Posted on 12/20/2005 9:54:46 PM PST by BillF
Edited on 12/20/2005 10:25:41 PM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
On Dec 16, we had a great turnout of FReepers from the DC Chapter and beyond. We were happy to have warmer temperatures than the last few weeks, but patches of snow and ice remained on the ground. This was FReep #35 as FReepers have countered the anti-troop hate group Code Pink at their weekly obscene anti-war blood dance outside Walter Reed Army Medical Center for 9 months now. As happened last week, Santa Claus attended, as did many of his helpers, and a couple of his reindeer. Police were out in force, apparently called in by one or more of the Pinkos, despairing of the verbal thrashing that we had given them last week.
Code Pink is truly stuck in a quagmire as FReepers severely hinder the Pinkos' cruel attempts to manipulate severely wounded soldiers and their relatives in hopes of finding those who will join the anti-war movement and break faith with the troops still fighting a ruthless enemy. (Indeed, Code Pink seems to be phasing out most of their participation in the protest and turning it over to other groups.)
Please join us this Friday, Dec. 23, at 6:30 pm per details below. Please also bump this thread to keep it on top. 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" (search for the word "mothers" to get to the right location). Then, the Pinkos demonstrate at the hospital and pretend that they support our troops.
Sean Hannity and Oliver North are supposed to go to Walter Reed on Dec. 23, but it is unclear if they will be there at the same time as the FReep. Some reports, as yet unverified by me, have the two of them being at Walter Reed at the same time as the FReep.
Although many of the troops will have gone home to their families this weekend, some will still be at Walter Reed. We will be there for the remaining wounded heroes who cannot travel or choose not to travel.
It was too cold for pizza eating on the corner this night, but through tgslTakoma’s generosity, Freepers enjoyed hot chocolate and coffee. The hot beverages were delicious, but would have failed to warm a Pinko’s icy heart.
The honor roll of those in attendance (lurkers are marked with an asterisk*):
Albion Wilde, Alex1 , Allison*, ALlRightAllTheTime, Christopher Lincoln, Cindy*, Coop, Dustin10thMountain, FonzMan357, Fraxinus, Hoodlum91, Iraqikurd, Jack Deth, Jim*, Joan of MD*, John*, Justanobody, Landry Fan, Lauren*, Oscar*, PleaDeal, Sisku Hanne, tgslTakoma, Tina*, trooprally [Mr., Mrs. trooprally did not attend], and BillF. [1. Alex is a FReeper, but I wrote his FReeper name as Lord Khamd and there is no such FReeper.]
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. Also, let me know if I publish your photo without your name or, worse, I mislabel you in a photo.
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Photos were taken by PleaDeal (click here for her report and full outstanding collection of photos) and me. The photographer can be determined from the name of the photo. You can see that on hyperlinked photos (i.e., borders at edge) by running your mouse over them. On other photos, right click on the photo and click properties. The key is this: photos of PleaDeal begin with "Dpleal," and photos of mine begin with "DSCN."
See also the great blogs of some of our regulars: Landry Fan (click here and go to the December 17 entry) has a report on the FReep with some photos; tgslTakoma (click here) and Tom the Redhunter (click here); although neither of the last two have published an account of Friday's fun FReep.]
Opposed to our 26 patriots, the Pinkos managed to get at most 24 America-hating traitors and their well-meaning, but incredibly-misguided, dupes. The dupes do not realize that their Pinko organizers, who claim to support our troops, call our troops "killers," endorse "the Iraqi resistance" (those killing and wounding our troops, see here and here), and have given money to "the other side" in Fallujah.
An early view of the MOAB (Mother-of-All-Banners) before most FReepers had arrived. Santa on right.
Hoodlum91, Albion Wilde, and ALlRightAllTheTime.
Alex, Lauren, and FonzMan357 added their great enthusiasm
Joan as Santa Claus, Alex just behind, Lauren to the right, and Mr. trooprally at the right end of the MOAB
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Photo combo made by PleaDeal to illustrate the police presence. |
The big story tonight was the heavy police presence (photo left). There were at least two police cars parted nearby for almost the entire time. There was a third police car parked for much of the time. Several police cars occasionally patrolled around the area and two officers walked down the Code Pink side of the street. Since this police activity all occurred after a certain Weasel (or some such rodent) of a Pinko blogger, complained on his blog that the FReepers should "be quiet" and act like we are standing next to a hospital, it's a pretty safe bet that one of the Pinkos called in some egregiously false police report about the FReepers during our weekly dueling protests. Absent that, there is no way that such a heavy police presence would appear. (However, we welcome the police presence to keep the Pinkos from repeating various illegal acts that they have committed in the past.) The irony of this Pinko complaint cannot be overstated. Code Pink made itself famous by shouting to disrupt a speech of the President, a speech of the Vice President, hearings run by FCC Chairman Michael Powell, and Senate confirmation hearings for John Bolten, just to name a few instances where they have disrupted the activities of elected officials. Yet the Pinkos, an unelected anti-troop hate group (they called our troops "killers" {search for the word "mothers" to get to the right location}and a few weeks back the Pinko Arse Wipe Guy referred to our troops as murderers), complain that we are disrupting their "vigil" by shouting from across the street. The laughable complaint was made by Gael Murphy in the Washington Post (click here for the story and click here for the related FR thread) a few months back. Now, they have apparently brought in the police to try to stifle our peaceful and lawful dissent from their treasonous activities. Adding to the irony, Code Pink sent three disruptors with "Kill the Poor" signs into our midst during our first Walter Reed counter-protest to them. One of them ranted on about how he liked to kill people and claimed to have a gun in his pocket. See here: LIVE ACTION REPORT: Code Pink's Gail Murphy sends thugs into peaceful DC Chapter counterprotest In a development related to the Pinkos' complaint against us, the DC serial arsonist, who set 45 fires including one that killed a person, has complained that another prisoner is smoking cigarettes in a cell near him. |
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Patriotic snowman with police car at right.
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At any rate, the police were professional and courteous, as almost all DC officers are. A non-uniformed officer in a marked car called me over to talk to him. He questioned me about who the two groups were. I explained the background of the protests. I asked why the police were there, was there a complaint? The officer said that he was part of the division that grants permits and that it was just a routine review or monitoring of the situation. It may be that his superiors just told him to check out the situation, without telling him of a complaint lodged at a higher level. Alternately, he may just have been withholding the info as they investigate the dueling protests. Unfortunately, a short time later, a different uniformed officer told Tom the Redhunter, outside of my hearing, that he should not shout at the Pinkos or go to their side. Tom told the officer that he had no intention of going to their side and he stopped shouting for a time. The Pinkos had Perry Guitar Guy strumming his instrument as they sang, despite the Pinkos' "QUIET ZONE" sign a few feet away. PleaDeal suggested to me that, if we couldn't yell at them because it annoyed them, they shouldn't be allowed to sing because it annoyed us. I returned to the non-uniformed officer, who apparently was the immediate supervisor on the scene. I told him that one of our members had been told by the other officer not to shout at the Pinkos because it annoyed them. Therefore, I suggested that fairness would dictate they should be told to halt their singing because it annoyed us. He said that they (i.e., the Pinkos) had free speech and so do the FReepers. I said that my understanding was that free speech also allowed us to shout at them, as long as we don't try to incite a physical confrontation such as by yelling "Come on over here and I'll kick your ass," He seemed to agree that we could chant and shout at them. |
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Sisku Hanne and Hoodlum91 Camera-shy Justanobody and Iraqikurd |
The upshot of this was that, a short time later, tgslTakoma got us singing "God Bless America" very loudly. A short time later, we unleashed full verbal fury on the traitors and their dupes, shouting probably more than we have on any other night. We repeatedly used Doctor Raoul's great chant: SHAME ON CODE PINK. LEAVE THE WOUNDED ALONE. We chided them about the cancelled Cuban trip, but suggested that they could SWIM TO CUBA. I shouted "Don't worry. The sharks don't eat leftists because the leftists are too bitter." We also noted the Chief DC Pinko Gael Murphy was absent again. I asked if she was still on the European tour with Cindy SeeMeSeeMe or if Murphy had returned to her Florida condo. We chided them about the cancelled Cuban trip, but suggested that they could SWIM TO CUBA. We also noted the Chief DC Pinko Gael Murphy was absent again. I asked if she was still on the European tour with Cindy SeeMeSeeMe or had Murphy returned to her Florida condo. Hoodlum91 shouted across at the Weasel "Hey Mr. Sensitive, did we hurt your feelings?" Sisku Hanne, doing her great impression of Goldmember from Austin Powers shouted at the Weasel, "If you have a FReeper issue, here's a FReeper tissue." This same Weasel writes in his blog that he fell asleep on the bus to the Pinko blood dance with a cup of coffee on his lap. He woke up with the coffee spilled across his lap, but apparently has not yet brought in Jackie Chiles per Kramer's spilled coffee suit in Seinfeld. (BTW, Halliburton and Diebold fixed the Weasel's coffee to spill.) The Weasel laughably challenges us to be quiet during their psych-op against our war-wounded heroes. Hey, Code Pink, how about completely renouncing your unlawful disruptions that violated the free speech rights of the President, the Vice President, their audiences, and countless others and apologizing to those elected leaders? If the Pinkos won't let elected leaders and political candidates give speeches and hold hearings without disruption, why should we defer to the unelected Pinkos, who proudly endorse the "Iraqi resistance," as they call the terrorists killing our noble troops, blowing up innocent Iraqi civilians, and loping off the heads of non-Iraqi civilians? Then they run a psych-op against war-wounded patients. You can't get much lower than Pinkos, but they want us to keep quiet.
Of course, unlike the Pinkos, we don't try to infiltrate them or interfere with their freedom of speech. We are committed to keeping our actions peaceful and lawful, but we will maintain our dissent from their treason.
We do try to get between the evil Pinkos and the war-wounded troops that are their intended targets. Now that the Weasel has complained about our noise, we know exactly what to do. When you're getting flak, it means that you are on target. FReepers are on target.
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Photo of Weasel from Nov.11, as taken by |
Cindy and Tom the Redhunter
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On a more pleasant note than the Pinkos' attempt to keep children from getting the toys that they want, the "Cindy" that the Walter Reed patients refer to as "the good Cindy" joined us. (You can guess who the troops refer to as "the bad Cindy.") Although clad in pink, good Cindy is really for the troops. Cindy runs Operation Second Chance, an outstanding charity that helps wounded troops. Tina, wife of a Walter Reed patient, joined us for a time. Her husband had wanted her to thank us for being there. We asked her to thank her husband for his service on behalf of us. A couple soldiers also stopped by to thank us for supporting them and we thanked them for defending the country. We were honored, as we often are, to have Dustin10thMountain and Oscar, both veterans of the Iraq war, join us. |
Snowman is waay too easy on the Pinkos, police car at left |
Coop, Landry Fan, and Tom the Redhunter
Early on in the FReep, Fraxinus points to the Pinkos
Photos of the leftists are all from my camera, meaning that they are software enhanced for brightness and contrast. It causes the Pinkos to look like cartoon characters, which is somehow appropriate.
Pink Hat Lady at right. Note QUIET ZONE sign, which somehow did not deter Perry Pinko Guitar Guy from playing.
A wider view of the leftists.
Note how the Pinkos have again taken to illegally putting their signs on the fence, which is federal property. I don't recall their
their signs on the top of the fence before.
QUIET ZONE sign on left (with Arse Wipe Guy just below), but Perry Pinko strums his guitar on right, above the three candles.
Arse Wipe, still stuck on stupid, continues using his illegible sign
After the Pinkos had vacated the Northwest corner, Santa and other patriots reclaimed it for America
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Bus of wounded heroes returns from Fran O'Brien's |
The highlight of evening occurs after the Pinkos are mostly gone. Some Pinkos were huddled with their backs to the street when the bus of wounded heroes returns from a free meal at Fran O'Brien's, a fancy DC restaurant. The FReepers chanted USA, USA and the troops responded with waves and thumbs up signals of gratitude. Let's help our wounded heroes maintain a positive attitude. We absolutely must keep the pressure on Code Pink and keep showing the wounded troops 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.
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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. At the very least, we can hinder their psychological warfare operation against the wounded troops. 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.
Special thanks to Landry Fan, who helped with proofreading the report and suggested content changes. Any remaining errors were probably added by me, after her review.
Can you sacrifice an evening to honor the much greater sacrifice that the troops are making for our freedom?
FReepers will continue FReeping the Code Pinkos every Friday night until they stop their obscene blood dance outside the hospital of our war-wounded. If you agree with me that it is outrageous for Code Pinkos to demonstrate at a hospital with war-wounded troops inside, please come out and join us in a peaceful counter-protest.
One of the amputees told me months ago that he doesn't want other wounded troops coming into Walter Reed and seeing only the Code Pinkos at the gates. He explained that the FReeper presence there was extremely important to counter the Pinkos. Please join us and be a part of our peaceful counter-protest to Code Pink.
Please don't let the troops think that regular Americans are too busy with TV, ballgames, movies and other recreation to peacefully counter America-hating leftists.
Being there with us in spirit is great, but we need people to hold the MOAB (Mother of all banners), other signs, and flags. Maybe you can't come every week, but please make it your patriotic duty to join us at least once in the near future.
As always, the DC Chapter's rules for protesting will be in effect.
Briefly, they are: No violence. No profanity. No racism. No provocations. Obey the law. Treat all law enforcement officers with respect.
6:30 pm to 9:30 pm.
Walter Reed Army Medical Center, 7200 Georgia Ave., at Elder St., NW
Code Pinkos have been setting up on the southwest corner of the Georgia Ave/Elder St intersection. We've been setting up on the northeast corner across the street from Walter Reed's entrance gate. Now, their permit purportedly covers both corners on the west side of the street.
On street parking is usually easy to find. The location is about 6 or 7 blocks from Takoma metro station and is walkable, but it is best if you get a ride. If you want a ride, FReepmail me as far in advance as possible, preferably including your cellphone number. If you wait until Friday afternoon, I may be away from my computer.
I wish I were in that side of the country. Unfortunately I am stuck on the Left Coast, but I am with you guys in spirit. Kick some Code Pinko rump!
It was great to meet you and your friends.
Hope that you can FReep with us again sometime.
Great job! Those people are the worst of the worst. There is nothing more despicable than a bunch of aging hippies trying to add salt to the wounds of already injured soldiers. It's good to see that good men won't "do nothing" in the face of this depravity.
As a teensy nitpick, the only minor gripe I have with these posts is this line:
"...embarrassment may cause the leftists to stop these outrageous morale-damaging ... demonstrations at the hospital"
The cretins you courageously face down week after week are capable of neither embarrassment nor shame. They are the worst sort of Commie subversive, the kind who threw urine on our returning troops thirty years ago. They are lower than the basest bottom-feeding organism, people who exist solely for the purpose of degrading those who protect them and their right to be complete idiots. They are too indoctrinated to ever see the error of their ways and only need to be exposed and discredited (and they're lucky that I'm not the AG or they would have been up on treason charges the second that check to the Fallujah terrorists cleared).
Once again, bravo! How you manage not to puke your guts out at the sight of these people is just beyond me.
FReepmail me to get on or off the list.
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 signs) demonstrations at the hospital.
Our troops are bold enough to face bullets, mortars, IEDs, and suicide bombers. Are you bold enough to get out from behind the keyboard, FReep in person, and stand up for the wounded troops at Walter Reed?
If you're in the DC area and don't have family or work considerations that keep you from FReeping, can you spare a few hours on a Friday night? Will you?
Thanks you for your kind words.
Certainly, the Pinko regulars are immune to embarassment. However, some of the people who show up on the Pinko side once, never come back after they hear us chanting SHAME ON CODE PINK, LEAVE THE WOUNDED ALONE.
I love you DC Freepers. Someday I'm gonna come and meet some of you! These pinkos are so lost. Even though we're winning, even though Iraq voter turnout was spectacular and they are embracing freedom..... the anti war crowd continues to behave like complete idiots. I guess the only way for them to feel they have any significance is to keep looking stupid. How long after your team has lost do you hang out at the ball park?
All DC FReepers join Bill and the others! It is truly habit forming to counter the pinkos. And remember.....NEVER AGAIN!
MERRY CHRISTMAS!
Sarge, thanks for your service.
That's the correct Coop and the Cindy in the photo. Cindy runs the troop helping charity Operation Second Chance. To the best of my knowledge, she is not a FReeper.
The FReeper with the screen name Cindy (BTW, who is no doubt a great person) is NOT the same Cindy as the one who runs Operation Second Chance.
Cindy had an asterisk * in the attendance list because that is not a screen name.
Are you still deployed abroad? Thanks for my freedom!
And you put the "*" in there, too. Yet another case of CRS on my part.
Still here in Ramadi, and here for a while to come.
Love seeing the unfolding saga at Walter Reed. Keep the updates a-comin'!
Thank you for all your hard work!
Merry Christmas Old Sarge! Keep your head down and stay safe. Thank you for your service. You are greatly appreciated!
LOL! Why don't you tell us what you REALLY think Wind!?!
*ahem* sure wish some weren't so camera shy! :-)
LOL! How are ya? I despise my picture taken. The Santa hat helps for now.
Ping!
I'm doing well but sure wish I could be there with all of you! Our code pinkos don't play the guitar! LOL
Just, thanks for the kind words. LF really improved the whole tone of the report with her suggestions.
I want you to know how much I (and, if I may be so presumptious to speak for others, the FReepers at WR) appreciate your incredible dedication to drive as far as you do every week in order to support the troops.
I'm proud to stand with a great patriot like you!
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