Posted on 09/03/2008 9:46:21 PM PDT by kristinn
One of Barack Obama's elite fundraisers from the anti-American group Code Pink attempted to storm the stage last night during Republican vice presidential nominee Alaska Governor Sarah Palin's acceptance speech at the GOP convention in St. Paul.
Jodie Evans, one of a group of about 500 top financiers who have bundled tens of thousands of dollars for the Obama campaign was seized by the Secret Service after she had made her way to side of the stage and and started to yell at Palin.
The Washington Post reported on the incident:
10:45 p.m. A pair of Code Pink activists just got to the very edge of the stage and were a moment away from apparently running on stage, right by the Kentucky slot on the floor next to a host of McCain's most senior staffers.
Secret Service men grabbed them at last minute and literally dragged them out.
--Paul Kane
Evans has bundled between $50,000 and $100,000 for Obama as well as contributing the maximum $2300 to Obama's presidential primary campaign. She co-hosted Obama's breakout Hollywood fundraiser at the start of his campaign in February 2007.
As a bundler, Evans has been given perks that include regular briefings by top campaign staffers on policy and private meetings with Obama and his vice presidential candidate Joe Biden.
Evans is infamous in conservative and military family circles for publicly endorsing the terrorists in Iraq against the American soldiers who toppled Saddam Hussein and have fought to keep free Iraq from falling to the hands of Al Qaeda and other terrorist groups and nations.
Evans has worked with state sponsors of terrorism including the governments of Castro's Cuba and the the late Saddam Hussein. She has also met with Venezualan dictator Hugo Chavez and has professed her "love" for him.
Evans has led Code Pink's campaign against the Marines in Berkeley where the group has called the Marines "assassins" and Evans herself has compared the Marine recruiting center in Berkeley to a porn shop.
Code Pink issued a press release a short while ago bragging about their attempt to disrupt Palin's speech:
Co-founders Medea Benjamin and Jodie Evans, who were given their tickets to the speech by a Republican delegate who was frustrated with the Republican party and Sarah Palin, caught the attention of Palin with their banners and shouting about 15 minutes into her speech. Palin stopped talking for a moment to turn to look at them.
After another moment, security then grabbed Benjamin and Evans and escorted them one at a time out of the St. Paul Xcel Center, where they were held until the end of the Palins speech and told they would be arrested if they tried to reenter. They were told theyd committed an arrestable offense but they were not charged.
Sarah Palin is not a womans choice, said Jodie Evans, co-founder, moments after being released. Thats it.
CODEPINK is a nonpartisan womens peace group. They vehemently oppose Palins pro-war, anti-environment, anti-choice positions. More details to come. For questions, please call Jodie Evans at 310-913-4821.
Obama has rejected several requests from troop support groups that he renounce Evans for her support of the terrorists in Iraq.
"Shut UP, ya skanky hag!"
“National Security Special Event” — a Homeland Security designation. Security at NSSEs is handled and supervised by the Secret Service.
:o)
I saw that and wondered if the Pinks were involved. Thanks
How come ya never have any chloroform handy when ya really need it?...:))
If you watched c-span, they showed them throwing Medea Benjamin out.
She looked like a freakin clown and I had to wonder how she got that close.
I want Mr. Bill O’Reily to ask BHO, straight up, to DENOUNCE and RENOUNCE any future contact with this anti-American collection of NUTS.
Bill, are you MAN enough to ask this question?
Hmmm?
Security is a nightmare around the candidates these days. Imagine if one of them had a bomb.
Roger that. Yes, they probably have to have provided name and SSN to get credentials.
>>>Check for media credentials on the perp.
I bet that is it. And remember, someone that posts on DailyKos was making forged credentials.
>>>>who were given their tickets to the speech by a Republican delegate
>>Are these tickets VIP? If so, isnt passing them on a crime itself? WHO PASSED THEM ON?
Interesting. Bump!
I heard this happened but I dismissed it as a quickly forming urban legend. The democrats are scared.
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Heres how Ive been bumping Palin/Obama threads.
Sung to the tune of Oh! Susanna, dont you cry for me.
Oh, no Bama, please dont lie to me... for Im off to Free Republic with a laptop on my knee.
I come from Minnesota with my laptop on my knee;
Im goin to Free Republic my true love for to see.
It rained all night the day I left,
the weather it was dry;
The sun so hot I froze to death,
Obama dont you lie.
Oh! No Bama, dont you lie to me;
I come from Minnesota,
with my laptop on my knee.
I had a dream the other night,
When everything was still;
I thought I saw Obama dear,
A-coming for The Hill.
The smearing lie was in Duluth,
The tear was in his eye,
Said I, Im coming for the truth
Obama dont you lie.
Oh! No Bama, dont you lie to me;
Im off to Free Republic,
with my laptop on my knee.
I fight in my pajamas,
Its plain for all to see.
I aim to be the next Buckhead;
The media all hate me.
I fell in love with Sarah
When my sister bit a moose.
The Guvnors family ate it up
And then they set it loose.
Oh! No Bama, dont you lie to me;
Im off to Free Republic,
with my laptop on my knee.
She loves her sons, she likes her guns,
and Trigonometry.
The media will jump the shark
When Juan makes history.
Well, JimRob knows shell pave the trolls
So controversially,
And Berg will knock Obama down
With friends of Hillary.
Oh! No Bama, dont you lie to me;
Im off to Free Republic with a laptop on my knee.
I soon will be in Hawaii,
And then Ill look all round,
And when I find his birth record,
Ill fall upon the ground.
But if I do not find it,
This Freeperll surely die,
And when Im dead and buried,
Obama dont you lie.
Oh! No Bama, dont you cry for me;
Im off to Free Republic with a laptop on my knee
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2073903/posts?page=6#6
::screams::
Don’t do that kanawa! You scared me!
That was a Code Pinker who boasted of making fake press passes on DailyKos. A real nutcase.
They're the human equivalent of the herpes virus........you just can't get rid of them.
You are kidding me?!!
THAT needs it's own thread and needs to be sent everywhere.
kristinn had a thread on Jodie, actually multiple, weeks if not months ago.
kristinn is the original source on Jodie’s ties.
Radical Cyborgs, Radical Faerie Sisters of Nomenus, Radical Faeries, Radical Travel are all TRIBES of Code Pink. The tribes listings can be found on Tribe.net.
About Radical Faeries:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1794584/posts?page=91#91 <
>>>A second wind of activism came in 1979 when Hay [Harry Hay/Stonewall Rebellion/NAMBLA] founded, with Don Kilhefner, a spiritual movement known as the Radical Faeries. This pagan-inspired group continues internationally based on the principle that the consciousness of gays differs from that of heterosexuals. Hay believed that this different way of seeing constituted the greatest contribution gays made to society, and was indeed the reason for their continued presence throughout history.<<<
From their website radicalfaeries.net:
At the footer of their splash page in dark font on dark background:
"Radical Faeries: We are a network of satyrs, sissies, butch leather queens, ceremonial drag queens, queers, pansies, activists, revolutionaries, workers, artists, farmers, witches, pagans, sacred fools, rural and urban dwellers who see gays, lesbians and transgenders as a distinct and unique people, with our own culture, our own spirituality and our own path of Being."
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Radical Faeries threatened Alito too:
January 31, 2006
ALITO'S CONFIRMATION
Well, it looks like the Senate voted down Kerry's proposed filibuster, so Alito will likelily be confirmed and become a jewel in the tarnished crown of King George at his Mis-Stake of the Union address today. It looks that way, but I tell you there is still hope! It did feel awfully good to phone Chuck Schumer's office and hear that he was supporting the filibuster--Hillary's line was busy. I intend to email both to thank them--there is probably a lot of pressure on them to not be viewed as a few far-left kooks. Who knows, maybe they have struck some secret deal on "The Hill" which trades Alito's confirmation for Bush's impeachment.
But until the second Alito is confirmed, there are certain unorthodox methods of getting things done outside of the legal system. We have our own secret deals and it's time to pull together and go into overdrive!
WITCHES AND RADICAL FAERIES: I know it's short notice, but see what you can do.
DC PROSTITUTES: Have your cellphone cameras ready to snap Alito the moment he disrobes. We'll make his wife cry, alright.
TAXI AND LIMOUSINE DRIVERS OF DC: Be prepared to lose your job to ensure that Alito is late for each appointment. If you can take a detour and "break down" so that he misses or is late for his actual confirmation, it's a touchdown. And with the press you'd get you could probably start your own DEMOCRATS ONLY car service in the capitol.
DC HAIRDRESSERS: Could you "mess up" on his next appointment and send him to court with a bright new color, patchwork bleach job or mohawk? International press would pick up on the humiliation.
DC TAILORS/ROBE CLEANERS: Have lice and scabies specimens on hand.
FOOD SERVICE WORKERS: I would hate for anyone to get food poisoning and miss work, but....
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1794584/posts?page=91#91
(snip)
A fixture at anti-draft and anti-war demonstrations for sixty years, Hay [see post 5: Harry Hay/Stonewall Rebellion/NAMBLA] worked in Womens Strike for Peace during the Vietnam War as a conscious strategy to build a coalition between gay and feminist progressives. He also worked closely with Native American activists, especially the Committee for Traditional Indian Land and Life. Hay was a local founder of the Lavender Caucus of Jesse Jacksons Rainbow Coalition during the early 1980s, and was determined to convince the gay community that its political success was inextricably tied to a broader progressive agenda.
(snip)
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