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The National Council on Organized Resistance is a gathering of liberals, progressives, and anarchists. This year they were joined by a select group of conservatives from across the D.C. area who posed as radicals and went undercover.

4/9: Cluster Bomb, WMD&bin Laden Hunt outside White House's Easter Egg Roll -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Reply to: event-294810909@craigslist.org Date: 2007-03-15, 11:47PM EDT We're doing a new kind of demonstration outside the White House to bring attention to the civilian costs of war and cooked "intelligence" as an excuse to bomb and invade. It's called a Cluster Bomb and WMD/bin Laden Hunt and it will take place April 9 outside the White House Easter Monday when the White House is doing their Easter Egg Hunt. We expect 40,000 people to be crossing Lafayette Square and dozens of media. It's very family-orientated and designed...

Getting arrested is becoming blasé for Midgelle Regina Potts. Born Mitchell Eugene Potts, Midge changed her name last year to reflect her belief that she is a woman. She has been arrested five times in Washington. There were the two times protesting in front of the White House, another at the Supreme Court, another at the Senate Gallery and still another at Sen. John McCain’s (R-Ariz.) office when she sat reading the names of dead soldiers. She has a date in court on May 15. “They’re all misdemeanors,” she says, passing the arrests off as just another day in the...

An anti-war group, Code Pink, is hounding Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) at almost every stop she makes on the campaign trail, hitting her again yesterday as she joined other candidates in seeking a union endorsement. Standing in front of the Capitol Hill Hyatt Regency, the group made its presence known, inviting a sea of union members from the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers to “go back downstairs and kiss Hillary’s a--.” While the group of laborers, enjoying cigarettes between speakers at the Communications Workers of America (CWA) forum, looked on with bemused interest, the protesters sang songs and waved...

-- Walter Reed FReep Week #101 With No Let Up In Sight!Washington, DC, March 23, 2007-- A very happy crowd gathered tonight to celebrate our heroes and continue our opposition to the Hate America First crowd waaaaaay down the block. Code Pink showed up in larger than usual numbers (13) most likely due to their humiliation at the hands of the patriots who joined the Gathering Of Eagles last weekend on the Mall. We had 25 patriots that filled all 4 corners at the gate quite nicely!First, an update from the Gathering of Eagles. FReeper TFroatz had not one,...

From the domestic terrorists at AfterDowningStreet.org: [Reuters caption:] Anti war protesters during U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee hearing discussing the firing of U.S. Attorneys and the interviewing of White House staff members on that subject on Capitol Hill in Washington, March 22, 2007.WHY A CONGRESSMAN PAID THE FINE FOR MY ARREST IN CONGRESS Sat, 2007-03-24 01:02 By Ann Wright, Retired US Army Reserve Colonel What irony! I was arrested last week in a Capitol police abuse of power upon leaving a Congressional hearing on FBI abuses of our civil liberties. I was arrested on March 20, 2007 in hallway outside the Judiciary...

Most FReepers have heard by now of the seizure of 15 British sailors by Iran. A number of threads have mentioned the possibilty of torture; and it has come out that at least one of the detainees is a woman. With that in mind, I decided to surf over to the website of a well-known group of women activists who are concerned with the treatment of prisoners, to find their take on the matter. Yes, Code Pink. Or as I will call them from now on, Code Punked. “CODEPINK is a women-initiated grassroots peace and social justice movement working to...

Echoes of the past are heard as vets gather in D.C. to back the troops, oppose war protesters. Chris Hill visits the Wall every Veterans Day. He follows the path to Panel 4W, Line 36, and stops at the name Curtis R. Smoot. It's the same name on the POW-MIA bracelet Hill has worn for 22 years. Hill picked up the bracelet at an ROTC recruitment table in high school. He didn't know Smoot, but the bracelet was a poignant reminder of service and sacrifice during Hill's years with the Seventh Infantry Division in the late 1980s. At Panel 4W,...

Code Pink is seeing red, as anti-war activists take a more aggressive and confrontational approach in spreading their message of peace. Protesters in the past two weeks have held sit-ins from Capitol Hill to California, disrupted congressional hearings and argued publicly with lawmakers -- even anti-war ones. "We've stepped up our tactics because we feel betrayed," said Medea Benjamin, spokeswoman for Code Pink, which wants an immediate withdrawal from Iraq. Tuesday night, an anti-war activist donning a pink scarf sneaked into a D.C. fundraiser for Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton and was forcibly removed after interrupting the New York Democrat's speech,...

Reading about the big disarray that Congress is in I keep thinking of the Car 54, Where Are You? Tune. jerry639 posted that he thinks of I've got a tiger by the tail..... Okay, here is your opportunity to write a theme song based on Congressional Disarray. I'll start off with one stanza of my own 'Rat 54, Where Are You but feel free to add your own material to that tune or come up with a new parody song on this subject. Here goes: There's a holdup in Committee, The floor has broken out in fights. CODEPINK takes over...

Four members of the anti-war group Code Pink were arrested outside the office of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) Thursday afternoon, following an announcement that they would seek to take over the office. The group’s members had planned to hold a symbolic “Pin the war on the Donkey” demonstration at Pelosi’s office to show their frustration with the Democratic leadership’s inaction on ending the war in Iraq. However, Capitol Police prevented the taping of a drawn donkey to the wall. Code Pink members were crying outside Pelosi’s office. When asked why, Rae Abileah, 24, said she was crying out of...

Capitol Police protect Pelosi By Michelle Malkin · March 22, 2007 10:02 PM The Capitol Police couldn't or wouldn't stop anti-war thugs from vandalizing government property in January. But they made sure to protect Nancy Pelosi's office from anti-war protesters who wanted to embarrass her today: Four members of the anti-war group Code Pink were arrested outside the office of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) Thursday afternoon, following an announcement that they would seek to take over the office. The group’s members had planned to hold a symbolic “Pin the war on the Donkey” demonstration at Pelosi’s office to show...

John Murtha, Hero of the War Protesters He's Pro-Gun, Likes Pork, But on Iraq, the Legislator Is Firmly in Their Camp By Lyndsey Layton Washington Post Staff Writer Thursday, March 22, 2007; C01 Gruff, jowly John Murtha wouldn't seem to be a Code Pink kinda guy, what with his appetite for pork and his pro-gun, antiabortion Marine hero bona fides. But there the congressman was, in a Rayburn House Office Building hallway, gallantly protecting some war protesters from the group who had been tossed out of a hearing room and threatened with arrest. "He said 'I know these people,' he...

On Saturday, I was privileged to participate in the Gathering of Eagles in our nation's capital. The gathering was arranged on short notice, mostly via the Internet, as a way for American military veterans to stand and defend our national memorials against any efforts at vandalism by anti-war (and anti-America) protesters from the group ANSWER (Act Now to Stop the War and End Racism). Members of that group had defaced the U.S. Capitol Building with spray-paint in January. The Gathering of Eagles was designed to assist the United States Park Police in defending the Vietnam Wall and other monuments against...

(03/20/2007) CODEPINK's Desiree Fairooz interrupts Hillary Clinton Fundraiser with the "Why, Why, Hillary Why?" song to the tune of "American Pie" as another CODEPINK protester Jodie Evans gets dragged out by 3-4 secret service officers. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=960_1174488595&p=1

Neither snow nor rain nor sleet nor gloom of night, nor all four combined can keep the Freepers from our appointed duty.A special THANK YOU to everybody who came in from out-of-town to be with us! Many of you I know came from areas far north where the weather was much worse. Many people I spoke with told me that it was snowing that morning in their hometown when they left, and that the driving was tough the whole way down. Many I'm sure were not able to come at all. THANK YOU and we hope to see you again!...

The sun was cover by clouds. The wind picked and we kept our eyes on the crest of the bridge. There is no way to shield your eyes for this horror. In a few minutes, we will see the horrors of our culture. The freak parade will come by with the Bush hating masses of worthless souls. The DC Chapter has faced this for the last 9 years but it is never easy. You have to keep up the fire but you want to turn away from the Medusa like vision. We left the children home for this one. The...

We walked past the wall and the military venders in front of the Lincoln Memorial. My wife’s and my mission was to find the Freepers in this area. It was easy. The American flag on the above the Marine flag on a PVC pole told us one thing. The trooprallys were under those flags. The loud speakers of the moonbat’s PA were calling out geographic locations as we walked to the side of the big Lincoln. I heard some state’s name yelled into the PA. Then they yell that some moonbats were ”in the house” (How cliché). To my right...

The Gathering of Eagles, the squeaking of mice – Part 1 The morning started at 6:30 AM. Apple Blossom and I got up and headed for DC. What the day was going to be like was any guess. I have been going to local freeps since 1998. It started from the Saturday mornings at the White House to the fun at Olney and Walter Reed. We had heard that we had many on the way but it you never know until you get there. The traffic was light and we found parking quickly. The day already started well. While going...

What would it take for someone like me to have sympathy for someone like Nancy Pelosi? She is, after all, the most powerful woman in America at the moment. And she's been positively Machiavellian in her long political career. Not the type of person to arouse much sympathy from the average American. But then again, the average American has never encountered the likes of Code Pink and its new offshoot, PelosiWatch. You might think that Nancy Pelosi, being a liberal Democrat, would be a favorite of groups like Code Pink. Not so. The political goalposts have been moved so far...