Posted on 07/08/2008 9:38:37 PM PDT by kristinn
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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