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When Peaceniks Attack: D.C. Chapter vs. Code Pink and Cindy Sheehan at Rumsfeld's House 5/18/06
Thursday, May 18, 2006 | Kristinn

Posted on 05/18/2006 8:18:19 PM PDT by kristinn

Honor Roll for today: Mr. and Mrs. Trooprally, Cindy_True_Supporter, tgslTakoma, daughterofTgsl and kristinn.

Code Pink, Cindy Sheehan, CIA turncoat Ray McGovern and approximately several dozen barking moonbats marched from the White House to the home of Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld in Northwest Washington, D.C. this afternoon.

Lying in wait for them were six members of the D.C. Chapter of Free Republic determined to stand up for Secretary Rumsfeld and for America. It was not a fair fight. Pinko egos were left splattered on the pavement after two hours of battle.

It was a nice Spring afternoon, with a shower early in the day followed by warm sunshine peeking through the tall trees in the Kalorama neighborhood where the confrontation ocurred.

We arrived early, a little before 3 p.m., about an hour before the Pinkos arrived. We checked in with officers from the various law enforcement agencies present and took a strategic position on the sidewalk right in front of Rumsfeld's house. The media soon started arriving. By 4 p.m. there were about two dozen cameras and reporters awaiting the arrival of Cindypalooza.

The circus came marching down Kalorama Road and set up in the narrow street in front of Rumsfeld's, the crowd was singing the refrain from "Give Peace a Chance."

We responded with a steady chant of "We gave peace a chance, we got 9/11," continuing all the while Sheehan, McGovern and Medea Benjamin gave brief propaganda speeches. The Pinkos became quite agitated at our peaceful exercising of our First Amendment rights. Gael Murphy lobbied the police to shut us down and move us out of the way, to no avail.

Then Cindy and Medea and a few others sat down on part of the sidewalk at the entrance to Rumsfeld's house in an attempt to get arrested. McGovern hung back and kept a low profile throughout the rest of the demonstration.

Being that they had sat down right next to us, we held our ground and started a new chant of "Media stunt! Media stunt! Media stunt!" Several in the surrounding media horde nodded their heads in agreement. Sheehan spent her time sitting down alternately flashing the peace sign working her cell phone.

Angry Pinkos repeatedly tried to keep us from filming the sit-in. After failing to get arrested for blocking the sidewalk, Medea led a man dressed up as a Club Gitmo detainee up the driveway to Rumsfeld's and had him sit down with two other people, a man and a woman. She and Gael Murphy wrapped them in pink yarn. Medea wrote phone numbers on their arms for them to call from jail. The police kept a watchful eye as the trio leaned up against a low retaining wall along the driveway. We took turns informing the media of Code Pink's support for the insurgents in Iraq, their communist background and their support for Fidel Castro.

After thirty minutes of the trio laying on the driveway, a frustrated Medea started complaining to the police that the protesters hadn't been arrested yet. She noticed that the media was getting bored and was beginning to leave and tried in vain to get them to stay. The police just shrugged their shoulders. They weren't ready to arrest anyone yet. Cindy Sheehan and Ray McGovern left. Sheehan had gotten an earful from several of us, one of whom lost a brother in Vietnam. Sheehan hates being confronted by Gold Star families opposed to her treasonous politics.

At that point the Pinkos were split into two groupings, on the driveway and the sidewalk. The Freepers and the Pinkos were free to engage each other. The Pinkos were not having fun. They shoved several of us. They waved their signs, hands and pink umbrellas in front of our cameras and faces. Sometimes they shoved the cameras. They called us chickenhawks. They were not happy at all to have the same tactics they use at press conferences, hearings, fundraisers, conventions and the last inaugural used against them.

Medea finally got tired of trying to get her lackeys arrested for sitting in the driveway so she had them get up and ordered them to go sit in the street and block traffic. The only problem was the police had already blocked the street because of the protest.

About a dozen Pinkos joined them in sitting in the street. Looking at them lounging about, forlornly waiting for the arrests that never came, I walked over to them. I extended my hand over their heads and started walking around them saying, "Duck, duck, duck, duck, duck." When I got to Gael Murphy. I cried out, "Goose!"

She was not amused. I walked back, again playing "Duck, duck, goose." This time I stopped at Allison Yorra. She was not amused either. But I was.

After failing yet again to get arrested, the remaining Pinkos walked back over to stand in front of Rumsfeld's. Medea was getting more aggressive. She shoved one of our signs as she walked around, and then tried a couple times to grab it from Mrs. Trooprally. The sign said, "Code Pink = Human IEDs."

Medea's short, however, and it was easy for Mrs. Trooprally to hold it high enough out of her reach. Former comedian Dick Gregory arrived about then. He was late to the party but the Pinkos gave him a hero's welcome.

We tried our best to be quiet while Dick Gregory spoke. We only spoke out a few times in response to the things he said. He did say something truthful: He said that the only force that can destroy this world is the Force that created it.

The Pinkos made one last ditch effort to get arrested after Gregory had finished speaking. Medea announced they would try "one more time" to deliver a letter to Rumsfeld. Three Pinkos, including the Gitmo guy, climbed on the low retaining wall along the sidewalk and charged through the tall, dense Japanese Yew shrubbery lining Rumsfeld's property and tumbled onto his small front yard. The police were right there to round them up.

Oh happy day! After trying and trying and trying and trying, they finally got arrested. But not Medea, Gael and Allison. Like a scene out of "Life of Brian," they stayed behind and yelled words of encouragement to their dupes behind the shrubbery.

Gael and Medea shared a megaphone. Medea chanted, "Donald lied, soldiers died!" Then she called out, "We love you Katie!

Gael took the microphone and added, "Perry and Dave!" Then she started to lecture the police, saying, "Listen police, agents, please treat them kindly. They are non-violent protesters."

This was a bit much for tgslTakoma. She shouted out a rejoinder to Gael's plea, saying, "The police will treat them kinder than you treated me!"

Gael whirled around and tried to head-butt tgslTakoma and screeched, "SHUT UP!"

tgslTakoma repeated that the police will treat the protesters kinder than Gael treated her. Gael whirled back around and slammmed her hand on the camera and yelled, "WOULD YOU SHUT UP!"

Allison Yorra stepped in to calm Gael down, but Gael pushed the megaphone into tgslTakoma's ear while Medea yelled into the microphone. tgslTakoma forced the megaphone down. Gael forced it back up, but a watching police officer told Gael to back off. She and Medea walked away toward the shrubbery.

Sometime after this a fourth person attempted jail solidarity and plunged into the shrubbery. She was caught by the ankles by a police officer who held her while another officer handcuffed her. She had been very aggressive toward us all afternoon. She needed some time off in the cooler and I'm glad she got some.

Medea and Gael didn't wait for the police van to pick up their dupes. They left noted screw-up Allison Yorra in charge. Yorra is the one who forgot to renew Code Pink's Walter Reed demonstration permit.

We taunted Allison for not showing jail solidarity and jumping into the police van with the dupes. When we challenged her for being a "Chickenhawk peacemonger" she responded by saying something like, "People call me a lesbian but I have two children." I have know idea where that came from.

After the police van had been loaded with the four dupes, the remaining dozen or so Pinkos walked back down Kalorama to Connecticut Avenue. Their Pinko egos were left splattered on the pavement. And their violent behavior was left on videotape.

According to Gael Murphy, those arrested for unlawful entry were Peter Perry, David Barrows, Katie Heald, and Mari Blome.

Link to photo album from today.

Video screen captures should be coming soon.


TOPICS: Activism/Chapters; Breaking News; Front Page News; News/Current Events; US: District of Columbia; US: Maryland; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: aar; allisonyorra; cindysheehan; codepink; codepinkdc; dcchapter; dickgregory; duckduckduckgoose; gaelmurphy; mediabenjamin; pinkospwnedagain; raymcgovern; rumsfeld; rumsfeldreloaded; rumsfeldshouse
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To: Angelwood
Big Bump!
201 posted on 05/19/2006 6:51:39 PM PDT by DocRock
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To: trooprally
Sounds like fun, but I know it had to be tough to maintain composure.

Thanks much for all your DC chapter does.

202 posted on 05/19/2006 7:52:40 PM PDT by Lakeshark (Thank a member of the US armed forces for their sacrifice)
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To: All

bttt


203 posted on 05/19/2006 8:11:39 PM PDT by Landry Fan (Thank you, United States Military!)
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To: trooprally
After reading this post, I don't see how I could have even thought for one minute NOT to take action in NJ. I'm going to rally the 'troops' here and have some fun!!! Thanks for the inspiration and KEEP UP THE GREAT WORK! We love the DC chapter.
204 posted on 05/19/2006 8:12:23 PM PDT by zoomie81 (zoomie81 ( the nation which forgets its defenders will itself be forgotten))
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To: sauropod; GottaLuvAkitas1
sauropod said: I still remember them throwing coins at those ladies.

I remember hearing about the coins also. I think that it was GottaLuvAkitas1, who persuaded one Iraqi that he better stop throwing coins. A police officer had told the Iraqi that he would be arrested if he kept throwing the coins, but the Iraqi's understanding of English was so limited that it took GottaLuvAkitas1 to get him to stop.

I never did figure out whether the Iraqis were insulting the Missile Chicks as in throwing the coins to say "you're a cheap street walker" or were tossing them money as in "here's a reward for your entertainment," like some in this country give bucks to a street musician or juggler. The language and culture barriers prevented me from understanding what the Iraqi point was with the coin tossing.

205 posted on 05/19/2006 9:31:37 PM PDT by BillF (Fight terrorists in Iraq & elsewhere, instead of waiting for them to come to America!)
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To: tgslTakoma

Amazing shots, tgslTakoma!

Just remember not to actually touch them - even when defending yourself. There's a good reason why the LEO's wear gloves when they must touch moonbats...


206 posted on 05/19/2006 10:52:46 PM PDT by Humidston (Congress is like the Mafia - NO PAY, NO PLAY.)
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To: VoiceOfBruck
Angry Pinkos repeatedly tried to keep us from filming the sit-in. After failing to get arrested for blocking the sidewalk, Medea led a man dressed up as a Club Gitmo detainee up the driveway to Rumsfeld's and had him sit down with two other people, a man and a woman. She and Gael Murphy wrapped them in pink yarn. Medea wrote phone numbers on their arms for them to call from jail.

Pink Yarn! The symbol of the great uprising! ;) Seriously though, there's gotta be a joke in this somewhere...
207 posted on 05/19/2006 11:07:52 PM PDT by Zechariah_8_13 (Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.)
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To: 12th_Monkey
It's hard to believe that so Americans are so profoundly stupid.

After eight years of Bill Clinton, I don't know how you can type that with a straight face. In any event sounds like a perfect place to practice your sarcasm. Or maybe you need to pick up a copy of Ann Coulter's How to Talk to a Liberal if You Must. She enjoys getting them to sputter and turn red in the face. You should have that goal to get an office mate to explode once a week. You'll really start looking forward to going to work.

208 posted on 05/20/2006 3:37:08 AM PDT by Jimmy Valentine's brother (Crush Code Pink, see them driven before you and hear the lamentation of the womyn)
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To: mvpel

Great idea!


209 posted on 05/20/2006 3:54:08 AM PDT by Jimmy Valentine's brother (Crush Code Pink, see them driven before you and hear the lamentation of the womyn)
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To: Bigg Red

Apparently she can't be arrested again because she would get real time instead of make believe time.


210 posted on 05/20/2006 3:55:46 AM PDT by Jimmy Valentine's brother (Crush Code Pink, see them driven before you and hear the lamentation of the womyn)
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To: zoomie81

EAGLES UP to your actions and good luck. Don't forget to write a report so we know what's up.

Thank you for your support.

[Mr] T


211 posted on 05/20/2006 4:21:04 AM PDT by trooprally
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To: Jimmy Valentine's brother

Apparently she can't be arrested again because she would get real time instead of make believe time.

&&
Besides, she is much too important. Better to send the underlings to be cannon fodder.


212 posted on 05/20/2006 8:47:57 AM PDT by Bigg Red (Never trust Democrats with national security.)
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To: kristinn

I love you guys. this has kindled hope in my heart.. that ppl are finally speaking out against these whackjobs by turning their methods on them.. funny how they call it freedom of expression, but when the other side uses those methods, they want them shut down.... it is intolerable! why you can't get in they way of MY protest by protesting... lmao


213 posted on 05/20/2006 8:47:58 AM PDT by Cinnamon
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To: Cinnamon

Those for "peace" just have evil emitting from every pore - the hate, the anger. It's obviously not about "peace", but about hating America. They could care less about innocent Iraqis and their future or freedom.
Can you imagine their stunts if they really were in a Muslim country.
Insanity.


214 posted on 05/20/2006 9:11:22 AM PDT by Tigercap
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To: Cinnamon


215 posted on 05/20/2006 9:11:22 AM PDT by prognostigaator
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To: VeniVidiVici

She looks due alright. Due to deliver a Buick!


216 posted on 05/20/2006 9:51:14 AM PDT by subterfuge (Call me a Jingoist, I don't care...)
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To: kristinn

The DUmmies are spying on your thread and, predictably, responding to it like DUmmies:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x1245299


217 posted on 05/20/2006 1:14:57 PM PDT by Choose Ye This Day (Mmm! The tears of unfathomable sadness! Yummy!)
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To: kristinn

218 posted on 05/20/2006 1:57:00 PM PDT by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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To: Choose Ye This Day

those ppl must be an unhappy miserable bunch 24/7. Rove must be like the monster in the closet for them... lmao

*whisper* Rove *whisper* roflmao


219 posted on 05/20/2006 4:11:41 PM PDT by Cinnamon
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To: Choose Ye This Day
Good grief! The contents of my vacuum cleaner canister has more intellect than those DUmb@sses!
220 posted on 05/20/2006 4:15:30 PM PDT by Sisku Hanne (Equal treatment for illegal aliens: the US should adopt Mexico's immigration policy!)
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