and the RATS, take another one in the..................HA ha!!!
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!
Well done!
Where does it say she had a phony press pass?
Nice work, kristinn.
I think the Secret Service knows you’re a real patriot.
Yeah, I saw that.. Is it legal for their pictures to be posted? Would it be considered ‘against safety’?
I sure as heck wouldn’t post it! :/
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Three cheers for justice and the SS.
Thank you :)
I think somewhere on here is posted a thread written by Code Pink on how to create press passes...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2041163/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2024261/posts
We even have our own. I learned from this one. The commands are mostly single letters, bracketed...<>
Good FReeping...
Um. Okay.
Guilty, but sentenced to community service
(in some field other than edumication)
(Oh, and she has to wear a bag over her face)
(and lose a LOT of weight.)
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I love a laugh early in the morning- gets the day started right:)
Outstanding work!! I followed the link over to the code pink site, though. What a bunch of fruitcakes...yuk...I need a shower..
THIS is why I LOVE FR!!!!!!!!!!!!
You had a agent following you to make sure you weren't a threat because let's be frank here... Code Pink is pretty radical. THAT my dear... is THEIR job!
I don't think they are required to identify themselves... otherwise they wouldn't be Secret Service eh?
Finally, on 9/11/2001 when they attacked for the nth time, and to great loss of life by us, we had to respond. We had no choice.
When you proclaim that we want war you actually support the war, for you give support and encouragement to them. You encourage the haters, those who for years and years have been honing that hatred and that love of terror and war.
You, of all people, have become the most bloody handed supporter of war -- you do not mean to be, but because of your support for those who want war and terror against us, because you insist that we not stop them, you have blood on your hands.
The blood of your own students, actually. The blood of those we love and have lost because our enemy did kill them.
Damn you for that. Please stop. Have some real love for us and your own students.
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