Allison Yorra - Code Pink
Posted on 01/27/2006 9:46:07 PM PST by tgslTakoma
There I was, across the street, a six lane street. Just me. And my little camera.
I stood quietly on the empty sidewalk taking pictures of the Code Pink protest at Walter Reed. The one that used to be at the main entrance to the hospital, until they forgot to renew their permit for that location.
Now, they've taken to infesting a location down the street, in front of a small sidewalk park, but still in front of the hospital.
I had gone down alone, with my camera and tripod to document their little public protest.
I had less than a minute's peace to take photos before Allison Yorra and Ann Wilcox of Code Pink came across and told me that I would have to leave the empty sidewalk, across the street from their protest, because they had a permit for where I was standing.
I told them I wasn't disrupting their protest across the street, and that I was holding no signs but simply taking photos. They told me that I was not allowed to be there, and that the police would remove me. I encouraged them to call the police, because I wasn't demonstrating in their protest area, just taking photos, in their protest area where they weren't protesting. They initially declined to call the police, preferring to "handle it themselves."
By now, "Princess", Weasel and some guy with a black beret had joined Allison and Ann around me. They began to block my camera, which was focused on their public protest across the street. No matter which way I turned, there was Allison and her bully-boys.
So I stepped off the sidewalk and into the curb lane of the street, where MPDC does not issue permits unless the road is closed. Allison and the bullies quickly followed. I'd move. They'd move in front of me. I'd move again. They'd again block my view.
Here are a few photos I took:
Allison Yorra - Code Pink
Allison and "Princess" who both love to call our president a fascist, as they freely protest at a military hospital and try to bully a lone photographer.
Weasel scurries across the street to join in the leftist fun and games.
Allison's good side
I got lots of photos like this. Y'know, for a woman whose organization loves to sneak into places like the Dem and Republican conventions, the John Bolton hearings, various Rumsfeld hearings and events to unfurl banners and disrupt the events for the fawning MSM cameras - she sure does seem to dislike this camera operator.
Allison has help from Black Beret Guy to stop me from taking photos of their public protest.
Black Beret Guy and Ann Wilcox of Code Pink.
Allison and "Princess" - Her profile is definitely NOT her good side.
Allison got really bent out of shape when the other camera folk came down to film their gang assault on me. In a fit of anger, Allison Yorra yelled at us, calling us a bunch of nobodies and that nobody reads our blogs.
Hey, it takes all kinds. I was just hoping to challenge those FReepaholics who are not inclined to engage in the kind of introspection you mention to think about why they're out there week after week, how it effects them, and what it means to be a conservative. Cuz, in my book, brother, we don't do what we do "by any means necessary." That's a radical's credo, not ours.
Anyway,
FRegards, and thanks for all you do.
And . . .
But, hey, it takes all kinds. . . . knock yourself out.
It is cool and exciting and you've taught them to think that it isn't.
Tell me do you also teach them to avoid support the troops rallys?
Or outdoor political speeches?
Because those could easily be considered behavior(s) reminiscent of the 1960s.
As I see it you are creating a new silent majority willing to allow the left to say whatever they want, and do whatever they want, without even a whimper of protest from "real conservatives".
If you succeed in creating your "real conservatives" won't you also be repeating the hardest lesson of The Viet Nam War, that our silence brought about failure out of victory?
I've helped organize them. I'm just now helping get a "We support our troops" display case installed.
Or outdoor political speeches?
I've delivered a few of them myself.
Regarding that other nonsense . . .
I'm teaching them precisely to do battle with extremists (left or right-wing) in the arena of ideas! without resorting to name calling, ad hominem, and insults. . . . give it a try sometime. It's exhilirating!)
Thanks for the ping!
He wanted to give diplomacy every chance. BUT . . . when it was time to fight, he was ferocious . . . even scarey. I like to picture myself acting just so . . with my students right beside me!
Now I can hear someone scream, "But his son died because he drug his heals!!) True, his young son had to die before he jumped into the fray, but his reluctance to fight was not the cause of his young son's death. His son died because he acted rashly and because of the brutality of the Red Coat commander.
Speaking of war, a good analogy just occured to me:
Our adversary in Iraq is using lots of suicide bombers and road side bombs. Should we "fight fire with fire"? Should we start annihilating villages that support insurgents? Should we send in select troops on suicide missions to blow themselves up in a crowd of suspected insurgents to demoralize them? Why not?reductio ad absurdum--"illustrating absurdity by being absurd"
The Arena of Ideas?
Liberals never enter the arena of ideas anymore, they're too busy hogging the news cameras and staging events to sway the public with meaningless rhetoric.
You are grooming your students for a fight they never encounter, the one on one open debate with an actual liberal.
Meanwhile those here willing to counter protest are making a difference, because unlike your students they are forcing the issue to the forefront and winning against the liberals.
Those that protest win by preventing Code Pink from making the news. Every time the media can't display Code Pink's protests because of those Freepers counter protesting, it's a clean win. And because this win touches more soldiers then any display case in a hallway somewhere only a fool would attempt to shame those that do so.
And only a cretin would call it dirty politics.
His son died because he was killed, not because he decided to wear the uniform of our nation when he father told him not to fight.
That basic lesson lost on you, every human make their own path in life no matter what the wishes of the parents are.
His son's sacrifice shamed Gibson's character into action.
The romance of war never survives the first taste of it.
As for American suicide bombers, in truth the first Kamikazes were those members of Torpedo 8 that flew into the slaughter of Midway at the hands of japanese gunners. We created the first Kamikazes, the japanese only fashioned them after our examples.
Then again, if you think teachers ought to abandon teaching their charges to win in the arena of ideas just because some left wingers no longer know how to exercise reason, then shame on you! That kind of thinking isn't exactly conducive to perpetuating a free and civil society.
That's Pee Wee Herman...and his towel boy.
Where do they recruit their members? The bus stop mutant zone?
"Remember how agonizing it was for the family in Mel Gibson's "The Patriot" to decide what to do? The hotheads were anxious to go to war, but not ol' Mel's character."
The ONLY movie I've seen, in this century,
was "We Were Soldiers"
Why, because I have a lot of admiration
for for the Brothers
who had it rougher than I did in Viet Nam.
And while I appreciate your efforts in
teaching the next generation realize
that the next generation learn from my example,
and how I found a way to serve my country again
and at zero cost to the government.
You see I've managed to be successful
in my profession
(not rich by any means, but successful and pay taxes)
AND make time each and every week
to serve along side, and in many cases,
actually replace active duty personnel.
That's the key to setting an example
of just what a conservative really is.
You really can't teach someone what to do or think.
Just set an example for them and hope they follow.
You have no clue, it's obvious from your post.
Get off your ass, it's not hard to find...
Ops, I forgot, you're busy speaking through it.
Thank you for standing up to these pinkos.
I'm a pretty big guy. If I move off of their "zone" and they pull that crap on me, I would start hurting people to make that issue stop. These commies need put in their place.
LOL.
No kidding.
It's like antagonizing a rabid, dull canine.
Another thing they don't seem to like is Protest Warrior, based upon experience.
:-)
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