Posted on 07/21/2006 9:06:08 PM PDT by kristinn
Once again, the peace activist, free speech advocating hags from Code Pink stole some of the D.C. Chapter's signs outside Walter Reed.
Last week, we debuted Burma Shave style signs in an effort to inform the public that they should not be fooled into thinking the Code Pink demonstrators at Walter Reed love this country. The signs worked as drivers of cars who honked for our patriotic demonstration at the main gate were markedly less inclined to be fooled by the two American flags displayed by the Pinkos and also honk for them.
The Burma Shave signs were having the same effect tonight, much to the frustration of the Pinkos. Around 8:25 p.m., after the signs had been displayed for about an hour, we saw one of the Pinkos stealing the signs off the roofs of our cars. He tried to throw them over the Walter Reed fence and took off running after he realized he'd been found out. He had stolen three of the four signs, two of which he managed to toss over the fence while the third landed right in front of the fence.
A brief scrum took place as both sides rushed to confront each other. Cooler heads quickly prevailed and tempers defused.
The thief explained his actions by saying our signs are "offensive, they're namecalling, they're disrespectful to our women, alright. And we will not have our women disrespected." (This from a man who stands outside a military hospital with people who routinely call our wounded soldiers killers, murderers and war criminals.)
We informed the Pinkos that our use of the word "hags" was not gender specific. We meant it for their "men" also.
Several officers from Walter Reed security went down and warned the Pinkos not to steal our signs again and to not throw things over the fence on to Walter Reed property.
First of all, there is nothing wrong describing Behar and O'Donnell as "loud-mouth east coast liberals". That is precisely what they are and they wouldn't deny it. That is a far cry from calling them "hags" or "harpies." It is a characterization of actions, not an ad hominem attack. As for calling Wilson an idiot, as I recall I was affirming what someone else said about him. If you want to call that a personal attack, go ahead. But if that is the best you can come up with from all my posts, that is pretty weak. And, yes, I have been critical of Ann's personal attacks. I find it "weird" that so many conservatives, who are presumably Christian, see nothing wrong with slander -- so long as it is done by someone on their side.
"When she shows up at Walter Reed to hold a sign or wave HI to a soldier leaving WRAMC I will apologize." Please spare me your lectures about what I need to do to support the troops. I live nowhere near Walter Reed. I am the daughter of a Vietnam War and career AF fighter pilot. I am the wife of a former Air Force officer. I have attended numerous pro-troop rallies in my area. Incidentally, everyone there loved my signs which were positive and devoid of personal attacks. My husband and I purchased 2 nights at a bed and breakfast and a gift certificate to a restaurant to donate to a returning soldier and his wife -- a couple we don't know and have never met. If making personal attacks at the political enemy is what you require as bona fide credentials for support for our troops, I feel sorry for you.
Give me an example in the form of a Burma Shave ad.Here is an ORIGINAL series of "Burma Shave" signs, from www.richardfranke.com:
Give up.
You don't know what you are talking about.
And that is painfully obvious when you offer your advice, (as if you are talking to a cub scout pack) on how to deal with traitorous political adversaries who: 1) fund the people who are killing and maiming our troops, 2) fund the American road tour of Baathist apologists who are accusing our troops of being rapists, murderers and war criminals, 3) stalk members of our (US) administration - demonstrating at their homes and trying to get into their homes, 4) stalk and assault people who disagree with their marxist agenda, 5) disrupt public meetings, hearings, conventions, fundraisers, and even the 2005 inauguration, 6) stalk, harrass, browbeat and insult family members of wounded and KIA soldiers...
Now, please go back to knitting pink mufflers with doe-eyed kittens on them, for the misguided, but loveable gals of Code Pink...
If you see the gals
from Code Pink are crying,
They're only upset
that the bad guys are dying.
I agree that it's a bit too long for small signs, but lame? I thought it was actually great!
I think soccermom was thinking more along the lines of persuading fence-sitters to our side, rather than defending our wounded troops and putting smiles on their faces. I'm guessing here, but I suspect she doesn't realize that the car horns honking are offensive to our soldiers in the hospital and their families. The object of the game is to silence the horns. (Frankly, I think the "finger" Freeper Shave is excellent for that endeavor! LOL)
Cut her some slack, guys. "Hags", while perfect for the intended use at Walter Reed, could be construed in another setting as being as simple as the enemy. I didn't "get it" at first either, until I actually saw the pic, realized that honking meant support for the pinkos, and wanted those horns silenced in the most expedient manner.
Bravo to all of you DC Freepers! I hope to eventually be able to join you and will gladly hold a sign that says "hag" or "hag with an f" or "f with a u", something I would not have thought I'd do (sign with such language not the actual sign-holding itself) prior to reading this thread in its entirity. Bless you all! :)
Bitchy is as bitchy does...
We drove ANSWERs numbers down by 99% using our ideas. You weren't doing squat.
All you have is your claims about your theory. We've got results.
Hope that helps.
As far as the DailyKos, I only read it for insider stock tips, otherwise I don't care.
There are no fence sitters. Soccermom is so invsted in what others think, she sounds like a liberal, because group think is so important to liberals.
The amazing thing is that in a city that voted like 90% (some fantastically high percentage if not 90%) for Kerry has rejected Code Pink.
Once these signs made it clear who THEY are, they get very little public affirmation. It's very perceptable. Also, they are down to the hardcore of CP. And have been for some time now. The same few junior leaders, communists, dedicated America haters and soicial misfits. There's not one you'd want to marry into your family.
The local "peace actiists" don't even support them. It CP and some VFP and that's about it.
You can tell by their body language it's no fun for them. They arrive late and leave promptly, if not a little early. The "newbies" don't come back.
Soccermom demands that we not use the word "hags." We acknowledge her right to say that. I consider her posts now to have as much impact as a bttt.
She should acknowledge our right to demonstrate at Walter Reed in the way we consider to be effective, and gracefully go to another thread.
Glad I don't have to show up at soccer practice where her kids play.
WONDERFUL FREEPER SAVE
WORD SEQUENCES.
CONGRATS!
PLEASE
KEEP UP
THE GOOD WORK.
Oh, Dear!
Helen Thumbas and Babs Strivinginthesand . . .
no real surprise, there . . . guess they still haven't managed to find a few cartons of sanity and several gallons of couth at 7/11.
Traitorous idiots.
Unfortunately for you, you won't do anything but offer your wisdom on how everybody else is doing things all wrong.
It is sad to see a person (you) spend all her online time here cluelessly badmouthing other folks' activism.
Some people see a disgusting injustice and say, "Something oughta be done!" Well, we're here in DC, we saw a disgusting injustice, and we said, "Let's do something about it!"
Not all of our strategy is shared in the open forum; and even if we explained it to you chapter and verse, I don't think it would matter to you.
Your posting history is informative. You have persevorated for months about Ann Coulter and repeatedly and vociferously criticized her writing style. Many folks on those threads grew tired of your behavior; so now you have found a new target to focus all your energies on.
Lucky us.
Keep it up. You're looking alot like a harpie yourself.
tgslTakoma
"As long as they continue to call our soldiers murderers, rapists, war criminals, etc., I'll keep calling Code Pinkos what they are."
= = = =
I VERY MUCH agree.
I can understand the issue of winning over the middle-of-the-roaders--really is a crucial goal and fight.
And, I can understand, as a Christian, avoiding stooping to the level of a lot of traitors and naysayers.
As a shrink, I know that many times, certain folks with certain kinds of mentality and dynamics . . . will not have the least bit of a clue unless and until one speaks, at least somewhat, their language.
I don't know where the fine line is and it's probably not a static line.
Calling Code Pink hags seems rather mild, to me.
To me, something more along the line of her unroyal lowness, her hideous heinous--Bw*tch Shrillery Antoinette de Fosterizer de Marx de Machiavelli de Pol Pot de Stalin de Arafart de Mao . . . de Sade
would be more fitting. But how would that translate to the Code Pink Hags . . . thinking out loud through my fingers here . . .
CODE PINKO TWITCHES
THEIR CAULDRON
STIRRING SWITCHES;
BOILING MORE
POISON AND ACID
TO MAKE UP
FOR THEIR
LIMP AND FLACID.
too something . . . trying again . . .
CODE PREASONOUS TREASONOUS
SOILING THEIR OWN NEST
WITH POOPY IN THE EARS
OF OUR TALLEST AND BEST.
SEEMS LIKE THEIR FEARS
ARE DEMOCRACY WILL WIN
'CAUSE TYRANNY & AL QAEDA
ARE MURDEROUSLY GUILTY
AS CODE PINKO & SIN
too wordy . . .
CODE COMMIES ARE
FLINGING IT AGAIN.
TRAITOROUS EVIL
SHOVED IN THE EARS
OF OUR PROTECTIVE
BRIGHTEST AND BEST
N NEED OF HUGS & REST.
CAN U FINGER THE 1'S
WHO SOIL THEIR OWN NEST?
still too wordy.
CODE COMMIES
R ON THE MARX
AGAIN.
STOP THEIR
MAD STOMP
BY SHOWING
YOUR DISGUST.
CODE COMMIES
R RAGING AGAIN.
SCREAMING TREASON
FOR EVIL TO WIN.
FLUSH THEIR EVILS
BY FINGERING THEIR SIN.
ah well . . . need to move along.
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