Now this is a woman who obviously does not like getting her picture taken.
Posted on 07/08/2008 9:38:37 PM PDT by kristinn
Who read Free Republic? Apparently the U.S. Secret Service does!
This past weekend, I posted an article alerting the Secret Service that members of the terrorist supporting group Code Pink were using fake presses to gain access to events headlined by Secret Service protectees like presumptive Republican presidential nominee Sen. John McCain (AZ).
This morning, McCain spoke at the LULAC convention in Washington, D.C. Usually when he speaks at an event in D.C., McCain can expect to have his speech disrupted by Code Pink activists who rush the stage and heckle him from the audience and the press section.
That didn't happen today. I followed press coverage of the speech and no disturbances were reported. Now I know why.
A Code Pink protester going by the name Jennifer Tequia posted about her experience today at the McCain speech. I'll let her tell her story:
This morning I attempted to watch McCain give a speech at the LULAC convention at the Hilton.
I had a press pass to get in but not 5 minutes later was removed by Secret Service agents. The LULAC representative told me that even if I was registered he would not let me in and would not give me any reason. I got the impression that he really wanted me to be able to stay but that the Secret Service told him to have me leave.
I exited the property with no fuss and was followed out by 2-4 Secret Service agents. I was not raising a ruckus or resisting at ALL. I simply walked myself off.
A block and a half later on public sidewalk one of the agents walked up to me unannounced and totally spooked me by being so close to me and put a camera in my face and without permission took my photo.
I then later went back to the area of the Hilton and (staying across the street on public sidewalk) spoke to the press and private people. I told them that I am a teacher and came all the way across the country at my own expense for a month to try to get our nation's financial and moral priorities back on track.
I spoke about not having money for books but trillions for war. Most I spoke to very moved by my story and shared my deep worry about a new war with Iran.
The Secret Service agent showed up again and followed me around a bit. I asked him for his badge number. He refused to give it to me.
I repeatedly asked him, "Sir, what is your badge number?" and he either said, "I am doing a job" or refused to answer.
I asked him his last name and he refused.
I have posted the photo of this man so you can see the image of a man who is in violation of his duties - he removed me without cause, followed me on public property on two seperate occassions and refused to identify himself (which makes me strongly suspect he was not doing what he was supposed to do and feared me reporting him).
McCain was whisked inside so I didn't even get to take his photo or see him at all.
That war criminal knows how to be seen when it works to his benefit and not seen when it doesn't, let me tell you.
Poor Jennifer, busted with a phoney press pass. I wonder if she teaches her students how to cheat on their exams.
Looks like Medea Benjamin will have to come up with a new scheme to infiltrate Secret Service protected events.
GOOD WORK, SECRET SERVICE!
From the San Francisco Chronicle:
It was so easy to get into the Republican National Convention that activist Gael Murphy got in two straight nights before making national news by stripping down to her pink slip during Vice President Dick Cheney's speech. Seconds later -- enough time to get her photo taken -- security officials tackled her and hauled her away.
The 50-year-old's key to burrowing into her own personal Death Star: a media pass. Obtained from "a friend of a friend" whose media organization she won't divulge.
Secret Service spokeswoman Ann Roman did not know how activists like Murphy from the peace group Code Pink had acquired the passes. Roman said, "People who got onto the convention floor had proper credentials."
But that doesn't mean they were holding their credentials. Murphy's pass didn't have a photograph on it. Plus, the Washington, D.C., resident is a veteran disrupter, who has crashed everything from the Senate hearings on the Abu Ghraib prison debacle to the United Nations. She is able to devote substantial time to her activism thanks to her savings and "a supportive partner," she said.
On Monday and Tuesday night forays, she just walked around inside Madison Square Garden, scoping out the joint. She kept moving so as not to sit in the wrong place and be escorted out. Despite wearing a media credential, she wasn't carrying a pen, notebook or camera.
"I was just experiencing what it was like to be surrounded by a convention hall full of Republicans," Murphy said. "I was getting high on the ignorance. And it wasn't a good high."
On Tuesday, she accompanied Fernando Suarez del Solar, an Escondido (San Diego County) resident who also slipped into the convention on a borrowed media credential. Suarez's son, Jesus, was a Marine killed in Iraq in March 2003. After unfurling a sign that said, "Bush Lied. My Son Died," he managed to do a few interviews before being escorted out of the hall. He was not arrested.
On Wednesday, it was Murphy's turn. She tucked a 4-by-4-foot cloth sign reading "Cheney and Halliburton, Making a Killing in Iraq" under the waistband of her black pants. Her pink slip, with "Cheney is in bed with Halliburton and we got screwed," written on it, flopped over the sign. Covering the slip was a blue silk shirt.
She entered the Garden carrying only a shoulder purse, and cleared the one metal detector. Nobody patted her down. Her media badge was checked five different times before she made it to a bank of still photographers near the stage. Then she handed off the sign to another activist, who flashed the sign. When Murphy unbuttoned her shirt, delegates yelled, "Look! She's got Cheney and Halliburton on."
SNIP
Good work to you.
LOL! I just looked. Happy moonbatting, indeed!
I can see it now.
Freeper Photoshop Contest using her mug shot. May the best Freeper Artist win.
=)
I gave your article a fast scan, not finding any. Losing my touch? lol
Kristinn, you ROCK!
...well, at least, you yodel a little...
BUMP! Well Done.
Good show!! Looks like word got through one way or another that these vile traitors need to be stopped in their document fraud and other nefarious strategems. Next I’d like to see some of them seriously prosecuted....
First paragraph, second word.
technically a typo yes, but not misspelled just the wrong tense..only half a demerit!
Oh, and bravo for what you did and continue to do!!
CODE PINK = LOSERS ! COMMIES ! OUR ENEMY’S COMRADES !
Now this is a woman who obviously does not like getting her picture taken.
I arrived at the Code Pink house on Tuesday July 1st excited and ready to whip congress into shape.
Wednesday we were sitting in the living room watching the news when CNN stated that Bush had a press conference at the White House on the G8 summit at 10:30. It was 10:15. Me and Liz said, "Let's go!" and grabbed a banner, a bullhorn and a cab and got to the White House. We blasted Bush on the bullhorn and interacted with the public. The press were jumping the bushes with their cameras to film US, not Bush!
I gave an interview to The Wall Street Journal, Politico and New York Times.
Friday a group went to Monitcello where Bush was speaking and successfully interrupted him 8 times!!!
I went to the parade with a group dressed as pink statures of liberty and had a great time handing out candy with facts on Iran, Iraq and FISA. I got in the parade with the hari krishnas for a bit until a cop literally shoved me out =(.
Cindy (Sheehan) came over for dinner tonight to the Pink House and we all enjoyed a great discussion.
Overall my stay here so far has been amazing - I finally feel a part of politics...
I now realize just how much I don't know about politics!
This house rocks!
Serious business or Fun, Fun, Fun??
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