Four members of CODEPINK arrested

Police arrest CODEPINK

Inside Xcel, Sarah Palin is about to take the stage. Her supporters say she’s ushering in a new age of traditionalist-feminism. Meanwhile, CNN, MSNBC and even MPR reports about whether they should be reporting about her daughter’s pregnancy. But outside the arena, police and swat used the day to arrest members of CODEPINK, a female peace group known for interpretive dance.

The pink clad women space-bopped their way to a police gate just outside the Landmark Theater on Market. Then a brave four made the decision to try and crawl under the gate. Police ran in and grabbed them by their shoulders, pulled their bodies all the way through the gate, flipped them onto their stomachs, zipped plastic ties around their hands and took them away. In the background supporters yelled, “The whole world is watching! The whole world is watching!”

Jean Stevens, a CODEPINK press coordinator talked to us at the scene. Every so often she glanced over her shoulders, nervously. “The violence taking place here is palpable,” she says. “We’ve been surrounded the whole day by police and had one of our vans searched earlier this morning.”

Stevens said there is a definite difference between the behaviors of law enforcement in Denver compared to those patrolling St. Paul. She says the enforcement here is far more intense. And you got to remember that one of her members received a full body cross check in Denver. So that’s saying something.

“In Denver we could joke around a bit with the police. They were calm and very well trained,” she says. “Here, there is no joking. No respect. And instant shut-down.”

Posted by Bradley Campbell at September 3, 2008 6:15 PM

“In Denver we could joke around a bit with the police. They were calm and very well trained,” she says. “Here, there is no joking. No respect. And instant shut-down.”

Because these police officers don’t want to put up with you CodeStink.

No tazing...Bummer

I hope they waterboard them. /s

Have they been shot yet?

“In Denver we could joke around a bit with the police. They were calm and very well trained,” she says. “Here, there is no joking. No respect. And instant shut-down.”

Ah, yes - St. Paul, that bastion of Republicanism.

The rubes will believe ANYTHING the Lying Left tells them, apparently.

Guilty!

I like this comment from my comment area above:

But outside the arena, police and swat used the day to arrest members of CODEPINK, a female peace group known for interpretive dance.

" In the background supporters yelled, “The whole world is watching! The whole world is watching!”"

LOL, good!

Jean Stevens, a CODEPINK press coordinator talked to us at the scene. Every so often she glanced over her shoulders, nervously. “The violence taking place here is palpable,” she says. “We’ve been surrounded the whole day by police and had one of our vans searched earlier this morning.”

Good. Dangerous communist anti-American terrorist supporting "protesters."

“In Denver we could joke around a bit with the police. They were calm and very well trained,” she says. “Here, there is no joking. No respect. And instant shut-down.”

Good again. Keeping terrorists contained and not joking with them is a good thing.

why did they stop at only four???

That gross photoshop has been posted dozens of times here at Free Republic

I'm surprised anyone thinks it's clever or cute anymore.

Arrested??

Toby Blo-me???

Kit Semens????

You’re not series?

I’m stuned!!!

Toby Blome

Nancy Mancias on the right below

“In Denver we could joke around a bit with the police. They were calm and very well trained,” she says. “Here, there is no joking. No respect. And instant shut-down.”

That's funny...over at The Corner Jay Nordlinger wrote this:

Saw some nutty stuff out in the streets today — pink-clad people, chanting funny things about their love of abortion (a “human right”!). A cop, amazed at the spectacle, was taking pictures. The pink-clad people were posing, pleased. I thought of a phrase I learned years ago, from WFB: “the street theater of the Left.” Still kicking, still absurd (when non-violent — when violent, repugnant).

Hmmm...who to believe? Tough call. /sarc

Given the violent actions of the anarchists that rioted the other day, perhaps the police are not in a humorist mood for good reason.

why did they stop at only four???

You got me.

I think they should arrest the whole lot of them.

In the video at the cross check link, it's clear the police are saying stay away, and one woman (at least) approaches and is pushed back. Then another woman is complaining, and she is taken away too.

No nonsense police.

Codepink usually seduce police and city officials with their "cute" little voices and lying words and get special privileges.

Hopefully they will be treated more like the traitors they are in the future.

Jean Stevens is the National Media Coordinator for CODEPINK. Previously a reporter for several years

Nancy L. Mancias works for the Global Exchange Peace Campaign and is the assistant to the cofounder of Global Exchange and CODEPINK

http://tinyurl.com/6hgd46
http://tinyurl.com/6m4j83 (on right)
Toby Blome, a physical therapist

Desiree Fairooz was once a full-time teacher. Now she spends her days protesting the war in Iraq

Well if you like her picture so much and post comments about her with sexual words, why don't you print out her picture 6'X6’ and put it in your bedroom?

Free Republic doesn't need gross pictures and comments.

We're trying to expose the gross practices of anti-American traitors, not crawl down to their level.

Thanks

why would I need it in my bedroom or are you crawling down to their level?

grow up, why are you giving code pink the attention they desire?

I didn’t start this thread to battle with your juvenile attitude. I’ll have it removed.

you flamed me, remove your thread I won’t shed a tear.

[In Denver we could joke around a bit with the police]

Sadly, Denver has drunk the Rainbow Coolaid.

Apparently Minnesota hasn't had an SB200 Rainbow Nazi brigade take over their legislature.... yet.

The rest of the country needs to wake up before what happened in Colorado happens to them - and they all wake up with an SB200esque coup d’état.

I hope they waterboard them.

But if they get wet they'll disappear in a cloud of smoke!

The St. Paul jail menu is going to be quite a disappointment

Desiree Fairooz, 52, of Arlington, Texas, Toby Blome, 53 of El Cerrito, Cali., Kit Siemen, 50, of Quilcene, Wash., and Nancy Mancias, 38, of San Francisco

There are just sooo many jokes in those names but I see the mod has already deleted one post so I’ll just leave it to fertile Freeper imaginations. But Kit Siemen? Come on!!

“The whole world is watching! The whole world is watching!”

They wish.

Haven't seen or heard about it, until I read this thread.

Too bad Pinkos, it's not 1968 anymore..

Thank God

I remember 1968, and it would be with no particular fondness, it it hadn't also been the year I graduated from high school, and when I started seriously dating my wife of 38 years.

Every time I see a Code Pinko story I post this:

“Hey Code Pinko! Why don't you come back to Miami and protest near the Versailles rest. again? Remember those little old American-Cuban ladies that chased you off and the police officers laughing at you? We are all waiting for you to come back!”

police pushed them to the sidewalk and into the fence surrounding the security perimeter

Oh, boohoohoo. The police aren't joking around because they've received credible bomb threats and threats to kidnap delegates. That means it's not the time for kidding around with thse jacka**es.

“In Denver we could joke around a bit with the police. They were calm and very well trained,” she says. “Here, there is no joking. No respect. And instant shut-down.”

No respect is right - on your park pinko. If they really respected the process they wouldn't push the limits and beg to get arrested. State your beliefs and opinions, please (we find them entertaining), but observe the bounds of good behavior. If you choose to express yourself by going beyond the stated limits - eg. disobeying a law enforcement officer doing his/her duty - then you're going to have to live with the consequences of your actions.

By the way, implying that the police in the Twin Cities are not well trained is in itself disrespectful. Actually, the "instant shut-down" is called taking command of the situation, is in-fact a reflection of being very well trained, and is for your safety, the officers' safety, and the safety of the innocent bystanders around you. Talk to anyone in law enforcement and they will tell you that controlling the situation is crucial to safety. They want, they need, for everyone to understand who is in control so that no-one gets the bright idea to do something dumb.

“In protest of the war and Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin’s pro-war and pro-drilling positions,”

Thought Code Stink was just an anti-war group, now they are anti-drilling? Guess they just threw that in there to try and make themselves relevant, like they ever were to begin with....lol

So which media organization gave the Code Pinko the ‘credentials’ to get inside the arena tonight so she could cause a stink during Sarah Palin’s speech?

I hope they were deloused in booking.

Hunger strike demonstrator.

Could of been any of them, from Bill O'Reilly on down (up?)

Reported in the Wa Po:

10:45 p.m. A pair of Code Pink activists just got to the very edge of the stage and were a moment away from apparently running on stage, right by the Kentucky slot on the floor next to a host of McCain's most senior staffers.
Secret Service men grabbed them at last minute and literally dragged them out.
--Paul Kane

Looks like the SS let them get pretty close. They are not that hard to spot---sight, smell etc.

Four members of the CODEPINK women’s peace movement were arrested Wednesday afternoon. The women, Desiree Fairooz, 52, of Arlington, Texas, Toby Blome, 53 of El Cerrito, Cali., Kit Siemen, 50, of Quilcene, Wash., and Nancy Mancias, 38, of San Francisco, were protesting Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin near the St. Paul Hotel when police pushed them to the sidewalk and into the fence surrounding the security perimeter.

I can't help it. I just love the sound of those last few words!

From Yahoo! NEWS photos:

A member of 'Code Pink' is removed from the Republican National Convention as another continues to attempt to disrupt the speech of Republican vice presidential candidate, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, at the Exel Convention Center in St. Paul, Minn., Wednesday night, Sept. 3, 2008. (AP Photo/Stephan Savoia) AP via Yahoo! News - 2 hours, 42 minutes ago

A member of 'Code Pink' is removed from the Republican National Convention after she attempted to disrupt the speech of Republican vice presidential candidate, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, at the Exel Convention Center in St. Paul, Minn., Wednesday, Sept. 3, 2008. (AP Photo/Stephan Savoia) AP via Yahoo! News - 2 hours, 45 minutes ago

A member of 'Code Pink' is removed from the Republican National Convention after she attempted to disrupt the speech of Republican vice presidential candidate, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, at the Exel Convention Center in St. Paul, Minn., Wednesday, Sept. 3, 2008. (AP Photo/Stephan Savoia) AP via Yahoo! News - 2 hours, 51 minutes ago

An unidentified protester with Code Pink is seen during the speech of Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin at the Republican National Convention in St. Paul, Minn., Wednesday, Sept. 3, 2008.(AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall) AP via Yahoo! News - Sep 03 9:19 PM

A law enforcement official places his hand over the mouth of an anti-war protester from the "Code Pink" group as she is escorted out of the hall during Republican vice presidential candidate Alaska Governor Sarah Palin's speech to the 2008 Republican National Convention in St. Paul, Minnesota, September 3, 2008. REUTERS/Damir Sagolj (UNITED STATES) US PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION CAMPAIGN 2008 (USA) Reuters via Yahoo! News - Sep 03 9:04 PM