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Code Pinko Medea Benjamin Flees When Confronted by Doctor Raoul at Dover AFB
Sunday, March 14, 2004 | Kristinn

Posted on 03/14/2004 2:06:38 PM PST by kristinn

Code Pink founder Medea Benjamin, a leader of the so-called anti-war movement, fled the scene when Doctor Raoul confronted her on her pro-communist background today at an anti-war rally outside Dover Air Force Base in Delaware.

The rally, attended by about three hundred people, was being held to highlight the Pentagon's long-standing policy of not allowing media coverage of the return of fallen American servicemen and women.

Doctor Raoul, sans sign or costume, stood across a six lane highway from the rally and addressed them using a portable PA system. He asked the group, which included Rep. Charles Rangel (D-NY) and some military family members who are against the war on terrorism, why they were standing with those who support the killers of their children serving overseas. Raoul explained how the groups there today stand with A.N.S.W.E.R. and its statement giving "unconditional support" to what they call the "Iraq anti-colonial resistance."

Labor activists Nancy Lessin and Charlie Richardson, the husband and wife duo credited with founding Military Families Speak Out, tried to bully Raoul from speaking out, accusing him of being "disrespectful."

Others walked over and complained Raoul was "disrupting" the protest. Raoul told them to take it up with Medea, pointing out that Medea and her group, Code Pink, have no problem disrupting meetings while this was a public gathering. A while later, Medea Benjamin dragged a military mother across the six lane highway to have her challenge Raoul. A crowd of about thirty protesters formed around them. The mother snarled, "Who the hell do you think you are?"

Raoul replied he was a military family member who was against those supporting the thugs trying to kill our soldiers. He asked her if she knew who she was standing with, explaining again their communist pedigree and phony peace agenda. He repeated his message about A.N.S.W.E.R.'s statement giving their "unconditional support" to what they call the "Iraq anti-colonial resistance."

The woman said, "They're good people. I'd march with them anytime and I'll march with them again."

Raoul turned his attention to the woman's puppetmaster, Medea Benjamin. "Medea," he said, "You lived in Cuba. You wrote for a Cuban newspaper."

Medea interrupted, saying, "That's not about that here."

Raoul continued, "You wrote a book called Cuba, Thoughts about Revolution, by Medea Benjamin. The book can be found on Amazon. C'mon, Medea, what is it? Are you a peace activist or are you a revolutionary.

Medea took off without answering.

The crowd remained and closed in on Raoul. A state trooper intervened and told the protesters to back off, which they did. The media was there for the confrontation with Medea. Let's see what they choose to report.


TOPICS: Activism/Chapters; News/Current Events; US: Delaware; US: District of Columbia
KEYWORDS: answer; beeatch; codepink; cuba; cubannewspaper; doverafb; medeabenjamin; nazicoward
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To: kristinn
He asked the group, which included Rep. Charles Rangel (D-NY) and some military family members who are against the war on terrorism,

What a disgusting human being. Just think what it would be like to live in a world totally controlled by Charles Rangle and his ilk!

21 posted on 03/14/2004 2:40:08 PM PST by chachacha
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To: kristinn; Doctor Raoul
Thank you both...Raoul for standing up to these people for me, and kristinn for reporting and starting this whole kind of thing so many years ago. I wish I could have been there with you. You both inspire me. I will never again be cowed by "politeness" to let a leftist lie unchallenged.
22 posted on 03/14/2004 2:43:38 PM PST by Grammy
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To: kristinn; Doctor Raoul; Gopher Broke; JOE6PAK; talleyman; kch01; fenway; GodBlessRonaldReagan; ...
Thanks for the ping. I'm bookmarking this one.

God bless you Doctor Raoul, God bless you. May the Good Lord rain down His blessings on you. May St. Michael the Archangel protect you in battle always as he did today.

This whole mock funeral procession and the protest at Walter Reed is one of the sickest, scummiest things I've ever heard of, ever.
23 posted on 03/14/2004 2:43:58 PM PST by Flora McDonald (Stand the Storm!)
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To: Doctor Raoul
Labor activists Nancy Lessin and Charlie Richardson, the husband and wife duo credited with founding Military Families Speak Out, tried to bully Raoul from speaking out, accusing him of being "disrespectful."
See also, from Green Party Senate candidate arrested at Democratic rally :

Green Party Senate candidate arrested at Democratic rally
Medea Benjamin Frustrated by Lack of Media Coverage
KAREN GAUDETTE / AP 7nov00

SAN FRANCISCO -- A Green Party candidate for U.S. Senate and two of her aides were arrested by San Francisco police Monday night at a Democratic rally as they clamored at the stage for a chance to speak.

Medea Benjamin; her campaign manager, Jane Brashares; and fund-raiser Marla Ruzicka were arrested for investigation of trespassing and resisting arrest at the Delancy Street Town Hall, which is private property, said police Lt. Louis Cassanego.

Cassanego said the women attempted to get onstage and yelled during speeches...

CLICK HERE for the rest of that article

24 posted on 03/14/2004 2:46:16 PM PST by RonDog
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To: Doctor Raoul; All
Thank you, Doctor of FReep!

I'd love to see Medusa's reaction to a loud chant of Medea, Medea, you can't hide, you supported Saddam's genocide!

It's using one of the left's slogans against them.

25 posted on 03/14/2004 2:48:59 PM PST by BillF (Fight terrorists in Iraq & elsewhere, instead of waiting for them to come to America!)
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To: kristinn
Great Job by our Fearless one. Here is the fact sheet on this communist B$tch!

http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=4631

The Anti-American: Medea Benjamin
By John Perazzo
FrontPageMagazine.com | November 15, 2002


There is scarcely a calamity, an injustice, or an act of outright barbarism occurring anywhere on earth, that Leftists cannot somehow trace to the doorstep of the United States. In their view, all attacks against our country are understandable, if not laudable, retaliatory strikes against an aggressive, arrogant nation that has too often tried to bully the rest of the world. Conversely, any American response – be it with military or law-enforcement measures – is seen as a form of aggression that will only provoke further anti-Americanism and thereby perpetuate "the cycle of violence."

A leading proponent of this view is the outspoken Medea Benjamin, who in 1988 founded the activist organization Global Exchange, and in 2000 was the Green Party candidate for US Senate in California. In her view, America’s war on terror is, itself, a form of terrorism. Late last year Ms. Benjamin took a group of Americans, each of whom had lost loved ones in the 9-11 attacks, to Afghanistan to meet people whose relatives had perished in the US bombing campaign there. She returned from that trip weighted down with photographs and heart-rending tales of Afghan children who had been injured, killed, or orphaned by the war. "We must insist that governments stop taking innocent lives in the name of seeking justice for the loss of other innocent lives," she said.

This remarkable characterization of the US military effort implies, of course, that the Bush Administration defines justice, at least in part, as the retributive taking of innocent lives – rather than as an effort to bring down deadly terrorist networks like al-Qaeda. Benjamin’s other planted axiom is that merely because some innocent Afghans were killed by American bombs, the events that brought about their deaths were morally equivalent to the attacks of 9-11. Strangely, however, she has not a word to say about the Taliban’s culpability in forcing the war by refusing to hand over bin Laden and his henchmen – as President Bush demanded – during the weeks preceding the American air strikes.

Instead, Ms. Benjamin asserts that Bush "has responded to the violent attack of 9-11 with the notion of perpetual war . . . a war in Afghanistan that included dropping over 20,000 bombs, many of which missed their targets and led to the killing and maiming of thousands of civilians." Global Exchange, she explains, "hired a survey team in Afghanistan that documented over 800 civilian deaths and many more wounded." Yet she does not acknowledge that this number is remarkably small, given the massive firepower dropped upon this nation of 26 million people. Had the US been truly careless or malicious, casualties could easily have numbered in the millions.

Nonetheless, the fact remains that some non-military targets were bombed by mistake, and Leftists like Ms. Benjamin can allow no American error to go un-condemned – no matter how noble our nation’s intentions might have been. Thus Global Exchange has pressed the US government to create a fund that would pay $10,000 apiece to Afghan victims who need medical care, help in rebuilding their homes, and compensation for the loss of a caretaker or breadwinner.

Naturally, Benjamin makes no demand that Americans who lost loved ones on 9-11 receive reciprocal restitution from ousted Taliban leaders – or even from Saudi Arabia, the land from which fifteen of the nineteen 9-11 hijackers hailed. Nor has she issued any call for other Arab nations to help Afghanistan. As always, America is expected not only to climb unaided out of its own dark pit of tragedy, but to rescue everyone else as well. In the condescending paternalism typical of the Left, nothing is expected – or even asked – of other nations. Even though much of Afghanistan had been rendered a virtual wasteland by twenty-three years of war that had killed and maimed untold numbers of innocents, Benjamin holds only America’s military campaign accountable for the unintended damage it inflicted.

Like any good Leftist, Ms. Benjamin predictably advises us to examine "the root causes of resentment against the United States in the Arab world – from our dependence on Middle Eastern oil to our biased policy towards Israel." Presumably it is unjust for our country to show "bias" favoring the Middle East’s lone friendly democracy, a nation that has repeatedly been assaulted by neighboring armies and legions of suicide bombers. Presumably we ought to demonstrate equal affection for nations and peoples that wish to see "infidels" like us obliterated.

The bombings, says Ms. Benjamin, have "made Afghans so upset that some [have] talked about waging a jihad, or holy war, against the United States." "If the Muslim world sees the United States as willing to bomb but not feed people," she adds, "it will deepen the suspicion and mistrust already felt by millions . . . that the United States doesn’t care about the lives of the Muslim people." Never does she mention that since the 9-11 attacks, Americans have led the world in sending money, food, clothing, and medicine to needy Afghans. Charities, churches, concerned organizations, and private corporations from coast to coast have raised enormous sums to help those people living in the very land that harbored the masterminds of the 9-11 attacks. What other nation on earth has ever demonstrated such generosity in the wake of such an atrocity?

Moreover, the US government has already pledged hundreds of millions of dollars for this fiscal year alone to help Afghans rebuild their schools, develop an adequate health-care system, vaccinate their children against measles, rehabilitate landmine victims, improve sanitation facilities, repatriate Afghan refugees, modernize agriculture, and restore roads and bridges.

All of the aforementioned issues, of course, long predated the American military campaign in Afghanistan; in essence, our nation has volunteered to clean up the abominable mess that others – many of them Muslims – made for the Afghan population. Added to this, our political leaders have stated ad nauseam that our war is not against Islam, but against terrorism. This message has been repeated countless thousands of times in both the print and electronic media. Yet still, as Ms. Benjamin points out, many Islamic nations perceive the US as being anti-Muslim. There comes a point where we must simply acknowledge that we can do nothing more; we can deliver our message in many different forms, but we cannot comprehend it for those who are unwilling or unable to comprehend it for themselves.

Ms. Benjamin further decries our government’s current preparation for possible war with Iraq. She organized last month’s "peace" demonstration in San Francisco, and was a featured speaker at its sister rally in Washington, DC. "While other nations are desperately trying to come to a deal with Iraq to resume weapons inspections," she says, "the US government opposes any moves that reduce its justification to wage war." She says not a word about the farcical twelve-year history of the inspections process, fraught with Iraqi lies, evasions, defiance, and noncompliance.

"We are . . . determined," Benjamin adds, "to stop the US government from unilaterally dictating to other people – be they Palestinian, Iraqi or Venezuelan – who their leaders should be. This is for the people themselves to decide." This is intellectual dishonesty of the highest order, for surely she understands that the people of Iraq – where political dissent is met with torture, imprisonment, or death – do not choose their own leaders. Benjamin is an intelligent woman who knows better than to believe that Saddam’s recent electoral victory, in which he captured fully 100 percent of the vote, was anything but a sham.

Ms. Benjamin often expresses her desire to build "a world that rejects ethnic and religious divisions, celebrates diversity . . . [and] focuses on building a global community." Carried away by her own flowery prose, she is unwilling to acknowledge that the effort to rid the world of such divisions and to celebrate diversity are uniquely Western concepts – more highly developed by America than by any other nation in world history. By the same token, she is silent about the fact that Muslim lands have shown no similar impulse, plagued as they are by a spirit of cultural and religious intolerance.

Not even the deplorable human rights abuses that occur throughout the Middle East are, in Ms. Benjamin’s mind, any worse than what takes place in America. "When most Americans hear of human rights abuses," she states, "they likely think of atrocities in some far-off country in a forgotten corner of the globe. . . . [But] abuses against individuals’ basic rights also occur regularly here in the United States, and our money-saturated political system hardly deserves the title ‘democracy.’ "

Many of the causes that Ms. Benjamin espouses are Communist in nature. The Washington "peace" rally at which she spoke last month, for instance, was organized by the Workers World Party, a Communist organization proudly dedicated to "fight[ing] against capitalism" in America’s "racist, sexist society." In years past, she staunchly opposed US military aid to those fighting against Communist forces in Central America. More recently, she has worked to take California’s energy production out of the hands of private companies and place it under public control. She favors the creation of a government-sponsored universal health care system funded by taxpayer dollars. She exhorts the US government to lift its trade embargo against Cuba – a nation she notably lauds as a place where people have managed to "thrive despite the odds" against them.

Earlier this year Ms. Benjamin, along with scores of other notable American Leftists, signed a declaration titled "Not in Our Name." This document asserts that the US war on terror poses "grave dangers to the people of the world"; that "war and repression . . . has been loosed on the world by the Bush Administration . . . [in] a spirit of revenge." Again we encounter the ever-recurring theme of the Left: all problems are America’s fault. Benjamin and her fellow signatories angrily denounce the Administration’s "simplistic" characterization of the war on terror as a battle of "good vs. evil." In their view, there is no good or evil. Joseph Stalin and Winston Churchill are merely variations on a theme, neither one better than the other.


26 posted on 03/14/2004 2:49:12 PM PST by Grampa Dave (America can't afford a 9/10 John F'onda al Querry after 9/11.)
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To: kristinn
Excellent work!
27 posted on 03/14/2004 2:51:56 PM PST by NYCVirago
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To: Grammy; MrConfettiMan; All
Sorry to post and run, but it's dinner time. Grammy, thanks, but I followed in the steps of MrConfettiman and others.
28 posted on 03/14/2004 3:04:11 PM PST by kristinn (Blue Star Mothers' Troop Support Rally March 13 in Wash., D.C.)
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To: kristinn; RAOUL
Thank you Raoul!!
29 posted on 03/14/2004 3:04:59 PM PST by Lion in Winter
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To: Doctor Raoul
You're braver than I. Thanks for calling them to account.
30 posted on 03/14/2004 3:10:54 PM PST by Unam Sanctam
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To: kristinn
Doctor Raoul---rocks!

You stood up to the child killer self-styled Medea and the shemale backed off.

These leftists show fear in the light of truth.

31 posted on 03/14/2004 3:13:32 PM PST by eleni121 (Preempt and Prevent)
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To: kristinn
To realy get her PO'd he should have called her Susan, because that's her real first name.
32 posted on 03/14/2004 3:14:59 PM PST by Hillarys Gate Cult (Proud member of the right wing extremist Neanderthals.)
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To: kristinn; Doctor Raoul
Well done !

Shame on Charlie Rangel! Shame on the New Yorkers that continue to elect him.

33 posted on 03/14/2004 3:21:57 PM PST by csvset
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To: Mark
Any video for Fox News?

Don't know if FOX had an affiliate there, I do know that CNN and CBS did not take up my offer of an interview. Eric Alterman is right, what liberal media bias? Of course if you believe Alterman, you'll believe that the KKK (Robert Byrd's Best Buds) just meets Bible Study and those flaming cross are just to provide more light to read by......

34 posted on 03/14/2004 3:22:47 PM PST by Doctor Raoul (How can they call it a "Peace March" when they unconditionally support those who kill our soldiers?)
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To: kristinn
I have the greatest admiration for all you guys who have gotten out there and demonstrated over the years. Thanks for this post!
35 posted on 03/14/2004 3:23:34 PM PST by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: kristinn
This was a great action. I hope he wasn't alone becasue all Freepers should do their actions with independent video cameras running. The tapes can be turned over to a television station or placed on the Internet for viewing. People need to see what we are really fighting against instead of sanitarynews. If people nationally really saw a homosexual and lesbian parade from start to finish, do you really think we would be debating the Homosexual Marriage issue?
36 posted on 03/14/2004 3:24:40 PM PST by mlmr (John F. Kerry: a rich widow's lapdog, and Ted Kennedy's skinny twin!)
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To: chachacha
Just think what it would be like to live in a world totally controlled by Charles Rangle and his ilk!

Chas has a new ride, a silver Mercedes. You can tell it's his, it has New York plates with "15C" on them and I believe something like "Congressional Delegation" on it too.

That's getter than having the Grico lizard save you a lot of money on insurance. If you don't get speeding tickets, your rates don't go up.

37 posted on 03/14/2004 3:25:59 PM PST by Doctor Raoul (How can they call it a "Peace March" when they unconditionally support those who kill our soldiers?)
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To: kristinn; Doctor Raoul; tgslTakoma; Angelwood
Very cool. I got family problems intervening today or else i would have been there.

Give 'em hell!

38 posted on 03/14/2004 3:28:15 PM PST by sauropod (I intend to have Red Kerry choke on his past.)
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To: kristinn; Doctor Raoul
Medea took off without answering.

&&

Excellent!

Doc, you are an amazing man.
39 posted on 03/14/2004 3:28:34 PM PST by Bigg Red (Never again trust Democrats with national security!)
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To: RonDog
RonDog, you're an inspiration. Too bad I didn't have a cover sheet so she could autograph it for me.

Old Medea is a dread ringer for Squeaky Fromm, the woman who went after President Ford.

She and her "CodePink" crowd think it's just fine to disrupt Rumsfeld's speech, the other guy at the AEI and Congressional Hearings and do their chants and their "Pink Slip" street theater. Seems she doesn't like to be on the receiving end of that.

40 posted on 03/14/2004 3:28:56 PM PST by Doctor Raoul (How can they call it a "Peace March" when they unconditionally support those who kill our soldiers?)
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