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On our tenth day in Pakistan, my colleague Tighe Barry and I, both human rights activists with CODEPINK and Global Exchange, were arrested at gunpoint by agents of the Pakistani government. We had just left a student rally and were driving down the streets of Lahore with a car full of Pakistani journalists and lawyers. Two cars and six motorbikes came screeching up, blocked our car, piled out with guns drawn, dragged the journalists and lawyers out of the car, beat the bystanders, and hijacked the car. With the two of us huddled in the back surrounded by shouting police,...

On Nov 30,  FReepers from DC Chapter and beyond, reinforced by allies, held our weekly support the troops event at Walter Reed Army Medical Center (WR). We had numerous special guests, including two who told stories reminding us vividly why we have been here for over 2 and 1/2 years through rain, snow, cold, wind, and heat. (Here is a web page with the background of the event, which is also a FReep of the  anti-troop hate group Code Pink and their fellow travelers assembled down the block to continue their vicious taunting of wounded troops. It also describes the...

Pakistan authorities today ordered the deportation of the leader of the feminist U.S. antiwar group Code Pink, who was in Lahore to join protests against the emergency rule imposed by President Pervez Musharraf, according to a spokeswoman for the group. "I'm OK — a little shaken up," Ms. Benjamin told The Washington Times by telephone from her hotel in Lahore. "They mistreated us." Ms. Benjamin said she feared for her life as the agents held her at gunpoint in a car speeding through the city to the police station. "I thought I was going to die in the car," she...

OK, today on Laura Ingraham's show, the website shows as a guest Rev. Billy of the "Church of Stop Shopping". This guy is a known Code Pink associate and participates in the Code Pink disruptions of Congress. Here's 14 pages of Google hits on Rev. Billy and Code Pink (two words)Here's 12 pages of Google hits on Rev. Billy and CodePink (one word) The guy dresses in clerical garb and mockingly imitates an evangelical minister. The Church of Stop Shopping was this clown's response to the President's message that the public should carry on their normal activities (Go shopping...) rather...

Pakistan police today arrested the leader of the feminist U.S. antiwar group Code Pink, who was in Lahore for a student peace rally, according to a spokeswoman for the group. Medea Benjamin, a co-founder of the group, was arrested by plainclothes police with guns drawn and taken to a police station in Lahore, spokeswoman Dana Balicki said. Police also arrested Tighe Barry, a longtime Code Pink activist, who was participating with the student rally outside the Lahore Press Club. The students were protesting the emergency rule imposed Nov. 3 by President Pervez Musharraf. Police told Ms. Benjamin and Mr. Barry...

The freewheeling tactics of his supporters have made the GOP candidate an Internet sensation and an unlikely phenomenon. The late-fall night fairly crackled with energy -- from a persistent Santa Ana wind, the high-tension power lines overhead and, especially, from the crowd packed inside the living room of a ranch house at the west end of the San Gabriel Valley. Eighty people sat elbow to elbow on tight rows of folding chairs, chattering with enthusiasm and ideas. They would produce wall calendars and a concert. They would reenact the Boston Tea Party on the Santa Monica Pier. They would write...

Ron Paul may not win his party’s primary, but he is on track to capture another big title: Top Republican fundraiser for the final quarter of the money-obsessed 2008 presidential primary. In the first two months of the quarter that began Oct. 1, Paul already has raised more than $9.75 million, putting him easily within range to best the amount rival Mitt Romney received from donors during the entire third quarter. The Texas congressman has set a goal of raising $12 million before the fourth quarter’s Dec. 31st deadline, a sum New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani couldn’t achieve in the...

Cambridge votes down scouts’ aid for Iraq GIs By Mike Underwood Friday, November 16, 2007 Big-hearted Boy Scouts collecting donations for care packages for U.S. troops are still scratching their heads after being sent packing from polling stations when Cambridge officials ruled their generous effort “political.” “We just wanted to make a lot of troops happy,” said Scout Patrick O’Connor, 16. “I was devastated that someone would think to take (the donation boxes) out,” he said. O’Connor of West Cambridge was one of the Scouts who wanted to collect toiletries, magazines, candy and other items for care packages after one...

It had been several weeks since I had been to a Walter Reed FReep and I was getting anxious to get back. Personal matters, and the fact that I had been hard at work on several election campaigns in Virginia all conspired to keep me away. But all that is behind me now so I will again be a regular at our Friday evening FReeps. So a note to all communists, pinkos, peaceniks, 60's leftovers, and other assorted whackos who might think that they can hang out in front of one of our hallowed military hospitals where heroes are recovering,...

Clinton heckled the Code Pink antiwar demonstrator right back. Last Edited: Sunday, 18 Nov 2007, 9:59 AM PST Clinton was interrupted by a Code Pink antiwar demonstrator shouting that she had voted for the war in Iraq.

<p>We were outnumbered...by the good guys from Gathering of Eagles (GOE)! They were in town to help celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Vietnam Wall Memorial Wall. These Eagles already had all 4 corners crowded before Mr Trooprally arrived at 6:40. Suzanne said she had been out there since 1pm!</p>

The Left's FEAR MONGERING exposed The latest bombshell to hit the radical left cabal: Weather Channel Founder: Global Warming ‘Greatest Scam in Historyhttp://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2007/11/07/weather-channel-founder-global-warming-greatest-scam-history Radical liberal loons the kind of Bill Maher and others, in their usual devious conduct of trying to spin on the real threat of the western society, like (or shall I say liked?) to use 'global warming', as the 'real threat', not ISLAMO - FASCISM. My advice to the militant left from Rosie O'Donnell to the backward "MoveOn" & other left-behind "progressive" fanatics, hurry up, "find" some "other" threat before you are left out to dry by...

Code Pink recently put up footage of Jes Richardson of San Francisco getting arrested at the Judiciary Committee hearing on the Mukasey nomination for attorney general. The footage shows an outraged Jes Richardson, but his outrage is clearly phony.

Nov. 2 was the first time in 3 weeks that our weekly support the troops event at Walter Reed Army Medical Center (WR) was not rained on. For over 2 and 1/2 years through rain, snow, cold, wind, and heat FReepers have stood outside the main gate of Walter Reed (WR) every week, having expelled the cruel Code Pink anti-troop hate group from that location about 9 months into the weekly events. (Here is a web page with the background of the event, which is also a FReep of the  venomous Code Pink and their fellow travelers assembled down the...

Any U.S. Senator will get unhappy visitors now and again, but Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., has had a tough couple of days. Everyone knew she would take heat for announcing Friday that she’ll give former judge Michael Mukasey a crucial Democratic vote in the Judiciary Committee for his confirmation as Attorney General. (Read her rationale for the vote here.) Sure enough, CodePink protestors went to Feinstein’s home in San Francisco’s Pacific Heights on Sunday with a simulated waterboarding device so people could try it out and decide for themselves whether or not the interrogation technique amounts to torture. Several Democrats including...

I think this is a damn funny video from todays demonstrations.... instructions:click on the first link below, and then click:+ Watch video here .LINK...HERE's the Google "search" - youtube link. Interesting commentary by DUmmies re.: CODEPINK Demonstrates Waterboarding to Feinstein at CNN

Three of Code Pink's stooges ate their groul while Medea and Gail looked over them. My apologies to the "Three Stooges", but the parody is too good to ignore. (photoshop by [Mrs] T). This lady (BELOW) was from Texas. During one of our verbal exchanges that she was losing, her words to us were, "Go to hell". FReepers in attendance this clear cool night were: BillF, BMWcyle, BufordP, PortCall24, TrueBlackMan and myself. It was great to see the support of those FReepers who came out this Halloween night. It was interesting to also hear what chores we had to promise...

Neighbors: Code Pink quietIt's a shame the Mr. Emerling didn't speak to those who don't like CP being on their block. From Page 1 of the web site: Excerpt: "Members of an antiwar group with a penchant for dramatic and faux-bloody protests in the halls of Congress have proved to be model citizens a few blocks away in their Capitol Hill town house." Excerpt: "But Renee Howell and Ruhani Syed, who have lived near the intersection of Fifth and H streets for 14 years, described group members as calm and pleasant in the community." Excerpt: "Doug Townsend, another neighbor whose...

Members of an antiwar group with a penchant for dramatic and faux-bloody protests in the halls of Congress have proved to be model citizens a few blocks away in their Capitol Hill town house. Code Pink — a mostly female protest group best known for their pink costumes — has taken up residence in a Northeast house within walking distance of the Capitol. And while some in the politically astute neighborhood say they disagree with Code Pink's views or tactics, they also say the group hasn't proved to be too disruptive a neighbor. "I have not liked it simply because...

An Iraq war protester who got within inches of Condoleezza Rice at a hearing last week said she was shocked that tighter security did not prevent her from coming so close to the secretary of state. If there had been more security at the House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing, protester Desiree Anita Ali-Fairooz said, she probably wouldn’t have approached Rice. “I anticipated that she would have been surrounded by SS [Secret Service] or by private security,” she said. Photos from the hearing show Ali-Fairooz sticking her hands, which had been soaked in fake blood, in the face of a startled...