Golden Gate Bridge closed to bicyclists, pedestrians over protest

San Francisco Chronicle ^ | 1/1/7 | Sabin Russell and Glen Martin

[SmithL]

SAN FRANCISCO -- The Golden Gate Bridge is open again to pedestrians and bikers after a hours-long closure earlier today.

Highway Patrol and San Francisco police officers closed the bridge after a small group of peace protesters tried to march across the span.

CodePink, an anti-war group, planned to walk across the bridge around noon today. The group, with members gathered at both ends of the bridge, was stopped by officers.

After about three hours, officials arrested CodePink leader Medea Benjamin and a handful of other protesters for trespassing.

[CoolPapaBoze]

Wow, I never noticed the resemblance between Truman Capote and Bob Hope.

[sauropod]

Susie Benjamin ping.

[sauropod]

Who pays for them to be shuttled across the country?

Sheesh!

[tubebender]

officials arrested CodePink leader Medea Benjamin...

Anyone got a spare bulldozer...

[albee]

Re: Pics on posts 20 & 21.

Time and aging has not been kind to this exceptionally ugly Moonbat!

[rockrr]

I'm pretty sure ol Ben had nicer teeth...

[albee]

Hey.....that is an awful insult to Ben Franklin!

[PSYCHO-FREEP]

She went into a Plastic Surgeon for Botox on her face....He thought she meant Buttox.

[albee]

"She went into a Plastic Surgeon for Botox on her face....He thought she meant Buttox."

Good one!

LOL!!!!!

[El Gato]

I knew I'd seen that face somewhere before.

Old Ben was very much a heterosexual, and quite the ladies man, especially among the European women, when he was representing American interests in Britain before the Revolution, and in France during and after it.

I doubt that even Lesbians find this one attractive.

[Criminal Number 18F]

These look like the Five Lee Sistsrs: Ug, Home, Beast, Ghast, and Gnar.

Where's Cindy Sheehan and her "absolute moral authority?" Has even the press figured out that there are 2,999 other bereaved mothers that are not moonbats?

These protests are never about peace. They're about ego. This is the consequence of "self-esteem" education. These losers are a complete waste of sperm and egg, yet their self-esteem is through the roof.

Even the reporters don't seem very impressed, and being reporters, they're on the same side as the moonbats.

I've had that horrid gap-toothed crone gaping at me the whole time I was typing this... can't somebody either napalm her (burn scars would be an improvement) or put my eyes out with an ice pick... thanks in advance.

d.o.l.

Criminal Number 18F

[Tamar1973]

She must be one of those "professional" protestors. LOL!

[Not now, Not ever!]

I can guaranty you will wish you were blind After a date with it.

[Beckwith]

useful idiots for the likes of Media Benjamin

Medea Benjamin is no useful idiot or crackpot but a hard core anti-capitalist.  A San Franciscan, who said her stay in Cuba "made it seem like I died and went to heaven," is a master organizer, fund-raiser and propagandist.  She is the founder of several anti-American, anti-corporation and anti-war groups, such as, Global Exchange, United for Peace and Justice and Code Pink.  This is one, very busy lefty.

Born Susan, she is a lifelong revolutionary who changed her name to Medea, after the mythical character who murdered her own children.  She authored the socialist utopian book "I, Senator", in which she claimed she "fought Ronald Reagan's illegal and immoral war against the Sandinistas in Nicaragua."  Benjamin was a principal organizer of the 1999 Seattle riots in which some 50,000 protesters wreaked havoc and tried to shut down the World Trade Organization meetings.

Benjamin’s United for Peace and Justice was deliberately formed as a false public and moderate voice to shield the American Marxist movement previously represented by Ramsey Clark's A.N.S.W.E.R, a communist front “anti-war” organization that was the brainchild of the Stalinist Workers World Party.

When A.N.S.W.E.R. showed its true colors at one too many anti-war rallies, the Organized Left became nervous, prompting the Benjamin to form United for Peace and Justice with fellow radical, LeslieKagan, a Castro admirer who maintained her membership in the Communist Party USA even after the fall of the Berlin Wall.

Benjamin wrote in The Nation magazine: “The most exciting aspect of the antiwar organizing has been its global reach. While in the anti-corporate globalization movement, we had already formed impressive ties with grassroots movements overseas, antiwar organizing has given us the opportunity to expand geographically to areas such as the Middle East, where we had less-developed contacts; to multiply our ranks with a dazzling array of new sectors, from city councils to women's and civil rights organizations such as NOW and the NAACP; and, most important, to merge the peace movement with the movement to fight corporate-dominated globalization.

Benjamin urges, “Let's channel the bursting anti-American sentiment overseas into targeted boycotts against corporations profiting from war. Let's launch global, grassroots campaigns to get the United States to sign on to international treaties and institutions such as the International Criminal Court and the Kyoto Protocol. Working with local communities where US troops are based, let's start a Bring All the Troops Home campaign to stop the expansion of US bases and start dismantling some of the hundreds of existing bases overseas.”

Her organization, Code Pink is the same group that champions military deserters, praying for the "people of Fallujah", placing the pre-war “human shields” in Baghdad and doling out $600,000 in aid to what they called "the other side."  Code Pink has primarily chosen women to lie to, taking advantage of the genuine concern that some homemakers and grandmas have about the Iraq war and using them to add voices at local protests.

Benjamin said of the $600,000 gift, "This is the positive face of the American people which we would like to show ... so that we are not looked at with animosity but with love. Our hearts go out to the people of Fallujah and to all the Iraqi people."

Benjamin was the driving force behind the the nation-wide March 2005, “The World Says End the War” march.  Benjamin and her cohorts, operating under her group United for Peace and Justice, has organized over 1,350 left-wing and radical groups, such as the Communist Party USA, the Marxist Feminist Lesbians, Punks For Peace, Queers for Peace and Justice, RANT (Root Activist Network of Trainers), the Ruckus Society, the Socialist Party USA and Cabbies Against Bush.

As a postscript, these "nation-wide" demonstrations ended up as a world-class failure.  The largest crowd in the country was in Chicago, with less than 5,000.  The San Francisco and LA demonstrations gathered around a thousand protesters.

So, when you see the news accounts of the “American people” marching to end the war in Iraq and whatever other loony notions they have, remember that 95% of the marchers are what Lenin called "useful idiots" and have no idea who organized them or why.

And up pops CindySheehan. Medea would make her a star.

According to ABC 7 News, current Democratic National Party Chair Howard Dean's organization Democracy for America is also involved, as is the more radical anti-war group Code Pink organized by San Francisco's Medea Benjamin.

Money donated through these groups and others is helping to pay for Gold Star families whose children have been killed in Iraq to attend anti-Bush protests.

[maica]

Terrific report!

[Prophet in the wilderness]

Even if I were blind, the smell would give me a clue.

[Constitution Day]

ROFL!

[Tolkien]

The Hydra?

[SmithL]

Sure beats learning by Braille.