Code Pink members and supporters hold a "Farewell Kiss, Shoe-in" outside the Marine Recuitment Center in Berkeley, Calif. on Wednesday, December 17, 2008. Fred Bialy, a Code Pink supporter, hangs shoes off their sign outside the recruitment offices.
Posted on 12/17/2008 6:37:58 PM PST by SmithL
Anti-war activists from the group Code Pink gathered at a Marine recruiting station in Berkeley this morning to show solidarity with an Iraqi journalist who threw his shoes at President Bush on Sunday.
Members of the group and others marched around the recruiting station holding shoes in the air to show support for Iraqi journalist Muntadhar al-Zeidi, who hurled two shoes at Bush during a news conference in Baghdad.
In many Arab countries, showing the sole of one's shoes, much less throwing shoes at another person, is considered extremely disrespectful.
Organizers said their demonstration was to show support for the Iraqi people who have been killed, tortured or maimed and U.S. soldiers who have died since the Bush administration's invasion of Iraq.
The Code Pink protest didn't effect operations at the Shattuck Avenue recruiting station, said Marine Corps spokesman Sgt. Matt DeBoard.
``Code Pink has been protesting at Shattuck Square for almost a year now,'' he said. ''They don't bother us and we don't bother them.''
He repeated the Marine's contention that their recruiting and military operations help defend Americans right to freedom of speech. "Our position is that we do what we do so that everyone can express their opinion."
For more than a year, women from CodePink picketed weekly in front of the U.S. Marine recruiting center at 64 Shattuck Square in downtown Berkeley. They say the Marines are not welcome in liberal, anti-war Berkeley and that the office should shut its doors.
In January, the Berkeley City Council got involved when it officially stated that the Marines were "uninvited and unwelcome intruders" and granted CodePink a permit waiver and a free parking space in front of the Marine center for the weekly protests. The move angered people across the country, who flooded City Hall with about 25,000 letters and e-mails.
proud to still b boycotting Berkeley.
Do these morons ever think? The next attack may not just use shoes, and the target of the next such demonstration is likely to be their hero - Obama the Affirmative Action President.
Perhaps you can guess what part of the Code Pinko’s anatomy I’d like to see a few shoes shoved.
Pack their backsides up and ship ‘em to Iraq or some other third world cesspool until they die or learn to at least respect this country.
poop shooot
Great idea. I love it. Add the Rev Phelps & his WBC & it would put a big smile on my face.
Here in the western world we have a long tradition of showing our disdain by kicking a person in the crank or crankshaft; heck, it’s just what we do, so it’s no more an assault than throwing shoes or beheading people and so forth.
Well, they’ll be glad to know that under Shiara Law their kind will be the first to be executed
Plus while they are waiting, they will have to stay home in their BLACK burkas and not drive down to the recuiting station anymore..
Sorry kids...
No more PINK...
Don’t these simpleton’s realize that when someone disrespects our President in this way - they are showing disrespect and contempt for our entire Country and way of life? That includes the code-pinko donkeys. Don’t they realize how stupid they look “supporting” someone insulting them? Then again, look at their beliefs, they probably are too far gone to realize it.
I like to see them lionized. Saddam Hussein style.
Hey Code Commie....STFU!!!
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