Suzie "Medea" Benjamin certainly has the appearance of a wacko, but appearances can be deceptive.
If she were a wacko, Benjamin could just be ignored.
Unfortunately, she is a dedicated revolutionary putting on the appearance of a pacifist or near-pacifist.
Benjamin's Code Pink group is simply a marketing gimmick targeted at housewifes, mothers, and grandmothers. The Code Pinko top leaders soft pedal Marxist rhetoric. They tap funds, get bodies to populate demonstrations, and get access to potential recruits by the marketing ploy.
In similar fashion, Benjamin and cohorts have other groups to market to students, particular minorities, left-handed leprechauns, etc.
DC Chapter has had numerous counterprotests against Code Pink including most recently outside Fox News (click here for thread) and one where several FReepers suffered minor assaults from Code Pinkos (click here for thread).
A brief excerpt of background about Code Pink from this FrontPageMag.com article follows below:
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Naturally, they’ve toned their Marxist rhetoric down for their stint with Code Pink. Though they’ve taken great pains to differentiate themselves from the other, more radical anti-war protesters, they are one and the same. The leaders of Code Pink didn’t merely take part in the Washington and San Francisco protests that made international headlines – they also organized them. In the process, they’ve provided a rare public glimpse of the faces behind the modern, highly organized American Marxist movement. Needless to say, these women have little in common with the carpool moms of America.
At the center of Code Pink is legendary leftist organizer Medea Benjamin, the 50-year-old mother of two widely credited as a chief organizing force behind the 1999 Seattle riots in which 50,000 protesters did millions of dollars worth of property damage in their effort to shut down meetings of the World Trade Organization. In addition to Code Pink, Benjamin’s San Francisco-based human rights organization Global Exchange was the founding force for United for Peace and Justice coalition, the nexus of the anti-war protests.
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The mindset of Benjamin and her friends can best be summed up by her description in the San Francisco Chronicle of how she felt on her first pilgrimage to Cuba in the early 1980s. Compared to life in the United States, the communist social equality of Cuba "made it seem like I died and went to heaven," Benjamin enthused. Now it appears that Benjamin is trying to recreate it here . . .[emphasis added]
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Click here for an earlier thread about the FrontPage article & the Code Pinkos.