Code Pink's illegal tour package:
Pro-democracy non-violent Cuban protest sign holders before hauled away for torture:
Posted on 10/06/2005 7:42:08 PM PDT by Albion Wilde
Edited on 10/26/2005 9:47:43 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
Enjoyed meeting you at the FReep and trading statistics! You pointed out that smoking kills approximately 560 times as many Americans per year as those lost in the Iraq combat:
(CDC statistics:)
Deaths from Smoking: 440,000 annual deaths each year are smoking-associated... 440,000 per year, 36,666 per month, 8,461 per week, 1,205 per day, 50 per hour... An estimated 400,000 deaths each year are caused directly by cigarette smoking.
One of the signboards on the FReep side of the street isn't used often because it is "too wordy" to be seen by passing cars. It cites the number of U.S. deaths from vehicle accidents each year: 43,000, and the number of babies killed in U.S. abortions each year: 1,370,000. Further research reveals that the number of babies killed by legal, reported abortions peaked at 1,429,247 in 1990, and had trended downward to approximately 854,000 per year in the U.S. by 2001.
Kind of puts the Pinko's whines about volunteer and career military deaths in perspective. According to iCasualties.org, the U.S. has lost an average of 782 per year since the onset of the Iraq war in March 2003. (Some of those were due to vehicular accidents or deaths of personnel from other causes that occurred while in Iraq.)
To summarize:
Deaths per year, U.S.
Abortions...................854,000
Smoking-related:.........440,000
Vehicular.....................48,000
Combat in Iraq..................782
It would be interesting to know the total number of deaths of active duty (including National Guard on duty) every year. Although it would probably be a depressing and demoralizing number, it would also put combat deaths in better perspective.
Deaths by murder in America of military age men would be another interesting number.
Thanks for coming to Walter Reed, for 'dialoging' with the Pinkos, and for writing such a comprehensive report.
That was written by Bruce "Comic Book Guy" Wolf. He's a dedicated commie who up until CodePinko cleaned up their PR was carrying a sign that read right from the Kremlin Handbook, "Soldiers and Workers United". After he protests the troops at Walter reed, he heads up Georgia Ave to the AFI theater to catch the midnight screening of "Potemkin".
The commies don't write about what happened, they write about what they wished happened. Cindy Sheehan does a lot of that. Inparticular, an Iraqi vet a month or so ago politely made his point that he and probably even Casey don't agree and don't appreciate what she's doing. By the time Cindy was done, the guy her friend, was calling her "mom" and giving her a hug. I believe he was respectful but I doubt the other stuff happened.
That's total left wing BS. I was still in grade schol and I remember Guardsmen passing in trucks being called "warmongers".
Code PINK says tio America, "We Support The Troops, Bring Them Home", but as endorsers and participants in the World Tribunal on Iraq and the Belgium Communique, they tell the "resistance" that the have right to kill our troops, that to do so is not only legitimate, but justified.
As for Veterans For Peace, I have a photo of a VFP members participating in a May Day (commie holiday) Parade with one wearing a North Vietnamese pith helmet ala Jane Fonda. That's all you need to know about where VFP's sympathies lie.
Code PINKO and another radical front group tradiong on the military's good name, MFSO, carried coffins to Walter Reed and hung black wreaths on the fence, all while using loudspeakers in a hospital zone back on March 15, 2004. Our boy Comic Book Man carried a flag drapped coffin while "counter-recruiting" at the Army's Enlistment Office 3 miles up Georgia Ave. As Code PINKO is helping fill those coffins, I asked him if he was doing a victory lap. I also mentioned that if you're over 50 and wearing denim and tie die headband it's not a fashion statement, it's a flashback.
Their stated objectives are to improve the living conditions of the military by improving benefits, and to bring the troops home NOW.
They didn't care about VA Beneifts and all the rest last year or anytime prior and if the war ended tomorrow, they wouldn't care the day after. They only SAY they care because the public does. And because they are lying to the soldiers at Reed hoping to atrract a convert they can use for propoganda.
Outside the "counter-recruitment" up the Avenue, I asked the person holding the "Up VA Benefits" sign if we could transfer excess funds from the EPA. Code PINKO are mostly radical left Green Party, hate the US, enviromental tree hugging, hand wringing, bed wetting types, so it was no surprise when the fangs came out and the hissing started in response to my simple question. I mean there wasn't even a second of civil discourse, disagreement or discusion because I had cahllenged his core beliefs.
As my sign says, "CODE PINK WOMEN FAKE IT."
Probably was a Post photogtrapher. A Post Reporter did spend a lot of time covering things a few weeks back.
FBI statistics from the U.S. Department of Justice web site:
Crime in the U.S., Year 2000 (please note: crime has continued to decrease during all the past five years of the Bush administration):
11.6 million Reported Offenses
(equalling 4,124 crimes per 100,000 inhabitants)
19% less than the 1996 rate
30% less than the 1991 rate
1.4 million Violent Crimes
(lowest volume of violent crimes since 1985)
506 violent crimes per 100,000 population
15,517 Murders in 2000
21% less than in 1996
37% less than in 1991
victims 76% males, 90% adults
offenders 90% males, 91% age 18 or older
firearms used in 66% of incidents
by comparison, Forcible Rapes, 2000
90,186 (nearly 6 times the murder rate)
Where was Bill Clinton?
LOL, the FBI would need a separate reporting unit for that statistic....
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LOL!!! Chicken recipe...
Code Pink's illegal tour package:
Pro-democracy non-violent Cuban protest sign holders before hauled away for torture:
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Join us tomorrow night (Friday, 10/14) at WR to protest Code Pink's 'vigil' against our soldiers. Our troops stood up for us. Now we can show them we're grateful to them and proud of their service.
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You freepers and veteran bikers are wonderful. Thank you so much for caring about our liberty and country.
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