Unidentified woman protests BP.
Posted on 02/02/2011 1:24:18 PM PST by kristinn
Two women who traveled from Portland, Oregon to Cairo last week to participate in Code Pink’s latest Hamas-aid trip to Gaza ended up getting rescued by a big oil company–the kind Code Pink usually protests as killing the planet, when the leftist group isn’t hobnobbing with terrorists and undermining U.S. allies like Egypt.
Unidentified woman protests BP.
The Oregonian reported Monday night about the travels of Donna Boyd, a 55 year-old nurse, and a female friend who arrived in Cairo on Friday for the Muslim Brotherhood’s “Day of Rage” protest against the Egyptian government of Hosni Mubarak.
Tighe Barry, left, and Medea Benjamin, right, protest Big Oil. The duo are in Egypt this week working to bring down the Mubarak government.
Boyd describes the chaos of trying and failing to get to her hotel at Tahrir Square, the center of the protests.
They were on a bridge crossing the Nile near the heart of the protests when the taxi suddenly stopped. They got out, looking toward the National Democratic Party building. “There was smoke and tear gas in the air,” Boyd said. “The building was on fire. People were chanting. The building was coming down. There were lots of people. Men and women. Police were everywhere, in full riot gear. They were just standing there.”
They were close to Tahrir Square, but there was no way they were going to make it to their hotel amid the fiery demonstrations. So, the driver took them to the Marriott on the other side of the Nile.
After spending the next day playing tourist because Code Pink’s trip to Gaza had been canceled, the liberal dilettantes found that playing revolutionary turned out to be a bit too real.
“They were all out on the streets with weapons,” she said. “They had clubs and swords and pipes. We didn’t know what was going on. We ended up at Tahrir Square because they took a wrong turn.”
They bailed out of the taxi and fled across the river to their hotel. They decided to leave on Sunday.
Boyd and her friend went to the airport as planned but found a “smash of humanity…trying to get out of Egypt.”
Fortunately for the two Code Pink dupes, workers from Shell Oil took pity on the women and treated them “like royalty.”
They found a group of other Westerners and stayed with them. Turned out they were a group of Shell Oil employees who had chartered a flight out of Egypt.
In the end, the two women left Cairo on that flight to Amsterdam.
“We were treated like royalty,” Boyd said.
Shell put the two women up in a hotel in the Netherlands, where they plan to stay until Wednesday when they have a flight home.
There is no mention in the Oregonian article of what, if anything, Code Pink did to help the women. Nor was there mention of whether Code Pink would be refunding the $1,000 per person the group was charging for the trip to Hamas-controlled Gaza.
Photos by Code Pink, May 24, 2010.
“treated like royalty”
Well these guys were Western men living in Egypt. They were no doubt glad to see Western women, especially leftists ones - as they are easy! ;)
That first picture can’t be a Code Pinko. Her pits are shaved.
They should consider themselves lucky after the stuff that’s going on in Egypt today.
The code pinkers are going to learn...probably by loss of life, that they are NOT in the west...flippin obamanite kendonesian fools...
“They were all out on the streets with weapons,” she said. “They had clubs and swords and pipes. We didn’t know what was going on. We ended up at Tahrir Square because they took a wrong turn.”
Once the Muslim brotherhood takes over we should ship out all the American Marxists to utopia in Egypt. Those gals would look great in burkahs! The girly men would be popular.
Apparently they believed the lies they were told by Ayers and Dorn (american terrorists). It’s all just fun and games...yeah right.
Whoa. A moment of clarity.
I read this, and think something about a cuckoo’s nest.
If nothing else its a bit of confirmation of what Beck has been saying about what is going on in the mideast.
Good thing I didn’t have a lit cigar nearby, I would have put out both my eyes with it.
“Donna Boyd, a 55 year-old nurse, and a female friend” ...(Lesbos???).
I’d have kicked em out at 35k’.
Reports are that Medea and crew spent today’s riots hiding out in an Internet cafe near Tahrir Square that was sealed from the outside by a metal barrier.
No wonder People in the rest of the world think the US is SATAN.
Thanks for posting the article.
I must say, the author was very skillful in conceiving the TITLE.
I hope they had enough sense not to “work for revolution” dressed like that in the midst of a Moslem insurgency!
Don’t happen often, but at places like burning man, and the above foto, can’t help but think to myself...
“Ugghh, Put a shirt on Woman!!”
Why?
So they jumped on a plane built with and powered by oil. All at the expense of an oil company.
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