I spent a good deal of time facing off with Code Pink from 2004 to 2012, which is the last time I encountered them. Most of that time was counter-protesting them in support of the troops when they set up camp outside Walter Reed in Washington, DC, and other times were at various anti-war protests such as "The Gathering of Eagles" and so on. When I take the stand that they are spittle-lipped, vile, unhinged, good-for-nothing anti-American scumbags, I know of what I speak.
I have spent many hours listening the vomit that they characterize as speech, and reading their vile and hateful signs (held up outside a hospital with horribly maimed soldiers inside who could see them from their windows) and many of those solders took the time, when they could walk, to make their way out to us and made a point of telling us how much it hurt them to see the Code Pink people standing there with those hateful signs, chanting their vicious slogans.
I thank the DC Chapter of Free Republic for taking me in and allowing me to be part of their team.
There was one time we were outside Walter Reed, and they were forced to go about 100 yards up the street. The main gate of Walter Reed is nearly like a crossroad, so there are four corners there. For a while, they had two of the corners, and one day Trooprally (DC Chapter) discovered that when he renewed his "protest license" that Code Pink had forgotten to renew theirs, so he got all four corners, and they had to move up the street.
Evil people.
One time, we set up signs on top of our cars parked along Georgia Avenue after they were booted out due to their Leftist incompetence, and they were like the old "Burma Shave" signs on the road. As the pictures show, the signs said:
Don't be fooled
By their flags
Up ahead
Pinko Hags!
I took up station right outside the gate, and we had taken all the parking spaces up the street...perhaps 50-100 yards up the street the Code Pinkos were out (As I said, they got pushed up the street because they stupidly let their protest permit lapse, and Trooprally snapped it right up when he renewed his.
Typical liberal inefficiency.
Anyway, as I was standing there, I noticed a woman walking slowly down the sidewalk towards us, stopping occasionally. She was older, thin, and somewhat unhealthy looking, and was walking a bit like a zombie. I was concerned...she looked like she was completely disoriented...she was wearing pink running shorts and a t-shirt, had long scraggly hair, and I was going to go over and ask her if she needed help, and mentioned her to one of the DC Chapter folks who looked at her and just said “Don’t bother. It’s one of the Code Pinkos.”
I looked back at her again, then said “I think there is something wrong with her. Look at her she just stops, doesn’t move, then starts shuffling again...what is she doing?”
He said “She is taking pictures of our license plates so they can post them on their website. They somehow think they are outing us for rallying here to support the troops.”
Then, one of them came over and yanked one of the signs off the roof of my car and threw it over the fence.
Freeper kristinn called the DC Police (you can see him on his phone there) who came down, and they had to side with us whether they liked to or not. The cop reprimanded them, and said if there were any more incidents like that people were going to get arrested and they wouldn't be able to protest out there anymore.