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Activists Arrested At White House
Washington Post Staff Writer ^ | Saturday, July 29, 2006 | By Audrey Edwards

Posted on 07/29/2006 7:33:14 PM PDT by Just A Nobody

Five antiwar activists, four of whom have been on a hunger strike for 25 days, were arrested yesterday...

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The arrests occurred after the five blocked the entrance and ignored police orders to move..... Three of the people arrested are members of CodePink, including its co-founder, Diane Wilson of Seadrift, Tex.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...


TOPICS: Extended News
KEYWORDS: activists; antiwar; bookemdano; codepink; commies; hungerstrike; refugeesfromthe60s
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To: tgslTakoma
… the activists had hoped to block the White House gate until Bush and Blair resolved to end the war in Iraq.

The group has issued a nationwide call for people to go on at least a partial hunger strike, if only for a few hours, to show their opposition to the war in Iraq.

Block the White House gate until we agreed to turn tail and allow a massacre of the Iraqis? Do these dimwits really believe the BS they spout?
A “hunger strike” for a few hours. I usually have breakfast between 5:00 and 5:30 AM. I will have a light snack – if I don’t have a beer – around noon. That would equate to a “hunger strike” of close to 7 hours. I generally have supper around 5:00 PM. That is a “hunger strike” of about 5 hours.

Now I have to eat something every hour on the hour so I won’t inadvertently support them? I can’t do it!

61 posted on 07/30/2006 3:24:00 AM PDT by R. Scott (Humanity i love you because when you're hard up you pawn your Intelligence to buy a drink)
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To: Just A Nobody
"I have to have faith," said Wilson, a former shrimp boat captain-turned-environmental activist.

AH... so Gump is Forrest, and Wilson is Lump!

Lump lingered last in line for brains
And the one she got was sorta rotten and insane
Yes, I know...I need coffee...
62 posted on 07/30/2006 4:21:32 AM PDT by Gondring (If "Conservatives" now want to "conserve" our Constitution away, then I must be a Preservative!)
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To: Just A Nobody
twenty-five day hunger strike

Just another reminder why the Compost is best utilized for puppy training...

;-)
63 posted on 07/30/2006 4:25:49 AM PDT by cgbg (MSM aid and comfort to the enemy costs American lives.)
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To: Just A Nobody
Diane Wilson, co-founder of the antiwar group CodePink, was one of five people arrested for blocking a White House entrance. She is also on a hunger strike.

From the looks of that photo in the WAPO, either she can hold out on that hunger strike for another 6 months, or she is the first person in the world who can not eat and gain weight.....

"How's that hunger strike going?"
"NOT TOO GOOD!"

64 posted on 07/30/2006 4:35:34 AM PDT by dirtbiker (I've tried to see the liberal point of view, but I couldn't get my head that far up my a$$....)
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To: proud_yank
"I know it's going to be the catalyst for something, even if this is not going to be big enough to bring them home."

It not even big enough to attract attention! Back in "the day", these things would be wall-to-wall. People and protesters for miles, acres of them.

Today, the children of these loser have grown up, even if their parents haven't, and have NO interest in "reclaiming the glory days" (or is that "daze") of their parent's youth.

Cindy and the rest of the Code Pinkos are 45 minutes past their 15 minutes of fame, and nobody cares anymore...

65 posted on 07/30/2006 4:52:34 AM PDT by dirtbiker (I've tried to see the liberal point of view, but I couldn't get my head that far up my a$$....)
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To: Admin Moderator; Just A Nobody

BURN HER!!!!


66 posted on 07/30/2006 5:00:51 AM PDT by AppyPappy (If you aren't part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem.)
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To: tgslTakoma
This definitely reads like a Press Release. It's so disgusting that the DBM are the PR arm of anyone who is anti-Bush, or anti-USA. After the ruckus in the House Chamber when Maliki was speaking, and Medea was arrested, Code Pink issued a press release that included Medea's cel #. Laura Ingraham must have used it because she had Medea in the studio for a segment of her sub-for-Bill O'Reilly show. Did you see it? Laura was wearing a Code Pink pink suit!! Medea does NOT look good on TV closeups!

And who is the retired Colonel in the article? A friend of Murtha and Kucinich?

Wright, a retired Army colonel, said in a telephone interview after her release that the activists had hoped to block the White House gate until Bush and Blair resolved to end the war in Iraq.

This is such a stupid statement, it does not deserve ink or paper.

67 posted on 07/30/2006 5:12:09 AM PDT by maica (Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle --Abraham Lincoln)
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To: BostonianRightist
Ahem---I joined the NRA this year! We're all better off if you join the GOA.

May I suggest also Second Amendment Sisters--born right here on FR!

BTW, SAS has taken the Boston area by storm--check it out on our website.


68 posted on 07/30/2006 5:38:54 AM PDT by basil (Exercise your Second Amendment Rights--buy another gun today!)
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To: The Spirit Of Allegiance

You are pretty cool yourself ..... with an outstanding car! ;*)


69 posted on 07/30/2006 6:28:59 AM PDT by Just A Nobody (NEVER AGAIN..Support our Troops! www.irey.com and www.vets4Irey.com - Now more than Ever!)
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To: Gondring

LOL!


70 posted on 07/30/2006 6:30:06 AM PDT by Just A Nobody (NEVER AGAIN..Support our Troops! www.irey.com and www.vets4Irey.com - Now more than Ever!)
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To: AppyPappy

HEY!!! Whaddidieverdotou?


71 posted on 07/30/2006 6:32:23 AM PDT by Just A Nobody (NEVER AGAIN..Support our Troops! www.irey.com and www.vets4Irey.com - Now more than Ever!)
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To: Just A Nobody

The lawless show up again.


72 posted on 07/30/2006 6:39:32 AM PDT by bmwcyle (Only stupid people would vote for McCain, Warner, Hagle, Snowe, Graham, or any RINO)
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To: bmwcyle

Anymore, I think it is a case of they never leave.


73 posted on 07/30/2006 7:20:21 AM PDT by Just A Nobody (NEVER AGAIN..Support our Troops! www.irey.com and www.vets4Irey.com - Now more than Ever!)
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To: tgslTakoma

Thanks for the ping.


74 posted on 07/30/2006 10:23:54 AM PDT by GOPJ (Read Al Qaeda's playbook at: http://www.ctc.usma.edu/naji.asp)
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To: maica
After the ruckus in the House Chamber when Maliki was speaking, and Medea was arrested, Code Pink issued a press release that included Medea's cel #. Laura Ingraham must have used it because she had Medea in the studio for a segment of her sub-for-Bill O'Reilly show. Did you see it? Laura was wearing a Code Pink pink suit!! Medea does NOT look good on TV closeups!

I saw that. Medea looks her age in the close-ups (50s), in spite of her superficial little-girl appearance and voice like Cindy Sheehan. She has big horse teeth, and was not doing at all well when Laura held her feet to the fire. Laura's eyes were rolling throughout the interview -- she just cut off Medea's rants at the root and kept asking her the tough questions. Then she dismissed her like yesterday's mashed potatoes. Well done, Laura!

75 posted on 07/31/2006 12:49:38 AM PDT by Albion Wilde (Got freedom? Thank a veteran)
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To: Albion Wilde

One of yesterday's photos on the Dose shows President Bush, as he enters St John's Church, looking away from the church at some kind of disturbing sight. I wonder if these Lafayette Park 'stalkers' even harass him on Sunday mornings?

I hope someone can get a screen cap of Medea. Her 'headshot' needs distribution on every thread that mentions her name.

She has horse teeth, and a receding chin, and major wrinkles. Did the Fox cameraman delete all his filters, or did she eschew make-up for her appearance? Whatever! She is recorded in all her ugliness.


76 posted on 07/31/2006 5:04:37 AM PDT by maica (Creating human shields is a war crime. It is also a Hezbollah specialty.-- Charles Krauthammer)
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