Posted on 02/28/2007 9:21:52 AM PST by tgslTakoma
From Code Pink's calendar for March 17th:
Saturday, March 17:
11:00 am - Join CODEPINK for a Women's Convergence for the March on the Pentagon
Join tens of thousands of people from around the country to march from the Mall to the Pentagon in a mass demonstration to demand: U.S. Out of Iraq Now! 2007 is the 40th anniversary of the historic 1967 anti-war march to the Pentagon during the Vietnam War.
Location: SW corner of 17th and Constitution NW, next to WWII Memorial and the Pond. We will join the March on the Pentagon Rally at 21st and Constitution at noon.
Code Pink is the marxist group whose "women's convergence" gathered at the US Navy Memorial on January 27, 2007 for a pre-rally rally with Jane Fonda as their star speaker. While at the Navy Memorial, Code Pink's "women" dressed the Lone Sailor statue in Code Pink garb:
So, it's not necessary for me to remind everybody reading this forum that it is very important that we have a huge turnout on our side so that all of our war memorials can be guarded by watchful eagles on March 17th.
Keep spreading the word among your friends and fellow patriots. We need everybody who can get to DC for March 17th to be there with us.
Note: I have cross-posted this message at both of the Gathering of Eagles forums and Free Republic.
There will not be enough police officers anywhere in DC on March 17th to stop every act of vandalism and property destruction that the radicals wish to perpetrate that day.
I understand.
By all means go, I support this effort.
But a handful of acts of vandalism over the past 6 years really isn't putting "All DC WAR Memorials at risk"
I hope the entire conflict is resolved peacefully and no one gets hurt and ALL DC War memorials escape unscathed.
Good luck
A foam hat - no big deal? Sheesh! It's called desecration!
Ok, it's in bad taste, but does not put "All DC War Memorials at risk."
And vandlism? And it's against the law!
I agree, perhaps some pressure should be brought to bear on the DC and Park police.
Then there will be chaos and pandemonium I'm afraid because true Americans won't just stand by and watch that happen. They'll jump in the fray to protect whatever monument they are near.
We all have to pray that won't happen but you never know with leftist American hating, military bashing groups like code pink and answer there, just to name two.
I hope that there isn't any violence...but be careful.
Also...I hope if there is...a freeper gets video of it.
Having seen up close and personal the vitriol the Code Pinko's are capable of (Standing in front of Walter Reed with signs that say "Enlist here to die for Halliburton", while there are traumatically injured soldiers inside looking out their window at that sign...and I know...I talked to one of them there who just could not understand why...) They are capable of anything.
Yes, there IS an emotional need to "protect the memorials". But that emotion is buttressed by the facts of what we have seen these people do. There are many there that do not think the rule of law applies to them.
Liberals are always the first to paint conservatives as brown shirt wearing jackbooted fascists.
But it is not conservatives who deface war memorials, campaign signs or the cars of people they disagree with. It is nearly always liberals. And yes, I do think the memorials are sacred. And no, after what I saw a few weeks back, I do not trust them to obey the rule of law and the constraints of decency.
That does not apply to all of them. Just to a not insubstantial minority.
We'll apply that pressure by making sure the Park Police as well as the Capitol police know that if they do nothing this time we will.
Gathering Eagles
Where you should be on March 17.
By Michelle Malkin
How many times have you sat in front of the television over the last four years, watching antiwar activists march on Washington, chase the ROTC off your local college campus, vandalize war memorials, insult the troops, and wreak havoc under the surrender banner?
How many times have you thought to yourself: What can I do?
Here is the answer: Get off the sofa and join the Gathering of Eagles on March 17 in Washington, D.C. On that day, well-funded, celebrity-studded antiwar groups plan to march to the Pentagon on a protest route that will take them past the Vietnam Veterans Memorial and climax in calls for immediate withdrawal of our troops from Iraq, destruction of America’s “global military machine,” shutdown of the enemy combatant detention facilities at Guantanamo Bay and impeachment of President Bush and Vice President Cheney (plus an end to “colonial occupation” in “Palestine, Haiti, and everywhere” for good measure).
Last time the left-wing, peace-loving, fun bunch came to town, their minions gone wild threw rocks at a military recruitment office in D.C’s Dupont Circle neighborhood and at a local Fox News van, broke through a Capitol Hill police security cordon, spraypainted the Capitol grounds with impunity, desecrated the Lone Sailor statue that stands watch at the U.S. Navy Memorial, and reportedly spat at disabled Iraq-war veteran Josh Sparling as he voiced his support for his fellow troops.
There were tens of thousands of antiwar demonstrators at that event last month. You know how many showed up with Sparling to counter the far Left? Forty.
Now, imagine our troops getting word of that count. They’re walking the talk, committed to the long, hard mission of counterinsurgency in Iraq and abroad, risking life and limb — and only 40 of their fellow Americans bothered to represent them in the nation’s capital?
The Gathering of Eagles, an impromptu coalition of veterans’ groups, pro-military organizations and Internet activists, wants to right the wrong. “We are a non-violent, non-confrontational group. We look to defend, not attack. Our focus is guarding our memorials and their grounds,” they explain. “We believe in and would give our lives for the precious freedoms found in our Constitution. We believe that our freedom of speech is one of the greatest things our country espouses, and we absolutely hold that any American citizen has the right to express his or her approval or disapproval with any policy, law or action of our nation and her government in a peaceful manner as afforded by the laws of our land.”
What the Eagles will not stand for, however, are “violence, vandalism, physical or verbal assaults on our veterans, and the destruction or desecration of our memorials. By defending and honoring these sacred places, we defend and honor those whose blood gave all of us the right to speak as freely as our minds think.”
Sgt. Artie Muller, founder of Rolling Thunder, the POW/MIA advocacy group, has called on his 80-plus chartered chapters to turn out. Move America Forward, the grass-roots, nonprofit, pro-military charity, is launching a caravan from California March 8 to join the Eagles and will bring flags from across the country for the event. The Nam Knights will be there, too. Bill Devereaux, a member of the South Jersey Viet Nam Vets Association, wrote to tell me he had “appropriated a bus on which 40 of our members will be attending the event.”
Daniel McPeters, an Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom veteran, e-mailed that “at least a dozen of my brothers will be attending this vigil of necessity and representing those not able to be present. This has needed to happen for 30-plus years. Anyone that supports our troops and their cause should try to make it out, or contact their local Veterans post and spread the word. The silent ones need not be silent any more.”
Cindy Sheehan has responded to the Eagles by deriding them on the Gold Star Families for Peace website as “Rightest [sic] America Haters” who are “brainwashed and propagandized.”
The question isn’t, “What can I do to respond to the Sheehanistas?” The question now is, “What will you do?”
Get off the darned sofa and show your support. March 17. Washington, D.C. Find out more at www.gatheringofeagles.org.
Guess you missed the bit about the "peace activists" spray painting the Capitol Steps on 27 January even though LEOs had been present but were called off.
SO NO, THE THREAT IS NOT OVERBLOWN!
Bingo!
It just does seem that you do not know what the h*ll you have been talking about nor who you are talking to. Do you think the DC CHapter has been facing off against these individuals and working with the DC and Park police for the past 8 years for nothing? Do you think you can judge the situation by sitting at your computer out there in the midwest and writing about the way things should be or used to be or might be? Get a clue. All the memorials are at risk.
The Park Police have been hamstrung by leftie congresspersons like Cynthia McKinney who brought the entire Sharpton/Jackson/Belafonte/NAACP machine to DC and threatened to have them fired and publicly vilified as bigots after they stopped her from entering the Capitol after she changed her hairstyle. They were spanked after they detained Cindy Sheehan when she crashed last year's State of the Union Address as a guest of a lefty congressperson. The ACLU is only too happy to accuse them of brutality if they so much as lay a restraining hand on a person with a huge sign saying "Death to Amerikkka."
And your contribution to helping the patriots in this situation is...... ?
So you found what you were looking for?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1792569/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1792828/posts
I will, thanks. We've already discussed between us what we would do if violence erupts and we're seperated.
Also...I hope if there is...a freeper gets video of it.
So do I.
Rolling Thunder has been called out for the mission.
From their website:
March On the Pentagon March 17, 2007 Washington, D.C.
On March 17, 2007 a group of anti-war protestors are planning to march to the Pentagon from Washington, D.C. The March 17th anti-war demonstration will assemble at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial (Constitution Gardens) at 12 noon in Washington, D.C. and march to the Pentagon. In order to ensure that the Wall and other Memorials in the general area are not defaced, like what happened at the anti-war demonstration at the U.S. Capitol on January 27th. I am requesting that as many Rolling Thunder, Inc. chapters, members and supporters that can make it, meet at the Wall no later than 8:00 AM on the 17th. We do not want, nor will we tolerate a repeat of what happened at the U.S. Capitol. Rolling Thunder members be sure to wear your Rolling Thunder vests on the 17th. Show your support to our Troops, to those who sacrificed their lives in the past Wars and to protect our Memorials. Hope you can make it.
Sgt. Artie Muller Founder/Executive Director
Considering who's showing up to counter them, that could get "interesting".
I read your first post. Was going to respond. But opted against it. I figured you just don't have a clue.
Then I read your second post.
My friend, you don't have a clue and I needed to tell you.
Yes indeedy, very interesting. ;-)
Actually, it not only honors those who have served, but are currently serving and those who will serve. That makes it even more important!
Having just visited it with my son this weekend, it stood out.
Although I have not served, I will be there to honor my father who served in the Army Air Corps in WW2.
It took over 10 years of time after Vietnam and the greatest president in my lifetime - RR - to make the men and women who wear the uniform to feel proud again.
No one, on top of no one, should desecrate any memorial dedicated to our Armed Forces.
MAY GOD BLESS THE UNITED STATES.
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