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When Peaceniks Attack: D.C. Chapter vs. Code Pink and Cindy Sheehan at Rumsfeld's House 5/18/06
Thursday, May 18, 2006 | Kristinn

Posted on 05/18/2006 8:18:19 PM PDT by kristinn

Honor Roll for today: Mr. and Mrs. Trooprally, Cindy_True_Supporter, tgslTakoma, daughterofTgsl and kristinn.

Code Pink, Cindy Sheehan, CIA turncoat Ray McGovern and approximately several dozen barking moonbats marched from the White House to the home of Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld in Northwest Washington, D.C. this afternoon.

Lying in wait for them were six members of the D.C. Chapter of Free Republic determined to stand up for Secretary Rumsfeld and for America. It was not a fair fight. Pinko egos were left splattered on the pavement after two hours of battle.

It was a nice Spring afternoon, with a shower early in the day followed by warm sunshine peeking through the tall trees in the Kalorama neighborhood where the confrontation ocurred.

We arrived early, a little before 3 p.m., about an hour before the Pinkos arrived. We checked in with officers from the various law enforcement agencies present and took a strategic position on the sidewalk right in front of Rumsfeld's house. The media soon started arriving. By 4 p.m. there were about two dozen cameras and reporters awaiting the arrival of Cindypalooza.

The circus came marching down Kalorama Road and set up in the narrow street in front of Rumsfeld's, the crowd was singing the refrain from "Give Peace a Chance."

We responded with a steady chant of "We gave peace a chance, we got 9/11," continuing all the while Sheehan, McGovern and Medea Benjamin gave brief propaganda speeches. The Pinkos became quite agitated at our peaceful exercising of our First Amendment rights. Gael Murphy lobbied the police to shut us down and move us out of the way, to no avail.

Then Cindy and Medea and a few others sat down on part of the sidewalk at the entrance to Rumsfeld's house in an attempt to get arrested. McGovern hung back and kept a low profile throughout the rest of the demonstration.

Being that they had sat down right next to us, we held our ground and started a new chant of "Media stunt! Media stunt! Media stunt!" Several in the surrounding media horde nodded their heads in agreement. Sheehan spent her time sitting down alternately flashing the peace sign working her cell phone.

Angry Pinkos repeatedly tried to keep us from filming the sit-in. After failing to get arrested for blocking the sidewalk, Medea led a man dressed up as a Club Gitmo detainee up the driveway to Rumsfeld's and had him sit down with two other people, a man and a woman. She and Gael Murphy wrapped them in pink yarn. Medea wrote phone numbers on their arms for them to call from jail. The police kept a watchful eye as the trio leaned up against a low retaining wall along the driveway. We took turns informing the media of Code Pink's support for the insurgents in Iraq, their communist background and their support for Fidel Castro.

After thirty minutes of the trio laying on the driveway, a frustrated Medea started complaining to the police that the protesters hadn't been arrested yet. She noticed that the media was getting bored and was beginning to leave and tried in vain to get them to stay. The police just shrugged their shoulders. They weren't ready to arrest anyone yet. Cindy Sheehan and Ray McGovern left. Sheehan had gotten an earful from several of us, one of whom lost a brother in Vietnam. Sheehan hates being confronted by Gold Star families opposed to her treasonous politics.

At that point the Pinkos were split into two groupings, on the driveway and the sidewalk. The Freepers and the Pinkos were free to engage each other. The Pinkos were not having fun. They shoved several of us. They waved their signs, hands and pink umbrellas in front of our cameras and faces. Sometimes they shoved the cameras. They called us chickenhawks. They were not happy at all to have the same tactics they use at press conferences, hearings, fundraisers, conventions and the last inaugural used against them.

Medea finally got tired of trying to get her lackeys arrested for sitting in the driveway so she had them get up and ordered them to go sit in the street and block traffic. The only problem was the police had already blocked the street because of the protest.

About a dozen Pinkos joined them in sitting in the street. Looking at them lounging about, forlornly waiting for the arrests that never came, I walked over to them. I extended my hand over their heads and started walking around them saying, "Duck, duck, duck, duck, duck." When I got to Gael Murphy. I cried out, "Goose!"

She was not amused. I walked back, again playing "Duck, duck, goose." This time I stopped at Allison Yorra. She was not amused either. But I was.

After failing yet again to get arrested, the remaining Pinkos walked back over to stand in front of Rumsfeld's. Medea was getting more aggressive. She shoved one of our signs as she walked around, and then tried a couple times to grab it from Mrs. Trooprally. The sign said, "Code Pink = Human IEDs."

Medea's short, however, and it was easy for Mrs. Trooprally to hold it high enough out of her reach. Former comedian Dick Gregory arrived about then. He was late to the party but the Pinkos gave him a hero's welcome.

We tried our best to be quiet while Dick Gregory spoke. We only spoke out a few times in response to the things he said. He did say something truthful: He said that the only force that can destroy this world is the Force that created it.

The Pinkos made one last ditch effort to get arrested after Gregory had finished speaking. Medea announced they would try "one more time" to deliver a letter to Rumsfeld. Three Pinkos, including the Gitmo guy, climbed on the low retaining wall along the sidewalk and charged through the tall, dense Japanese Yew shrubbery lining Rumsfeld's property and tumbled onto his small front yard. The police were right there to round them up.

Oh happy day! After trying and trying and trying and trying, they finally got arrested. But not Medea, Gael and Allison. Like a scene out of "Life of Brian," they stayed behind and yelled words of encouragement to their dupes behind the shrubbery.

Gael and Medea shared a megaphone. Medea chanted, "Donald lied, soldiers died!" Then she called out, "We love you Katie!

Gael took the microphone and added, "Perry and Dave!" Then she started to lecture the police, saying, "Listen police, agents, please treat them kindly. They are non-violent protesters."

This was a bit much for tgslTakoma. She shouted out a rejoinder to Gael's plea, saying, "The police will treat them kinder than you treated me!"

Gael whirled around and tried to head-butt tgslTakoma and screeched, "SHUT UP!"

tgslTakoma repeated that the police will treat the protesters kinder than Gael treated her. Gael whirled back around and slammmed her hand on the camera and yelled, "WOULD YOU SHUT UP!"

Allison Yorra stepped in to calm Gael down, but Gael pushed the megaphone into tgslTakoma's ear while Medea yelled into the microphone. tgslTakoma forced the megaphone down. Gael forced it back up, but a watching police officer told Gael to back off. She and Medea walked away toward the shrubbery.

Sometime after this a fourth person attempted jail solidarity and plunged into the shrubbery. She was caught by the ankles by a police officer who held her while another officer handcuffed her. She had been very aggressive toward us all afternoon. She needed some time off in the cooler and I'm glad she got some.

Medea and Gael didn't wait for the police van to pick up their dupes. They left noted screw-up Allison Yorra in charge. Yorra is the one who forgot to renew Code Pink's Walter Reed demonstration permit.

We taunted Allison for not showing jail solidarity and jumping into the police van with the dupes. When we challenged her for being a "Chickenhawk peacemonger" she responded by saying something like, "People call me a lesbian but I have two children." I have know idea where that came from.

After the police van had been loaded with the four dupes, the remaining dozen or so Pinkos walked back down Kalorama to Connecticut Avenue. Their Pinko egos were left splattered on the pavement. And their violent behavior was left on videotape.

According to Gael Murphy, those arrested for unlawful entry were Peter Perry, David Barrows, Katie Heald, and Mari Blome.

Link to photo album from today.

Video screen captures should be coming soon.


TOPICS: Activism/Chapters; Breaking News; Front Page News; News/Current Events; US: District of Columbia; US: Maryland; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: aar; allisonyorra; cindysheehan; codepink; codepinkdc; dcchapter; dickgregory; duckduckduckgoose; gaelmurphy; mediabenjamin; pinkospwnedagain; raymcgovern; rumsfeld; rumsfeldreloaded; rumsfeldshouse
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To: kristinn; Little Bill; nutmeg

you guys have all the fun...Since getting back to work last year, I only Freeped twice or so...Got a raise today, too...or at least my boss put me in for one, anyways...


101 posted on 05/18/2006 10:04:22 PM PDT by RaceBannon (ma(Prov 28:1 KJV) The wicked flee when no man pursueth: but the righteous are bold as a lion.)
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To: trooprally
Fabulous photos, Mrs. T!

I am so glad that Karl and Dick convinced Halliburton to buy you a new super-duper camera. They will be able to see things so much better when we send our packages to them.

;-)

102 posted on 05/18/2006 10:07:13 PM PDT by tgslTakoma
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To: kristinn

lol, sounds like an eventful day. :)


103 posted on 05/18/2006 10:07:30 PM PDT by traviskicks (http://www.neoperspectives.com/gasoline_and_government.htm)
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To: RedBloodedAmerican

Is that a real person or is she trying out for hippy Santa at Christmas time?

Is that fat or pillows?


104 posted on 05/18/2006 10:11:40 PM PDT by hattend (Stop! No more! The spirit is willing but the flesh is spongy and bruised! - Zapp Brannigan:)
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To: hattend
It's a balloon. From a close-up look at her, I doubt that she ever had a pregnancy - let alone one that went to term. Her head scarf had a bunch of little photos on it; one was of Mother Sheehan. She also had a strip of tape or paper on the brow of the scarf that had "Berkeley" written on it.

A Left Coast Moonbat, apparently.

105 posted on 05/18/2006 10:15:07 PM PDT by tgslTakoma
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To: kristinn
She was not amused. I walked back, again playing "Duck, duck, goose." This time I stopped at Allison Yorra. She was not amused either. But I was.

I am very, very amused. I can just see the looks on their sour hateful faces. Great work!

106 posted on 05/18/2006 10:15:49 PM PDT by Mr. Silverback (Try Jesus--If you don't like Him, the devil will always take you back.)
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To: kristinn

CONGRATS! Fantastic.

Thanks.


107 posted on 05/18/2006 10:21:55 PM PDT by Quix ( PREPARE . . . PRAY . . . PLACE your trust, hope, faith and life in God's hands moment by moment)
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To: kristinn
It was not a fair fight. Pinko egos were left splattered on the pavement after two hours of battle.

this works every time - We did the same thing in my town back at the beginning of the war when the scruffy looking creeps took over downtown for demonstrating. The next time, they were confronted by as many of us - about 30, with signs, flags, "Glad to Be an American" blasting from loud speakers - ets...it didn't take long before they slunk off, one by one, back to the gutters they had crawled out of. They tried one more day - fewer - and there we were.

They never showed up again

It's the only way to beat them down - we have to stop being the "silent majority"

108 posted on 05/18/2006 10:32:24 PM PDT by maine-iac7 ("...but you can't fool all of the people all of the time." LINCOLN)
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To: kristinn; trooprally; cindy-true-supporter; tgslTakoma; daughterofTGSL

Great FReep, report and photos!

I'll look forward to watching the video later.


109 posted on 05/18/2006 10:37:13 PM PDT by BillF (Fight terrorists in Iraq & elsewhere, instead of waiting for them to come to America!)
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To: RedBloodedAmerican

That old broad has the BIGGEST boobies I've ever seen. Yikes.


110 posted on 05/18/2006 10:46:40 PM PDT by peggybac (Tolerance is the virtue of believing in nothing)
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To: All
The last FReep of leftists at Rumsfeld's was almost two years ago. The report (includes photos and links to audio files) is linked below, followed by some funny photos from that report based on the June 5, 2004 FReep.

REPORT AND PHOTOS: RUMMY'S ROUND III (warning large files)

. . .

For the third time in a month, DC Chapter FReepers, other FReepers, and their allies turned out on June 5, 2004 to peacefully counter-protest leftists marching to the home of Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld.  (You can read the after-action reports for the first FReep and for the second FReep by clicking at the appropriate place.)

. . .

 

 

This was one of 4 women organized as the Missile Chicks.  Dancing as they sang "Shop in the Name of War," to the tune of "Stop in the Name of Love,"  the phallus-wearing women preceded the main march of leftists. Unclear if her missile's lack of enthusiasm in the right photo is from her seeing Sauropod's funny sign: NEO-CONS MAKE BETTER LOVERS.


111 posted on 05/18/2006 11:00:32 PM PDT by BillF (Fight terrorists in Iraq & elsewhere, instead of waiting for them to come to America!)
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To: kristinn
she responded by saying something like, "People call me a lesbian but I have two children." I have know idea where that came from.

A turkey baster?

d.o.l.

Criminal Number 18F

112 posted on 05/18/2006 11:32:09 PM PDT by Criminal Number 18F
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To: kristinn

Congrats! Superb!


113 posted on 05/19/2006 2:05:17 AM PDT by MoochPooch (I'm a compassionate cynic.)
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To: RedBloodedAmerican

Is there a barge under that shirt?


114 posted on 05/19/2006 3:06:28 AM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (One flag--American. One language--English. One allegiance--to America!)
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To: kristinn

Great report!


115 posted on 05/19/2006 3:17:45 AM PDT by BufordP ("I am stuck on Al Franken 'cause Al Franken's stuck on me!" -- Stupid)
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To: kristinn
Being that they had sat down right next to us, we held our ground and started a new chant of "Media stunt! Media stunt! Media stunt!" Several in the surrounding media horde nodded their heads in agreement.

It seems the news crews were there because they were ordered to cover it – but they personally are tired of the whole Cindy thing.
I would like to make it up for one of these – but I don’t trust my self control. I do a not-so-slow burn just thinking of Jihad Sheehan.
116 posted on 05/19/2006 3:25:13 AM PDT by R. Scott (Humanity i love you because when you're hard up you pawn your Intelligence to buy a drink)
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To: RedBloodedAmerican

Please tell me that this is some person in costume and not a real code pinko!


117 posted on 05/19/2006 3:35:32 AM PDT by Jimmy Valentine (DemocRATS - when they speak, they lie; when they are silent, they are stealing the American Dream)
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To: Pyro7480; kristinn

I thought I saw Cindy Sheehan and her cohort today. I was walking up Connecticut Avenue from the Farragut North stop, and I see some police on motorcycles come up, as if in a procession. I turn around and see the pink-clad crew come up Connecticut, delaying traffic behind it. There were probably less than a hundred of them, so I thought it was senseless that they were letting them march up the street.

&&&&&

What's up with that! Police escort for Code Pinkos? It is one thing to have police to protect the streets and property of citizens, but ESCORT????? No wonder they were surprised to see you. They thought they were celebs all the way up Connecticut av. Disgusting!


118 posted on 05/19/2006 3:45:13 AM PDT by maica ( We have a destination in mind, and that is a freer world. -- G W Bush)
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To: kristinn; armymarinemom
Great FReep, great report, great pics!

You guys have so many opportunities for fun. I'm jealous.

But when it come to pushing and shoving, old fart that I am, I really don't know if I could maintain control.

Does Medusa ever change her clothes?

119 posted on 05/19/2006 3:49:47 AM PDT by metesky ("Brethren, leave us go amongst them." Rev. Capt. Samuel Johnston Clayton - Ward Bond- The Searchers)
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To: pinz-n-needlez

"We move now to the 6 o'clock news - Code Pink had an enjoyable afternoon today playing 'Duck, duck, duck, goose...'

"In a kind effort to entertain Secretary Rumsfield's grandchildren, Cindy Sheehan and members of Code Pink brought their children's games program to Kalorama, this afternoon."


120 posted on 05/19/2006 4:06:13 AM PDT by TaxRelief (Wal-Mart: Keeping my family on-budget since 1993.)
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