Code Pink Activists Go After Elderly US Veteran Then Blame Him For the Attack–
Code Pink socialists and Cindy Sheehan an Code Pink activists attack a US veteran at Travis Air Force Base this weekend.
(At 1:45 minute mark)
The Code Pinkos screamed, “Don’t push me!” as they attacked the veteran and called him a “Piece of crap!”
Did you notice how they cut out when the veteran lost his hat?
Leftist hero Cindy Sheehan and Code Pink activists attacked a US veteran at Travis Air Force Base in California this weekend.
CBS13 and Sweetness and Light reported:
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.
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.
This story does not accurately report the attack on the veteran.
Watch for yourself.
November 29th, 2009 | 7:01 pm | #1
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November 29th, 2009 | 7:05 pm | #2
Okay, that was just nuts all around the block. Was that guy a plant? Can’t really defend him.
November 29th, 2009 | 7:10 pm | #3
I can defend him. He was voicing his opinion, just as they were. However, HE was assaulted by a megaphone. Loud noise , when used effectively, is a weapon. He had his hands at his side until the megaphone was shoved in his face. He wasn’t breaking the law and neither were they until they stuck the megaphone in his face; then it became assault..
November 29th, 2009 | 7:11 pm | #4
Bullhorns…the obnoxious weapon of the left.
I look forward to the day when these rude, insane, anti-americans have them shoved up their dookie chute.
November 29th, 2009 | 7:19 pm | #5
Those are some of the most belligerent women of peace I’ve ever seen.
November 29th, 2009 | 7:23 pm | #6
Poor old guy. Senility is a horrible thing. That pathetic old coot, all dolled up in his beret and uniform and ranting about Vietnam, must have thought it was 1975 still. I hope the nurses make sure he gets his proper medication and plenty of sleep when he gets back to the nursing home or mental hospital that he broke out of.
November 29th, 2009 | 7:23 pm | #7
Code Stink
November 29th, 2009 | 7:24 pm | #8
“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.”
Yes, I’ve always thought freedom of speech was an overrated right too. Good on him for being honest about his fascist beliefs.
November 29th, 2009 | 7:29 pm | #9
If a code pinko shoved a bull horn in my face and touched me, it would probably need surgery to remove the bull horn from its body.
November 29th, 2009 | 7:32 pm | #10
Code Stink & Cindy Sheehan – Prima facie evidence of (apologies to, and exclusive of, all the wonderful women that post here) of terminal PMS with acute BDS complications.
Know why it’s called PMS? Because “Mad Cow Disease” was already taken. These women have proven themselves dangerously insane every time and every where they appear.
1st Amendment – still, these women are deranged, psychotic.
November 29th, 2009 | 7:32 pm | #11
Chris and Gerry: Thanks for supporting only the free speech with which you agree. You are both pathetic.
November 29th, 2009 | 7:33 pm | #12
I think it is a bit dishonest to say that code pink “attacked” that man. He clearly came right up in their face in an antagonistic manner, which is his right, but these are women who, like it or not, have a right to free speech and a man of his size in the military should not have to physically get in their face. He could have voiced his opposition in a less antagonistic manner and I certainly did not see any “attack” by these ladies. They were rallying to the defense of their friend. Not sure why the veteran felt so threatened by these rather meek looking women.
November 29th, 2009 | 7:40 pm | #13
Are we sure this wasn’t staged?
November 29th, 2009 | 7:43 pm | #14
The only way they could go any lower is to pull the handle and flush them.
November 29th, 2009 | 7:44 pm | #15
Hey chris, come shove a bull horn in my face. I’ll show you how overrated freedom of speech is. You lefties are all the same, get in someones face, and expect them to just lay down and take it. It’s ASSAULT, plain and simple. The second she touched him, he was defending himself.
The irony here is that they were there to protest THE ONE increasing the troop numbers in Afghanistan. Cindy should set up shop in Chi-Town and protest! I’m sure Rezko & Ayers would love for her to do that!
November 29th, 2009 | 7:46 pm | #16
Ugly, horrid women, although he seemed a bit aggressive when he said “get this “f” thing away. I encountered these beotches at a Karl Rove speech. They were planted in the audience and made periodic eruptions the entire time. Had to be bodily removed. Gross, hairy, unattractive democrat women.
November 29th, 2009 | 7:52 pm | #17
Let me acknowledge I believe in free speech. My problem is when people present an agenda that hides another agenda. Sheehan has had the support of communist organizations in this country and in Europe. Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn sponsored one of her appearances in NYC. Bill Ayers visited Texas when she had her sit-in in Crawford.
In October, she appeared in Brunswick County NC. The lack of local indepth media attention to her appearance was non-existent…other than to call her a “Peace Mom”.
Slated to appear with her, and did not because of illness, was Ret Lt Col Robert Bowman. He’s a signer of the Truther Petition. Wonder if he knows Van Jones, Garafalo, the Sheens etc.?
If I know how to do an internet search, I would assume most savvy journalists would know how…never mind scratch the SAVVY.
November 29th, 2009 | 7:56 pm | #18
Obummer is tearing this country apart — and not even in office a year!
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November 29th, 2009 | 8:04 pm | #19
Why is it that when the code pink women are giving voice to their opinions it is politically protected speech, but when someone stands up to them and voices his opinion against code pink, that person should be arrested. Code pink stands for free speech for me but not for thee.
November 29th, 2009 | 8:23 pm | #20
A few weeks ago I read Lenin’s “To Do” list at some commenter’s link. It was in reference to Obama’s “dithering” and decision to put off his decision for another few weeks.
What jumped out at me at the time was “demoralizing the military and police force.”
This weekend it looks as though we have Code Pink and at least one unknown shooter in Washington state who, it could be argued, are attempting to do just that.
November 29th, 2009 | 8:26 pm | #21
I’ve got to agree with Brad that this was nuts all the way around. The man did step into the crazy broad’s space in an attempt to intimidate and ended up with bullhorn in face. A few seconds later, a crazy broad physically assaulted him and accused him of physically assaulting her. The whole scene was just nuts. Poor behavior all the way around.
That being said, it’s Sheehan who surely needs to be medicated. If medication doesn’t work, a straight-jacket might. It’s no wonder her son joined the armed services; if she were my mother, I’d rather be on the front lines than at home, too.
November 29th, 2009 | 8:34 pm | #22
Gerry
November 29th, 2009 | 7:23 pm | #6
Poor old guy. Senility is a horrible thing. That pathetic old coot, all dolled up in his beret and uniform and ranting about Vietnam, must have thought it was 1975 still.
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I guess that we can pretty well assume that you’ve never been in the service, then, salad tosser. Why would that be, I wonder?
Cowardice, perhaps? Yeah. That must be it.
Of course, you sure take advantage of the rights bought and paid for by men like that, don’t you?
You’re a typical cowardly, leftist salad tosser. Making stupid remarks about better men than you’ll ever be. And I know you’re stupid because of your ignorance of history (along with your cowardly attitude).
Well, you just keep making stupid remarks about your betters, salad tosser – but you know, down deep inside of yourself, that you aren’t even good enough to lick dogcrap off that man’s boots. And, yes, he’s a man – while you’ll always be a metrosexual, pansy-ass, limp-wristed coward. As old as he is, you’d crap your panties if he gave you a rough look.
November 29th, 2009 | 8:36 pm | #23
Having been face to face with a number of Code Pinkos and Cindy Sheehan, I find no fault with what this veteran did. Once Sheehan assaulted him with the bullhorn all bets were off.
In retrospect he should have grabbed the bullhorn away and tossed it over the perimeter fence.
In any event I’d be happy to shake this veteran’s hand and buy him a beer!
November 29th, 2009 | 8:56 pm | #24
chris
November 29th, 2009 | 7:24 pm | #8
Yes, I’ve always thought freedom of speech was an overrated right too.
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No you haven’t. You know that you don’t think, nancy-boy.
All you ever do is parrot what your leftist masters tell you is the thought of the day.
You’ve never had an original thought in your life.
Now, be useful. Go fetch your shine box and take care of that vet’s boots. Step lively, salad tosser! That shine box ain’t gonna fetch itself!!
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November 29th, 2009 | 8:57 pm | #25
So how many times has that man been arrested in the past? I’d be willing to stack his record–or lack thereof–up against Cindy’s any day. She lives to get arrested and draw attention to herself, just like she lives to exploit her son’s memory–the son that she disowned when he enlisted and the son that she refused to talk to until he died on his second tour. If he was still alive today, he’d undoubtedly be at the front of the line of veterans and other patriotic Americans who just want to kick her ass into the next time zone.
And that’s all I have to say about that.
November 29th, 2009 | 9:12 pm | #26
God bless that honorable veteran.
The smelly harpies of Code Stink should
be confronted at every opportunity.
November 29th, 2009 | 9:13 pm | #27
What a wonderful soldier and what a horrible bunch of witches. I see the media are there for how many people? 10? They disgust me.
November 29th, 2009 | 9:14 pm | #28
Solatarov: that was really disgusting. Please keep your bizarre sexual fantasies of salad tossing, coprophilia, and domination to yourself.
P.S. I voted for Ron Paul. You don’t need to be a “leftist” to laugh at senile Vietnam veterans who forgot to take their medication.
November 29th, 2009 | 9:17 pm | #29
Air Force should drop these fascist Code Pinkers off a B-52 over Taliban from 50,000 ft. Let them have peace that way
November 29th, 2009 | 9:25 pm | #30
Off topic and uh-oh.
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2010385617_webmansought29.html
The guy sought in the Washington shooting was granted clemecy in Arkansas by then-governor Huckabee. Judging from the article, this guy (the shooter) is a real nutcase.
If this holds out to be true, you won’t have to worry about Huckabee campaigning in 2012. And hopefully you won’t have to worry about him blathering on at Fox news either.
November 29th, 2009 | 9:31 pm | #31
Travis AFB? WTF? What in the hell is a an anti-war rally doing on an AFB? Berkeley I could see that, but on an air force base?
November 29th, 2009 | 9:33 pm | #32
I wonder.. under ObamaCare, will Sheehan get the estrogen she so desperately needs?
November 29th, 2009 | 9:34 pm | #33
Remember this video?
Code Pink and Donald Rumsfeld
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDmRdfyAUio
November 29th, 2009 | 9:35 pm | #34
Gerry
November 29th, 2009 | 9:14 pm | #28
Solatarov: that was really disgusting. Please keep your bizarre sexual fantasies of salad tossing, coprophilia, and domination to yourself.
P.S. I voted for Ron Paul. You don’t need to be a “leftist” to laugh at senile Vietnam veterans who forgot to take their medication.
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Get stuffed, salad tosser. Nobody’s got time for cowards like you.
Little nancy-boys like you are worthless. You have to be kept free by the efforts of better men (and women) than you – and you don’t even have the stones to appreciate it. Who are you, you salad tossing little pantywaist, to say that that man is senile? You just toss it out because he’s older than you and has the guts to confront evil.
You leftoid drones don’t have the ‘nads to confront anyone about anything unless you’re in a mob. (and then you start crying when you get caught)
Go away little leftoid drone salad tosser. Go cry on your boyfriend’s shoulder.
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November 29th, 2009 | 9:39 pm | #35
BillyBob56
November 29th, 2009 | 9:31 pm | #31
Travis AFB? WTF? What in the hell is a an anti-war rally doing on an AFB? Berkeley I could see that, but on an air force base?
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It was most likely just outside the front gate. No way they’d allow anyone to have a “demonstration” on the base proper.
November 29th, 2009 | 9:40 pm | #36
If a SEAL team operator did that to a muhammadan mass murderer, he’d be court martialed.
The loud noise treatment meets the MSM definition of TORTURE.
N.B. the crones weren’t arrested.
Make the world a better place. Punch chris and Gerry in the face.
November 29th, 2009 | 9:40 pm | #37
“Obummer is tearing this country apart — and not even in office a year!”
Keep watching; it really gets interesting toward the “end” of his term.
November 29th, 2009 | 9:40 pm | #38
Cindy Sheehan is the “Piece of crap.”
November 29th, 2009 | 9:41 pm | #39
And of that verteran were about 30 years younger, they’d still be picking pieces of that bull horn out of their asses.
November 29th, 2009 | 9:43 pm | #40
That’s awfully harsh, Mr. Solatarov. Does this mean we can’t be friends? That’s too bad, because macho man closet cases like you are often really sweet, sensitive guys when they’re not pretending to be he-man alpha males.
You secretly enjoy ballet, don’t you?
November 29th, 2009 | 9:48 pm | #41
Freedom isn’t free and for all those who don’t want to support fighting for it, leave, its as simple as that. Nobody is forcing you to be in the US, leave. The anti-war protests do nothing constructive. Those who protest have no idea what to do if all the troops were pulled out immediately. Nor do they have any concept of what the consequences are if that were to happen.
Just look at what happened during Vietnam when these people got their way. Over 2,500,000 civilians were slaughtered by the Communists in Vietnam and Cambodia because the US stabbed those people in the back. Yes the US swore to protect the population of South Vietnam but then ran in such a fashion to make the French look brave. They left without any honor and gave the Communists the daggers to stab the civilians in the back with.
Disgusting people, disgusting and highly ego-centric. I remember chastising someone in college a couple years back who said that seeing pictures of Nazi concentration camps, knowing the intent and magnitude of the slaughter and seeing pictures of people who resembled walking skeletons was not enough of a justification to go to war–even if it were happening today right before us. Those who think like that are undeserving of freedom.
November 29th, 2009 | 9:56 pm | #42
Sickening.
November 29th, 2009 | 9:59 pm | #43
Dear Lord, We could use a few Lightning bolts.
God Bless the USA
November 29th, 2009 | 10:10 pm | #44
What happens in the Killing Fields and the concentration camps isn’t my business. I would agree with your classmate’s assessment in that regard.
I’m glad I’m not like you.
November 29th, 2009 | 10:12 pm | #45
Solaratov
Thank you so much for saying what I wanted to say. I so admire that man for his love for his fellow service people.
War HERO……. yes he is! God Bless all of our HERO’S
By the way if I had been there Cindy would had that bull horn up her a** or down her throat! Believe me I am much older then her!
November 29th, 2009 | 10:12 pm | #46
Here you see in the comments the true face of the peace loving Left: they only want to wage war on their own side, the side that has given them and saved their right to free speech. The US is a safe place to protest because of the military and the civilian version, cops with guns. These nuts view the world through a lens of cultural self loathing and denial, spiced with hatred.
November 29th, 2009 | 10:17 pm | #47
Solaratov, you made my day with your responses to those panty-waist guys!!
God bless the veteran standing up for our military and our country. Those horrible “ladies” should be ashamed of themselves. I know I’m ashamed to call them “Americans.”
November 29th, 2009 | 10:29 pm | #48
I know I’m ashamed to call them “Americans.”
I’m tired of pandering to these complainers that they have the right to free speech and don’t question their patriotism.
Well, let it be said that they must be patriotic for an America other than the one that exists. They are not patriotic for the America we know and love. How can they be, when all they do is speak out against all that makes us what we are?
So, they can have their “speech”. And someone else can have the same right of speech to tell them that they are the enemies of America, just like that blessed honorable veteran did.
November 29th, 2009 | 10:34 pm | #49
Robert
November 29th, 2009 | 10:29 pm | #48
That goes for the Democrat party.
I question their patriotism.
When their every effort is to effect undermining change on all our foundational institutions, how can they then say that they are patriotic?
They want to make us into something we are not.
They must be patriotic for something we are not.
November 29th, 2009 | 10:35 pm | #50
“If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.”— Samuel Adams
November 29th, 2009 | 10:43 pm | #51
Code Pink are PROFESSIONAL provocateurs.
They WANT to provoke people so they can “press charges.” They are USING the right to free speech and twisting it.
Everything they do is concocted with lawyers so they can dance on the line of assault and treason without violating the LETTER of the law.
They are DELIGHTED they pissed off a veteran, they WANTED that, that’s why they went there in the first place.
The vast majority of governments and societies TODAY in the world would have had them jailed or shot and dumped alongside the road, years ago, but grostesquely, they work to undermine the ONE country that allows them their dishonest and seditious hysterics.
Expulsion to North Korea would be appropriate, but doubtful even Kim Il Jung would agree to take them, even though they woudn’t last long there eating twigs like everyone else has to do to survive.
November 29th, 2009 | 10:48 pm | #52
And, if that ain’t enough for Gerry and his fellow travellers –
War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature, and has no chance of being free unless made or kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.
John Stuart Mill
November 29th, 2009 | 10:48 pm | #53
What happens in the Killling Fields and concentration camps isn’t my business. I would agree with your classmate’s assessment in that regard.
Your agreement seems to offer additional proof to the theory which posits our universe contains more stupidity than hydrogen.
November 29th, 2009 | 11:09 pm | #54
The vast majority of governments and societies TODAY in the world would have had them jailed or shot and dumped alongside the road, years ago, but grostesquely, they work to undermine the ONE country that allows them their dishonest and seditious hysterics.
Yet this fact glides so smoothly over their heads. These people live in extreme darkness, wanumba.
November 29th, 2009 | 11:30 pm | #55
” These people live in extreme darkness..” these words ring so true..these people are “hungry ghosts” to use a Tibetan phrase, tormented beings who are suffering to death from their own inner nothingness.. no truer words can be spoken of the progressive left.” (American Thinker: 11/17/09)
November 29th, 2009 | 11:39 pm | #56
There’s hope!
Isaiah 60:2, “Arise, shine; For your light has come! And the glory of the Lord is risen upon you. For behold, the darkness shall cover the earth, and deep darkness the people; But the Lord will arise over you And His glory will be seen upon you.”
November 30th, 2009 | 12:02 am | #57
++ Thank you,Crystal.++
November 30th, 2009 | 12:03 am | #58
The Vet started it by approaching them with the intent to start a confrontation. He got what he was asking for. As much as you (and I) dislike Code Pink/etc., they had a legal right to protest.
November 30th, 2009 | 12:19 am | #59
It wasn’t staged for those who were asking. The Vets name is Phil Ward, USAF Retired. The very ugly woman who got in his face after he slapped the bullhorn away is Suzanne Joi, aka Xan, aka Zanne.
November 30th, 2009 | 12:56 am | #60
So much to say…
Well, I hear the protests against the war. Ok. I too hate to see any American lives lost. Hate it more than I could ever tell any of you. Am I in agreement with the Pinkies? No.
Why?
Because unlike them, I understand the “cost” of everything we are so generously afforded today. I understand that losing my friends in the 9/11 tragedy was because there is evil in the world, and that evil must be addressed. When I see this type of provocation from women who live comfortably under our ever-giving blanket of freedom, I question how best to ‘help’ them understand…
I am quite sure that being covered head to toe, being stoned in the street for being accused of adultery (which mind you is only if the man ’says’ she did it-and the woman cannot provide four male eye witnesses to agree), having their hands chopped off for stealing etc. would NOT be a way of life they would ‘get used to’.
This all comes at a cost. Thank you from the bottom of my heart, to every soldier that has ever served this great nation…
Nathan R. Jessup
http://www.the-raw-deal.com
November 30th, 2009 | 2:02 am | #61
Ah, the woolly tea cosy head apparel. Essential
protesty uniform of the left……
November 30th, 2009 | 2:19 am | #62
Keep on tossing gasoline on the fire, leftards.
The fire you are gleefully feeding is the one that will, in the end, consume you.
November 30th, 2009 | 2:34 am | #63
Well, if you shove a bullhorn into my face, I’ll shove it up your arse. There is this thing called “personal space” and if you breach that without authorisation, then whatever reaction you get, you deserve it. Bullhorn in the face is clearly violating that guy’s personal space.
Without her pink Sturmabteilung Dumbass Cindy would look really old very quickly. It’s a typical leftist thing. Always have minions around, because alone, 1vs1, the random leftist would just piss his pants.
November 30th, 2009 | 4:32 am | #64
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November 30th, 2009 | 5:15 am | #65
Gerry
How dare you. Who do you think you are to make such shameful accusations and disparage this veteran’s service to the country? This man served so people like you are allowed the freedoms you enjoy and take so much for granted. You should be ashamed to speak of this brave man in this manner. It speaks volumes about the type of person you are. Stop behaving like an ignorant brat and offer an apology.
November 30th, 2009 | 6:16 am | #66
I can hear the TV report now…..
“Thousands of Code Pink protestors gathered outside military base today…..”
November 30th, 2009 | 6:40 am | #67
they used to say that you’re judged by the company you keep. a bunch of buffoons………
http://media.photobucket.com/image/code%20pink/timbertwins/code_pink_murder.jpg?o=7
i consider words to mean something…….
November 30th, 2009 | 7:28 am | #68
That fellow has a heck of a lot more restraint than I could manage under such circumstances. For that matter, I don’t know that I would even waste the time to consider restraining myself – it’s not as if the world would be harmed by the extinction of such mutant gutter slime.
Solaratov – I had to use Wikipedia, but while I now know the meaning of an urban slang term and a proper English word as the result, I really don’t consider my vocabulary enriched. I agree with your sentiments, but do think you could be equally disdainful of these cowardly maggots without resort to THEIR vocabulary.
Gerry – I rinsed better than thee from the soles of my boots when I spent a summer caring for livestock. And had greater respect for it.
Johnny – No matter what mommy says, there is no monster hiding in your closet – nor do patriots fear keyboard ninja.
November 30th, 2009 | 7:59 am | #69
“You don’t need to be a “leftist” to laugh at senile Vietnam veterans who forgot to take their medication.”
Knock off the “senile” jokes. I have an elderly parent that I am watching disappear from me day by day due to normal dementia and trust me, there’s nothing funny about it.
November 30th, 2009 | 8:04 am | #70
As an American military veteran I believe phil ward’s actions were a disgrace to the uniform.
November 30th, 2009 | 8:07 am | #71
anti-American larkin fantasizes about shoving a bullhorn up the “dookie chute” of those that disagree with him. Good thing he is too cowardly to ever do more than daydream about it. (I’ll look for his as
sault story in the news)
November 30th, 2009 | 8:09 am | #72
midwesterner…typical internet “tough guy”.
Why aren’t YOU over in afghanistan fighting today?
November 30th, 2009 | 8:16 am | #73
Wanumba wrote:
‘Code Pink are PROFESSIONAL provocateurs.
They WANT to provoke people so they can “press charges.”’
Bull’s eye. Notice how directly after knocking the bullhorn away and arguing briefly with Sheehan, as the vet steps to the side to create some space, the women keep stepping INTO his path. It was like they were penning him in, as they were also screaming ‘Don’t push me!’.
This is probably a planned tactic. Provoke a confrontation, seize it and try to magnify it, rather than let it calm down. At first opportunity, announce to arriving police that they want to press charges.
I can’t number the times conservatives were roughed up at various demonstrations, and decline to press charges.
Be forewarned- getting a physical confrontation is probably their intent, and they are desperate for sympathetic publicity. Don’t give it to them. Phil Ward should have kept some space between him and the protesters.
I don’t blame him for stepping up, however, and he was justified in knocking the megaphone away- that act was self-defense. If I were to witness a protester dragging Old Glory behind them directly in front of me, I probably would not be able to restrain myself.
Best regards, Peter Warner.
November 30th, 2009 | 8:22 am | #74
Sheehan put her microphone into his face (to either shut him up or drown him out) and when he reacted and her friend stuck herself in between, you can see how happy Sheehan was by the smile on her face. They intended to provoke.
That being said, I am sorry he gave them what they wanted (more publicity) instead of a swift kick and a bandaid.
She is toxic.
November 30th, 2009 | 8:24 am | #75
Whoa Peter Warner! Get Out Of My Head!!!!
November 30th, 2009 | 8:28 am | #76
Yeah…the proteters forced the old man to walk into them and slap at them.
November 30th, 2009 | 9:23 am | #77
It’s the media’s fault.
They are suddenly ignoring her, so she has to be more outrageous to get noticed.
November 30th, 2009 | 9:25 am | #78
“Mr White”,
Cheap shot much?
You can change your name but you’re still a loser.
November 30th, 2009 | 10:19 am | #79
Gerry
November 29th, 2009 | 9:43 pm | #40
That’s awfully harsh, Mr. Solatarov. Does this mean we can’t be friends?
You secretly enjoy ballet, don’t you?
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No. I don’t believe so. I, frankly, don’t enjoy the company of leftoid drones. Especially not limp-wristed little liars like you.
And, yes. I am fond of the ballet. I suppose that you confine your cultural taste to rap music, or some such trash – as would be expected of one of your ilk.
(btw; Don’t forget, your boy rahm is a ballerina; and might be offended if you disparage his art.)
Now, go away salad tosser. Run back to DU or dkos and complain about how mean you were treated. Run, nancy-boy.
November 30th, 2009 | 10:30 am | #80
I would have generously provided her a bullhorn enema.
November 30th, 2009 | 10:35 am | #81
harry flashman
November 29th, 2009 | 10:35 pm | #50
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Well cited, flashman.
Trenchant, pithy and completely a propos vis-a-vis our trolls.
November 30th, 2009 | 10:39 am | #82
Poopsicle
November 30th, 2009 | 12:03 am | #58
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Poop, you’re an idiot.
November 30th, 2009 | 11:33 am | #83
After seeing these Code Pink wacko’s for some time, I doubt very much that they are really females.
November 30th, 2009 | 11:56 am | #84
chisum
Why is the truth a “cheap shot” to you anti-American, freedom of speech hating people?
November 30th, 2009 | 11:57 am | #85
“I would have generously provided her a bullhorn enema.” – bankroller
Ever notice how many of the anti-free speech folks are closeted sodomites?
November 30th, 2009 | 12:19 pm | #86
Freedom of speech does not guarantee freedom from the consequences of your speech.
It often amuses me at how little tolerance for rebuttal these supposed exercisers of their free speech rights have; They are full of the spirit of free speech only so long as they are the ones speaking.
Had I been the gentleman in question, I likely would not have approached quite so closely for reasons of hygiene if naught else, but the moment that screeching harpy touched my face with the bullhorn I would probably have head-butted it down her nasty treasonous throat, purely out of a fear for my own safety, once sight and hearing of my surroundings had been denied to me in the midst of an angry mob.
It’s fortunate for the Code Pinkists that their scurrilous lies about our veterans are not true, else this gentleman might have had a full-blown PTSD episode and started stacking corpses.
But then, they know they safe because they know their lies are just that.
Disgusting parasites.
November 30th, 2009 | 12:53 pm | #87
Just have CODE PINK open their financial records and see how “impromptu” they are. Sheehan even flew to Venezuela kiss up Hugo CHavez, something that would set her son who as a genuine hero, thoughtful and serious, to spinning in his grave – that she sprawled herself across in a ugly political cheesecake for a photo-op.
Code Pinkos were in AFghanistan last month. They showed up in Washington, DC to jump at Dr. Rice during a Congressional hearing – blood-red hands around her HEAD and FACE. Then the same trick against Rumsfeld a few months ago, “bloodied” hands in his face, one inch from his eyes, shrieking and shouting.
They sure do get around.
The PINK is a cynical disarming political trick to make them seem nutty or harmless. They were filmed a couple years ago mocking high school kids touring by the WHite House, taunting them with grotesque rendition of “America the Beautiful” – a pre-planned “hit” knowing hundreds of students across the states were in DC for a chorus competition for that song. Freaking nasty old cranks MOCKING teenagers!
They aren’t about “free speech,” they are like the Islamofascists who abuse and manipulate the system to undermine it. They have a lot of enablers, like the congresspeople who allow them access to hearings knowing they’ll disrupt, and wanting Code Pink to make a mockery of government and social structures – let them do it and pretend the Democrats were innocent.
Since they deliberately provoke people, they shouldn’t be allowed to just show up anywhere they think is most advantageous to their strategy to infuriate decent people.
November 30th, 2009 | 12:59 pm | #88
Perhaps patriots should surround them and then someone from the back starts pushing the patriots into the Pinkos. Sort of like a pile up on the grid iron. No idea what could happen to the poor Pinkos after everyone falls down and who could be blamed?
November 30th, 2009 | 12:59 pm | #89
“Freedom of speech does not guarantee freedom from the consequences of your speech.”
So you condone phil ward assaulting those he disagrees with?
November 30th, 2009 | 4:14 pm | #90
Don’t put words in my mouth, Mr. White; you seem to be having more than enough trouble managing the ones coming out of your own.
I said nothing of the sort, and see nothing of the sort in the video.
As far as I can see from the video, it appears that the uniformed man was struck in the face with an implement & intentionally subjected to a dangerously loud noise; he defended himself to the minimum extent necessary, and went no further. He was then assaulted by others to whom he was no threat.
Actions have consequences, even when they are actions to which one has a right, such as speech. Or self defense, for that matter.
Last time I checked, though, speech is a protected right, as is defense when assaulted… but physical assault with a megaphone was not.
December 1st, 2009 | 7:46 am | #91
sarge
I didn’t put words in your mouth, I asked a QUESTION. Huge difference.
you and I must have watched different videos. I saw a belligerent old guy invade the personal space of a woman with a bullhorn. The geezer proceeded to step in her face and slap at the bullhorn in her hand.
Tell me, are you in the habit of getting up in the face of women you don’t know like that? I’m not.
December 1st, 2009 | 8:07 am | #92
Mr White = A$$hole
December 1st, 2009 | 9:42 am | #93
Mr. White wrote: “Tell me, are you in the habit of getting up in the face of women you don’t know like that? I’m not.”
Clearly, you have serious reading comprehension issues; I already said I would not have gotten that close to that demented harpy. I’m too fastidious to come within spittle range of such people.
Nonetheless, “stepping into the personal space” of a person is not illegal. Brandishing an implement and striking someone with it, is.
You are seeing only what you want to see. Therefore, there is no point in attempting to reason with you.
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