'm cuter than you. AND she also said that I make the best tin-foil hats of anyone she's ever known."
SQUEEGE: "So what! I gave her a photo of me in my Speedo, and she said, 'Wow!' and said she needed to introduce me to Midge."
And so the drama continues...

Lefties fight over their US flag...
LOSER 1: "I'm not gonna TOUCH that flag! You hold it; I had to hold it last week, and I still have the rash to prove it."
LOSER 2: "I'm not gonna hold it either. It smells like urine."
LOSER 3: "Hey, let's get Squeegee to hold it."
LOSER 2: "He won't hold it. There's only one thing Squeegee holds, and it ain't a flag, if you know what I mean."

I know you fellow Freepers have been out there tonight and I have been with you in spirit. I look forward to your after action report. God bless you all!

Here is a post I found from the MRC website from an outraged soldier. It is, of course, for the troops and not the media, that you have been sacrificing your Friday nights.

“… I am a reservist out of Dallas, Texas, who is currently deployed to Afghanistan in support of Operation Enduring Freedom. I also was deployed to Iraq for one year in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. I was part of the initial invasion into Iraq. During my first deployment to Iraq, my MP unit was called up. I volunteered for this deployment because I felt I had more to give my country and felt it was the right thing to do. I would like to comment on the article you wrote in reference to the Code Pink group at Walter Reed Medical Center. I first saw your article on the Sean Hannity website and then listened to Marc Morano’s interview with Mr. Hannity via-pod cast from here in Afghanistan. (‘Anti-War Protests Target Wounded at Army Hospital,’ August 25)

When I read the article I was assuming that the group was just close to the Medical Center. But when I listened to your interview with Mr. Hannity and your confrontation of the Code Pink lady, it became a lot clearer. I was taken aback by her and her group’s arrogance to what they are really doing there and who they are actually hurting. To carry the signs, heckle the troops and to have mock caskets with an American flag over them is beyond protest. It is downright harassment of my brothers and sisters of the United States military who have been injured.

By the end of the interview I was shaking and was even in tears for my fellow brave soldiers who not only have to endure the loss of a limb(s), loss of sight, or even worse – the loss of a battle buddy (fellow soldier serving with your team). I know the guilt that soldiers feel when they are not taken or injured but someone else is. I feel guilt now that I made it through Iraq and now half way through my tour in Afghanistan and yet I am fine. Over 2,000 of my fellow soldiers have not made it. I can only imagine what my fellow injured soldiers are feeling as they look out that window and see the Code Pink group. I then went from thinking of my fellow soldiers to thinking about my family and what they would have to go through if I were injured and the emotional stress and guilt they would feel that they were unable to protect their 34-year-old son, even though I made a decision to protect my family and country. …

Even though I disagree with what all of these groups such as Code Pink, Moveon.org and anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan stand for, my fellow soldiers and I have fought, died, been injured and are still fighting for their right to protest and speak their mind. But what angers and hurts me as a soldier is that they parade their anti-war views in the face of my brothers and sisters who are recovering from the same battlefield that I fought on and am still fighting on as I type this e-mail. Is there no honor or dignity left in the anti-war movement? Do they have no shame? Do they have no integrity? Do they have no heart? Do they have no soul? I can answer that with a simple no! How can they say they support the troops but protest where they try to recover from war? You interviewed one gentleman, and I use that term loosely, who stated ‘If I was injured I would want someone to speak for me like this.’ Well let me tell him something, we do not want you to speak for us and we do not need you to speak for us! …

In closing, I would like to thank you for bringing their conduct to the public eye, not only in your article, but on ‘The Sean Hannity Show.’ I actually began to have some faith in the media again when I heard Morano stand up for us soldiers like he did. I wish there was something that I could do to personally thank him for your actions. But I am going to ask that you please do not stop speaking of these actions at Walter Reed. Please find a way to help stop the protesting at Walter Reed. Please write more articles, ask why they were granted permission, get public officials to speak out on the record and petition people to withdraw their right to protest within a certain distance from a military hospital. It scares me that next will be a fellow soldier's funeral. That is the next step! Please, I ask that you continue to investigate this protest and their rights to be there! Not to stop people’s freedom of speech, but protect and respect my fellow soldiers.”

Sgt. Mark Leach, U.S. Army Afghanistan

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