You're always so spot on ... thank you for ALL you do, and thank you Secret Service!
I HOPE no one shows his picture.
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!
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.
Give it up, lady. The "second generation" of the '60s is getting more and more tiresome to most Americans.
Great job exposing their fraud! Keep up the good work!
WHOO HOO!!! Excellent!
Touche!
I read your previous thread on this topic, pre-event, as it were. Wondered if indeed ANYONE would twig to such obvious forgeries, or do anything about it if they did.
WTG!
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I also got a chance to speak with the legeslative assistance to Barbara Boxer. I told him I know she has not co-sponsored the Iran sanctions bill but where is HER counter resolution for diplomacy? What is she doing to take the next step and make it right? I was told, "You don't understand how things are done here." Sadly, I understand all too well that senators and congress members are living in a bubble and are more concerned with protecting themselves and their positions than doing what is right and just. It is not enough sometimes to vote against things. I demand that those who represent us work tirelessly to MAKE IT RIGHT. Get us books, not bombs. Anything else is an injustice and a shame to their position.
Sounds like she should've spent her time doing the necessary budget requests for books and supplies instead of spending her time and money trying to infiltrate events using fake press passes.
A lot of these so called liberal teachers who spend more time and effort on political campaigns than teaching should just be fired for lack of dedication and commitment to their profession and their students.
I mean, if she spent half as much energy campaigning for more awareness in her school district and state about the lack of funding for books she might be able to effect some kind of meaningful change, but the truth is that she's probably sabotaged her own students in order to prove that funding the war is immoral.
Ping!
Great job!
If only the White House had been reading FreeRepublic these past couple years... :(
My favorite post of the day, and probably of the week.
You're always so spot on ... thank you for ALL you do, and thank you Secret Service!
I HOPE no one shows his picture.
We have just begun to fight;)
Maybe the agent didn’t feel comfortable with cattle in the building: Moooooo!
Those that can, do, those that can’t, teach.
So they call McCain a war criminal too? I’d love to hear how they justify that one.
Pinging those who were on the original thread.
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