Posted on 11/28/2009 10:40:51 PM PST by Daffynition
FAIRFIELD, Calif. (CBS13) ―
An unidentified military veteran was involved in a tense confrontation with anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan and the group Code Pink at a rally at Travis Air Force Base on Saturday, November 28, 2009.
CBS
A Saturday rally led by anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan at Travis Air Force Base nearly ended in a brawl when a military veteran physically confronted the protesters.
Anti-war group Code Pink demonstrated at the military base Saturday morning in the first of six planned protests against unmanned military drones currently in use in overseas war zones.
Sheehan, a well-known anti-war activist whose son was killed while serving in Iraq in 2004, was leading the demonstration with a megaphone when a man dressed in a formal military uniform stepped up to her and berated her.
Videotape of the incident shows that Sheehan yelled "Get out of my face" through the megaphone at the man, who slapped the device away. Other protesters immediately joined Sheehan and traded insults with the man, and a shoving match broke out.
Military police quickly pulled the two sides apart.
Raw Video
Video Of Confrontation (Graphic Content) Interview With Military Veteran (Graphic Content)
Interview With Cindy Sheehan Interview With Code Pink Member Xan Joy
The military veteran told reporters that he was upset with the anti-war protesters' effect on troop morale. "They ruin the troops. They get to the troops. They did the same thing in Vietnam," he said.
The man declined to give his name to reporters. "I don't want to be a personality over this, that's not my intention," he said.
Sheehan told reporters that she was disappointed her protest against what she called "morally reprehensible" military drones was interrupted by the man.
"We are here non-violently, and he came up and shoved the megaphone into my face," she said. "I'm never going to stop, no matter how we're oppressed."
Sheehan said she would be speaking to an attorney about legal action against the man.
Code Pink protester Xan Joy, who physically confronted the man during the incident, called the man a "bully" and said his behavior was meant to intimidate the protesters.
"He should be so happy and grateful that there are people in this country that are trying to protect him and his children and everybody's children from war," Joy said.
The events of the day did not end when the protesters packed up and left. When part of Code Pink's caravan paused in the middle of the road, Sheehan was given a ticket for impeding traffic.
"I got assaulted by this old man and I'm the one given a ticket. So, yeah, it's bulls***," Sheehan said.
Several members of Code Pink said they wanted charges filed against the man in uniform, but no arrests were made.
Didn’t our Dear Leader tell us if someone disagrees with us we need to “get in their face”?
God bless this old vet. My father told me of the same stories when he arrived back from the Nam. Getting spit on, bricks being thrown.
I think if you spit on a vet, they should bayonet your sorry carcass right there.
Cindy Sheehan talking about unmanned drones? She’s a no man’ed drone. That’s why she acts like this. I bet her son is real freaking proud of her assaulting old vets.
I think that she went nuts after her son was killed. I’d go nuts too. But the left used her, and her instability and grief, wrongly. Then they abandoned her.
One of the lefties in congress told them. either that or barry himself.
When the terrorists hit again, I’m gonna be looking for Joy and her megaphone to protect myself and my kids. /s
That 4th video was very telling. And how loud and clear the dichotomy is laid out.
Joy: “Bully”....”.....his BP is a zillion”.......”look how overweight he is”.........”look how out of shape he is.”
If these are the people who would protect us, then we would be worse off than what we are now. Good Lord.
Upthread someone mentioned Sheehan’s backing to possibly being communist, seems there is no doubt.
That Vet is a hero.
yep. he’s walked the walk.
Notice Cindy Sheehan's 'strategist' Lisa Fithian is a member of the Washington Peace Center :
Lisa Fithian is an American political activist and anarchist. She began her work in the mid-1970’s as a member of student government in her high school and at Skidmore College.
As a member and coordinator of the Washington Peace Center for 7 years during the 1980’s, Fithian organized hundreds of events and demonstrations on a range of issues, both locally and nationally, and helped lead an extensive anti-racism process that transformed the Peace Center into a multicultural organization.
In the early 1990s Lisa joined the labor movement, bringing her experience to the Justice for Janitors campaigns in Washington DC, Denver and Los Angeles and to nursing home workers in San Francisco and Detroit.
She also provided training and support work to the United Auto Workers Union and with the Detroit Newspaper Strikers. Lisa has continued her work for social, economic and environmental justice, providing training and organizing support to many of the global justice mobilization around the world since the shut down of the WTO Ministerial in Seattle in 1999.
After Hurrican Katrina, Lisa has worked with the Common Ground Collective in New Orleans [ACORN-RELATED, PERHAPS?], organizing relief efforts.
Currently, Lisa serves as a National Steering Committee member of United for Peace and Justice, a coalition of over 1000 local and national groups working to end the war in Iraq and build a broad movement for social change.
35 posted on Thursday, September 24, 2009 1:38:03 PM by kcvl | To 22
Bless your Father...it breaks my heart when I hear stories about that. They deserve RESPECT...and much more. God Bless all of them!
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She’ll probably be trying to reach out to the terrorists, with organic vegetarian cookies and juice, singing “we are the world”.
They’d put a burka on her first. Then dig a hole, throw her in and stone her. That’s who she palling around with. They could care less about her.
NOVEMBER? 2008 : (WASHINGTON DC : AYERS' {see WUO, OBAMA} BOOK SIGNING AT RADICAL LEFT COFFEHOUSE OWNED BY IRAQI-BORN ANDY SHALLAL, AN IPS MEMBER AND CINDY SHEEHAN ASSOCIATE { SEE CODE PINK, UNITED FOR PEACE AND JUSTICE}) The Washington Post's "Reliable Source" gossip column reports that unrepentant domestic terrorist Bill Ayers is coming to downtown Washington for a book event at a radical coffeehouse. (They have no word on whether Ayers will also have a job interview for Secretary of Education.) In a brief article with the cutesy headline "He Weathered the Election, Now He Comes to D.C.," Roxanne Roberts and Amy Argetsinger breezily discuss Bomber Bill’s buzz:
Customers at the lefty coffeehouse Busboys and Poets are doing double takes when they see the big display of the new book "City Kids, City Schools" by William Ayers. Yes, that William Ayers -- the former Weather Underground radical whose acquaintance with Barack Obama dogged the president-elect during the campaign. The Chicago education professor is making his first post-election public appearance next Monday evening at the 14th and V gathering spot.
"People need to know who the real Bill Ayers is and what he stands for," said owner Andy Shallal [originally from Iraq], who booked the appearance about a month ago. The buzz, he said, has been "tremendous"; he expects a packed house. "Part of what we do is educate," said Shallal. "The democratic process can only be done when people have all the information at their fingertips."
On her national radio show Monday morning, Laura Ingraham joked that after the book signing comes a demonstration of "how to build a small detonation device." The calendar on the Busboys and Poets website preaches at the public to hear about the "inspiring resources" on education from Ayers.
William Ayers will sign and discuss his two books - City Kids, City Schools: More Reports from the Front Row - and it's companion- City Kids, City Teachers: Reports from the Front Row. Free and open to all. In these inspiring resources, William Ayers explores the surprising realities of city classrooms from kindergarten through high school. With its upbeat mix of ready-to-share city kids’ memoirs and classroom strategies, William Ayers reflects on how improving urban education is more essential than ever.
It is a useful guide as well as a call to action for anyone who teaches or has taught in the city, for those considering teaching in urban schools, and for every parent with children in our schools today.
This radical-left coffeehouse now has two DC locations and a shop in nearby Arlington, Virginia. NPR producers watched debates there.
----------Washington Post Buzzes Over Bomber Bill Ayers Book Event In D.C. NewsBusters ^ | November 19, 2008 | Tim Graham Posted on Monday, November 10, 2008 11:41:47 AM by NoObamaFightForConservatives
People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf. —George Orwell—
And much worse. They are animals, and she’s a blind clueless moonbat.
where are the roving packs of rabid wild dogs when you need them?
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Exactly, the loose pit bulls that we ontinuously hear about who roam loose in the streets. Couldn’t they swing by Travis AFB and have a nip or two?
The bus, and its cadre of demonstrators from Northern California, will hold the following actions:
Saturday: 8:30-9:30 a.m. - Travis AFB (main gate), Fairfield. 2-3 p.m. - Lemoore Naval Air Station (main gate), Lemoore.. 4-5 p.m. - Fresno Air National Guard (main gate), Fresno.
Sunday: 7:30-8:30 a.m. - Edwards AFB (main gate), Edwards. 11-12 Noon - Marine Corps Logistics Base (main gate), Barstow. 1-2 p.m. - Ft. Irwin Army Military Reserve (main gate), Ft. Irwin. 5-6 p.m. - Nellis AFB (main gate), North Las Vegas.
Once at Creech AFB in Indian Springs, NV) demonstrations Monday will be held in conjunction with International Climate Justice Day of Actions to protest the environmental disaster caused by wars (including 51 percent of fossil fuels in the world are consumed by the U.S. military).
On Tuesday, timed to coincide with Obama's expected announcement to increase troops strength in Afghanistan, Dawn to Dusk protests will be held at the front gate at Creech AFB.
A CodePINK statement said:
"President Obama was elected to end the war. We are still in Iraq, drone bombing against Pakistan for the past 6 months has been more than all the drone bombing under Bush and we're escalating in Afghanistan. We have one message for U.S. troops: RESIST, REFUSE, DON'T GO, NO SURGE; and one message for Obama: Troops Home NOW."
I so wish I could be there....
Have a heart, she’s on the road doing stuff like this while the rest of us are enjoying the holidays with family. I’ll give props to the veterans who are out counter-protesting when they could be watching football on TV instead. Cindy has no family to go back to, they all disowned her years ago. Cindy will really regret her actions when she’s too old to be doing this crap anymore and has nowhere to go. I may be wrong, but I don’t think Code Pink is running an old-protester’s home.
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