Posted on 07/19/2006 4:09:03 PM PDT by Albion Wilde
WASHINGTON, DC, July 14, 2006--We couldn't help but notice, as daylight stays later during the summer months, that many of the southbound cars passing the DC Chapter's support-the-troops rally every Friday night at Walter Reed not only honk their horns for us, they also see the Code Pink anti-war "vigil" down the street, assume they are with us and honk for them, too.
From the other direction, most drivers passing the Pinkos first don't beep for them, but beep loudly for us -- drivers from every walk of life and of every ethnicity and color. Now that we have shamed the Pinkos into the appearance of supporting the troops, their signs are a garbled mess of contradictory messages "for" the troops but against the war and the administration. The hairy, unwashed Code Pinkos started their "peace vigil" at the gates of Walter Reed Army Medical Center 65 weeks ago, and trumpeted it on their web site. When we threw them off the gates 25 weeks ago and took over all four corners where the soldiers, their families and caregivers enter and leave Walter Reed, Code Pink did not have the good PR sense to announce a new location -- say, near the White House or the Capitol, where war policy is made. No, they accepted their ignominious demotion and just stopped writing about it on their web site. Of cars that do beep, about nine-tenths beep for us. So it was high time Code Pink's unearned honks from confused drivers whizzing by would come to a stop.
This week, when Pinko Allison Yorra drove by, she arrogantly flipped the bird at the nearest FReepers, only to turn the corner and face a humiliating "Burma-Shave" jingle already in place between our FReep and her "vigil":
There's nothing like a successful advertising campaign, especially in America. Worked like magic! Unwanted beeps disappeared with a simple, easy-to-assemble solution! (Some assembly required.) Kristinn, tgslTakoma and BufordP brainstormed this campaign. (For an animated history of the famous "Burma-Shave" sign campaign, click here.)
Never underestimate the importance of street FReeping to support the troops. An young African-American mother encouraged her daughter to approach Plea Deal and Albion Wilde to ask what we FReepers were doing, and nodded in approval as we explained to the wide-eyed 6-year-old that "the people down the street" were mean to the soldiers in the hospital, so we come out to let the soldiers know we love them and we thank them for fighting for our country.
As a blond woman from Minnesota with her 9-year-old daughter and 5-year-old son was leaving the hospital gates, Kristinn invited them over to share some pizza, cookies and cold water. Her husband, a sergeant with the 101st Airborne, was injured in Iraq on 2 July. "By the 4th he was here," she related. "That's when I arrived." He lost one leg to a bomb and had the other amputated once he arrived. "But that's OK," she offered. "Both injuries were below the knee. He's not paralyzed, has no internal injuries or injury to the face or head. The military is taking great care of us...the Red Cross, and the ladies who make quilts...the first night we were here, my daughter just wrapped herself in one of those quilts," she continued. "The Wounded Warrior program has been awesome -- they're the ones who flew us here. And the Yellow Ribbon Fund -- they are going to give us a loaner car."
Not all patients in Walter Reed are combat veterans. A man who thanked us for what we were doing was the husband of a servicewoman. Their young daughter was being treated in WRAMC for an illness. Routinely, troops leaving the base whoop and holler, give us the high sign, or thrust digital cameras out the window or sunroof of their cars to capture some of our FReep.
A college freshman with a green Boston University T-shirt wandered among us and also amongst Code Pink. He told us he was given a grant to do a documentary on war protests, and several of us reminded him several times that ours is not a protest, but a demonstration of love, support and affection for our troops. Maica related, "He said he was given enough money to be here for 25 days -- room, board and transportation. He asked me how do I feel about the First Amendment? Lefties always think of everything in terms of feelings. I told him, "Freedom of speech is stronger in the United States than anywhere else in the world, and I've lived in many countries. Nowhere is it as free as in America, except on college campuses. There, you have speech codes," she said, referring to the oppressive, leftist political correctness that has silenced conservative opinion at universities as the Vietnam-obsessed, anti-war Boomer generation has dominated faculties since the 60s.
FReepers present this evening included Apple Blossom, bmwcyle, daughterofTGSL, BufordP, Cindy-True-Supporter, Fraxinus, Freeping_In_Silence, Gretchen15, GunsAreOK, InGodWeTrust1, Jimmy Valentine's Brother, Just A Nobody, Kristinn, Maica, PleaDeal, tgslTakoma, Trooprally [Mr and Mrs], Trueblackman, Zophiel and myself. Lurkers included Apple Blossom's daughter, Ashley, Bill from MD, bmwcyle's daughter, Gavin, Megan and Ty.
As always, our evening is not complete until several buses return to the Walter Reed base, bringing wounded troops and family members back from errands, entertainments or from dinners donated by appreciative restauranteurs and other grateful Coalition supporters.
In conclusion, the Pinkos were punked again by the pizza-eating, troop-welcoming, mission-supporting, flag-waving DC Chapter FReepers. Kristinn observed that Code Pink's fasting motto appears to be, "It ain't cheatin' if you're Fleetin'." Jimmy Valentine's Brother shouted out to the starving ladies, "What's the matter, you run out of Jamba Juice?" They even quit early, at 8:55. Code Pink leader Gael Murphy was later observed speeding up Georgia Avenue, gripping the wheel, grim-faced .
Starved for attention, starved for a clear conscience as they scarf down the goodies during their phony hunger strike, and now, listening to the near-constant beeping, whistling, cheering and woo-hooing of the passing cars for our demonstration -- not for theirs, they are starved for a honk.
WHO MEET A MENSCH SAY "I SURRENDER" IN PERFECT FRENCH BURMA SHAVE
PINK IS PRETTY ON A DOLL BUT CHOCOLATE CHIPS LOOK BEST OF ALL BURMA SHAVE
PEDAL PUSHERS IN SHOCKING PINK MAKE DESERT CAMMIES LOOK LIKE MINK BURMA SHAVE
FALCON DRIVERS IN THE SKY BLEW THE Z-MAN EIGHT MILES HIGH BURMA SHAVE
KEEP AWAY FOLKS WHO'D TAKE YOUR RIGHTS AWAY BURMA SHAVE
GLOBE AND ANCHOR "INTERFERE" WITH FOLKS WHO'D BRING THEIR CAR BOMBS HERE BURMA SHAVE
IF ABU AYMAN BOUGHT A PACKET CODE PINK WOULD RAISE AN AWFUL RACKET BURMA SHAVE
IF FOR VIRGINS YOU ARE HOT JUST HOLD STILL FOR THE LITTLE RED DOT BURMA SHAVE
WHEN FIRST HE SAW A GREEN BERET BURMA SHAVE
GIRLS IN PINK
GLOBE AND ANCHOR
OLD OSAMA RAN AWAY
lentulusgracchus, those sign ideas are terrific! Thanks for posting!
Alright! Got here via the newer topic about the sign vandal.
Oh come on now TR, truth is truth and a little humor helps.
It must be a north-south thing. We in the south refrain from personal comments, especially towards the opposition.
link: http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20060726/capt.3429e74654f24bae9f9c5a47755601ac.us_iraq_protestor_dclb01.jpg?x=380&y=298&sig=QIwLaD9_pgWO00K4T1c5Ow--
Having lived and having relatives in both north and south, I agree; it's a north-south thing. There are advantages and disadvantages to both ways. The northern candor can keep the air cleared and help people grow, but too much bluntness can damage people's feelings who work together or have to be in the same family. The southern way can keep relations smooth and encourage stable communities, but at times it can be untrustworthy, such as the smile to someone's face and the slice-up behind the back; worse, it can be quite damaging to the inner self of the person who denies outrages and offenses in order to appear polite.
In Code Pink's case, there is no parallel whatsoever to sparing the feelings of one's mother. Hopefully, your mother is not dedicated to your community's defeat, demoralization, overthrow and submission, as are the Code Pinks.
Code Pink's leaders are paid Communist or Green Party agitators who have brazenly lowered the tone of politics throughout the Bush administration, such as their frequent disruptions of solemn events like the Inaugural, various meetings in the Capital (like the one the other day with the Iraqi head of state), the State of the Union Address, press conferences with the Vice President and the Secretary of Defense -- you name it. They support the politics of political indoctrination in schools to make them "safe" for "gay kids", but they have made the city of Washington an unsafe place for the elected officials on whom the nation depends for its safety to live in, by holding demonstrations at the official's personal residences.
They are hardened operatives who use naive lefties nostalgic for the 60s as human shields -- even rounding up people from homeless shelters to populate their agitprop activities. Their phony demonstrations are not about the war, they are about disrupting the free-market democratic republican system and replacing it with totalitarian socialism.
Trust me, their leaders richly deserve the heat. And the mindless tools who can't take it just may become discouraged from coming back to aim their indecency at our wounded soldiers and their families -- and then claim to "support the troops." As we say in the Border States, that's b******t! Should we respond, "Why, bless your heart, I don't smell a thing!"?
Here's one of them now, in the middle with the white shirt, two weeks back, when he realized the person taking his picture was a wounded soldier (Elijah Allen) from Walter Reed:
No, that's Medea Benjamin, one of the primary national leaders of Code Pink.
Ping to post 109.
Marvelous!!!!
How would a southern lady express herself regarding the behavior of Medea Benjamin insulting all Americans by disrupting the Speech of the invited Prime Minister of Iraq to the Joint Session of Congress in one of the most hallowed rooms of our country? I am sincerely interested in learning, because I am not in favor of name-calling, as a general rule.
Remember I am asking you about people who stood in front of the entrance to Walter Reed Army Medical Center with signs that said "maimed for a lie," and similar messages. They began their "vigils" to coincide with the time that transport ambulances would arrive from medivac planes that had landed at Andrews Air Force Base.
Never Again!
Bears repeating...thank you!
You know that and I know that, but the casual passerby DOESN'T know that.
So, you can solve the dilemma by adding one more sign:
their hearts! |
And again, and again till it sinks in.
[Mrs T]
Exactly as you have done (up until now).
The four corner control and your predicatable presence is enough.
As far as clarifying their infiltration for passerbys, you could put up a sign that says "Leaving American Zone: Entering hippy anti-war protestor zone." Or some such.
What dilemma? We don't see a dilemma, TaxRelief. It's usually the left that misunderestimates the American people.
Your dogged insistence that you are right and we are wrong is starting to remind me of that Saturday Night Live episode with Phil Hartman as the washed-up actor and Jon Lovitz as the movie executive trying to tell him he's not going to be rehired. After the executive tells him he's fired six or seven times, the actor still says, ""Give it to me straight!":
I've given it to you straight, and so have others. It's good to know you are not one of the hypocritical Southerners, but please direct your criticisms at those who have the fundamental indecency to protest the war at a military hospital.
Should I come to tomprrow's get together in my dark suit, in case she needs to be removed again?
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