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.
One just hasn't had one's arse handed to one until one has had it handed to oneself by Beandog, IMHO. Especially her closing arguments! (Loved the one last week to the Pinkos: "In closing, Bite me.")
No, Mommie tried to eat her but she escaped...
There we have it folks. Those who can do, those who can't teach. Or in this case, I suspect, administrates.
Hey nice to hear from you. Hope things are coming along.
Wonderfully well said, NotPoliticallyCoWrecked, as is the rest of your post. Go, left coast FReepers!
It's a Weasel. An egg sucking weasel.
What the commie demonstrated to you by saying, "You can't take my picture" is that if they were in charge, they'd be dictators and the public would be at the mercey of their feelings and not ruled by laaws. The difference can be summed up in one word, "Freedom".
Still winding up the health odyssey; loving the WR FReeps; volunteering in MD politics. Glad all is well with you!
You'd be surprised how many are in their 60s, reliving the 60s at these events. We mock them and bring attention to that by chanting, "Don't trust anyone under 60."
We stand for our wounded troops and their families who arrive to see their wounded family member and had to pass a gauntlet of ghouls. Sometimes, through the windows of the very ambulances who bring the wounded to be healed, those morons were visible.
No.
We are there to say, "Welcome home, heroes; you are appreciated, honored and loved. We are grateful. Thank you from our hearts."
Love is the world's ultimate conservative idea, value and principle.
I teach rhetoric, in the vein of Richard M. Weaver, one of the fathers of the modern conservative movement in America. I teach them to be at home in the realm of ideas; how to engage in reasoned discourse, how to follow an argument to its logical conclusion, spot contradictions and faulty logic, how to avoid extremes, and how to be good citizens.
Here's a few links to what I teach:
Some reflections on and by Richard M. Weaver
Overview of Rhetoric
Rhetoric and Decorum on the Web
A reflection on Federalist #1
My Practical Reasoning Tutorial (much of which is based on Richard M. Weaver's Rhetoric and Handbook
Sounds like a very worthy mission. I couldn't agree with you more about love being the ultimate principle.
I set an example, I don't "teach" anything.
Being a true American requires no "teaching" at all.
This is fantastic! How inspiring! Thank you, and I hope you will do more after-action reports, posted as threads. God bless you!
And that person who has to keep "our movement" "honest and true" would be your exalted self? My, but you're grand. Sweetie pie, you need to shuck the collectivism and remember the true meaning of freedom. We're not a movement. We are the center of the heart of America. We're keeping them off our troopers like you would keep a peeing dog off your rose bushes.
I'm not trying to place myself above anyone else or condescend in any way. I just see a tendency here that I honestly believe contradicts true conservatism and I think people should consider. That's all. This is a forum, right? We discuss ideas?
You speak without knowing what we see or experience in the streets. Come out and but it will take more than one visit. Then we'll talk.
I'm sorry, I just noticed your #139. Thanks for the info. I'll go read right now.
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