It's more like a get-the-hell-out-of-my-way expression.
Very informative article. Thanks for posting.
May the Pinko Palace in DC be infested with termites and chewed to the ground.
Posted on 01/09/2008 10:49:59 PM PST by kristinn
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Shortly after the new Congress convened, Code Pink rented a row house on Capitol Hill with grand plans to host activists from its 250-plus chapters around the country and abroad. The idea was to give folks from Pasadena to Pittsburgh the opportunity to bring their protest to Washington.
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The five-bedroom row house on 5th Street NE is decorated in shades of pink. There are pink lampshades, throw pillows, and quilts. Most of the furniture and décor were donated by supporters or bought secondhand. Stored in the basement are the pink slips that activists wear to suggest America should fire President Bush and Vice President Cheney.
The pink police uniforms came out last summer when the activists picketed the office of Alberto Gonzales, then the U.S. attorney general. There are beauty pageant sashes reading i miss america and i miss justice.
The pink hospital scrubs with matching pink prescription pads promote the message that the country is ailing and Code Pink has the cure. Other peace props have less metaphorical content. A larger-than-life papier-mâché puppet head of Secretary Rice sits atop a bookcase in the dining room. Downstairs, heads of Bush and administration officials await their turn in the spotlight. One of former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld lies upside down, kept handy, perhaps, should a reunion protest tour arise.
House residents hold potluck dinners every Wednesday night. Anyone’s welcome, except the opposition.
In October, the gatherings attracted protesters from FreeRepublic.com, a group that dubs itself “the premier online gathering place for independent, grass-roots conservatism on the web.” Kristinn Taylor, co-leader of FreeRepublic’s D.C. chapter, has some problems with Code Pink. He says the group is running a dangerously overcrowded lodging house and lobbying office in violation of various city zoning codes.
“Code Pink is famous for flaunting the law and daring people to do something about it. And usually they get away with it,” says Taylor, who wants them evicted. His group filed a complaint last May. So far, however, city officials have declined to shut down the house but say they are monitoring the situation. Taylor says that’s a bureaucratic way to say they have no plans to act.
“If the D.C. chapter of the Ku Klux Klan had opened an office on Capitol Hill, you can be sure the D.C. government would shut it down, as well they should,” Taylor says. “It’s the D.C. government playing politics.”
Drawing perhaps the most fire is Code Pink’s support for the Iraqi insurgency that has killed more than 3,700 American soldiers and wounded nearly 30,000 since since post-combat operations began there in May of 2003.
The group’s co-founder, Jody Evans, was an international observer at the World Tribunal on Iraq in June 2005. The Tribunal culminated in a statement signed by ativists from 10 countries that characterized the insurgency as “legitimate and justified” and called for war crimes charges against Bush and other world leaders who backed the U.S. invasion. Among the signers was playwright Eve Ensler, creator of The Vagina Monologues and a member of Code Pink.
The group has also raised the hackles of conservatives by collecting medicine and hundreds of thousands of dollars from its U.S. supporters and shipping the humanitarian aid to groups working with Iraqis displaced by the war, some of them in insurgency strongholds like Fallujah. Taylor has called the humanitarian aid program “treasonous.”
Code Pink co-founder and one of its chief strategists Gael Murphy retorts: “What’s treasonous? It’s already been agreed by the majority of Americans that this was an illegitimate invasion. How are we being treasonous by criticizing this war?”
She scoffs at allegations the group is funneling money to insurgents. To make sure it is not diverted for anything other than humanitarian ends, Code Pink has partnered with a single Baghdad-based charitable organization that helps widows and orphans in the capital and several of the worst-hit provinces, she says.
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Murphy, who is not paid for her work with Code Pink thanks to “a very supportive spouse,” believes the press coverage the group’s methods have garnered has helped move the debate from whether or not troops should be withdrawn from Iraq to when the withdrawal will occur. “I don’t think we’d be there without the citizens’ effort,” she says.
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Kudos to the City Paper for reporting on Code Pink's support of the terrorists in Iraq. The other major papers in D.C. have ignored this crucial fact when reporting on Code Pink.
For those who don't know, the City Paper is a Washington institution. It was founded 27 years ago. It is a free weekly that comes out on Thursdays and is so popular that copies are difficult to find after the weekend.
It's politics are liberal, to match its D.C. market, but it is widely read in the local government and by federal government staffers.
Ping.
At what point are we going to say enough is enough?
If we don't start coupling our anger with action and do something about these things, then this country is a write-off and we are all just bleating on our way to the slaughter.
It's more like a get-the-hell-out-of-my-way expression.
Very informative article. Thanks for posting.
May the Pinko Palace in DC be infested with termites and chewed to the ground.
Why does the Secret Service allow such a whack job to get this close to Condi?
Gail can not see truth if it bit her in the butt.
The truth would have to get shots at a clinic after that because Gael hasn’t had her shots.
Murphy and Code Pink are traitors not because of criticism, it’s the material aid to those killing our troops that makes gael Murphy and Code Pink traitors.
I always turn to the “Savage Love” column.
And their visits to our enemies.
Saw a group in Lafayette Park on Tuesday. Well - about 4 of them. They chased a George Bush around the park for about 5 minutes trying to “arrest” him.
It was pretty funny actually - George could out run them, even with the huge plaster head on so he had to keep stopping and waiting for them.
Scared the squirrels, but that’s about it. Whole debacle was about 5 minutes long.
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bttt
I guess all reservations for room at the house for March 15th were cancelled? Wonder who pays the rent for that house?
WHAT???????? Oh, I guess "spouse" doesn't mean "husband"....
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